"Soul Exchange"

[psi20]

I saw this on Unsolved Mysteries. A woman claims to be someone else. An unrelated man claims to be someone else. They claim to have swapped souls with someone else. They change their names. Interestingly, when I saw it, I thought to myself this is what happened a few years back. I became someone else. *It may be attributed to my having more than 5 different names when I was a kid.

 

Assume that this isn't a false claim. What psychological term or idea is this called if someone believes they're someone else?

 

Has this happened to you?

[Aardvark]

Rather than swapping souls it would seem more to the point to call it swapping bodies.

 

So you aren't changing your name, simply bringing it with you to a new body. If it happened would you have any of the bodies memories of before you arrived? How would they conflict/contrast with the memories brought over with your soul?

 

Sounds like a case of psyche transmigration or maybe some form of cognative dissonance.

[Sayonara]

Sounds like a problem with facing reality to me.

 

I know you asked us to assume that these aren't false claims, but I am intrigued as to how someone would go about proving this had happened to them.

[psi20]

I meant false claims meaning you said it to make you get in the news.

Alright thanks, those explanations sound good.