Thread: Difference between OBE and LD

Sorry if I posted in the wrong category. Can someone please explain to me the differences between an OBE and a lucid dream?

Lucid dreams only occur during sleep while OBEs can occur when you're awake as well.

OBEs always involve a feeling of being outside your physical body while this isn't always the case in lucid dreams.

In my opinion OBEs are just lucid dreams and because lucid dreams can be extreamly realistic people think they are out of there bodies.(It's just my opinion)

So OBE's are just very realistic lucid dreams? And if they involve the feeling of being outside your physical body how do you wake up from them?

here is my response from another thread

Originally Posted by cooleymd

LD's are purely imaginary and occur entirely inside your brain
OBE's are purely imaginary and occur entirely inside your brain which is inside your body
Astral Projections are purely imaginary and occur entirely inside your brain

In the first case your brain is tricking you into thinking it is reality, and you are tricking your brain by knowing it is a dream

In the other two cases you have sided with your brain and are fooling yourself

First, keep in mind that the only answers you will get are opinions.

In my 16 years of experience with both, I'd say the main differences between lucid dreams and OBEs are the quality of one's consciousness and the environment or level of reality being experienced. There are also differences in the means of producing these experiences. There have been many past threads covering this topic.

Here's an interesting one: http://www.dreamviews.com/beyond-dre...cid-dream.html

If we're just talking about definitions, there's another difference. Lucid dreams are typically associated with normal sleep. OBE's are reported during sleep, but also in other situations like near-death, surgery with general anesthesia, trance, drug-altered states, and so on.