Where are my legs?

KOTHEROVÁ, Silvie. Where are my legs? In Past, present, and future in the scientific study of religion, Brno, 1-3 March 2012. 2012.

Basic information

• Original name: Where are my legs?
• Authors: KOTHEROVÁ, Silvie (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
• Edition: Past, present, and future in the scientific study of religion, Brno, 1-3 March 2012, 2012.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Presentations at conferences
• Field of Study: 60300 6.3 Philosophy, Ethics and Religion
• Country of publisher: Czech Republic
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14210/12:00061634
• Organization unit: Faculty of Arts
• Keywords in English: Buddhism; meditation; body schema; perception; out-of-body experience; sleeping
• Tags: rivok

Abstract

Human bodily experience is characterized by the immediate and continuous experience that our body and its parts belong to us, often called self-attribution, body ownership and or mineness. In some kinds of Buddhist meditation practice can be this usual experience disrupted. Feelings of "loosing hands", "missing legs", disappearing of other body parts, out of body experience or near death experiences are not out of the common. We can find these self-reports also in our everyday life – in a sleep. Sleep research has well documented loosing of sense of one's own body in a sleep paralysis (sleep-off set phase) and disappearing of body parts in a hypnagogic state (sleep-on set phase).

Links

• EE2.3.20.0048, research and development project: Name: Laboratoř pro experimentální výzkum náboženství