What are out-of-body experiences?
A. [This is a section of Jouni Smed’ alt.out-of-body FAQ] Out-of-the-body experiences (OBEs) are those curious, and usuallybrief, experiences in which person seems to himself to leave his bodyand to observe the world from a point of view other than that which hewould have were he still ‘in’ his body. In some cases the experientsclaim that they ‘saw’ and ‘heard’ things (objects which were reallythere, events and conversations which really took place) which couldnot have seen or heard from the actual positions of their bodies. Out-of-the-body experiences are surprisingly common; different surveys have yielded some whatdifferent results, but all in all one would not be too far wrong ifone said that somewhere between one person in ten and one person intwenty is likely to have had such an experience at least once.Furthermore it seems that Out-of-the-body experiences can occur to anyone in almost anycircumstances. They are most frequent during sleep, duringunconsciousness following anesthesi
