I get what you mean but dont agree.
I don’t believe that it all occurs inside the physical body.
The difference to call one OBE and the other not? Well when I say OBE I mean out of physical body, experience…
and i do under my own experiences, readings, and things ive been taught, believe that the Astral plane is not something located inside the physical body. Maybe we can sense it, or percieve it from inside the physical, but we cannot fully explore it unless we enter it.
Your right when you say to be aware of astral phenomenon, you use your astral senses.
Im not saying that having awareness of astral phenomena is being OBE, im saying that if you project concsiously into the astral (or you find yourself in it, or you are in it unconcsiously for that matter), you are having a form of OBE.
And I believe a lot of dreams, as I said, are already based in the astral plane, but not all, definitely not all.
For example I have had dreams, where im lucid, enjoying the dream, and suddenly I feel myself rip out of my physical body and enter the Astral plane. An intense, real feeling, that I always feel when projecting. So this shows im already in one state of mind, and entering another. And when this occurs I already feel that im in a slightly more aware, higher, state. (even if its not such a ‘high’ state, that is, astral).
You might say that this is the process of changing dreams, when this occurs (when i get this sensation during a current dream im having), but I don’t think it is because I’ve been aware plenty of times during a dream change and it doesn’t occur this way, especially with the ripping out of the body part.
And i dont call on this to happen, or even expect it to happen, it just happens while im concsious.
Concsiousness is concsiousness as you say, wether your using your physical senses or your astral senses.
I don’t believe the astral plane is located within the physical body when sleeping which seems to be your idea, I believe EVERYTHING, (astral, physical, mental, etc.) are all in the mind, but dont believe that unique astral journeys take place while in the physical body.
And as I said, this is assuming an OBE is a journey beyond the physical body… in one sense or another…
and as I said i dont believe these to be complete OBEs, but a form of OBE.