Thread: Is OBE a form of Lucid Dreaming or not?

I understand very well that there are differences in detail when you have an OBE and you find yourself in a representation of your "room" or another locale. Like a radio frequency, it's as if you just barely turned the knob the tiniest inch, and while can still hear the "main" station for the most part, you begin to pick up ever so slight signals from another one as well... and they are mixed.

This idea has been represented in video games, music, movies, etc... for years and years. A VERY classic example is in Zelda: A Link To the Past for the SNES. Think about the nuances between the Light World and the Dark World... (go ahead and pull them up and compare them side by side.), how they are virtually the same and yet, in some ways they are not at all. I guarantee you these game designers weren't just pulling these ideas out of their asses. They were basing them off of real concepts... experiences they've had similar to the one's we've had.

Anyone who has played Zelda, A Link the the Past knows that sometimes things you do in one realm will affect the other. Yes, it's just a game... but the idea is the important part. People use games and stories to express these ideas so they won't sound crazy. I see it everywhere in the media, in video games, music, etc...

So while, yes, an OBE might have significant differences than the waking world, it doesn't mean that you aren't, in a sense, still interacting with the waking world... you're just sort of "tuned in" slightly off of the waking world's main frequency. At least that's how I look at it, and have experienced it for my self.

APing and Lucid Dreaming seem like deeper or different frequencies all together. It's like taking the knob and cranking it clockwise 6 times... and you're somewhere entirely different. Sometimes you'll start off in the OBE state and slip into a dream. All this means to me is that the "knob" can still turn and change your frequency while you're in an OBE... which is why I often times slip into a lucid dream. It seems more experienced practitioners of the dreaming arts have more control over what frequency they want to explore in than a learning noob like my self does... but I'm making daily progress.

-K