Sorry, Carol, I had no doubts you did mean (at least among others) me. I acknowledge I was wrong.

I did forget another reason that can lead to OBEs: hypoxia

Personal experiences are truly very convincing (for me, for instance, to see a good conjurer close up doing things I considered impossible) and they are real in one sense of the word. But all of our perception and experience is also (beside the objective input) an interpretation that is malleable. So I usually (one exception: vivid memories of experiences that never have happened can be induced under certain conditions) do not question the experience as such but the subjective interpretation given to it. There's more than one interpretation to your very real experiences. (But that requires a bit of open-mindedness.)

Wolfgang