Out Of Body Experience

Out of body experience? Wow, what a bombastic four-words term! What on earth is that? Well, some of you may not have come across this term before, so let me share with you this interesting little thing, in which studies have shown that 10 percent of the population in the world undergoes an out of body experience once in their lifetime. An out of body experience(commonly known as OOBE or OBE, and also referred to as astral projection) is an experience in which a person has a feeling of leaving his body and observing himself and the world from outside his body. Therefore, OBE is actually a process of transiently separating the consciousness, or the soul you could call it, from the physical body. 


    There are several ways in which people can perceive an OBE, one of which is through induction or under the influence of drugs. That is known as induced out of body experience. The other spontaneous methods are through dreams, daydreams, memories and even near-death experience. This can be scary as some people get afraid as they think that they are dying and will never return to their body. Nevertheless, there are also some who feel light and peaceful from OBE. All these are expressed from different point of views. Recent surveys related to near-death experiences have reported cases of motorcyclists experiencing an OBE, finding themselves floating over the motorcycle, observing their own body and still continuing to ride. It's astonishing, isn't it? Though I suppose you wouldn't want to go through any near-death experience right? :)


    Some researches are still cracking their heads, trying to find out the real reason towards why some people experience OBE. They also suggest that it is actually nothing but a simple illusion, caused by an abnormally functioning brain. Frankly, in my opinion, stuff like these are really hard to come to a definite conclusion. After all, it's about the amazing/almighty/boundless etc...HUMAN MIND and our soul. However, I do hope that I would be able to live long enough to see the future scientists coming out with all sorts of concrete evidences related to these issues. Till then, it will still, and always be a wonder.