Susan Blackmore’s out-of-body-experience research

Record summary

British psychologist Susan Blackmore investigated out-of-body experiences, near-death experiences, lucid dreams, and related anomalous experiences through surveys, interviews, and psychological models. Her work is useful because it compares apparently paranormal episodes with dissociation, body-image processes, memory reconstruction, and sleep phenomena, while also documenting the experiential intensity of reports. Blackmore did not simply endorse survivalist interpretations; her later accounts often emphasized cognitive and neuropsychological explanations. Researchers should separate her empirical publications from popular books and verify the dates and samples for each claim.