Virtual reality illusions produce out-of-body experiences in the lab

This article is reposted from the old Wordpress incarnation of Not Exactly Rocket Science. 

The idea of an out-of-body experiences seems strange and hokey - certainly not one that would grace one of the world's top scientific journals. So it may seem surprising that two years ago, Science published not one, but twopapers that considered the subject through the lens of scientific scrutiny.