Astral Projection or Lucid Dream? What do you guys think?

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Kissalove

So I was trying to AP this morning & the second I fell asleep I went into a dream but I knew what was going on so I was completely lucid. Well, I'm pretty sure it's a dream because I didn't see me leave my body or anything. Well me & my boyfriend & his best friend & his girlfriend were out on one of my neighbors yard like it was our house & I was kissing & holding my boyfriend in the dream because I know my boyfriend is in prison so every time I have a LD my main goal is to go find him because when I hold him & all that good stuff, I can literally feel his skin, kiss, ect... Like he's really here. Well anyways then they got in a car & I got into like a box & that was my car (May I remind you, I was controlling the whole thing.) Then I thought of AP & how people say that you can go into AP from a LD, wellllllll, I decided to go to my boyfriend's mom's house because I wanted to call them when I woke up anyways to go see the family & then I would have been able to tell if they were wearing the same thing or just any similarities so I could prove if it was AP or a dream. Well I start flying to go there, but I was going really slow & when I thought of his house, I didn't go anywhere. But most of my surroundings were the same as real life except a few things. Usually when I think of a place when AP'ing, I'm there in a heart beat but this time, I had to make myself go. So then I was flying in the apartments across the street from my house & landed & seen 2 weird looking girls walking & decided to talk to them to see what they would say. & I was like, "Hi, who are you?" & they were like, "Hello, do you know who Kristian is?" & I was like, "Yeah I do." (One of my good friends.) Then they asked me if I spoke French, which French is my birth language but I forgot it so I said, "No." But they still ended up talking French to me so I left & I kept on going & 2 guys sitting on a staircase were yelling for me to turn around but I ignored them & I was feeling myself slip away from the dream or AP or whatever. My vision was turning black until I was fully awake just with my eyes shut.

So I'm really confused as if this was an LD turned into AP or just LD or just AP?
Any advice?  :?

Xanth

This is something people are gonna have to begin to wrap their heads around.

Lucid Dream or Astral Projection: It doesn't matter.
Being one or the other doesn't lessen or increase the fact that you had a non-physical experience!

Stop worrying so much about classifying/categorizing your experiences... and more upon just having them and logging them.  :)
This was a good "Projection".  :)

Stookie_

In general, I agree with you on that (both are projections), but there can be some differences between an AP and an LD. In this case, I think it matters.

1) An LD normally happens directly from sleep, so gathering awareness can be more difficult, so the experience can be more dreamlike/hazy. At least at the start. I find it to be more difficult to raise awareness than with a conscious AP.

2) An LD normally happens at the same area of consciousness as a regular dream, just with more awareness than a dream, but an AP can extend way past that point. It can be the difference between having a  subjective or objective experience. You don't hear many objective experiences coming right from the start of an LD, because it's more than likely in a lower area of the astral (once again, where we dream).

LD's are good - it's success, but it's also good to learn to take control and gain some objective experience.