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I can do this with help from my guide. The longest I was concious wile in deep sleep was 3 hours.

This sounds like a typical projection for the inexperienced-I assume that  you have not had a lot of experience of projecting? I have experienced much of what you mention at different times. Some suggestions I remember from the past and have a little success at is to call on a guide, have curiosity about your surroundings, fly up to go to the astral relms.Just keep trying.

Congrats on the progress.

gdawson6 -
you can feel reasonable certain that all those experiences were actual full out of body experiences. Certainly at least some of them were OBEs.[]
Clear conscious control during projection Will eventually be possible. Usually control is a result of both experience and intention. Intention is simply a matter of deciding what you want to do and where you want to go Before the projection. (example - many people like to visit friends and family while 'out'.)