I saw someone's blue outline/ aura thing and knew they were OBE

[psychonaut]

Ok. this was new astral experience...I'm pushing it by saying I was a guide.

In a dream this morning, I encountered the whitish-blue outline of a body with a transparent area inside the outline floating towards me as I was leaving a friend's house. Feeling happy and excited, I immediately recognized it as someone having an out of body experience, because the outline is what my arms looked like to myself during my first RTZ OBE, as I outsteched them infront of my face.

The aura was strangely holding a normal looking leashed dog. I first greeted/pet the dog and asked him about his companion. With no response, I then talked directly to the "oob" person. We had a series conversations, the exact details I don't remember but I'll summarize it.

It started out with me questioning them.. if they knew they were out of body. They didn't really know what I meant, so I explained my first out of body experience to them.  After some dialogue they questioned if they were out of body and I think they got scared and the aura changed somehow, like it became a normal/physical looking character in the dream, but I was transported away from under the lights of my friend's street to somewhere else. I was still with this person sitting on thier bed.

I tried convincing them that they were out of body and how they snapped out of it because they both thought of their body and got scared at the same time. I said that's when most people get back into their body. They would hear what I said but acted like they didn't hear me at all. It was strange. I felt ignored.

I woke up remembering it all, including the dreams leading up to this and feeling sort of sad for some reason - that I couldn't convince them that what they experienced was real, even though I knew it was all a dream.

I never looked down at my arms so I didn't get any verification that I was OBE. I never had the feeling of this is a lucid dream either...it just felt kind of all normal and real...my mind and vision were normal. but I think it was all just dream.

If this all happened to you what would you think? Would you say you were in dream, then astral, then OBE? Did I just create this entity in my dream?

I'm confused about the difference between dreams and astral projections. I know what an OBE is, because I've experienced an etheric and a mental projection.

[Hagethuriel]

I'm confused about the difference between dreams and astral projections. I know what an OBE is, because I've experienced an etheric and a mental projection.

Within dreams there can be a degree of lucidity which might include recall of an out of body experience into the astral or RTZ .Dreams can also include recall of dreamstate lessons into higher or lower planes by the projection of consciousness . There is an excellent site about the many types of lucid dreams including but not limited to MILD , DILD and WILDs .Want to try advanced projections during Lucid Dreaming ? Look at this site : 
http://www.lucidcrossroads.co.uk/WILD.htm
http://www.lucidcrossroads.co.uk/howtodoit.htm
here is another link ;
http://www.dreamviews.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=13454

Imho lucid dreams are those in which you interact with others and can manipulate the environs .

AP is those projections to the Astral or middle realms ( etheric ,Real time zone and astral) and may include projection of consciousness but by most definitions means the separation of an astral body which is projected from the physical body .

Dreams are not limited to the middle realms but may occur in lower , middle or higher planes . Dreamstate lessons in astral colleges and temples are in the higher planes ,for example . The heavier subtle body layers of the human energy body cannot ascend to the higher planes and are constrained to middle realms . Humans regularly  project the consciousness without recall during dreamstate .

[Paola]

I found myself flying with my husband and daughter.
I knew i was out of body and was excited because they were with me.
And explained 'see' , i told you out of body experiences were real! For i have tortured them with my experiences for years.  lol

I then said, follow me, and they did, but they seemed zombie like.  As if they were not conscious of their obe.

After that i remember flying through a glass window and i got stuck and abruptly returned to my body.

I figure that if i am conscious in any dream scene, then im having an out of body experience.

[psychonaut]

yeah same here paola. after about 5 months of not doing so, i just started writing down my dreams every morning again