I'm managing to have 1-3 OBEs a week, but I haven't made it far beyond my physical body and when I leave my room I always shift into a dream. But I ran across this experience twice and I wonder if anyone knows more about it.
I awoke and realized I was simi-out of body. For whatever reason I wanted to look at my clock, so I reached for the desk with my awareness hands and grabbed a small square about three inches by three inches. I held it overhead feeling it. It was soft as cork. I accidentily tore it in half while playing with it, and when I turned the light on nothing was there.
The second time I actaully grabbed some sort of astral shadow of the clock. I could see the numbers and my hands holding them, but only the outline of the hands and not the body of the clock. I dropped the clock somewhere and when I turned on the light the clock hadn't moved.