From: laura@nospam.me   
      
   "Janice"  wrote in message   
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   > In article ,   
   > this.email@dont.work says...   
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   > >"Laura"  wrote in message   
   > >news:ctr814$2krb$10@news.cybercity.dk...   
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   > >> When you do have an OOBE, you won't need to ask if it was one :-)   
   > >   
   > >That's for sure...   
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   > I don't see that it's so sure.  After all, I was convinced that mine were   
   > literal for years before I started questioning that assumption.  What's   
   > to prevent such a subjective experience from seeming so real that you   
   > only think you don't need to ask?   
   >  Even when there are blatant   
   > discrepancies between reality and what's seen during an OBE, people can   
   > come up with various explanations to account for them and preserve the   
   > notion that they were really OB, as we know.  I don't see how the problem   
   > of personal interpretation can be easily dismissed, so I just can't buy   
   > into the "you'll know it when you have it" idea.   
      
   My point was only that once you've had the experience, you no longer need to   
   ask if other, i.e. hypnagogic, experiences are OBEs.   
   I agree completely that the question of what the OBE really *is*, is not so   
   easily answered.   
      
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