Brains misbehaving?

In response to the lecture on Hyperreality and all the -isms that come with it, I remembered in an old copy of new scientist that an interesting feature on altered mind states had a point that seemed vaild enough to connect to this branch of theory.

'...an out-of-body experience in healthy volunteers. They film each volunteer from behind and project the image into a head-mounted display worn by the volunteer so that they see an image of themselves standing about 2 metres in front. The experimenters then stroke the volunteer's back - which the volunteers see being done to their virtual self. This creates sensory conflict, and many reported feeling their sense of self migrating out of their physical bodies and towards the virtual one.' - (From New Scientist 2009 10 October p 36)

This is most related to the simulacrum, or rather the reference to the 'reflection of a profound reality' (From lecture) where the individual cannot determine a differentation of the 2 corresponding realities presented to them, however it is not a pure simulacrum as it has not lost all relation to reality whatsoever.

The flexercise is done. Next task!