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Originally Posted by craven  ...what she is doing when she experiences "astral travel" sounds an awful lot like a text book lucid dream... |
Not sure there is any difference really. I used to experiment a lot with this stuff. I was into shamanic drum journeying and all that.
Lucid dreaming tends to involve more alice-in-wonderland-ish expriences, but you can drift from there to more stable environments, like the shamanic nether world, or the one you encounter when you do plain OOB.
And you can certainly drift from a stable environment out into the dreamy ones.
So, I guess, from my point of view, these are just different ways of exiting the state of being "body focused" that we are normally in. But there doesn't seem to be a lot of boundaries once you are out there. So to speak.