Lucid to Astral

[cainam_nazier]

Realization inside a dream is a big step.  That is when most people loss the control or the dream all together.  I have found that things tend to get a little clearer when I start to test the dream out.  It's the whole "okay I'm dream so now what" mentallity I have aquired.  I have found out that the more thought and awareness of thought durring dreams leads to a much clearer dream.  This has lead me to much more realistic dreams, and further on into projecting from them.

[jorian9]

Over last 6 yrs have astal projected by accident 3 times - all real time (is that an oobe?). Anyway 2 days ago I found this site and read a bit and that night I couldn't sleep but then did what I had read and conciously slipped into lucid dream. There was this guy infront of me and I said 'Are you real?' and he said 'no'. And so automatically my conciousness is aware my unconciosness is creating everything and I have some controll, so I let myself get scared and this man's face starts to change till it's just a skull and I think it's just my subconcioss, so I'm not scared and then I slip out of the lucid dream, and I'm laying there going cool. But rather than switch of my awarness I let myself go to sleep while being completely awake and I go through the wall into yet another Lucid dream. I look at my hands and they melt like this site said, but I tried to keep them solid and it felt like my brain was peaking on acid.
I had 5 or 6 lucid dreams. after the first two I tried to get to Astral travel. I nearly got there, but things about my room were different.
what does fascinate me is I think wont this be great to do this, and maybe I'll do that, but when I am Lucid I'm not really needing much. I'm just bummed that I can't get to a reality. I think I'll try to enhance my awareness while lucid.
Or is it the wall I creep through thats leading me to lucidity?
Anyway, it was VERY cool! I havn't felt so centered in a long time.
I may try that virtual reality thing R.B mentioned, but with a porn mag opened beside me! Ha!
Cheers for any advice, Jay.