Once you have completed experiment 1 or experiment 2 (read first post), please enter your results in the poll to be tallied.
- OBE: marking on SAME side
- OBE: marking on OPPOSITE side
- LD: marking on SAME side
- LD: marking on OPPOSITE side
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I recently thought of an experiment that might settle this question. People have been arguing for a while that OBEs are just the same as LDs, and then there are others who say that OBEs are contained within your mind but you are still experiencing sensory via your brain directly, then there are the others who say that OBEs are completely different than any other plane of being and when you have an OBE you are releasing your spirit or soul into a higher dimension to explore the world around you from a different vantage point. From this, there are two main camps:
1.) OBEs are a representation of reality from experiences (that is, you are in the same state of being as a LD, and the experience is entirely generated by your mind without any external input), but for some undetermined reason they are more “real” than LDs.
2.) OBEs are created while you are potentially in a different state of being, but definitely created via external input. That is, the experience is not confined to your brain.
My experiment will help give us a better idea of which one is true.
To participate you must have a definitive feature on your body that is confined to one side of your body. For example, you can have a mole on your left upper lip, or you can have your hair parted one way, or you could have a scar on one arm and not the other, or a tattoo on one leg but not the other. If you don’t have a definitive body-side-associated marking, you can simulate one with a sticker, but these results will be handled as a different case.
You may choose to do one or both of the following:
Experiment 1.) Induce a Lucid dream (WILD or not, it doesn’t matter). “Clone” yourself, imagine yourself splitting into two different people. Look at the mark on the clone. Is it on the same side as you in real life? That is, if you have a mole on the right side of your face in real life, does the clone have it on the right side, or the left side of their face?
Experiment 2.) Have an OBE. Look at your face, the body lying on the bed. Is your marking on the correct side of your body?
This will help us to determine whether or not the image of ourselves in an OBE is created from external or internal inputs.
Please post your experience here, or just vote if you don’t feel like posting. I would like to do two polls, but it doesn’t allow for that and we only really need a tally.
Please only vote once per experience, and only post your experience instead of voting if you had to simulate the marking.
IMPORTANT! READ AGAIN: Please only vote once per experience, and only post your experience instead of voting if you had to simulate the marking.