As I slept last night, I had some experiences in the non-physical. First I was watching these big beings that didn't look human coming out of a building. I didn't know what they were. For some reason I asked them if they were angels. i don't know why I asked that because they didn't even look like angels. I don't think they were. I didn't get a clear response from them. I don't know why I wasn't afraid of them, but for some reason it never occurred to me to be afraid of them.
I was seeing some building that I was familiar with, but oddly some of the buildings and structures i was seeing shouldn't be there. So I thought I must be seeing into the future. I was with a few people, but I don't recall who, and asked them what year it was. They didn't tell me. This has happened to me many times in other non-physical experiences. I find myself somewhere and something is different which leads me to believe I'm seeing the future or another place, but when I ask where I am or what year it is, I don't usually get a response. Why am I having these kinds of experiences? Are these experiences some kind of test? I think it was the book OtherWhere that talked about how guides test us. They put us in an environment to see if we'll become lucid or continue to lose ourselves in the dream. Maybe they are showing me some buildings that are familiar to me and then mixing in some that are out of place to see if it triggers me to become lucid or whether I keep dreaming. Is this normal for guides to test us like that?
Then I found myself in the presence of a female being who was whisking me off to another place. I have heard about this happening to other people in astral projection books. I asked if she was my guide and she said yes, and told me her name which was something like DeDe Jean. It's about freaken time I had a guide introduce themselves. I was beginning to think I didn't have a guide.
She took me to a spot that was hard to describe. It was like I was on a roof but it was a closed in area. There were lots of plants around and I noticed a paint roller in my hand. I thought - I know what this is, it's a test to see if I lose myself in the dream imagery or whether I become lucid. I also remember that book talking about how your guides will put you in a closed in place and see if you can make it out of the place or whether you get lost in dreaming. If you make it out of the closed in space you are free to travel in OtherWhere - non-physical locations outside the dream zone. Knowing that it might be a test, I saw a door and I was going to try to leave the closed in space, but then I woke up.

Anyway, why am I just now seeing a guide when I haven't before? And why are they now starting to test me?