A body swap is a storytelling device seen in a variety of fiction, most often in television shows and movies, in which two people (or beings) exchange minds and end up in each other's bodies. Alternatively, their minds may stay where they are as their bodies adjust. The two people usually keep their voices in cartoons too, for purposes of knowing who is who. There are three distinct types of body swapping.

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  • A body swap is a storytelling device seen in a variety of fiction, most often in television shows and movies, in which two people (or beings) exchange minds and end up in each other's bodies. Alternatively, their minds may stay where they are as their bodies adjust. The two people usually keep their voices in cartoons too, for purposes of knowing who is who. There are three distinct types of body swapping. Switches can be caused by magic items such as amulets, heartfelt wishes, or just strange quirks of the universe. The switches typically reverse after the subjects have expanded their world views, gained a new appreciation for each other's troubles by literally "walking in another's shoes" and/or caused sufficient amounts of farce. Notable examples include the books Vice Versa (1882) and Freaky Friday (1972), as well as the film versions of both. Switches accomplished by technology, exempting gadgets advanced sufficiently to appear as magic, are the fare of mad scientists. Body-swapping devices are characterized by highly experimental status, straps, helmets with complicated cables that run to a central system and a tendency to direly malfunction before their effects can be reversed. Those without such means may resort to brain transplants. Such experiments can have overtones of horror; evil mad scientists seldom use willing test subjects. On the internet, many amateur authors write and share body swap stories with one another. Fictionmania is a website publishing and archiving transgender fiction, much of it focusing on male-to-female body swaps.
  • Scambio mentale (Mindswap) è un romanzo di fantascienza del 1966 di Robert Sheckley.
  • 入れ替わり（いれかわり）とは、この項目では小説やコミックなどのフィクションに描かれる、複数の人間の性格・記憶と肉体とが交換されてしまった物語の類型のことを解説する。いわゆる「とりかへばや物語」である。 記憶というものは脳という肉体の一部に刻まれるものであり、現実的には分かつことの出来ないものである。しかし、フィクションにおいては特に理論的な説明なしにこの現象は描かれ、スラップスティックコメディや当事者間の相互理解といった物語に多く用いられることが多い。
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  • December 2008
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  • A body swap is a storytelling device seen in a variety of fiction, most often in television shows and movies, in which two people (or beings) exchange minds and end up in each other's bodies. Alternatively, their minds may stay where they are as their bodies adjust. The two people usually keep their voices in cartoons too, for purposes of knowing who is who. There are three distinct types of body swapping.
  • Scambio mentale (Mindswap) è un romanzo di fantascienza del 1966 di Robert Sheckley.
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  • Body swap
  • Scambio mentale
  • 入れ替わり
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