Out-of-Body Experience

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Out-of-Body Experience

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Most scientific articles on OBE are rather negative. OBE is likened as mental disorder.Out of body
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Out-of-body experience and autoscopy of neurological origin
Blanke O, Landis T, Spinelli L, Seeck M
BRAIN
127: 243-258 Part 2 FEB 2004

Document type: Review Language: English Cited References: 107 Times Cited: 9

Abstract:
During an out-of-body experience (OBE), the experient seems to be awake and to see his body and the world from a location outside the physical body. A closely related experience is autoscopy (AS), which is characterized by the experience of seeing one's body in extrapersonal space. Yet, despite great public interest and many case studies, systematic neurological studies of OBE and AS are extremely rare and, to date, no testable neuroscientific theory exists. The present study describes phenomenological, neuropsychological and neuroimaging correlates of OBE and AS in six neurological patients. We provide neurological evidence that both experiences share important central mechanisms. We show that OBE and AS are frequently associated with pathological sensations of position, movement and perceived completeness of one's own body. These include vestibular sensations (such as floating, flying, elevation and rotation), visual body-part illusions (such as the illusory shortening, transformation or movement of an extremity) and the experience of seeing one's body only partially during an OBE or AS. We also find that the patient's body position prior to the experience influences OBE and AS. Finally, in five patients, brain damage or brain dysfunction is localized to the temporo-parietal junction (TPJ). These results suggest that the complex experiences of OBE and AS represent paroxysmal disorders of body perception and cognition (or body schema). The processes of body perception and cognition, and the unconscious creation of central representation(s) of one's own body based on proprioceptive, tactile, visual and vestibular information-as well as their integration with sensory information of extrapersonal space-is a prerequisite for rapid and effective action with our surroundings. Based on our findings, we speculate that ambiguous input from these different sensory systems is an important mechanism of OBE and AS, and thus the intriguing experience of seeing one's body in a position that does not coincide with its felt position. We suggest that OBE and AS are related to a failure to integrate proprioceptive, tactile and visual information with respect to one's own body (disintegration in personal space) and by a vestibular dysfunction leading to an additional disintegration between personal (vestibular) space and extrapersonal (visual) space. We argue that both disintegrations (personal; personal-extrapersonal) are necessary for the occurrence of OBE and AS, and that they are due to a paroxysmal cerebral dysfunction of the TPJ in a state of partially and briefly impaired consciousness.

Author Keywords:
out-of-body experience, autoscopy, neurology, body schema, multisensory processing

KeyWords Plus:
TEMPORAL-LOBE EPILEPSY, ELECTRICAL CORTICAL STIMULATION, ROOM TILT ILLUSION, VESTIBULAR CORTEX, NONINVASIVE LOCALIZATION, VISUAL HALLUCINATIONS, HEMIANOPIC FIELD, PHANTOM LIMBS, PERCEPTION, DISORDERS

Addresses:
Blanke O, Univ Hosp Geneva, Dept Neurol, Funct Brain Mapping Lab, 24 Rue Micheli du Crest, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
Univ Hosp Geneva, Dept Neurol, Funct Brain Mapping Lab, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
Univ Hosp Geneva, Programme Funct Neurol & Neurosurg, Lab Presurg Epilepsy Evaluat, Geneva, Switzerland
Univ Lausanne Hosp, Programme Funct Neurol & Neurosurg, Lab Presurg Epilepsy Evaluat, Lausanne, Switzerland
Univ Hosp Geneva, Dept Neurol, Neurol Clin, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
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The out-of-body experience and body image: Differences between experients and nonexperients
Murray C, Fox J
JOURNAL OF NERVOUS AND MENTAL DISEASE
193 (1): 70-72 JAN 2005

Document type: Article Language: English Cited References: 9 Times Cited: 0

Abstract:
The present study sought to examine various aspects of body image for persons reporting a previous out-of-body experience (OBE). A total of 64 people took part in the study, 34 of whom had had an OBE. Participants reporting a previous OBE were found to score significantly higher on measures of body dissatisfaction, social physique anxiety, and somatoform dissociation, and lower on a measure of physical self-presentation. OBE experients also reported lower levels of body awareness during use of an immersive virtual reality system than nonexperients.

Author Keywords:
body image, out-of-body experience

KeyWords Plus:
DISSOCIATION, SELF

Addresses:
Murray C, Univ Manchester, Dept Psychol, Oxford Rd, Manchester M13 9PL, Lancs, England
Univ Manchester, Dept Psychol, Manchester M13 9PL, Lancs, England
Liverpool Hope Univ, Dept Psychol, Liverpool, Merseyside, England
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Re: Out-of-Body Experience

Post: # 12774Post joao vieira »

I have only experienced Deja vus...
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