Comments on: Out-of-Body Experiences Offer New Clues About Consciousness https://neurosciencenews.com/out-of-body-experience-consciousness-28814/ Neuroscience News provides research news for neuroscience, neurology, psychology, AI, brain science, mental health, robotics and cognitive sciences. Sun, 08 Jun 2025 03:33:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Allyson Williams https://neurosciencenews.com/out-of-body-experience-consciousness-28814/#comment-97492 Sun, 08 Jun 2025 03:33:47 +0000 https://neurosciencenews.com/?p=109494#comment-97492 This article was very interesting to me as I had no idea honestly that OBE was even a thing. I am not saying I don’t believe this can happen or start with dreams its just hard for me to understand being I have never experienced it before. I can’t imagine living with something like this everyday, I would be terrified and fearful. just like several participants described this OBE. I can’t even imagine studying something like this would be very difficult for me as stated. My heart goes to to the people dealing with this.

]]> By: Gerald Schroeder https://neurosciencenews.com/out-of-body-experience-consciousness-28814/#comment-96613 Mon, 05 May 2025 15:26:47 +0000 https://neurosciencenews.com/?p=109494#comment-96613 Nobel laureate George Wald, after a life-time of studies into vision and consciousness, wrote that “it has occurred to me that the origin of life from non-living matter and the origin of consciousness in that life that arose from non-living matter might be brought into a degree of congruence with the assumption that mind rather than emerging as a late outgrowth, has always existed as the source and basis of existence. It is mind that has created the universe. [!! emphasis added]

]]> By: Luis https://neurosciencenews.com/out-of-body-experience-consciousness-28814/#comment-96610 Mon, 05 May 2025 14:21:44 +0000 https://neurosciencenews.com/?p=109494#comment-96610 It would be interesting to see whether any of the participants in these studies have hyperphantasia – or even aphantasia.

(Hyperphantasia is the condition of having extremely vivid mental imagery. It is the opposite condition to aphantasia, where mental visual imagery is not present. The experience of hyperphantasia is more common than aphantasia and has been described as being “as vivid as real seeing”. Source: Wikipedia)

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