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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3107797.stm
This article discusses how scientists from Birkbeck College, and University College London are trying to figure out how a baby's brain still understands that a hidden object is still around.
There's a problem with assumptions but if the theory in the article turns out to be correct then that would mean that...
One of the functions of the temporal lobes is to be aware of objects which are hidden. Which we "know" exist but can't see. Now this makes me instantly think of temporal lobe epilepsy. Maybe during times of fluctuation of the electromagnetic fields we become aware of objects/things/beings/world "hidden" from us? Or maybe the electro-magnetic fluctuations makes us think that there is something around us which wasn't there before? Or, possibly, if out-of-body experiences really are hallucinatory experiences (I don't think that they are hallucinations but then again I've never had an OOBE) then maybe it's a hallucination caused by an induced temporal lobe seizure which makes us become aware of the space around us by confusing the brain about what is hidden and what is not. To explain better, with our eyes closed our brain "knows" that the world is "hidden" behind our eyelids. BUT when there's a temporal lobe seizure suddenly the brain starts thinking that the world outside of our eyelids isn't "hidden" anymore and our imagination starts rendering the world around us using data not from our senses but from our memory. Thus we can experience the "world" around us with our eyes closed.
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