Sleep paralysis can cause spooky sensations of floating outside your body or gazing down upon yourself from the bedroom ceiling. Phenomena like this provide penetrating insights into how your sense of self comes about and how fragile this can be.
This sense of embodiment arises in the brain. I feel firmly grounded in my own flesh and bone and not someone else’s body (I feel my arm belongs to me and not you, say). Instead of epic encounters with otherworldly entities, these visions reflect natural disruptions to your brain’s ability to generate a unified sense of self the feeling we all have of being anchored here and now in our bodies. Based on over a decade of research, we’ve developed a theory to explain how your brain conjures up these compelling images.
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