Originally Posted by
OrionStyles
An OBE to me is when I am semi-lucid (can control my actions, but not the environment too much) and the dream takes me out of my body in a similar environment to the one I went to sleep in.
e.g.: I dream I wake up and float out of the bed I went to sleep in, fly through the walls etc to what appears to be the normal outside world.
Am I really leaving my body? Hell no... it's just another description of a type of dream.
Some people even wake up and seem to have a preternatural experience such as waking up and knowing "someone is about to knock on the door, I was just having an OBE and stuck my head through the wall and saw them coming" and then it really happens in the waking world.
This is explained by how acute your senses can be when not being filterd so much by your brain. e.g.: You unconsciosuly heard real world foot steps of someone walking towards your door and that manifested in your dream as the same thing. You wake up and it happens, but no, you weren't really floating around looking through the wall to see this person coming.