Most people agree that Out of Body Experiences and Wake Initiated Lucid Dreams are the same general thing. People will always debate it, because it is based on experience and beliefs. I guess there may never really be a good way to know for sure. We do know that they are both induced using almost identical meditation excercises.

The great part about it is, we are gifted with access to both, so we can always find out for ourselves firsthand. No need to trust someone else's opinion, right?

I frequently have both Dream Initiated Lucid Dreams, where I become lucid once already in a dream, and Wake Initiated Lucid Dreams, where I stay aware as I fall asleep into a dream. There is a lot of overlap between the techniques for inducing both kinds. My WILDs almost always have similarities to Out of Body Experiences.