This is very interesting, do you have a weblink? I only know Ilja Maso who has written about this.
Please enlight me with your information, Matthijs On 23 mrt, 08:10, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > New Scientist has a special report on out of body and other > illusions. Under normal circumstances, your sense of self is firmly > anchored inside your body. Sometimes, though, something goes awry, the > connection between body and self breaks down and you have an out-of- > body experience. Such moments occur when brain function is disturbed, > such as after a stroke or epileptic seizure, or while on drugs (no > doubt we have our own drugged-up, epileptic stroke experimenters in > here). In 2007, however, two research teams independently reported > ways of inducing an out-of-body experience in the lab in normal > healthy people. The techniques differ slightly, but both involve > feeding volunteers video images of themselves from an unusual > perspective while applying tactile stimulation, somewhat like the > rubber hand illusion. Get volunteers to stand about 2 metres in front > of a video camera while wearing goggles displaying video images, > converted into a holographic-like 3D projection - the volunteers see a > version of their own backs. When they stoked the volunteers' backs, > many reported a weird feeling that they were somehow inside the > virtual body in front of them (Science, vol 317, p 1096). > > The volunteers also experienced "proprioceptive drift" towards the > virtual body: they felt as if they were standing in the position of > their virtual self. When the researchers turned off the display, moved > their volunteers backwards and asked them to return to their original > position, many overshot towards where they felt their virtual body had > stood. A feeling of out-of-body levitation by repeating the > experiment with volunteers who were lying down (Consciousness and > Cognition, DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2008.11.003) has not yet recreated > the entire out-of-body experience: It remains an 'as-if' feeling, but > they are trying to refine it to the full Flying Harrington. > > Ehrsson's team have done something similar, with seated volunteers > filmed from behind while a researcher stands to the side of them > stroking the volunteer's chest and a space just in front of the camera > (see illustration). The volunteers see their own backs, feel the > stroking but also see somebody stroking a position just behind them. > This strongly creates the illusion that they are outside their own > bodies, says Ehrsson (Science, vol 317, p 1048). > What's more, when Ehrsson tried swinging a hammer at the previously > stroked airspace, it elicited a strong stress response in the > volunteer. > > I don't know how many realise this, but the relativity experiments > were substantially connected to far cruder versions of these recent > ones. Who knows what we might be able to 'see for real' if we > experienced more illusions? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
