Yeah, I read that article about the researchers giving people OBEs. Interesting stuff. I doubt OBEs are real, except in the sense that they may *feel* real. It's just the brain tricking itself, similar to what those researchers duplicated, making you feel as if your 'self', the point of view of where 'you' are, feel as if it is outside your body.

There would be some easy ways to test the legitimacy of OBEs. The important thing is that the test be reproducible. Take a person who says they can OBE themselves. Put a book in the room next door, open to a random page. Have the OBE person leave their body and memorize, say, the ninth sentence on the left page in the book one room over, then reenter their bodies and say what that sentence is. Unfortunately, nobody can do this, or anything even similar, which is what leads me to believe that it's just our brain tricking itself.