What is the difference between lucid dreaming and what is called “out of body experiences” ?
Some people claim that they have the ability to separate a subtle body from their physical body. A subtle body more a less the same than the one we may be identified with in the dream state. This body is supposed to be able to travel on the physical reality we are used to, and also to travel in “other worlds and dimensions”. While we are not saying that this never happen, it is a fact that many of the people with such claims are in fact experiencing the dream state without truly recognizing it. For example, they may be in a dream, in a enviroment that is a replica of they bedroom, and watch their body sleeping from a second and more subtle body. Since they don’t really come to the full implications of the recognition of the fact that they are dreaming, they conclude that they are “out of their body”. So, “out of the body experience” refer to experiences in wich we have the perception of being associated with our body like for example also in near death experiences. The question is a th
