Quote Originally Posted by JaySin
Originally I was just trying to get the out of body experience, but ended up with a lucid dream. Not sure if the method helped with the dream or if it was just a coincidence though.
Well... lucid dreaming and OOBEs are very closely related... my capacity to become lucid in the dreams increased several fold when i started to learn OOBE techniques... even cause some of this techniques involve being aware youre falling asleep, or retaining your consciousness during this process, so when you master it, being aware that youre dreaming is like a by-product of it.
In a certain way, an OOBE can be regarded as a special kind of lucid dream, where youre "dreaming" about the reality: the things you see in this "dream" are the real things that exist in the world, instead the usual dream-stuff, of what the normal dreams are made.