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Out-of-body experience highlights clues to consciousness

Out-of-body experience highlights clues to consciousness | Science News | Scoop.it

Traumatic events are well known for producing a sense of unreality as we watch a disaster unfold. Most of us can also produce this state far more pleasurably, by getting drunk, for example. For the less fortunate, though, it is also a known, if quite controversial, psychiatric diagnosis of dissociation.

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Man with schizophrenia has out-of-body experience in lab, gains knowledge, controls his psychosis | Not Exactly Rocket Science | Discover Magazine

Man with schizophrenia has out-of-body experience in lab, gains knowledge, controls his psychosis | Not Exactly Rocket Science | Discover Magazine | Science News | Scoop.it
Consciousness and free will | RM had his first out-of-body experience at the age of 16. Now, at the age of 55, he has had more than he can count.
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What causes out-of-body experiences?

What causes out-of-body experiences? | Science News | Scoop.it
Few sensations are weirder than the bizarre feeling that you are floating outside your own body. "Out of body" experiences are a mysterious phenomenon that's often mixed up in the occult, but scientists are still trying to puzzle out how it works.
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