Out of body videogame experiences?

[death song]

I've had this happen to me a couple of times. I'm playing a video game, concentrating really hard, and all of a sudden I'm not in my body. I don't feel myself pressing the keys. It's not like I feel like I'm in the game, but it feels like my mind is directly controlling the game. Usually in this state I play really well. Anybody had this happen?

[Vynrose]

Never heard of it, never happened to me.

[AaronCooper]

I get this when im pissed and playing pool sometimes...

Not quite so sure about online games though

[ToshX]

That always happens to me as soon as I get used to a game <__< But sometimes something similar happens where my mind just drifts and I start to daydream while playing the game.

[STM1993]

This hasn't happened to me as far as I can recall. The most intense was when I just get glued to the screen and forget about the time. Nothing more.

[manofsparrow]

What type of video game were you playing?

[Hamburger]

Happened to me when i was playing herion hero.

[Machiko]

i've experienced that a couple of times

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[Zeuslol]

Happened to me a few times, normally when I'm really concentrated in the game/annoyed.

and I play extremely well then. o.o

[ToshX]

Oh, it doesn't happen if I'm talking to someone, like if my friend's over and I'm on the computer, then obviously it isn't very possible.

But mainly, unless something directs my focus away from what I'm doing, I usually just do the thing without really thinking about it.

[Queerful]

i was like that pretty much everytime i played gunz, its just muscle memory

[Resident_Evil]

Used to get it alot when I played ssbm with friends.

[bmx000]

i play defeat noobs while i sleep :/
idk maybe you have some weird fingers? How can you not feel something when you are smashing on that keyboard????

[Seta]

Out of Body Experience - Wiki

An out-of-body experience (OBE or sometimes OOBE), is an experience that typically involves a sensation of floating outside of one's body and, in some cases, perceiving one's physical body from a place outside one's body (autoscopy). About one in ten people has an out-of-body experience at some time in their lives.[1] Scientists know little about the phenomenon.[2] OBEs are often part of the near-death experience, and reportedly may also lead to astral projection. It is claimed that those experiencing an OBE sometimes observe details which were unknown to them beforehand.[3][dubious – discuss]

In some cases the phenomenon appears to occur spontaneously; in others it is associated with a physical or mental trauma, use of psychedelic drugs, or a dream-like state. It is possible to induce the experience deliberately, for example through visualization while in a relaxed, meditative state.[dubious – discuss] Recent (2007) studies have shown that experiences somewhat similar to OBEs can be induced by direct brain stimulation. Relatively little is known for sure about OBEs.[2] Some of those who experience OBEs claimed to have willed themselves out of their bodies, while others report having found themselves being pulled from their bodies (usually preceded by a feeling of paralysis). In other accounts, the feeling of being outside the body was suddenly realized after the fact, and the experiencers saw their own bodies almost by accident.[4] OBEs often occur during the borderline stage between REM sleep and arousal when sleep paralysis may persist and dream imagery may mingle with sensory input.

Some neurologists have suspected that the event is triggered by a mismatch between visual and tactile signals. They used a virtual reality setup to recreate an OBE. The subject looked through goggles and saw his own body as it would appear to an outside observer standing behind him. The experimenter then touched the subject at the same time as a rod appeared to touch the virtual image. The experiment created an illusion of being behind and outside one's body.[5]

You leave your body being able to see yourself basically, usually happens in near death experience, What you are saying isn't anything like an OBE but more of completely being focused on something whether thought or actually physically doing something.

[Yvgeniy]

I don't think I've ever felt completely out of my body. I mean, at times I get pretty sucked into the game, but I don't believe I've ever reached a point where I couldn't tell illusion from reality. This phenomenon is relatively easy to explain, though. Basically when you play a game there comes a point when you enter "The Zone" which is a state of your brain when you fully dedicate your concetration to the task at hand (playing the game), and ignore pretty much everything else. People that excel in a certain task have the capability to easily enter "The Zone."