When I was regularly practicing the FILD technique, I had many lucid dreams which were considerably different from a normal dream-induced LD. After reading up on OBEs, I'm starting to wonder what exactly I was experiencing.

Here's basically how they went:

I would wake up in the morning, perform the FILD tech, and then I would feel my body tingle / fall asleep. Once I reached that stage, I would keep my eyes closed and visualized my room thru my closed eyes. Slowly my room would appear.

And now for the hard part - trying to get out of bed. I would would always try to sit up and climb out of my bed, but there was always this force pulling me back down. With enough effort I was usually able to beat it and could stand up.

After that, I would always notice there was something wrong with my vision ( blurry vision, one eye no working, partial vision, difficulty looking around, plus it was always dark in my room )

Most of the time I would barely make it to the other side of my room when i felt a darkness coming over me - I would try to fight it but eventually everything went black and then I would wake up.

The more i read about OBEs, the more it sounds like what I was experiencing. One thing i realized is that all those times this happened, not once did I turn around and look at my bed. But how would I ever know if they were simply a dream, or were something more?

Any thoughts?