Consciousness is primarily experienced internally, but the phenomenon of out-of-body experiences (OBEs) challenges this assumption. Although scientists have developed biological-based explanations for ...

Out-of-body experiences – where people feel like spirits disconnected from their physical form – may be a coping mechanism triggered by trauma or other overwhelming stress, new University of Virginia ...

Leaving my body had been easy, or so it seemed when I had a completely unexpected out-of-body experience (OBE) as a 19-year-old student. In my previous post. I described the first hour or so of this ...

Neil deGrasse Tyson debunks out-of-body experiences, attributing them to brain activity, not metaphysics. He stresses neuroscience, not anecdote, as the key to understanding these vivid sensations.

At last, out of body experiences (OBEs) are starting to make sense. They are disturbances – whether deliberate or accidental – of our body schema. This is the brain’s continuously updated model of our ...

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The TedMed conference offers a peek into the possible future of medicine. April 16, 2012— -- intro: When you hear TED talks, you may think technology. You may think robots. The fourth annual ...