Astral projection or lucid dream??

[melynna]

Hi to everybody! this is my first post, so sorry if what i say sounds dumb but i do need some help with it.

The other day i realized that i was having a lucid dream. In my dream i was talking to my father and to some other lady (i don't know who she was) about something that was going on. So suddenly i go 'but this is way too weird to be happening, maybe i'm dreaming' and that's how i realized i was dreaming. So i thought that it might be a good idea to try to astral project. Sudenly i was half awake, half-asleep, so i tried to stand up (from my bed). Now this has happened to me before, but i just couldn't get my astral body to get out of my physical one, because it would hurt. So this time, i said to myself 'i don't care if it hurts, i'll do it anyway'. I stood up, and turned around to watch myself sleeping. I don't know if i that one was me...i mean, i remember thinking that that one was me...but it was not clear...then i said 'i wanna be in california', and suddenly i started spinning (it just happened) and showed up in what i thought it was california. I tried to walk away from where i was , but i couldn't... plus my body was totally numb.
It seems to me, that it was a lucid dream...but i'm not sure...i mean, when i was trying to stand up, it hurt again, and the numbess sensation...maybe i just fell asleep when i saw myself sleeping. And actually things didn't look the same as they do when i'm awake.
Does anybody have an idea of what it might have been? I'd apreciate any feedback, thanks!!!

[Ater Corax]

Hmm, this is what I think happened (in order):

Dream, Lucid Dream, OBE experience, and Dream (this last one could also be a 'lucid dream' if you knew you were dreaming).

Well, don't take my word for it! I've only had a couple of projections and maybe one or two lucid dreams.

-Ater