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Originally posted by pdiggitydogg
My thoughts:
Your brain is who you are - personality, how you think, etc. It's rots in the ground, eaten by bugs and worms, bacteria and plants.
Who you are is gone...what can there be left of you? If there is a soul (which I don't really believe in either) how can it contain your personality if its gone?
I don't believe in astral projection or out-of-body experiences either. I think theyre just different kinds of dreams or thoughts.
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well when I was in pyschology we studied a case where a doctor got curious about these out of body experiences and called upon people who claimed they had them, when they slept he would set a number that no one knew or a picture of something ontop of a shelf too high for someone to read unless they stood on the bed or in this case float out of body. the patient would sleep in a monitored room (cameras, sensors)
and the doctor watched over the night and monitor heart pace and brain waves.
over the night he watched as the patients brain waves suddenly went from producing delta waves (those found in deep sleep) to alpha waves (normal awake person). yet the patient appeared to remain asleep. he recorded the time that this happened. this happened 3 nights and the first time she claimed she was outside and couldn't read the number. but the next night she told him exactly what was on the paper.
aswell the time he recorded the unusual brain wave activity was the time the patient claimed to have the out of body experience. i don't know if it's true but I'm open enough to beleive in such.
has anyone ever heard of Night Terrors? if your bored look it up, it's really kinda freaky. but since the beginning of records. people have logged what they beleive was an attack from a evil spirit, where they would perceive a dark creatue sitting on their chest. It has occured in every nation, and in ever time of history.
apparently tho it takes place when you become concious and you are technically awake but at the same time your mind is still asleep so it dreams and you have no power over your body.