A study suggests the oft-reported sensation of leaving the body during a brush with death may have a simple explanation in the body itself. "Out-of-body" and "near-death" experiences - in which people ...

They are eerie sensations, more common than one might think: A man describes feeling a shadowy figure standing behind him, then turning around to find no one there. A woman feels herself leaving her ...

That feeling of being in, and owning, your own body is a fundamental human experience. But where does it originate and how does it come to be? Now, Professor Olaf Blanke, a neurologist with the Brain ...

This release is available in French, Spanish and Japanese. Using virtual reality goggles to mix up the sensory signals reaching the brain, scientists have induced out-of-body-like experiences in ...