Confused

[melynna]

Hi everyone, I don't post often, but I do read this forum several times a week.
Anyway, I've been having some OBE since a few years ago by doing the excersises, then I just stopped doing them, the OBE kept happening, but then, they stopped altogether.
A few months ago, I started having the so called sleep paralysis. Like, I've had them all my life, but now that I knew that I could astral project by taking advantage of that, I started doing that. I've had a few experiences but I'm not gonna tell them because it'd make this post longer than it already is.

2 hours ago I was taking a nap, and was trying to stay up from bed, then I realize that I was having a hard time trying to do that, so I figured, that I was having a sleep paralysis. After struggling to stay up (it's always difficult for me to do that, I don't know why) I finally did it, the first thing I saw, was a little girl, dressed as in the beggining of the 1900s. I think she didn't notice me, and she was playing with something.

Then I tried to fly, and saw my 'neighbourhood' way too different from what really is. I thought that I might been dreaming then.
So, one of my questions is: how do I keep myself from dreaming in my projections? At the beggining, I see my room the way it is with some differences, but then, if I try to get out of the room, everything changes. Why does it happen? Did I slipped into a dream or it's just in my mind? If it's in my mind, isn't it a dream then?
Who was that little girl, and didn't she see me?

Also, when I floght, I ran accross a place in which people were dancing, but were dressed like in the '40 or '50...now what happened? I don't think I was dreaming, it was way too real...someone please tell me what the difference is? I read all the texts on the websites, but I just don't understand when it happens to me...Sorry I'm so dumb  

Thanks..

[CFTraveler]

Then I tried to fly, and saw my 'neighbourhood' way too different from what really is. I thought that I might been dreaming then.
So, one of my questions is: how do I keep myself from dreaming in my projections? At the beggining, I see my room the way it is with some differences, but then, if I try to get out of the room, everything changes. Why does it happen? Did I slipped into a dream or it's just in my mind? If it's in my mind, isn't it a dream then?

It's very hard to keep projections from turning into lucid dreams (or even non-lucid dreams).  One  theory is that low energy causes the dreaming mind to take over- another is that for some people going through walls, windows, or mirrors cause some sort of 'phase shift' into the 'astral planes', making the experience like a dream, or alternate reality (like another time or neighborhood.)  This has been happenning to me also, and I'd like to know how to overcome it-I can float around the house no problem, but the minute I go through a wall- poof- I'm somewhere else.  It's very annoying.

[melynna]

Then I tried to fly, and saw my 'neighbourhood' way too different from what really is. I thought that I might been dreaming then.
So, one of my questions is: how do I keep myself from dreaming in my projections? At the beggining, I see my room the way it is with some differences, but then, if I try to get out of the room, everything changes. Why does it happen? Did I slipped into a dream or it's just in my mind? If it's in my mind, isn't it a dream then?

It's very hard to keep projections from turning into lucid dreams (or even non-lucid dreams).  One  theory is that low energy causes the dreaming mind to take over- another is that for some people going through walls, windows, or mirrors cause some sort of 'phase shift' into the 'astral planes', making the experience like a dream, or alternate reality (like another time or neighborhood.)  This has been happenning to me also, and I'd like to know how to overcome it-I can float around the house no problem, but the minute I go through a wall- poof- I'm somewhere else.  It's very annoying.

That's exactly what happens to me. Every time I go through walls or sth, I start dreaming. The strange thing, is that I realize that I'm dreaming and I go like 'damn, I'm dreaming again, how can I go back to my body and start all over again' lol and I do try concentrating, sometimes it works, but most of the times, I just THINK it works, but I'm actually dreaming of an astral projection, or at least that's what I've figured so far.