Editing Out-of-body experience (section)

===During/near sleep===

{{Main|Sleep paralysis}}

Those experiencing OBEs sometimes report (among other types of immediate and spontaneous experience) a preceding and initiating [[lucid dream|lucid-dream]] state. In many cases, people who claim to have had an OBE report being on the verge of sleep, or being already asleep shortly before the experience. A large percentage of these cases refer to situations where the sleep was not particularly deep (due to illness, noises in other rooms, emotional stress, exhaustion from overworking, frequent re-awakening, etc.). In most of these cases subjects perceive themselves as being awake; about half of them note a feeling of [[sleep paralysis]].<ref name="oberf">
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