Scientists Induce Out-of-Body Experiences
Using virtual reality goggles, a camera and a stick, scientists have induced out-of-body experiences - the sensation of drifting outside of one’s own body - - in healthy people, according to experiments being published in the journal Science.
When people gaze at an illusory image of themselves through the goggles and are prodded in just the right way with the stick, they feel as if they have left their bodies.
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