Hey there.
My opinion:
The spiral you saw is the spiral of evolution. When you go to higher planes you cross the spiral, same thing when coming back. Energy in your chest is normal, and increased ability to Obe after lucid dreaming is normal too. When you fell down in your lucid dream again, try to control your falling thinking that you are landing not in your phiscal body but in your astral body. When you open your eyes you while notice your are levitating over your phisical body. This will earn you to wake up and satrt inducing obe. The black woman could be a lot of things: another projector, a reflex of yourself, a guide, a memory of yourself in other live, etc... When I was a little boy I saw a red spiral, not while obe, completly awake.
That's great! You have to try do it again!
I had an expierence that was interesting indeed...It started out when i awoke consiously in a dream, in the dream i had been trying to change a light bulb that had went out in my room...This actually happened the night before...But when i awoke, i thought that i was really doing this, it was strange cause i didnt know i was dreaming, but i had total contol over what was happening...But i noticed that i started to loose my footing, cause everything was black all around me, and i was trying to keep balance, and then i started to fall very slowly, i tried to regain my footing, but this feeling just eventually welcomed me, i felt so relaxed and so peaceful, what actually happened thought was that i was floating back down into my physical body...
I then awoke immediately and was astounded at what just happened. I then thought to try and get back out of my body by inducing it myself, and soon as i thought of it, i felt this immense energy build up all around my body, then i felt it all move into my chest, and the pressure wasnt too bad like i had before when i tried but failed...But i heard this strange noise, it sounded like a wheezing noise, it was coming from my chest cause i felt it too, it felt like energy so it must have been, but it changed pitch from low to high as the energy builded, then when i thought it was right to project, which was about 5 seconds, i felt my self shoot out of my 3rd eye in this big burst of energy..
When i was out, the first thing i thought was...I wanna go to the astral plane, and surely the second i thought of it i was transported, but i didnt see anything around me, all i saw was this face of a black woman appear, and all she did was stare at me for about 10 seconds, i didnt know what to say, i wasnt frightened at all, cause ive seen faces appear before when i was trying to sleep etc.. But i saw this green colored spiral form that was moving around like a spiral would...lol...But then it started to fade into her face and then it all dissapeared. And then i woke up back in my physical body, and reacounted the expierence, and fell back asleep....The wierd thing was though, was that her face and the spiral were transparent, well not totally transparent....I'd like to know what everyone else thinks about this...
Regards,
Doug