I recently had an experience that some people would refer to as an OBE, while others a LD. I had the sensation of leaving my body after extreme vibrations, floating in the air, then walking around my house perceiving my surroundings from two perspectives, my frozen body on the bed, and this new "spiritual" body that felt very foreign. I could close my eyes and experience my room from the new body, or open my eyes and feel paralyzed on my bed, among a lot of other weird experiences.
To me, this felt quite different from a dream, but yet very simliar at the same time. Its like a combination of sleep paralysis, mixed with a false awakening, but later i felt as if i had control and conciousness of a lucid dream. To me the whole thing about leaving your body sounds like a lot of crap, if people could actually do it and it was legit, how come no one has ever been able to acheive this state and read a piece of paper in another room, then report back what was written after coming out of the state. We could have spies travel across the world and get information without any risk what so ever. To me, an OBE is just a weird dream phenomenon, but i really dont know to much about them because there doesnt seem to be much valid research on them.
How would you define the difference between an OBE and lucid dream? do you think that an OBE is actually what its defintion says?
