lucid dreaming is a natural and essential part of the path towards
realising out of body experiences (OBEs).
On the other hand, an out of body experience is an experience
where you perceive and feel yourself separate and detach from
your physical body, entering into an objective non-physical
dimension. This dimension can often be parallel to your physical
location. This notoriously happens when your physical body is
sleeping peacefully in bed.
One way to get an idea of how an OBE may feel is by looking
around your surroundings where you are right now. Try to imagine
for a moment that where you are right now, physically reading this
book, is actually in another dimension and that your physical body
is fast asleep somewhere else - really look around and consider how
'real' your seemingly physical environment feels; now try to
amplify this feeling of 'realness' by one hundred times. This is a
glimpse of what astral projection feels like; it feels just like being in
physical waking life, and it can often feel more real and closer to
reality than the physical dimension. In fact, it is commonly known
amongst experienced practitioners that it can feel so blisteringly
tangible that when you wake up, it can give the sensation that
physical life is actually more like a dream in comparison. That is
how influential OBEs can be on our sense of perception.
OBEs takes place not in a dream of your own creation but in an
actual location within a non-physical dimension, it is not affected
by your subconscious mind like a dream, and you can't control the
environment in the same way. It is an actual place where you can
explore any part of Earth or the cosmos with your own direct
senses. You can have conversations with other people, and you can
even travel into the past or future. OBEs happen in the astral plane,
which is beyond time and space. This book will explore some of
these sub-topics and look deeper into the difference between lucid
dreams and OBEs (astral projection). Understanding the difference
is a fundamental part of appreciating and understanding these no