I don't believe in OBEs... or more precisely, I no more believe in them since I had WILDs.
How do I conclude this ? My personnal stats as of today are: 22 false awakenings (that is, dreaming that I juste awoke from a dream, in my bed ) that I have converted in Lucid dreams (because I do a RC every time I wake up); and 15 WILDs, where I feel my body "detaching and moving randomly" then falling out of the bed, then I can see and I am in my bedroom (strangely, I never had a WILD as described in the tutorials, with hypnagogic imagery, leading to a random dream place... it's always this OBE-like process, in my bedroom).
FAs are quite clearly "just dreams", with a particular setting, and the usual errors of dreams: furnitures are not always at the right place, or not there at all, or did not exist in the real world; my WILDs have the same setting - with the same errors. And when exiting my bedroom to explore the dreamscape, the differences get bigger.
I don't see a reason why imagery in a DILD or FA would be "a dream", while the same imagery in a WILD would be "the astral plane". And I don't know the complicated laws of physics of the astral plane that would create "quite the same bedroom as the physical world one, but with the bed on the wrong corner", and even less how those errors would be different each time.
WILD is just a technique to go directly to the dream state, while staying aware all along, instead of hoping that awareness will be back randomly in the middle of a dream, like in DILD. As a result you're also aware of the strange physiological effects (feelings of body separation, "vibrations") that occur in the sleep transition phase, which can easily impress someone to think it's some powerful thing above our physical world..
My personnal big experiment to do next time I have a long enough LD is : to create a "Near death experience" (you know, with the tunnel, the light, the "heaven"...) which I suspect has the same explanation
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