This is a spin-off from the thread on why this forum is in a non-lucid thread. I said that astral projection was among my most-lucid experiences. So that made my wonder what my list of most lucid experiences would be. Please add your own lists also if you're inclined to.

At least 3/4 of this rehashes things I've posted before. Part of the reason for writing this down again, is if you want to imagine it along with me while reading, you can probably experience it for yourself more easily than you would be able to otherwise. Or if you have had similar such experience, you can remember your's while thinking about what I describe, and possibly recognize other aspects of the experience which weren't so obvious before, since everyone experiences such things differently.

My list is not going to exclude waking life experiences, since it would be less interesting if I did, and the distinctions break down a bit at the boundaries anyway.

The standard definition of lucidity in dreams is being aware that one is dreaming. I don't find that definition to be a very useful, since by that standard pretty much all my dreams are lucid, even though most of them are relatively vague and incoherent, and not very much like what 'lucid dreamers' are really talking about. The definition I'm going to use is how 'awake' I am during the experience. That definition is problematic too, since a person can be very vividly aware of superficial things like sights and sounds, or unusually aware of vague, deep psychological subjects that are can't be connected to a clear sensate experience. I'm going to include both kinds of experiences.

Out of body experience: My out of body experiences have all been while asleep, though I understand that people can experience this while awake. In what I'm calling an out of body experience, my point of perspective is outside my body. These experiences are not exceptionally lucid for me, and I'm including it mostly to contrast with what I'm calling astral projection. I think of it as a projection of first-person perspective to what would normally be a third person perspective. I think the capability of doing this is inherent in our ability to imagine ourselves in our environment. I think that a big part of why this experience is for me 'less lucid' than the astral projection experience, is our ability to imagine nearby perspectives is not as strong as our ability to imagine our tactile experience in our own body, and we're using that 'imagine nearby perspectives' capability, even though we're projecting our first person identity into it. Here are two examples:
1. I am asleep, and seem to be floating above my body in my room, semi-lucidly. I can see and hear, though I suspect that most of the informational content is imagined.
2. I am asleep, and lucidly looking at the kitchen of my childhood home from a position hovering near the ceiling over the kitchen sink. I guess this isn't what someone would normally call 'out of body', since it isn't set in my current environment, but the experience is far more striking and lucid. When dreaming, I often experience other perspectives in the first person. So if I were to interpret this experience in a conventionally New Age kind of way, I wouldn't say it was me out of my body, I'd say that I was experiencing the perspective of some other disembodied spirit.
Again, I don't consider these to be among my most lucid experiences, but they're explanatory context for two 'more lucid' experiences in my list.

Astral projection: This is like OBE, except I'm asleep and wide, wide awake in a cognitive sense. I feel as if I'm in my body, feeling every nerve in my body, except that my sense of place is out of focus somehow, so that my tactile feeling is not in sync with what my physical body is actually doing. If you meditate on your capacity to feel sensation, paying attention to what you're feeling in your whole body at once, the starting awareness somewhat like that but amplified, and with a strange sensation of being stripped out of my physical body. With what I'm calling the OBE experience, I'm simply a perspective hovering in the air. With this astral projection, in contrast, I have what feels like an electric body, and the sensation of that electric body being separated from of my physical body is very jarring. While I am out of my body, I seem to be able to see and hear my surroundings, but there's a weird, paranormal quality to it, as if I can see and hear all the usual things, plus other ghosts and whatnot which I can't normally see and hear. If you have ever noticed how old houses often feel creepier than new houses, its the same as that, except I'm seeing and hearing all of it instead of very vaguely feeling it. After the experience, while awake, I can still feel those other 'influences' even though I can't see or hear them any more. I assume that the whole 'astral' experience is 'imagined', the sights and sounds are an internally generated hallucination. At the same time, I think there's something real about it that I don't understand.

Mental projection: I just made that name up. While dreaming, I seem to wander around in a collective mental space, in which different people have overlapping thoughts and spheres of awareness. While doing this, I may see rooms or other scenery that describes it, but I know that what I see and hear is metaphors representing something else. These are probably my most common type of dream. From a sensory standpoint these dreams are not very lucid, but I have a heightened awareness of this other more psychological realm, so it is more lucid than a typical 'lucid dream' in that sense.

I'm out of time, and it is going to take a while to get through the other kinds of 'lucid' experiences I wanted to share, so I think I'll post what I have and continue later. Please feel welcome to share your thoughts in the meantime if you want to.