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I had a few "astral projection" experiences while experimenting with lucid dreaming in my early 20s; exactly when sleep paralysis kicks in, if you are able to maintain awareness, you can literally feel your "soul" ripping out from your body and being able to move away from it.

I'm 100% sure it is an hallucinatory experience, but it is an extremely vivid experience and I can see how you get the mysticism that surrounds it.

Fun to think about how reality would be different if it were though.

Imagine who would be rich and why because of it.

I'm curious about the 'objective reality' concept. Care to explain?

The onus of explaining is on the person claiming astral projection without any proof of basis in reality, not on the person being skeptical of those claims. It's called the burden of evidence.

astral projection is just oobe and "experience" implies subjectivity w/no claim of objectivity and no corresponding onus or burden or anything

I've done it, it's not that hard. There's plenty of books about how to do it. I'm not interested in arguing with internet idiots though, sorry.

So what?