An Out of Body Experience is
defined by your awareness being transferred beyond your physical body. I've
experienced it myself while practicing Lucid Dreaming Techniques and the
process has even been replicated under laboratory conditions.
So, is this proof of the
spirit? The afterlife? Alternate dimensions?
Alas, not quite. To trigger an
OBE yourself, focus inwards and cut yourself off from your perception of the
outside world (what you can see, hear, taste, smell and touch).
Very quickly, your mind begins
to create new stimulus of its own. We call these dreams. (This is the crux of
the WILD techniquefor having lucid dreams.)
Usually dreams are reserved for
sleep, but as lucid dreamers and OBErs know, it is possible to trick the body
into sleep while remaining conscious of these hallucinations. So - are lucid
dreams and OBEs the same thing?
To many dream explorers, the
answer is a resounding yes. To others, they are completely different phenomena.
But the real question is: are OBEs real in the sense that your mind - your
awareness - literally leaves your body?
Out of body explorers have long
tried to prove this by trying to obtain data from different locations while in
the out of body state. Unfortunately nothing truly definitive has been recorded
under verifiable conditions. And there are plenty of stories involving OBErs
who "saw" their friend sitting at the computer in their OBE, and, lo,
when they called them up in real life that's exactly what they were doing.
But science does not accept
coincidence or best guesses as proof. That really would get us nowhere in the
grand scheme of things.
Perhaps Out of Body Experiences
remain one of the true unexplained mysteries of this world. But I feel that
with further sleep research we will soon uncover the true mechanism of OBEs and
how they differ (if at all) from lucid dreams.
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