Thread: Dream or Astral Projection?

So you're asking if this is a false awakening or an astral projection?
Sounds a lot like a false awakening.

I agree, sounds like a classic false awakening. RC every time you wake-- if you can make a habit of doing so, those FAs will practically be free LDs!

Originally Posted by lynxthenko

The thing I find strange is that when I actually do get up, everything is the same as when I wasn't actually there

I hear that get used as a validation to APing all the time. But I don't think it's possible to really be aware of any differences in a dream situation like that .

I've had too many beer to try and explain exactly why right now, but the mechanics of perception just don't allow for it .

Originally Posted by lynxthenko

Sometimes in the morning, it feels like I get up and start getting ready for school. Sometime later, I'll find that I never woke up. The thing I find strange is that when I actually do get up, everything is the same as when I wasn't actually there, even if something had been moved that I couldn't have seen before I got up (like if someone had moved something around after I went to bed and such). I don't know what else might be important in determining this, so please ask for more information.

It was false awakening. My co-worker managed to get to work when he woke up for real and was very disappointed.

Originally Posted by lynxthenko

Sometimes in the morning, it feels like I get up and start getting ready for school. Sometime later, I'll find that I never woke up.

Lol, this used to happen to both me and my sister every day, when we were kids and didn't have an alarm clock routine. (Parents would just keep yelling at us). I wanted to get up mentally but just didn't feel like it. Then I would have a dream I was walking around my house, getting dressed and eating breakfast.

It's not an OBE, just a dream.

Originally Posted by lynxthenko

Sometimes in the morning, it feels like I get up and start getting ready for school. Sometime later, I'll find that I never woke up. The thing I find strange is that when I actually do get up, everything is the same as when I wasn't actually there, even if something had been moved that I couldn't have seen before I got up (like if someone had moved something around after I went to bed and such). I don't know what else might be important in determining this, so please ask for more information.

This sounds like a false awakening and an OOBE. How would you know? Depends on the degree of reality attached to the experience. If you saw something at this state that you could not otherwise have seen, that later turned out to be accurate, it was an OOBE. If, for example, you dreamt about eating breakfast with your family only to wake up and they are still asleep - it was a dream. If you dreamt about eating breakfast with your family and there is a conversation or something relatively unique happens that you later perceive when awake, I would call that a precognitive dream. These are just definitions, though. I have had a bunch of experiences that are related to OOBEs, but I ignored them because they did not fit some type of preconceived notion of what I wanted to accomplish.