Can someone clarify?

[Summerlander]

Hi and welcome!

Take a look at this link:
http://obe4u.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=9

The phase = OOBE/AP/LD

You can enter this state before during and after sleep.  You will soon find that there is no reason to discard the idea that OOBEs (in this case meaning those experiences where an individual seemingly separates from the body) are wake-initiated lucid dreams (WILDs) that include the illusion of leaving the body.  In fact, there is more evidence for this than otherwise.

If you think that you have really separated from the physical body, then I urge you to look around and see if you spot any inconsistencies/anomalies in your immediate environment.  Try to read a piece of paper, look away and then back.  Does it read the same?  Are there any inexplicable changes.  If so, then what surrounds you is likely to be a virtual world of the mind created from expectation, memory, creativity and belief.

Phase experiences where the bedroom environment appears accurate do happen but are rare.  Also, in light of such experiences, we should not dismiss the fact that memory can be photographic sometimes and the majority of so-called OOBEs present us with a copy (no anomalies spotted at the time) of a very small and localised portion of the entire universe.  Beyond this zone, things start to change again - why is that?  Also, fuzzy phases that require deepening are often mistaken for real OOBEs (how can you tell when the picture isn't clear or is only suggestive in the first place?).  We must remember that we have two brain hemispheres.  Here is something interesting to be considered:

http://www.lutz-sanfilippo.com/library/ ... aming.html

Particularly this passage:

"The nature of dreams in split-brain patients has been studied by Klaus Hoppe, a psychoanalyst.  Hoppe analyzed the dreams of 12 split-brain patients and reported that patients after commissurotomy reveal a paucity of dreams, fantasies, and symbols.  Their dreams lack the characteristics of dream work, their fantasies are unimaginative, utilitarian, and tied to reality; their symbolization is concretistic, discursive, and rigid,"  (Springer & Deutsch, 295).

Split-brain patients aside, perhaps some of us are more prone to the utilitarian rigidity of the phase state than the escapist and fantastical surreality.