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Originally Posted by Convolution
NDErs describe themselves as being hyper aware, the opposite of a dream state where you are in many ways playing things out without full awareness/control. In that regard, I guess it wpuld be more like having a hyper lucid dream. But that's key, in a lucid dream you understand you are dreaming- hence the word lucid. During an NDE, people having an OBE will often do things that they seemingly couldn't do alive, such as going through walls, flying and "teleporting". If belief influenced that, then by virtue of their hyper lucidity and thinking themselves to be alive, such thing should not be possible. Either that, or doing such things should immediately shock them into understanding that they are no longer in the physical real. And there lies the conundrum which I've yet to understand.
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Having had both an NDE (emerging symptom-free from a three-day "irreversible coma") and experiences in conscious sleep (watching dream formation from start to finish), the differences are not as pronounced as you suggest (IMHO).