This is an interesting topic. Outer body experience, which is commonly associated with Near death experiences. However, it is not uncommon like Near death. As whoever have lived long enough, may have experiences in following forms I like to discuss. Although this article is personal perspective, I would summaries available evidence wherever necessary, and your personal perspective is also welcome.
What is outer body Experience? Copilot answer.
An out-of-body experience (OBE) is a sensation where you feel as if your consciousness has left your physical body. During an OBE, people often report:
Floating outside their body: A feeling of being detached from their physical form.
Altered perception: Viewing the world from a different vantage point, sometimes looking down from a height.
Realness: A sense that what’s happening is very real.
While the exact cause remains uncertain, some theories suggest abnormal brain functioning in areas that process multisensory signals. However, there’s no scientific evidence that consciousness can truly leave the body. If you’ve experienced an OBE, you’re not alone—around 5% of people have reported similar sensations
Outer body experience in Movies and culture.
It is common occurrence such 'movements of the soul are screened in movies. I remember there was a scientific fiction teledrama, I watched a long time ago, where some scientists get together to take out one person's soul out of the body, to make it work for them. Unfortunately, the person died on the table. The man was a poor person who joined the experiment, only because he was offered money. It is unethical right? However, shocked by the death, the scientist himself, participate in the experiment as he wanted the mystery solved. The tragic struck twice and that was the sad end of the drama.
My personal experiments and Sleep Paralysis.
Inspired by different stories I did my own experiments. I became my own Guina Pig and tried to take my own mind out of my body. Hilarious when I think about it now, I even felt I am getting successful at some point, like making some progress. Never made it through. Later I tried to read other people's minds and even tried to send a message from my head. I imagine the receiving person from the other end and, unfortunately, they never got the message. Maybe it went to the wrong address. Or maybe it is still out there being delivered. Either way, I lost the interest up until now.
Similarly, I had involuntary DeJa'Vu type experiences many times. Often it would happen, when I am seeping, I would suddenly realize I am not sleeping anymore. However, I cannot move my body, totally paralyzed. Cannot scream, cannot move, only able to think. And trust me I have tried to wake up. Wiggle my toes or tried to scream. Nothing is possible. After first few such incidents, I would know, that it will go away and although I feel I am woken Up, I am not woken up. Still, it is dreaming. And the previous Panic did go away, knowing that it is not death.
Have you ever faced such experiences? Or heard the stories?
Nowadays, I have come to conclusion, although these outer body experiences feel real, they are not the real deal. And the copilot also summarizes that there is no such evidence to outer body experience. There is no way our soul can separate and travel like an avatar, into the space. As the mind is associated with body, the moment it leaves, the body would become lifeless. And just like a life starts in a group of cells inside a mother's womb, same life would end when the marriage between the body is broken. Which looks permanent and irreversible. A consciousness is dependent on the body, and the body is dependent on consciousness. So, the body has become the prison of the consciousness, while the greed of consciousness keeps feeding the body, to sustain life.
Why can we never leave our body?
One other way to look at the problem is by studying the consciousness or the world. If we follow the arguments of consciousness article, it appears what we experience as the world is the manifestations or reflections on our own mind. Hence, the body we experience, and the mind we experience are all created within this process of consciousness. Hence, it is all one continuous function rather than several different 'things' It cannot separate out from itself.
That ends this short discussion on outer body experience.
I think a story about a tree would do better for anyone baffled by the philosophical arguments. Story of the Gentle Giant a tree.
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