One other comment. Conscious OBE is very like a lucid dream in many respects. In fact, some people argue that they're actually the same thing, and I'm not going to get into that (because I don't believe it), but that shows how similar they are. Psychology definitely does recognise lucid dreaming (a psychology course years ago is where I first heard of it, and I wrote a special report on the topic because it intrigued me so much), and it is well known and certainly accepted that a lucid dream is in no way the same thing as a dissociative event due to trauma.

Academics are pretty well known for treating every problem like a nail, because they only have a hammer (the hammer of their own speciality). To a dentist, everything is teeth and jaw, to a psychologist, everything is whatever school of psychology they're versed in, to a mathematician, everything is maths, to an art historian, everything is art. I just take that into account when dealing with them. They mean well.