Thread: How to be reasonably certain you are having an OBE rather than a lucid dream?

IMO, OBE believers are fooled by their brain and are just experiencing a very very convincing dream, something between the FA (where we are convinced to be awoken in our real bedroom) and the LD (where we have a great potential to think, observe, being aware).
I experienced OBE/AS as well as LDs, and it reminds me when I experienced Salvia Divinorium.

In both experiences (OBE/AS and Salvia trip) I was convinced, during the experience, that what I was living was deeply real, authentic, more authentic that reality, while I was just fooled by my brain (I understood that when I came back).

Imagine living such OBEs hundreds if not thousands of times ... you'll never be able to come back from this strong belief that you are really leaving your body or really traveling in a parallel non physical dimension called Astral plan. Only few OBEs/AP are enough to be certain that you are living an authentic paranormal experiences if you enter in this belief.
It's even more real if you were believing that before living your first OBE/AP (by reading books about it).

Thing is that even our perception of reality is 100% produced by our brain from the electric stimulus arriving in the brain from our sensitive organs, so we are fooled by our brain all the time, thinking that when we see something or touch something, the sensation comes from the outside whereas it is built and felt by and in our brain. (even if the real world exists outside of our body).

Believers will have a high skill in finding arguments that seam to show that OBE/AP are real, but it is only because they want to believe it so hard that they can't do anything but being 110% sure that this is real.
You'll notice that all their evidences will be subjective or coming from a man who knows a man who is able to move something in the real world, and so on.