Any of you who have seen me post around the forums before may have noticed that I'm quite interested in the science of lucid dreaming and here's an extract I read in article earlier today.

"In 2007, for example, Dirk De Ridder of University Hospital Antwerp in Belgium was trying to help a 63-year-old man with intractable tinnitus. In a last-ditch attempt to silence the ringing in his ears, Ridder's team implanted electrodes near the patient's TPJ. It did not cure his tinnitus, but it did lead to him experiencing something close to an out-of-body experience: he would feel his self shift about 50 centimetres behind and to the left of his body. The feeling would last more than 15 seconds, long enough to carry out PET scans of his brain. Sure enough, the team found that the TPJ was activated during the experiences."

The TPJ is a brain region called the temporoparietal junction (although the name doesn't really matter).

What interested me is that this region of the brain is linked with the inner ear, which in turn is responsible for balance, touch and spatial awareness.

The article suggests that malfunctions in this area can lead to people having OBE's and that it is most probably responsible for sleep paralysis.

This theory also seems to explain the waves and vibrations that many people feel upon wild attempts.

Hope this interests you!