My Lastest Phase Book - Non-Fiction or Fiction?

[12padams]

After just uploading the first version of my new book "Teenage Phase Adventures" which contains a collection of my phase experiences (each named with an attached plan of action) I had a strange thought. If I were to ever publish this book or if you were to see it in a library which section would it be in.... Fiction or Non-Fiction.

The answer at first seems quite simple. Its non-fiction since I am truly planning out goals and then entering the phase to perform them like an experiment. Its a logged journey of experiences which have really happened so of course its nonfiction. Yet then again where are these experiences happening? Well the answer that most people would accept is "In my mind". Their not physically happening like documented experiences in normal non-fiction books but instead their happening in my mind. But if fiction means "Made up by someone in their head" then that practically covers my book. But I haven't made up my experiences I have experienced them yet since they have occurred in my head I've made them up but its not me that's done this its my subconscious yet my subconscious is still a part of me which is making up the experiences so has to be fiction... The cycle of questions and confusion never ends.

What do you all think. A collection of short stories that I have subconsciously made up yet consciously experienced... FACT OR FICTION? If you need to have a little flick through my book to make up your mind your more than welcome to download it from my blog at the following link: http://obe4u.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=2 (click the image of the "Teenage Phase Adventures" book once you get there)

We really need to get this sorted out because you can just imagine the complications in the future when others start writing books like I have... Sure books from Robert Monroe exploring the phase state which he called "Astral Projection" and "Out of Body Experiences" have been classified as non-fiction. This is a different situation however because he stated that he was exploring another dimension "The Astral Dimension" which was apparently not in your head but instead "at a higher vibrational frequency than the physical dimension". What about our more modern situation? Now that we "know" (or at least think we know) that its all an experience created our own imagination... The answer is a lot less clear.

Let the debate begin... Ill start off with my opinion - "Non-Fiction"

[Th3TruthizInThere]

I definitely say non-fiction:  in reality, you executed some steps that resulted in an experience, and others can have similar experiences. The debate is not about the "reality level" of the experience, but rather about how a real person truly experienced these things. If a druggie decided to write a book about his trips and hallucinations-clearly identified as such, you would not find this in the fiction section because someone really experienced those hallucinations.

[Summerlander]

Non-fiction.  I once found Astral Projection and Lucid Dreaming books in a bookshop under the "Mind, Body and Spirit" section - far away from "fiction".

I second what Th3TruthizInThere said.  The experience is real and not fabricated.  It really happened even if it was in the mind.