In the past month I have found myself twice in a huge library crowded with shelves in the center of the room learning about certain astral topics from the same woman. I always wake up with a vivid recollection of what we spoke about, and of what the room looks like, but it was nothing like a conscious OBE. Though one of my goals now is to go back to this place when I finally achieve conscious astral projection (and funny enough, this woman who speaks to me in this environment even told me the first time I saw her that I would achieve it 'soon' :-o). Is this possible? And how would I go about going back to this place?
Yep, look up 'dreamstate lessons', remember Monroe's stories about this, and you will keep going back (you have been, unconsciously) until you 'graduate', and then will go through some changes and maybe go back into another type of lesson.
You may experience these as teaching temples, libraries, universities, and other type of learning environments, but they'll recur until you 'finish'.
I remember hearing about those. I'm thinking about getting a book or two by Monroe soon.
Which of his books talk about these dreamstate lessons?
I believe he just mentions it in passing- maybe the first one, Journeys out of the Body. I think Kurt Leland describes them also, not sure.