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I'm still new to astral projection/OOBing, and most of my experiences in "getting out" have been muddled mixes of dreams and actual astral experiences.  Is it normal to get dreams mixed in with the whole thing while you're trying to project?  And is there a way to filter this stuff out, so you can say to yourself "yeah, this is real, and not just a dream?"

Thanks,
Wintermute

This is my first post here so... hi.  I'm relatively new to the whole OOB/Astral thing, but I've been experimenting with it for the past few months.  I've only recently been able to get all the way out of my body (for the first couple months I would get an arm or a leg out, and then get stuck).  But anyways, during my last experience, when I was first getting out, I was laying on my belly and noticed that the lower half of my body was floating out at an angle (with my feet up in the air).  I remember looking around, though not with my physical eyes, and on the wall I saw a shadow of my legs in the air.  There wasn't much light in the room, so I'm not sure how this shadow appeared.  It wasn't like a normal shadow, either.  It looked like it was constantly shifting... reminded me kind of how shadows look in certain computer games, where they're constantly re-rendering and shifting.  Has anybody else ever had an experience where they've seen their own shadow in the astral?

I actually just had something similar to that happen to me today (and I've had it happen before).  I was taking a nap, and the vibrations came, and trying to force myself out wasn't working, so I just decided to wait.  I remember getting out, and I met some girl (though I don't know if she was an astral being, or just a figment of my imagination), and then I woke up.  I decided I should write my experience down before I forgot it, so I picked up my laptop and started writing down what I could remember.  Well, as this was happening, I realized that my room looked really weird.  My bed and my laptop were the only things that looked the same... one wall was made up of a tall chain link fence with barb-wire on the top of it, and then the wall where my door was just .. nothingness.  So then I woke up from THIS dream, or whatever it was, and then the vibrations came back.  So I'm not quite sure what to make of it... I think maybe I got out, and then had a lucid dream afterwards.  For some reason, though, I think the girl I met wasn't a dream, because she told me her name, and I can't remember anybody in my dreams ever having a name before.

I think maybe the reason for this is because while I was waiting for the vibrations to stop, I must've fallen into a kind of half-sleep, had a dream, then woken back up to the vibrations.. or something.  Oh yeah, and I don't even remember what it was that I was trying to write down in my dream.  Probably something really important that I'll never remember now []

Wintermute