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Originally posted by CamChicks
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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I am familiar with that study. It is interesting but it was based on the experience of a single individual with epilepsy. Epileptics often have OBEs during siezures.
(1) One study of one individual is not very convincing. If further studies can replicate, I'd be more impressed.
(2) It doesn't/can't explain reports of persons seeing things during OBEs which they could not possibly have seen if they had still been inside their bodies.