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What does an astral experience have over a lucid dream? I wonder why some would want to convert their lucid dream into an astral one. I've had different kinds of I guess lucid dreams. Some where I'm not presently involved but am watching as though through a movie camera. I may see object's or places or people- even myself. I've seen myself a handful of times but with a person I've never met and in a situation unlike my own. I've felt myself being propelled through space and ending up looking at surroundings of what seems to be another world. I've been upstairs and downstairs,down fun slides and have taken some rides on a very unpredictable elevator. For me I think movement is the prelude to the stillness of a lucid dream in which I am completely present. I've never felt the need to control my dreams. I just sort of let them show me whatever and take me wherever. Is control the issue?

What would you call a dream in which you find yourself completely lucid. You're not being carried along in any story, you just find yourself standing somewhere and you can see your hands and it's the most amazing thing because you know you've woken up somewhere else. And there you are and you can't believe it and then you see people. Then some approach you. Sometimes even seems like they're waiting for me to wake up there.

I've been a lucid/very lucid/very,very lucid dreamer for over ten years now and quite frankly, I still don't know what the hell is going on. I've gone through many books to see if I could find someone else who'd either had the same experiences or who knew something of them. To date I've not been satisfied.
I've never seen a silver cord, and believe you me I've been up up and away. I'm also a little unsettled with this notion of bad spirits hanging around waiting to do bad things to us. I've had a few negative experiences but I think it's important to maintain the puzzle. A few pieces here and there does not make a complete picture. And so there with a few not so lovely lucid dreams I've had some extremely beautiful ones. That's why I go. I don't know how it happens but I can usually feel it right before it does. I dont try. I just let go. And one more thing. I think it's helpful if your searching for something. My need to know and understand what love truly is has been the one and only motivating force. You'll stand up to anything for it.