A new study explains why current brain theories fail to fully explain near-death experiences and consciousness.

Consciousness is primarily experienced internally, but the phenomenon of out-of-body experiences (OBEs) challenges this assumption. Although scientists have developed biological-based explanations for ...

Scientists study why healthy people have them. July 13, 2011 — -- You don't have to be crazy to have an out-of-body experience, viewing yourself floating above your own body lying on a premature ...

New research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine's Marina Weiler, PhD, and colleagues suggests that out-of-body experiences may be a coping mechanism in response to trauma or ...

At last, out of body experiences (OBEs) are starting to make sense. They are disturbances – whether deliberate or accidental – of our body schema. This is the brain’s continuously updated model of our ...

For centuries, people who described floating out of their bodies were dismissed as being out of their minds. A case study offers insight into this phenomenon, in the first clinical description of an ...