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Ignoring the lunatics who think that they can seperate from their body and travel ghostlike around the world ... that other "out of body experience" that most of us are familiar with is a psychological phenomenon with a much simpler, less magical, explaination.
There is a part of the brain known as the angular gyrus which controls the way the brain analyzes sensory information to give us a perception of our own bodies and where we are in relation to other objects in the environment. If that part of the brain momentarily misfires and sends faulty information, the result can be a feeling of floating outside of yourself. Sort of like losing a few packets of data while transfering them over a network, the image becomes corrupted.
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