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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kevin_Fdo" data-source="post: 25276655" data-attributes="member: 570000">Sometimes people find the out-of-body hallucinations pleasant and feel as though they're weightless, but more often, the sensations can be quite disturbing. Like paralysis, these hallucinations may also be a lingering manifestation of REM sleep."We know the amygdala is highly active in REM, which is important to fear and emotional memory," said Daniel Denis, a postdoctoral scholar in psychiatry at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. "You have part of the brain actively responding to fear or something emotional, but nothing in the environment to account for that. So the brain comes up with a solution to that paradox." That's one possible explanation, he said; but the actual cause of the hallucinations is still unknown.</blockquote>

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