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YOU no longer have to dice with death to have an out-of-body experience. Anyone can now have the eerie sensation of leaving their body, thanks to an experimental procedure developed by researchers at University College London. It provides the best proof yet that people who claim to have left their bodies during surgery, say, are imagining the experience.

The key to creating an artificial out-of-body experience is to scramble a person’s visual and touch sensations, tricking their brain into perceiving that they are somewhere else. To do this, Henrik Ehrsson filmed seated volunteers from behind…