I have read they are both the same thing
I awoke way too early this morning,so I attempted an astral projection.I relaxed my body,but still felt tension when laying on my back, so I said "screw it", and attempted it from a side position.as per usual,it resulted in a lucid dream.I decided to leave the dream, and see if I could get to some astral levels.I flew up into the dream sky, through a barrier,then a buffer zone.
I came up through the floor of a room where 2 people were playing a game they called 'tennis':it involved raqueting a black or white diamond (depending on which side you were on)through an architecture of cube and rectangular shapes sticking up at different levels.the objective was to get your diamond to bounce of the proper cubes at the proper angle,and get the diamong to merge w/the diamond in the architecture.I startled them, coming out of the floor like that! then,we left the building, and walked down to a shoreline.everyone here looked distinctly asian.I think I flew over the ocean.
I forget some parts, but I eventually I was in a jungle,millions of years ago.I saw what I think was an allosaur (? -stocky body, blunt nose,plant eater)- he was very young,and we became friends and ran around in the jungle.we went past a HUGE brontasaurus.I was terrified of it!
the young dinasaur said he wanted to go across the ocean (another ocean).IU said I could fly him across.he turned into a 'curl' in my arms,and I flew across the ocean.when we got to the other side, I let him go,and he ran away along a road (!)into a tunnel.
this place seemed to be a civilization that existed A LONG,LONG, time ago.I met some people, and I forget some more parts (although I was concious,it was a very long experience!)we got on a wierd tranpotation decice that looked like a section of stadium seating, that ran along a wide railway.one guy fell off the 'tram line' and died! (how can anyone w/a non physical body, die/)
I told them I was from another world, and that I had just seen dinasaurs in a jungle.they said that couldn't possibly be true, because they went extinct 35-40000 years ago-either that or 3500-4000 years ago!
the whole thing was really confusing-like a long lucid dream,only it was a mish-mash of different prehistoric time periods.
either this was-
1-a good way to change from lucid dream to lucid dream.
2-a kind of 'collective memory' area of the history of planet earth.
I had relatively low power levels when I left the origional lucid dream.could it be that I hadn't been able to leave the dream levels?
I only passed through 1 or 2 light barriers.the last time I did this,I had much more energy,and passed at least 10-20 light barriers.it seemed to take me to proper astral levels-not ultra- confusing stuff like this.
what happened here?
is this the nature of the astral levels reached from lucid dreaming-that you need to pass to much higher levels to get away from the 'earth life system' memories and dreams?