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Be sure to check out the sub-forum beyond-dreaming! It is a fun section for talking about anything odd and mystical. You will find many threads there about it. I would put it like this OBE is a generic term like UFO. It describes any experience, real or not in which you feel as if you are out of your body. AP is astral projection. Most people will only consider an OBE to be astral if you feel as if you have left the real world and entered some state of existence beyond our understanding. I have lucid dreams in which I go to an astral world that has its own physical laws and is nothing like the waking world, so that would be AP. I also have meditation states where I am not in a body or experiencing any normal stimuli like touch or sight, so that would be AP.
If the experience feels as if you are still in this world, but out of your body it is not AP. Like I said check out beyond-dreaming, it is very fun.

Here is a link to one of my DJ entries that involves the kind of AP that takes place in another world type setting, 02-19-12 First Astral City experience in this journal. - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Originally Posted by Robot_Butler

If you have questions about astral travel and OBE, check out the Beyond Dreaming forum. People over there might be able to explain the difference. Personally, I have never seen the difference between OBE and WILD.

The state in a WILD before you form a dream body and after you loose your own body would be an OBE, so would the WILD itself if it takes part in 3rd person.