A01 out of body xp Flashcards
What is out if body xp
Refers to sensation of being awake and seeing your own body from a location outside your physical body
What are the 2 explanations
Paranormal
Biological
Paranormal explanations
The seperation if mind and body. Something is hopping outside of our understanding
Biological
Related to sensory disturbance
So brain attempts to reconstruct what we’re seeing using memory and imagination
So constructed image appears to be viewing oneself from above
This is cz we view the world as if we are behind our own eyes
Blackburn
Research studies on out of body xp 3 sections
Naturally occurring
artificially induced
Biological studies
Naturally occurring out of body xp
Green
400 personal accounts of out if body xp 20% parasomatic and some asomatic (no sense of another body)
25% of cases associated with psychological stress and 12% occurred during sleep
Artificially induced oobes
Alvarado
2 sections for eval
Paranormal
Biological
Paranormal explanations A02
Evidence doesn’t support such explanations
Alvarado
Didn’t find evidence that parasomatic body moved out of the physical body
Biological explanations a02
There is support
Blanke
Induced oobes accidentally by electrically stimulating the tpj
Stimulation of other areas didn’t
Blackmore
Alvarado
Blanke
Just saying