The Experimental Induction of Out-of-body Experiences

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Journal Science

Specialty Science

Date 2007 Aug 25

PMID 17717177

Citations 242

Authors

H Henrik Ehrsson

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Abstract

I report an illusion in which individuals experience that they are located outside their physical bodies and looking at their bodies from this perspective. This demonstrates that the experience of being localized within the physical body can be determined by the visual perspective in conjunction with correlated multisensory information from the body.

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