Projecting, or dreaming?

[ryuuko]

I've been trying to astral project on a regular basis again now that I'm home from school, and no longer have school-related distractions to deal with. However, I haven't even succeeded in reaching the vibrational stage again. I think that my sudden focus and frustration has caused me to dream about projecting. Two days ago, I had the following experience sometime between 6AM and 2PM, after falling asleep:

I vaguely remember feeling like I was leaving my body, and I have a clear memory of passing through a closed door. I ended up on the first floor of my house, floating slightly above the floor through the rooms. I passed my mother, who was sitting at the kitchen table, and my dad, who was in the living room. I did this about three times, and I recall my dad making some sort of gesture, either a wink or a smile, as if he could see me. I found myself outside my house later, and it looked drastically different from the way it looks in real life. IRL, it's two stories tall, painted gray, white, and dark blue, and obviously quite old, due to the distinctive architecture. I saw what looked like the back of a single-story white duplex or ranch house, with no doors. I continued walking down the street, and none of the houses looked like they normally did: they were all smaller and painted in bright, obnoxious colors. The rest of the events were very fuzzy, involving people I did not know, in a surreal environment. I can't remember the details.

I've read on the forum that there are guides that instruct how to astral project from a dream instead of a waking state, and I'm still confused as to whether or not I did so. I've had other "dreams" like this before, that started out in a familiar environment (e.g. my bedroom in my house), but continued into a very strange, dream-like environment. Based on what I've described, have I started to project while asleep, only to fall back into a dream? Or was I dreaming all along?

[Brianna6432]

There's a possibility you were projecting and as to the strange houses you could have time traveled? I don't know but it sounds to me that you were dreaming. People can't see you when you're astral so you're dad couldn't have seen you if it wasn't a dream.
It probably was a dream. I dream about AP.
One way to find out - ask your parents if they were doing what they were doing where they were doing it. You know, just ask your parents if they were doing what you saw.