How do you know you're not lucid dreaming?

[outofbodydude]

It may be that we can't really know for sure, but i'm leaning more towards OBE being a form of lucid dream as you have already said. Seems to me OBEs occur in your mind just like dreams do. Sure we can have OBEs that feel like it's something more than a lucid dream and for some people that is enough to believe that an OBE is literally an example of consciousness existing outside of the body.

How you explain the OBE will depend on how you interpret it. So if you want to know more about how to explain OBEs you will need to ask yourself lots of questions that will allow you to look at how you think and how your thoughts and feelings inform your beliefs. Are your own and others personal experience or testimony enough to convince you? How do you value experience as evidence to whatever claims about OBE you are thinking about?

Good points, I agree.

Regarding seeing OBEs as a type of dream experience, this may be true, although it may also be true that dreams are actually a type of OBE.

[Sinera]

Good points, I agree.

Regarding seeing OBEs as a type of dream experience, this may be true, although it may also be true that dreams are actually a type of OBE.

that's my take on it, all you experience is "REAL", be it what we call a dream (lucid or not) or this 'waking' state, because the mind's "EXPERIENCE" is real, always, there's never any 'un_real' experience