Astral Projection Dream

[fourwinds777]

To be honest, I never gave much thought to astral projection until the other day.

I decided to take a nap on the sofa.  I thought I was awake.  Actually, I could swear I was awake.  I remember thinking that I was going to leave my body, and I rolled off onto the floor, worried that I'd bump my head on the coffee table.  I crawled around it and began heading to the other room.  I stopped to look at my body, but became confused when all I saw was an outline of me.  The outline was like a burning white light.  I started wondering if I "did it" right, then suddenly found myself in my body.

In fact, I could swear I was lying on the couch with my eyes wide open at that point, thinking I was going to have to do it all over again.

I did it a second time, but that time I actually saw my body.

Out of curiousity...how can you distinguish between a lucid dream and a projection?  This really bugs me, because I was so sure I was awake that when I woke up on the sofa, I was confused, thinking I was just sitting in the middle of the room...

Oh, I should probably mention that things looked a little weird.  Very, very real, but a little foggy and slightly stretched out.  Other than that, our living room looked exactly right.  I remember even feeling the carpet underneath me--something that never happens in my dreams.