Out Of Body Experiences

Article in today's news about how experts have found a way to trigger an out-of-body experience in volunteers. The experiments, described in the Science journal, offer a scientific explanation for a phenomenon experienced by one in 10 people.

Two teams used virtual reality goggles to con the brain into thinking the body was located elsewhere. The visual illusion plus the feel of their real bodies being touched made volunteers sense that they had moved outside of their physical bodies.

Through these goggles, the volunteers could see a camera view of their own back - a three-dimensional "virtual own body" that appeared to be standing in front of them.

However no one thought to tell these scientist that many a Glaswegian jakey discovered similar effects several years ago without all the high tech jiggery pokery but by instead drinking a few bottles of this.........

The resultant effect of drinking buckfast activates a part of the brain that not only allows the user to experience seeing themselves but entire crowds of virtual people and have full conversations with them.

Unfortunately the amount of liquid stimulant required to achieve this level of mental being also results in the aggressive part of the brain becoming overexcited and most users end up being quite content to just argue and have a fight with their out-of-body self.

The buckfast effect....