Induced out-of-body experiences: Do try this at home:

[Wise Young]

http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2007/0...utofbody_.html

Induced out-of-body experiences: Do try this at home:

Science has just published two short papers where researchers induced a touch sensation that that seemed to be felt in a 'fake' body that appeared to be several metres in front - similar to an 'out-of-body-experience'.

The two studies were developed independently but both involved the same idea. In one study, the person was filmed from behind while they had their back stroked. They also wore a special head-mounted display that showed them what the video camera saw.

In other words, they saw their back being stroked as if they were sitting behind themselves and their body was in front of them. After a while, the sensation seemed to be move from their own back to be located in the projected body in front.

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[Juke_spin]

Originally Posted by Wise Young

http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2007/0...utofbody_.html


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The Wisdom of Crocodiles stars Jude Law as a provisional immortal (USA title is "Immortality") who must "eat" the love emotion. Among his powers is that of projecting a phantom self that can touch a lover while he is seated across a room.

[Mike C]

Hey Wise, all that time you were working in the hospital and ER, have you ever seen people who "came back" and be completely changed or really wigged out at all? Is this a commen phenomena known among long practicing doctors (and nurses for that matter)? How do they deal with it?

I know a physical therapist who almost died when she was a teenager. She "left" her body but went "up" and saw and heard everything that was going on, but from a ceiling, look down, perspective.

[lynnifer]

One of the guys at work - his father was in what was referred to as an 'anaesthetic coma' where he didn't awaken upon his triple bypass surgery. When he finally woke five days later he said he saw all his relatives who had passed before him .. creepy!

[Wise Young]

Originally Posted by Mike C

Hey Wise, all that time you were working in the hospital and ER, have you ever seen people who "came back" and be completely changed or really wigged out at all? Is this a commen phenomena known among long practicing doctors (and nurses for that matter)? How do they deal with it?

I know a physical therapist who almost died when she was a teenager. She "left" her body but went "up" and saw and heard everything that was going on, but from a ceiling, look down, perspective.

I have a good friend, a very well-known scientist, who had a heart attack and watched from the ceiling while they resuscitated him in the hospital. That changed his life and his attitudes. I think near-death experiences change everybody. One doesn't have to have to resort any occult explanation for this. In fact, my friend probably lost a bunch of neurons during his resuscitation but the experience probably stimulated his neural stem cells to produce a bunch of new neurons to replace the ones that he lost. So, quite literally, I think that part of this brain had changed.

To tell you the truth, death freaked me out as a doctor. I spent all my time fighting it. When my first patient died, I spent a lot of time thinking about what I could have done to prevent his death. Somebody told me that patients always died in groups of threes and became very superstitious. I didn't want to leave the hospital because my patients always seemed to die on my days off (and that was every other night). I became convinced that the nicest patients always died while the nastiest ones always seemed to survive.

Wise.

[Mike C]

Wise, that´s so strange that you said that about patients dying in threes. My sister in law works as a nurse in a geriatric home. She always told me the same thing.