An out-of-body experience is a phenomenon in which a person perceives the world from a location outside their physical body.
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12 Facts About Out-of-body experience
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Typically the experience includes such factors as: a sense of being dead; a feeling of peace and painlessness; hearing of various non-physical sounds, an out-of-body experience; a tunnel experience ; encountering "beings of light" and a God-like figure or similar entities; being given a "life review", and a reluctance to return to life.
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Out-of-body experience's theory involved a cognitive personality construct known as psychological absorption and gave instances of the classification of an OBE as examples of autoscopy, depersonalization and mental dissociation.
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Out-of-body experience's collected written, first-hand accounts from a total of 400 subjects, recruited by means of appeals in the mainstream media, and followed up by questionnaires.
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In 1999, at the 1st International Forum of Consciousness Research in Barcelona, research-practitioners Wagner Alegretti and Nanci Trivellato presented preliminary findings of an online survey on the out-of-body experience answered by internet users interested in the subject; therefore, not a sample representative of the general population.
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Out-of-body experience's did not claim to see the number on the first three nights but on the fourth gave the number correctly.
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OBE-like Out-of-body experience has been induced through stimulation of the posterior part of the right superior temporal gyrus in a patient.
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Out-of-body experience proposes that OBEs under both conditions, relaxation and hyper-arousal, represent a form of "waking dream", or the intrusion of Stage 1 sleep processes into waking consciousness.
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Out-of-body experience didn't identify the pictures, he described the defibrillator machine noise.
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Out-of-body experience's reported developing the ability as a child and associated it with difficulties in falling sleep.
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Out-of-body experience's was able to see herself rotating in the air above her body, lying flat, and rolling in the horizontal plane.
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Out-of-body experience's reported sometimes watching herself move from above but remained aware of her unmoving "real" body.
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