Originally Posted by
Naiya
Hmm, interesting, LaBerg is actually a member of IASD. So if their FAQ were misleading, you'd think he would ask them to change it, but he hasn't.
Sorry, but he is not specifically saying that all OBEs are the same as lucid dreams. In fact, on further reading his work on OBEs, he says "Proof that some or even most OBEs are dreams is not enough to allow us to say that a genuine OBE is impossible."
And your quoted portion actually argues the same point I'm making: As one of us stated previously: “…lucid dreams and OBEs [and we will add here, astral projections] are necessarily distinguished by only one essential feature: how the person interprets the experience at the time”
In other words, a lucid dream or OBE is defined by how the person describes it. As of right now, there is no proof that an OBE is physically different than a dream, so the definition depends on the subject experience of the person having it.