Some have reported floating towards bright lights, while others claim to have seen their bodies lying on hospital beds below them.And most will tell you they have been through the most spiritual of occurrences. But out of body experiences are nothing more than the trick of a confused mind, according to evidence from an extraordinary study. Using virtual reality visors, scientists have been able to fool the brains of volunteers into temporarily believing they occupied a 3D computer-generated character. The peculiar sensations they described mirrored the feelings of those who reported an out of body experience. Swiss neuroscientist Professor Olaf Blanke, a world authority on consciousness, claims the results show that out of body experiences are the result of temporary glitches in perception. He said: ‘Instead of it being a spiritual thing, it is the brain being confused. (Daily Mail) .... Opinion: All they have demonstrated is that people can be fooled by optical illusions, nothing more. More to the point, they have shown that the subject must have their eyes wide open and must be fully conscious. The example cited in this article does not even begin to come close to replicating an NDE. NDE's take place many times when the subject has their eyes closed and are completely unconscious (at which point no activity, and therefore not even subconscious activity, takes place in the brain), even having a machine doing the breathing for them - Tim, England
