RealFeedApp Human brain creates uncanny feelings in the space between sleep and waking
Researchers found that the state between sleeping and waking may generate experiences like sleep paralysis or flying sensations. This overlap in consciousness helps explain the nature of bodily perception.
- Field
- the brain and neuroscience
- What they did
- Researchers found that strange out-of-body experiences might happen in the transitional state between sleeping and waking, where the brain tries to merge these two modes.
- Why it matters
- This knowledge could help better understand conditions like sleep paralysis and provide new answers to how our brain perceives its own body.
#out-of-body experience#sleep paralysis#consciousness#brain states
