Thread: WILD or OBE?

I was wondering if anyone here has any experience with both lucid dreams and OBE’s (out of body experiences)?

I ask this because the WILD technique seems to be describing a way to achieve OBE’s instead of lucid dreams, and I’m curious if people who use this technique are dreaming or actually projecting out of their body without realizing it.

Here are some examples of techniques to achieve an OBE:
http://www.astralinfo.org/theOBEexperience.htm
http://www.psywww.com/asc/obe/faq/obe14.html

There are plenty of other techniques but they all use the same principle of keeping the mind awake while the body goes to sleep, the same as the WILD technique. Sleep paralysis and ‘hypnagogic hallucinations’ are the same things that happen in the ‘vibrational state’ right before an OBE: http://www.out-of-body.com/techniques/vibestate.htm (and from what I’ve read I always thought the sounds and sensations weren’t hallucinations at all, but just the brain’s way of interpreting the energy that gets released).

My favorite book on this subject is ‘The Secret Of The Soul’ by William Buhlman, and the way he describes it there’s definitely a huge difference between lucid dreams and OBE’s.
I haven’t experienced an OBE yet (only lucid dreams, and never wake initiated) so I can’t tell the difference. But if everyone who’s using the WILD technique is actually having OBE’s, then you can get a lot more out of it than a regular lucid dream and I’d really recommend reading that book, or any book on the subject.