I did my first astral projection last night. I was in my bed not even trying to AP, I was asleep and for no reason I woke about at about 3:30 in the morning, I let our dog out for a few minutes because he needed to pee and then went back to bed, only this time, I had a small lucid dream, as soon as I realized I was dreaming I woke up. On my way back to sleep I remember dreaming ( I think I was dreaming) and the fan above me was only about two feet away and had some strond wires hanging down. I remembered reading that a good way to lucid dream was to tabe a rope above your head and try to will yourself to climb the rope. So in this "Dream" I tried to reach and climb up the rope. At first my arms would barely respond to my commands, and eventually I started to climb it, I seen my hand (The spirit one) detach itself from my phsical one and pull me the rest of the way up and out of my body. As soon as I was detached I got freaked out and was so scared I started to scream, although I hardly made a sound. At this time I was back into my physical body. I was awake until about 6 AM because I couldn't go back to sleep because I kept picturing the rope again. I don't know why I was so scared of APing, I guess because this is the first time I REALLY KNEW that it was real. I was so scared last night, but tonight I'm going to try again.