Editing Out-of-body experience (section)

====Smith & Messier====

In 2014, a functional imaging study reported the case of a woman who could experience out of body experience at will. She reported developing the ability as a child and associated it with difficulties in falling sleep. Her OBEs continued into adulthood but became less frequent. She was able to see herself rotating in the air above her body, lying flat, and rolling in the horizontal plane. She reported sometimes watching herself move from above but remained aware of her unmoving "real" body. The participant reported no particular emotions linked to the experience. "[T]he brain functional changes associated with the reported extra-corporeal experience (ECE) were different than those observed in motor imagery. Activations were mainly left-sided and involved the left supplementary motor area and supramarginal and posterior superior temporal gyri, the last two overlapping with the temporal parietal junction that has been associated with out-of-body experiences. The cerebellum also showed activation that is consistent with the participant's report of the impression of movement during the ECE. There was also left middle and superior orbital frontal gyri activity, regions often associated with action monitoring."<ref>{{cite journal | pmc=3918960 | year=2014 | last1=Smith | first1=A. M. | last2=Messier | first2=C. | title=Voluntary Out-of-Body Experience: An fMRI Study | journal=Frontiers in Human Neuroscience | volume=8 | page=70 | doi=10.3389/fnhum.2014.00070 | pmid=24575000 | doi-access=free }}</ref>