Can animals have out-of-body experiences (OBEs)?
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Probably, but they're not in a position to communicate with us about abstract concepts like this, so we can never know for sure.
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ESP or Extra Sensory Perception is when you can either sense spirits form the other world or move yopur own spirit out of your body and look around
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I have heard that cats do get kind of freaked out by the supernatural. My friend and i were playing the ouija board and her cat came and its back hunched up and it hissed at the board and ran away. I have heard that cats can see spirits like fairies, ghosts and peopel who astral traveling and dogs can see people's souls. Thats why when a dog see's someone and they start to grow'll or the hair stands up on their backs. The dog has seen the persons soul and they think/know that that person means harm or is bad!!
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No NDE is different from OBE.. I had NDE in 2000.  NDE is altogether different from OBE or lucid dreaming... it is the real knowledge about what happens when we are dying
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The body when alseep turns off the bit of the brain that tells it to move.  However every now and then it flickers back into life and you move as you are in your dream.  Its very natural and if you watch dogs sleep they chase things and sometimes even bark.  Very odd, but the brain has to stop you acting out your dreams, otherwise youd be knackered.
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No, not the way animals do. Animals can actually smell fear with their noses, it has an actual scent to them. But humans can sense fear, not smell it, but they have intuition and feelings, perceptions of body language, tone, reason, common sense, that let a person just know when someone is afraid.
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I had an out of body experience.  I floated above my body and watched my friends try to wake me up.  They were yelling at me to breathe and I was alright after a short time.  When I came down, I realized what a low existence we live in.  Reality is a very low existence.  It's hard to put in words.....)(
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Near Death Experience. Usually results in a change in behavior/beliefs.\n\nI've had one before, so, yes.
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Not really\n\nhttp://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/pleasure.htm
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the psyche - so i believe.\nbut that doesn't explain why my DOG yawns whenever I do
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In some muscular organs yes. For example, I remember that once I tied a cat's legs together (don't blame me! I was only 5!) I wanted to untie him soon but mummy called me and I forget it until I heard his meow (it took about half an hour). I rapidly untied him but for 3 minutes or more he was not able to walk OK and walked like drunk people!\n\nBut, many mammals have organs which could be still for a long time without getting asleep. In fact, the mechanism of blood circulation in those part is so that the motionlessness of that organ does not affect it. Maybe they have special one-way ports in their veins which may prevent blood blockage. Or have some bypass paths which guarantees the full coverage of blood transfer even if a local blockage occurs. In other types of animals (except than birds), I don't think that such phenomenon could be seen because of the nature of their blood circulation system.
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It could , but so does epilepsy and some dogs have that too. Get the dog to the vet and find out the cause, it could be as simple as giving the dog anti seizure meds which are cheap. It also could be not enough fluid, does he or she drink enough, one time my dog didn't want to drink and got dehydrated and had a seizure.
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Yes.  It can also be a very spiritual experience.  They are, after all, God's creatures.
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Of course it can.  They regularly lie on the ground.\nHowever, what you might be thinking of, is the fact that a cow will climb a stairs but never go down one.
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Yes, in high school a possum came in through the doggy door one night and got under my bed. I woke up in the middle of the night and heard really weird snuffling noises under there.  I was terrified and screamed for my mom. She came in and turned on the light and we found him. I still make olympic jumps (35 years later) into bed at night after turning off the light because I know something CAN be under the bed.   LOL
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They believe it out of an unconscious fear of death.\n\n\nIn the "higher" animals, most particularly among the mammals, threatening circumstances elicit a particular type of pain we refer to as anxiety. Anxiety constitutes a type of pain meant to prompt these "higher" order animals to avoid potentially hazardous circumstances. For example, a rabbit is cornered by a mountain lion. In such a situation, the rabbit is pumped with adrenaline, charged with the painful symptoms of anxiety, all meant to incite the rabbit to most effectively escape from the source of its discomfort, in this case the mountain lion. In its healthiest form, anxiety is meant to prompt an animal to avoid or escape a potentially hazardous experience. In humans, however, once we became aware of the fact that death was not only inescapable but that it could come at any moment, we were left in a state of constant mortal peril, a state of unceasing anxiety -- much like rabbits perpetually cornered by a mountain lion from which there is no escape. With the emergence of self-awareness, humans became the dysfunctional animal, rendered helpless by an inherent and unceasing anxiety disorder. Unless nature could somehow relieve us of this debilitating awareness of death, it's possible our species might have soon become extinct. It was suddenly critical that our animal be modified in some way that would allow us to maintain self-conscious awareness, while enabling us to deal with our unique awareness of our own mortalities, of death.\n-- Matthew Alper, from "The Premise" to his book, The God Part of the Brain ††
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We have absolutely no idea what the biological mechanism is, where the seat of conciousness is, not what other animals may or may not possess it. If anyone tells you otherwise, they are lying-We don't even understand the biological basis of simple learning and behaviour, and cannot, from a complete three dimensional diagram of a 1000-neuron worm brain, tell you anything about it's behaviour. We are as close to understanding the most profound and complex functions of the brain as a monkey is to learning computer programming. I both teach and research in this area, and I guarantee you that we are still at the most basic level of understanding brain function.