It has not yet been established completely whether out of body experiences are for real or not. This is due to the fact there is still no solid proof for the same. An out of body experience or OBE is s feeling of floating outside of the body. G.N.M Tyrrell in his book called Apparitions introduced this term in the year 1943. Subjective awareness from a vantage point outside of one's physical body is described in this book.
At times this is linked with hypnagogic or hypnopompic dreams, near death experiences, mystical trances, etc. You can contrast OBE with both astral projection and dreaming.
In an OBE there is a feeling of floating outside of the body however this is not the case with astral projection. When there is dream be it lucid or otherwise, a strong perception of being awake and conscious is there which is in contrast to OBE's.
With every out of body experience some aspects differ. Possibility of different types of OBE's with different causes and meanings is there. Let's take a look at different OBE cases where there were different things reported.
Some of the different things reported by different OBE's are as follows; some reported either being asleep, been asleep shortly before or on the verge of sleep. Sleep in most of these cases is not so deep and several factors are responsible for these situations like noises in other rooms, illness, and exhaustion from overworking, emotional stress, etc.
There are some other conditions associated with OBE's; situation 1 where people see themselves outside their body takes place all of a sudden and they realize this suddenly, they see their bodies almost by accident. Situation 2 - people experiencing OBE will themselves see their bodies outside or see them being pulled from their bodies. These kind of experiences are short may be for a minute or so.
Then there are some OBE's reported which get completed with an unexpected sensation of popping or snapping back into their bodies. Then there are some experiences who have reported to go through religious epiphanies; there are some who experience a universal feeling of peacefulness and love and some who experience nervousness and apprehension. Then there are some experiences reported where there is no directly any kind of spiritual experience.
People have given mixed opinions regarding the OBE's objective reality. Many individuals believe the incidence is exactly how it feels like and that the soul departs the body and discover things. There have been instances of positive OBE accounts and some even maintain that the experience was dream like and regularly cite the occurrence with a spiritual effect.
With some people, those who have gone through surgery describe out of body experiences as something they could not possibly have witnessed whilst anesthesia effect.
We cannot disprove OBE's; however solid evidence that anyone has actually left their body is yet not there. There are many experiencers who have made thorough explanation which they allegedly could not have made by any other means. However these observations are yet to be studied to the satisfaction of the scientific community. Messages which are received from out of body experiences are usually in the form of archetype or symbols that may or may not be recognized at first. All this requires more solid proof though.
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