Hi Vicky,
when I compare your perceptions during your OBE I think it's very similar to my mind-journeys, except:
--There is not the same vivid visual appearance as in body, that's why I call mine not OBE,
--Because I would like it more vivid I try to imagine myself to be more bodily and then usually the me-awareness-point is moving out of the (imaginated?) astral body so I always have this guy in front of me who is a sort of my body or puppet. So when I become sick of that and I want to feel free in my mind journeys I just be a point of awareness and like to "see" other beings I meet there as lightballs rather than persons. I found to communicate with beings in human shape can be so distracting of what they want to communicate.
Peace for you and your husband!
Bye, Spooky

Hi Vicky,
seems I'm obsessed too with this. But, despite that it is just a detail, it is important I think.
  I remember on a previous post (think it was you) one remarks that we do phasing every day, like when we drive a car and thinking of something different so when the driver arrived, nearly no remembrance of the journey is available.
  I'm telling that because the old problem of "is it just imagination or real?" (not to speak about what imagination finally and truely is). If an OBE is very vivid the reality-or-not problem is diminished. They just say "It was real! No question!", while the not visual vivid experiences are more easily stated to be phantasy. The visual is just so dominant compared with "knowing".
  Bruce tells a lot of this problem in his books, and in his reports about participants there is ever again this: "What? That was it? I did it? No, that was just imagination." When we would come to the point, that more experiences formerly labeled as "imaginations" now labeled as "OBEs" then this is a shift in perception. Labels are just labels on the one hand, but on the other hand they sign the meaning people give to their experiences. There are many people who are frustrated in trying so hard to OBE and had no success (they think), but maybe only because it was not similar enough to the physical eyes perception.
  The thing with my journeys is I don't "feel" separated from my physical body, though I'm mentally elsewhere (not entirely, split awareness). So when I did this the first time on the Gateway Voyage, I thought, "Oh, what stories can you make up in such a short time." But when the debriefing was and I told it, more and more details came up and the trainers had to stop me because it was getting too long, and they just looked at each other grinning and one said: "I think you will remember this >story< well and you will never forget it." And I was sitting there and just thought "Well, really, where does this come from?"

Bye, Spooky

For me its called an 'out of body' experience because one we are out of our body and two were use to having a body so we have one out there. Whenever i have explored I have always had a body, i have never been a point of conciousness yet. When I OBE i can feel my body, i know its there, my last OBE i walked and I felt the pavement on my feet, when i fly i feel the wind against my body, I have a body but only because I choose too.

I notice when I phased as well i have a body, but its different, i don't feel it, i climbed up onto the rood out of the water, i climbed up because i had a body, i grabbed hold of the woman in the water because i had a body, yet i don't feel in physically as i do here and have while OOBE, in the general term.

I have also looked at my hands once, lol, i need to do this more, once i saw myself laying on my bed, that was weird! But my last OBE i looked at my hands and they were so full of life, so much energy, the purest colour going, it was amazing.

I do think we have these bodies because this is what we are use to though, we can be points of conciousness as thats what we are really right? But its important to keep these bodies handy out there so we can do retrivals etc.

I have also had a few OBE's now, i have more feeling in them now, also better visual than before, some i have had no sight at all or very little, seeing is believeing to beginners, and especially me at the moment lol! I agree with what you said spooky but also agree with Vicky in the bigger picture in that visual is just one sense, we have many others as we all well know with are just as good as sight if not better, we just need to use these to our best abilities and trust them which is the hardest part.

But i agree when i was trying to OBE at first i got results, but i couldnt see as well as i do here! (It was dark lol so kind of one of the problems) and i knew these were OBE, ive never had a doubt about when I have gone out except for the first time, but many people expect to have the best vision ever otherwise it wasn't OBE, which is just wrong which I have relised now. Like Vicky said going OBE is just shifting your point of conciousness, how greatly you shift doesn't matter, what matters is you have if even slightly. Once we accept this I guess were open to more greater experiences.

Ryan