Well they definitely do NOT turn into a dream since I snap back "in" and wake up afterwards trying to remember everything and wondering what just happened.

I also am quite sure they are NOT hallucinations since during one experience my husband had a similar one. There was a woman bugging me. I was "out" (I think?) and I felt the vibrations and I could hear her talking (as in with my physical ears). She looked a lot like Princess Leah from StarWars. I kept trying to get out of it because she scared me. She kept yelling, "Wait! Don't go!" My eyelids (spiritual ones I think?) kept fluttering open/shut, open/shut... I finally snapped myself out of it and laid there awake. My husband, sleeping next to me, began to hallucinate. I let him go for awhile because he has gotten upset with me for waking him up before since he said he was talking to and helping a spirit. Anyhow... then his breathing became more deep and labored and I shook him awake. He said, "There's a woman on your side of the bed and she won't leave you alone!" I was like WHOA! That WAS REAL. I had not had the chance to tell him about it not even one tiny little bit. How else could he have known? He went on to tell me that he chased her through the house telling her to leave. She kept refusing saying I needed to help her. He then got so angry and frustrated with her that he said to her, "God wants your head to blow up!" He still feels very remorseful and terrible for having said that to her. He doesn't know why he said that to her either except that he wanted her to leave me alone and she refused. He got his wish. She got the point and left... never to return...

Anyhow.... I used to think these experiences were made up in my imagination or freaky hallucinations too.... but that ONE experience just validated it all for me.

Maybe I should mention that I once went to see a medium who was trained by James Van Praaugh who told me that I was clauradient and was also a gifted medium? It could be that I'm not OBE-ing at all. But something IS truly happening and I am surely hearing the spirit realm during this state of consciousness. Now if I could only learn to do it from a fully awake state! That would be awesome. I'd love nothing more than to help people who are grieving and to help spirits who have unresolved issues here on Earth.