For ages, people have shared incredible stories from the brink of death, accounts so vivid they often defy simple explanation ...

1."When I was four years old, I had lost one of my favorite toys, so my mom searched the entire house but still couldn’t find it. Days later, she was flipping through old photo albums on her bed when ...

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 ...

Scientists study why healthy people have them. July 13, 2011 — -- You don't have to be crazy to have an out-of-body experience, viewing yourself floating above your own body lying on a premature ...

Dr. Josef Parvizi remembers meeting a man with epilepsy whose seizures were causing some very unusual symptoms. "He came to my clinic and said, 'My sense of self is changing,'" says Parvizi, a ...

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 ...

Scientists found that sending electricity into a brain region called the anterior precuneus created sensations of floating. Jeannette Rose Photography via Getty Images During an out-of-body experience ...

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 ...