All you need to know about "Out of Body Experience"

Out of Body Experience - OBE

It is a phenomenon where a person's consciousness transforms from a physical state to a not so physical state, where they would perceive themselves from a higher point of view.

Particularly as reported in most cases "floating several meters above their actual physical body and witnessing things from the top".

This may leave an 'awe' because there is no scientific evidence to prove their words. 

Does this prove soul exists or Brain played its tricks ?

As we all knew brain is a complex organ of our body. It is responsible for all the things happening in our body and also responsible for how we perceive our surroundings.

But are aware of what are the other capabilities of our brain?

Dreams

It could surprise us with a dream of a picture perfect not so foreseen beautiful world and also a dark frightening world.

Intuition

Sometimes we get a thought that this will definitely happen and it becomes true. It is the case when our action does not affect our surroundings. 
Eg. A person waits for a bus in the bus stop. But it's time and the bus hasn't arrived. Which is the only bus to his home town. But he has a belief that the bus would not have gone. So he waits. Surprisingly the bus reaches the stop delayed 10 minutes than the usual timing. 

This is true in the other case also. Sometimes he reaches the stop before the bus arrival time. But he gets a thought that he would have missed the bus. And even that's is true.

"I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am."
Albert Einstein

The causes of OBE are both Natural and Artificial:
Natural OBE's are caused during 
1. Medical conditions:
i. A person who is in coma and is bedridden.
ii. During a Heart surgery
iii. During some serious medications.

Near Death Experiences - NDE's
Many have reported that they were able to view themselves lying down and while doctors helped them. After a sudden jerk they entered into their body.
Many others say they saw light behind them. And they claim that they we travelling to an another world.

2. Physical attack
They say they have experienced OBE during a serious physical attack

3. Mental agony
They are also experienced during emotional stress.

Artificially induced OBE's
1. Hypnosis
2. Brain Stimulation
3. Dehydration
4. Electric shock
5. Strong G forces
People about OBE

1. “I suddenly seemed to divide into two distinct beings. […] One of these beings remained motionless on the sofa; the other could move some little distance, and could actually look at the motionless body on the sofa.”

Journal of Society for Psychical Research, July 1894

2. From a 36-year-old police officer on first-day of the job.

“When I and three other officers stopped the vehicle and started getting [to] the suspect […] I was afraid. I promptly went out of my body and up into the air maybe 20 feet above the scene. I remained there, extremely calm, while I watched the entire procedure – including watching myself do exactly what I had been trained to do.”

3. “I was there. But I, like, wasn’t there. I was floating. I was looking at myself from  of myself.”
Col. Dan Fulgham

Ted Talks on OBE's:

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