Childhood antecedents of out-of-body and deja vu experiences

Journal/Book: J Amer Soc Psychical Res. 1996; 90: 5 West 73RD Street, New York, NY 10023. Amer Soc Psychical Res Inc. 157-173.

Abstract: A questionnaire survey of Australian university students addressed potential childhood antecedents of the out-of-body experience and deja-type experiences. Prevalence of several different forms of childhood trauma were found to discriminate out-of-body experients from nonexperients. Proneness to deja-type experiences was not related to parental encouragement of imaginative involvement during childhood and was predicted by only one of the childhood traumas surveyed in the study. The findings are discussed with particular reference to studies of dissociative experiences.

Note: Article HJ Irwin, Univ New England, Dept Psychol, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia

Keyword(s): DISSOCIATIVE EXPERIENCES; POPULATION; PRONENESS

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