Out-of-body experience recreated in lab

Scientists as you know are obsessed with control, if they can’t reproduce something it is not safe, sure or valid.
Well, it was one of their main problem when they studied the phenomena referred as ‘Out-Of-Body Experience’.

Now, two teams have succeed to recreate a kind of out of body experience, I’m not sure if this something in the line of Robert Monroe type of experiences.

They used virtual reality goggles to recreate a type of remote perception that seem to be Out of body for me what they have done is more remote perception rather than genuine out of body experience.

They said they can use this in the future for video game or to operates robot at a distance.

The story said:
“In the Swiss experiments, the researchers asked volunteers to stand in front of a camera while wearing video-display goggles.

Through these goggles, the volunteers could see a camera view of their own back – a three-dimensional “virtual own body” that appeared to be standing in front of them.

When the researchers stroked the back of the volunteer with a pen, the volunteer could see their virtual back being stroked either simultaneously or with a time lag.

The volunteers reported that the sensation seemed to be caused by the pen on their virtual back, rather than their real back, making them feel as if the virtual body was their own rather than a hologram. ”

hmm… if you want read more science papers on Out of body, check out Charles Tart online library.

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