The First ‘Out-of-Body’ Experience During Rapid Eye Movement Sleep

Record summary

Researchers studying REM sleep and lucid dreaming reported a participant’s account of an out-of-body-like experience associated with REM physiology. The lead is useful for comparing spontaneous extraordinary experience with laboratory sleep measures, because the experience was discussed alongside dreaming, REM intrusion, and bodily self-consciousness rather than assumed to involve literal separation from the body. It offers a specific case for verification through the paper’s participant description and physiological records. The evidential issue is correlation between reported phenomenology and sleep state.