First (and second) Lucid Dreams (I think)

[LifeShadow]

Since the beginning of this year (when I discovered that my late father had regularly practised OBE's) I have been trying to Astral Project. I joined the Jonas Ridgeway forum and then bought a book by Robert Bruce. I tried and tried. Nothing. Every time I went to sleep I would think about projecting. I would think about it during the day too. I downloaded some binaural sounds and tried these aswell. Still nothing. My working life then got somewhat busier and my attempts became fewer.

Three weeks ago I was having a lay in one Saturday morning (a long lay in!). Suddenly, for the first time in my life (as far as I can remember), I became fully conscious in a dream. I was as conscious as I am now. It was incredible. I was able to fly and interact with the environment. I ran up to people and animals in my dream and danced around waiving and talking to them; asking them if they could see me. It was incredible and fantastic. Then I remembered that I had read in Robert Bruce's book that it was possible to project from a lucid dream (I assumed that I was in such a dream). Anyway, I tried. I closed my eyes and thought "Project". I tried this a few times. All that happened was a "blinking" of consciousness. A quick blank then back to the dream. Eventually my dream ended (after a projection attempt) and I was awake in bed in total astonishment.

I thought this was a one off event. It happened again a couple of weeks later during another Saturday morning sleeping marathon. This time I had listened to the binaural music whilst going off to sleep earlier in the morning.

I don't know why this is suddenly starting to happen to me. I don't know what is triggering it. I could really do with advice as to what may have caused my breakthrough and how I may be able to gain more control over it.

I hope that I have posted this in the right place.

Russell