After a class on out-of-body experiences, a psychology graduate student at the University of Ottawa came forward to researchers to say that she could have these voluntarily, usually before sleep. "She appeared surprised that not everyone could experience this," wrote the scientists in a study describing the case, published in February in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.
Pretty crazy, right? One would think that if you could leave your own body and float above it, you'd be a little more... vocal about it. But since it was a common experience for her--one she "began performing as a child when bored with 'sleep time' at preschool... moving above her body" instead of napping--it may have appeared unremarkable. This is way more interesting than what I did, which was indeed napping.
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Have You been living under a rock for the last 50 years, Sam? ;)
OOBE's is nothing either special nor unique for anyone on earth. Most people have had at least one OOBE they remember during their life. Most people shake them off as dreams or "near wake"-illusions but still everyone has them.
And, since you're in several dimensions at once when you do an OOBE you can't really trust what you see in the psysical world anyway. You see things that are there and you also see things that are not there while OOBE'ing.
That's why so few have managed to do successful tests of it in controlled environments. It's simply a whole new school of visual recognising that goes for those who wanna utilize OOBE's for anything more than just a nice form of recreation. :)
OOBE is closely related to Lucid Dreaming as well.
Yep, I can understand.
All my life I have experienced such things, out of body experiences, nightly trips to other dimensions, talks with spirits.
Only a few years ago I found that almost no one else experienced these things.
I was amazed to find that almost no one sees the lights when they close their eyes, or the visions, or hears the music.
Always thought this was normal.
Voluntary out-of-body experience: an fMRI study
The present single-case study examined functional brain imaging patterns in a participant that reported being able, at will, to produce somatosensory sensations that are experienced as her body moving outside the boundaries of her physical body all the while remaining aware of her unmoving physical body. We found that the brain functional changes associated with the reported extra-corporeal experience (ECE) were different than those observed in motor imagery. Activations were mainly left-sided and involved the left supplementary motor area and supramarginal and posterior superior temporal gyri, the last two overlapping with the temporal parietal junction that has been associated with out-of-body experiences. The cerebellum also showed activation that is consistent with the participant’s report of the impression of movement during the ECE. There was also left middle and superior orbital frontal gyri activity, regions often associated with action monitoring. The results suggest that the ECE reported here represents an unusual type of kinesthetic imagery. -
See more at: http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00070/full