“Experts have found a way to trigger an out-of-body experience in volunteers.
The experiments, described in the Science journal, offer a scientific explanation for a phenomenon experienced by one in 10 people.
Two teams used virtual reality goggles to con the brain into thinking the body was located elsewhere.”
BBC News report – “Out-of-body experience recreated” –
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/6960612.stm
More info:
Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience – http://lnco.epfl.ch/