Wednesday, January 23, 2008

The Lab Route to Out-of-Body Experiences Blogs Scientific American Community

The Lab Route to Out-of-Body Experiences Blogs Scientific American Community

The experiments, described last August in studies by H. Henri Ehrsson and Olaf Blanke and colleagues in Science, demonstrate that out-of-body experiences, previously confined to the realms of psychiatry, fiction and the occult, occur when the normal processing of sensory information is disrupted. This research provides an important tool to understand how the feeling of self is generated by the brain.