what exactly is an “out of body” experience? Is it really possible? If yes, what causes it?
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Not an expert but I’ve read about that years ago, so maybe wrong information here, also personal experience:
When I was a child I passed out frequently due to the speed I was growing. Once I was like in a dream and saw myself passing out in our livingroom. I loughed about myself and a few moments later I woke up and exactly knew how it happened and how stupid it looked. That was truly an “out of body” experience like many describe.
When you pass out or have a “daydream” or you start to fall asleep your brain produces something like [Dimethyltryptamine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N,N-Dimethyltryptamine) (not really profen, but something like that). Its some kind of hallucinogenic. That stuff that let you dream.
I once read about a room in a hospital where one of the doctors placed a card on top of a shelf to experiment with that “out of body” experiences. People that had an “out of body” experience due to close death or by passing out, told about how that room looked like in that moment. Some of them was in a view where they should see the card laying on top of the shelf but in the explanations they didn’t see it. So your brain just creates the pictures by your memory and the “out of body” experience is not really out of body. It’s just a dream in your head that is very wierd to explain (like many dreams?).
It really feels awkward to have a dream like that. It happened 20 years ago but I still can remember those pictures. How I passed out, how I loughed about myself. How my mom and my sister run to me to look what happened. Without having my eyes open in that moment it was like a movie scene playing in my head with crystal clear pictures. I can’t even explain how exactly it’s possible but the fact that I wasn’t really in control, fixed view, very dreamlike “what’s happening?” state…it’s just shit my brain come up with together with sound I heared that moment. In fact my sister wasn’t close to me irl but in my “out of body” experience. So maybe my brain just thought she’s close to me and produced those pictures. So my dream was wrong about that.
I think it’s possible everytime your brain is flooded with that Dimethyltryptamine in wrong moments. I’m pretty sure that your brain uses that drug right before your die. Many people that were close to death will tell you that they had a dream. Some of them have an “out of body” experience.
In short: “out of body” experiences is not really an “out of body” experience. Your brain dreams like it is out of your body in the current situation with pictures created from your memory that differs from reality.
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