Out-of-body experience in virtual reality induces acute dissociation.

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 346-357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dalena van Heugten-van der Kloet ◽  
Jan Cosgrave ◽  
Joram van Rheede ◽  
Stephen Hicks
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Body Experience ◽  
Out Of Body Experience

scholarly journals Cyberpsychological Approach to the Analysis of Multisensory Integration

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 9-21
Author(s):  
A.E. Voiskounsky
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Multisensory Integration ◽  
Specific Area ◽  
Visual Signals ◽  
Sensory Conflict ◽  
Body Experience ◽  
Out Of Body Experience ◽  
Transport Vehicle ◽  
The Brain

The paper relates to the branch of cyberpsychology associated with risk factors during immersion in a virtual environment. Specialists in the development and operation of virtual reality systems know that immersion into this environment may be accompanied by symptoms similar to the “motion sickness” of transport vehicle passengers (ships, aircraft, cars). In the paper, these conditions are referred to as a cybersickness (or, cyberdisease). The three leading theories, proposed as an explanation of the causes of cybersickness, are discussed: the theory of sensory conflict, the theory of postural instability (the inability to maintain equilibrium), and the evolutionary (aka toxin) theory. A frequent occurrence of symptoms of cybersickness is a conflict between visual signals and signals from the vestibular system. It is shown that such conflicts can be stimulated in the framework of a specially organized experiment (e.g., the illusion of out-of-body experience) using virtual reality systems. When competing signals (visual, auditory, kinesthetic, tactile, etc.) reach the brain, the data gained with the use of virtual reality systems give a chance to hypothetically determine the localization of the specific area in the brain that ensures the integration of multisensory stimuli.

scholarly journals Embodied time and the out-of-body experience of the self

PeerJ ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. e8565
Author(s):  
Sylvie Droit-Volet ◽  
Sophie Monceau ◽  
Michaël Dambrun ◽  
Natalia Martinelli
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Interval Duration ◽  
Body Experience ◽  
Out Of Body Experience ◽  
Time Distortion ◽  
Body Self ◽  
The Individual

Using an out-of-body paradigm, the present study provided further empirical evidence for the theory of embodied time by suggesting that the body-self plays a key role in time judgments. Looking through virtual reality glasses, the participants saw the arm of a mannequin instead of their own arm. They had to judge the duration of the interval between two (perceived) touches applied to the mannequin’s body after a series of strokes had been viewed being made to the mannequin and tactile strokes had been administered to the participants themselves. These strokes were administered either synchronously or asynchronously. During the interval, a pleasant (touch with a soft paintbrush) or an unpleasant stimulation (touch with a pointed knife) was applied to the mannequin. The results showed that the participants felt the perceived tactile stimulations in their own bodies more strongly after the synchronous than the asynchronous stroking condition, a finding which is consistent with the out-of-body illusion. In addition, the interval duration was judged longer in the synchronous than in the asynchronous condition. This time distortion increased the greater the individual out-of-body experience was. Our results therefore highlight the importance of the awareness of the body-self in the processing of time, i.e., the significance of embodied time.

Near-Death and Other Transpersonal Experiences Occurring During Catastrophic Events

2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 486-492 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madelaine Lawrence
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
World War I ◽  
Vietnam War ◽  
Catastrophic Events ◽  
Body Experience ◽  
Loved One ◽  
Out Of Body Experience ◽  
Transpersonal Experiences ◽  
Death Experience ◽  
Seriously Ill Patients

The purpose of this article is to describe examples of near-death and other transpersonal experiences occurring during catastrophic events like floods, wars, bombings, and death camps. To date, researchers have limited their investigations of these transpersonal events to those occurring to seriously ill patients in hospitals, those dying from terminal illnesses, or to individuals experiencing a period of grief after the death of a loved one. Missing is awareness by first responders and emergency healthcare professionals about these transpersonal experiences and what to say to the individuals who have them. Some responders experience not only deaths of the victims they assist, but also deaths of their colleagues. Information about these transpersonal experiences can also be of comfort to them. The examples in this article include a near-death experience during the Vietnam War, an out-of-body experience after a bomb explosion during the Iraq War, a near-death visit to a woman imprisoned at Auschwitz, and two after-death communications, one from a person killed in Auschwitz and another from a soldier during World War I. Also included are interviews with two New York City policemen who were September 11, 2001 responders. It is hoped the information will provide knowledge of these experiences to those who care for those near death, or dying, or grieving because of catastrophic events, and encourage researchers to further investigate these experiences during disasters.

Out of Body Experience Induced by Hypnotic Suggestion. Part 1: Phenomenology and Perceptual Characteristics.

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrizio E. Tressoldi ◽  
Luciano Pederzoli ◽  
Patrizio Caini ◽  
Alessandro Ferrini ◽  
Simone Melloni ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Body Experience ◽  
Out Of Body Experience ◽  
Hypnotic Suggestion ◽  
Perceptual Characteristics

Transpersonal Experiences in Childhood: An Exploratory Empirical Study of Selected Adult Groups

1992 ◽  
Vol 75 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1135-1153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harry T. Hunt ◽  
Sheryl Shearing-Johns ◽  
Arlene Gervais ◽  
Fred Travis
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
Mystical Experience ◽  
Childhood And Adolescence ◽  
Spatial Skills ◽  
Body Experience ◽  
Transpersonal Experience ◽  
Visual Spatial ◽  
Out Of Body Experience ◽  
Transpersonal Experiences ◽  
Meditative Practice

A questionnaire was developed to assess adult recall for a range of transpersonal experiences throughout childhood and adolescence (mystical experience, out-of-body experience, lucid dreams, archetypal dreams, ESP), as well as nightmares and night terrors as indicators of more conflicted, negative states. In two exploratory studies this questionnaire was administered to subjects with high estimated levels of early transpersonal experiences and practising meditators, with respective undergraduate controls. A cognitive skills/precocity model of early transpersonal experience was contrasted with a vulnerability of self model by comparisons of these groups on questionnaire categories, imaginative absorption, neuroticism, and visual-spatial skills, with some support found for both models depending on experience type, age of estimated recall, and adult meditative practice.

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