<P> An out - of - body experience (OBE or sometimes OOBE) is an experience that typically involves a sensation of floating outside one's body and, in some cases, the feeling of perceiving one's physical body as if from a place outside one's body (autoscopy). </P> <P> The term out - of - body experience was introduced in 1943 by G.N.M. Tyrrell in his book Apparitions, and was adopted by researchers such as Celia Green and Robert Monroe as an alternative to belief - centric labels such as "astral projection", "soul travel", or "spirit walking". OBEs can be induced by brain traumas, sensory deprivation, near - death experiences, dissociative and psychedelic drugs, dehydration, sleep, and electrical stimulation of the brain, among others . It can also be deliberately induced by some . One in ten people have an OBE once, or more commonly, several times in their life . </P> <P> Neuroscientists and psychologists regard OBEs as dissociative experiences arising from different psychological and neurological factors . </P>

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