Out-of-Body Experiences
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I once new a poor guy who tried to arrange his life in accord with his imagined out of body experiences.
When otherwise normal people experience bodily delusions, Dr. Olaf Blanke said, they are often flummoxed. The felt sensation of the body is so seamless, so familiar, that people do not realize it is a creation of the brain, even when something goes wrong and the brain is perturbed.
Yet the sense of body integrity is rather easily duped, Dr. Olaf Blanke said.
And while it may be tempting to invoke the supernatural when this body sense goes awry, he said the true explanation is a very natural one, the brain’s attempt to make sense of conflicting information.
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They felt somewhat more real than a dream, but less real than waking experiences. So, I put them to a test—I cut a ddeck of cards to a card I didn't look at. Then, I "walk" over to the card during an OOBE. Since I never accurately identified the card during an OOBE, I determined experimentally that this experience—whatever it was—was NOT actually getting my consciousness outside of my body...
Posted by: Publicus | October 5, 2006 10:45 PM