Seeing and identifying with a virtual body decreases pain perception.
European journal of pain (London, England) September 2011 Alexander Hänsel, Bigna Lenggenhager, Roland Von Känel et al.
Pain and the conscious mind (or the self) are experienced in our body. Both are intimately linked to the subjective quality of conscious experience. Here, we used virtual reality technology and visuo-tactile conflicts in healthy subjects to test whether experimentally induced changes of bodily self-consciousness (self-location; self-identification) lead to changes in pain perception. We found...