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. 2015 Mar-Apr;112(2):92–96.

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Directly stimulating the temporoparietal cortex with a small electrical current evokes out-of-body experience. In the laboratory the neurophysiologist can bring a patient in and out-of-body, back and forth with the flip of a switch. In young healthy adults, out-of-body experience accompanies the sleep paralysis of REM intruding into waking consciousness.