Experience OBE With Science

It's interesting to note how scientists are trying to mimic out of body experiences. Naturally, these mimicked experiences are probably much more different from practiced and controlled ones -- but the effort is intriguing nonetheless.

Out of Body Experiences Simulated Through Science

New virtual reality experiments show the brain can be tricked into believing it's outside the body, lending credence to the strange claims of some patients and shedding light on how the brain might generate its "self image."

“We have decades of intense research on visual perception, but not very much yet on body perception," said Henrik Ehrsson of University College London.

"But that may change, now [that] virtual reality offers a way to manipulate full-body perception more systematically and probe out-of-body experiences,” said Olaf Blanke, a Swiss Federal Institute of Technology neuroscientist.

The researchers worked on separate studies, which are detailed in the Aug. 24 online edition of the journal Science.