Latest Experience, some questions

[Machine1k]

tldr version; 

1) Any advice on controlling direction of motion?
2) Do people we conjure up always act lifeless?
3) How can you tell if you are projecting when everything feels so normal?

Heh, didn't mean for this post to be so long.

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Last night I was attempting a WILD and it worked out, I soon after about 20 minutes I fell into a dream, but knew it was a dream right away.  As I came to this realization I popped out of the dream and stayed motionless on my couch and dream scene was gone and soon thing cool things started.  First, I heard a buzz wiz past my ear (this is a first for me) and I thought awesome, great sign, then along came the vibrations, so far so good.. 

Now the weird, the vibrations ended and I thought I missed my window to exit, but turns out I was in and didn't know it.  I tried exit techniques anyways, first I tried floating out, nothing, then I tried just thinking of my front door as that worked before, but still nothing.  The weird part was I assumed since nothing worked I was just awake at that point and a little bummed and then I heard someone in my house behind me, but then I realized there can't be anyone here they would see me and freak out (thinking it was someone broke into my house).  At that point I knew I was in and I just needed to get out of the couch somehow.  Since nothing worked I just sat up, worked! 

The problem I have now and why I'm writing this post is to ask for some advice for next time.  I got up and since I knew I was in I just floated around, walking didn't even occur to me, but I think I should have made the attempt anyways, because I was not able to control any movement.  I floated upstairs to check on my wife and kids, they were fine watching TV and reading (although in real life they were sleeping) and I knew it wasn't truly RTZ just my interpretation of events.  As I floated into the room I kept flying past outside the house so I had to redirect my motion back into the room and then I popped out again on the other side of the room. 

I eventually ended up downstairs into someone else's kitchen.  I still am not able to control my floating, but I am able to at least suggest a direction to move in, I realize my real problem was stopping so I float in a circle in this kitchen and I reach down to the floor and grab onto it to stop moving.  Kind of funny actually, but it worked.  I try calling out clarity now a few times and I got no change and I am starting to feel I am losing it and about to wake up.  At this point I try sticking my hands through the floor of the kitchen, my left hand goes in easy but my right hand stops.  I force it anyways and it goes in.  I am still losing it so I think ok lets try something new, I feel around and I can feel the rocks and gravel under the concrete and I think ok lets do something cool before I wake up and I think lets pull up Angelina Jolie (don't know why her, just first thing that popped in my head at the time) from this kitchen floor.  Bam! I grab her pinky finger and pull her up, I over did it a bit because when I pulled her up she was too big so I shrunk her down a bit.  Not expecting much but thought it was cool that I could do it, I at least wanted her to at least react to what I just did, even knowing it was just my imagination to materialize her.  The person I pulled up was just as groggy as I was and then I woke up.

[astralee]

try to learn mindfullness and just observe for abit, it sounds like  your in a tv camra mode like i do with no body you have to plan movments before hand, thats what taken me so long to get it just observe and pratice minfullness then learn meditation. And focus

[CFTraveler]

tldr version; 

1) Any advice on controlling direction of motion?

When I'm out I just go where I want to, by will, or if I can feel an energy body I just use it to 'lean' into where I want to go.  Attention directs.  Put your attention where you want to go and you just do.

2) Do people we conjure up always act lifeless?

Sometimes.  Self-aspects don't always have something to say, and other projectors can be asleep.  So it's not a 'rule' either way.

3) How can you tell if you are projecting when everything feels so normal?

I can't fly or go through walls in the physical.  But seriously (sort of) I project from the wake state, so I'm aware when I exit.

Heh, didn't mean for this post to be so long.

No worries, I didn't read all of it.

[Szaxx]

When you think you cant do something it doesn't happen. You dont try things you command them.
You knew you could reach into the floor and expected to feel rocks. This is taking command of the experience. If you knew you could be pulled down to the floor with a thought, expecting it to occur would have been enough to make it so.
Walls are mostly impassable in the physical. You were floating through them freely. Remember your thoughts and expectations. This will help you to recognise the pattern of control.

[Machine1k]

I hear you guys, I suppose I did it to myself now that I think back on it.  What threw me off was the floating part and once I lost that feeling of control the rest of the experience continued the same.  Now That I think back on it, I should have let myself float off until I knew I had control instead of hoping to regain my control. 

I wonder if just thinking about having legs and then using them to move about would have been better in this situation, however, the floating was a good lesson in that I know I was using the wrong logic of doing what I wanted as far as movement goes.  Good lesson, now I need to go back and try it again 

[ANMonte87]

I just wanna say your post gave me a good laugh when mentioning grabbing the carpet. My first time projecting my head was stuck inside my physical and i flaled around like a lunatic trying to break free. My sister was playing the sims next to me and try as i might I could not break free.

when i woke up i looked at her and said " did i move? " she didn't even look away from the pc and said " nope " Lol i just laid down and thought to myself ... well that was weird...