Consciousness is your individual awareness of your unique thoughts, memories, feelings, sensations and environment (CITATION). Your consciousness is always shifting one moment you may be focused on this literature review, a few moments later you might be thinking about the lunch you just ate. Perception however is our recognition and interpretation of sensory information provided by our senses it also provides us on how to respond to the information (CITATION). An ‘out of body experience’ is a personal experience when their own consciousness detaches from their physical body and travels or exists outside of the body, thus an ‘out of body experience’ falls under the categories of consciousness and perception. The main features of an ‘out of
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Palmer states that when the body receives little to none sensory information it results in changes to the ‘body concept’, which in some cases triggered the ‘out of body experience’. Following the Freudian theory, Palmer states that the person’s individual identity or self concept is threatened when their body concept is changed. Due to this threat, unconscious processes are made to try to regain the person’s sense of individual identity. ‘Deathbed experiences’ was an example given by Palmer (1978) in which he stated that an ‘out of body experience’ is more likely to occur when the patient was confined to the bed for a long period of time in a weakened condition (which was likely to encourage changes to their body image) and whether they believe the body change or not they have a psychological set of death which involves the separation of the soul from the body. When the person regains their original body image it results an end to their ‘out of body experience’. Palmer concludes that in order for an ‘out of body experience’ to occur in some cases, the Freudian ‘primary process’ at re-establishing the body image must take place therefore if it was just the body image that was changed it would not be enough to result in an ‘out of body experience’. Palmer’s research however does not explain why some people appear to have ‘out of body experiences’ more often than
Palmer states that when the body receives little to none sensory information it results in changes to the ‘body concept’, which in some cases triggered the ‘out of body experience’. Following the Freudian theory, Palmer states that the person’s individual identity or self concept is threatened when their body concept is changed. Due to this threat, unconscious processes are made to try to regain the person’s sense of individual identity. ‘Deathbed experiences’ was an example given by Palmer (1978) in which he stated that an ‘out of body experience’ is more likely to occur when the patient was confined to the bed for a long period of time in a weakened condition (which was likely to encourage changes to their body image) and whether they believe the body change or not they have a psychological set of death which involves the separation of the soul from the body. When the person regains their original body image it results an end to their ‘out of body experience’. Palmer concludes that in order for an ‘out of body experience’ to occur in some cases, the Freudian ‘primary process’ at re-establishing the body image must take place therefore if it was just the body image that was changed it would not be enough to result in an ‘out of body experience’. Palmer’s research however does not explain why some people appear to have ‘out of body experiences’ more often than