Difference between OBEs and WILDS?

[DreamingGod]

Just curious to know What's the difference?

[MrBlack]

Hey DreamingGod, I think the main difference is that of perception. With an OBE, the person experiencing it knows that they are out of their physical body and not dreaming, where as with a LD, the person knows that they are Dreaming. Opinions vary on whether or not OBEs are actually just extremely vivid Dreams, where the person is highly coherent, but just not aware that they're Dreaming - as in a False Awakening. Arguments aside: Lucid Dream - you're in a Dream and you know it (but don't think you're out of your body) OBE - You're out of your body and you know it (usually somewhere in the physical world, and you are certain you're not Dreaming). These are my ideas on it, based on what I've read and experienced. Anybody else got more input on the subject?

[Wildman]

By strict definition, MrBlack pretty much hit it right on. A lucid dream is a dream where you know you're dreaming, while an OBE is when you separate from your body, but are still in the physical world, can see your own material body, and can also see things happening in real life, as if you were walking around awake. I'm not exactly sure if OBE implies also being able to travel to some sort of astral plane, but I think so. There's a lot of debate however as to whether OBEs actually exist, or whether they are a form of dream or something similar, like MrBlack said.

[Scatterbrain]

LD = OOBE OOBEs are what some people call the vivid kind of LDs where the dreamer's expectation causes an experience coherent with the waking world. My LDs are always vivid so that would make me a OOBE guy uh?

[Jules2007]

But then how do you explain people knowing/hearing things while in a "LD" that really happened in real life- that they couldn't possibly have known if it wasn't an OBE? I don't know that much about OBEs, but they're a bit like NDE's right? Except, you're having them without almost dieing!

[Soldier]

a lucid dream and a OBE are the same thing but not how you might think. I personally believe that people think there out of there body when they see themself in a dream. A real OBE can't happen! its a ridiculous idea, I'm sure many people will disagree with me on that. I've seen myself in bed while in a dream and I'm quite sure its just a DC.