Out-of-body experiences are all in the mind
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Scientists have figured out a way to induce out-of-body experiences - by using cameras to fool people into thinking they are standing somewhere else in the room.
"The brain can trick itself, and when it is trying to interpret sensory information, the image it produces doesn't have to be a real representation," says Henrik Ehrsson, of the Institute of Neurology, University College London, UK, who designed the first experiment.
To trick his subjects, Ehrsson had them wear a head-mounted display that showed them footage of themselves filmed from behind, while preventing them from seeing anything else. He then used a plastic rod ...