Abstract

PARRA, Alejandro  and  MIELGO, Romina. The out-of-body experiences and the hallucinatory experiences: relation with cognitive and perceptual variables. Liberabit [online]. 2008, vol.14, n.14, pp.5-14. ISSN 1729-4827.

Abstract. An out-of-body experience or OBE is one in which the “self” or center of awareness seems to the experient to occupy temporarily a position that is spatially remote from his or her body. A total of 648 undergraduate students population included 76% females and 24% males, and who completed a number of scales. Data for experients of OBE were compared with data for those who did not (experients N= 132 vs. non‑experients N= 516). The results showed a higher level of cognitive-perceptual schizotypy, absorption, dissociation, fantasy and hallucination proneness, and visual imagery in OBErs than in non-OBErs. This study suggest that the dissociational model of OBE. Anomalous perceptual experiences and some subjects report beneficial effects from OBEs in an adaptive way.

Keywords : Out-of-body Experience; Absorption/Dissociation; Fantasy Proneness; Visual Imagery; Cognitive-Perceptual Schizotypy.

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