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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 6274860" data-attributes="member: 710">I don't particularly remember any out of body experience, but I believe they are possible, and that they are not supernatural or have anything to do with our souls leaving the body.It is a matter of perception and memories, both are not perfect.As Umbran stated - you may just underestimate at what an "unconcious" body can actually percieve. I don't remember hearing while I sleep, but my ears still function, as do my eyes (it's just with the eyelids closed, they don't see much). I don't remember in the morning all the sensations that my skin felt, or the taste in my mouth, or the smell my nose detected.So I find it not hard to believe that some part of the brain actually registers something going on around it, people in the room, what they talk about. But in the state you find yourself during a "out-of-body" experience, this information is not correctly assembled the way it usually is, so it appears "out of body".Our brain does a lot of fancy stuff that we never conciously register. For example, it is correcting brightness, for the effect our natural eye lenses (including the fact that the image of the outside world appear upside down on our receptors, but are turned the right way - and it can adapt to this changing, if you wear special googles that revert the image beforehand, the brain eventually corrects for this and makes the effect disappear). One of the things it seems to do is correctly give us a sense where and even when stuff happens (eye and ear are synchronized normally, and it can actually happen that people with a particular defect can constantly see stuff desynchronized, creating a perceptable delay between the perception of sound for an event and the perception of sight - e.g. seeing people speak and hearing the words come out a bit later). So I figure an out of body experience is the result of a particular aspect in our brain not quite working as it normally does. That some people can conciously create this state is fascinating - it makes one wonder what kind of effects we could also get a level of concious control over (can everyone do it, or are their requisite elements to it you cannot just train? I may be wrong, but I think synesthesia cannot be "learned").</blockquote>

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