Does this make me any kloser?

[vegas p]

For years in my dreams i go thru a process where i start flying. It never starts out as a 'flying dream' just a dream about other things and i just decide to start flying.

I go thru the same process everytime, either i will be standing around and i will sort of tense up my body and start floating, or i'll be walking around and instead of walking i start floating, but not direktly floating, my body is kind of just drifting and my feet are dragging akross the ground.

Then this turns into long jumping, but very slow, it feels more like very low-gravity as opposed to flying.

There have only been a few instances where i used this to go anywhere conciously.

One time i jumped straight up and stared at the earth, but quickly got skared and fell back to where i had been standing.

Most recently i went to Las Vegas in my dream, and it felt very much like an experience as opposed to a dream.

What i'm wondering is... is this getting me any kloser to astral projektion? Or were these just dreams?
And sekondly, is there any tips to expand on this?

And has anyone experienced the same techniques? The feet draggin and such.

I'm extremely kurious, any komments are very appreciated.

Thanks!

[CFTraveler]

The question is, are you aware that you are dreaming when you do this? (in other words, lucid dream).  Because flying is a common reality check to do to realize you're dreaming, and if you're lucid, you can turn it into a projection.
There are many methods to turn a ld into a projection, but the only one that works for me, is the one when I realize I'm dreaming, request to 'go back to my body', then as I 'relocate', I then work on separating.
As I said before, there are other techniques, but that is the one that works for me.

[vegas p]

The vegas dream was the only one where i knew i was dreaming. Usually in these dreams i never go far bekause there are powerlines and i'm afraid of them, but in this dream i broke thru about 4 or 5.

I dont think this was an all-out out of body experience, but it felt very strongly of maybe being a first step. The dream was very vivid and unlike any other i've had before.

What usually happens when you go back to your body? Do you just appear back in your room again? Do you have to go on some kind of trip back?

[CFTraveler]

Actually, I bilocate, that is, still have the awareness of the dream and the awareness of my body at the same time, the dream awareness slowly fading and the body awareness slowly shifting to the main focus. Then when my whole focus in in body I regulate my breathing and try to stay 'body asleep', until I either feel vibrations or movements or get sharp slow hypnagogics and 'go' with them, whichever comes first.  It's faster than it sounds, because I'm already asleep.

[Fleshbound]

I'm more curious as to why you type words with a K instead of  C. What do you think this is? Mortal Kombat?

[vegas p]

In a kommunity full of astral projektors, i doubt my typing habits rank that high on the strange skale.