Thread: Can someone please help explain what I experienced. It wasn't a lucid dream - possibly an A.P.

The "no control" aspect was not the main factor in my feeling this wasn't a lucid dream. When I lucid dream it is ALWAYS in a real world setting. This took place in a technicolor field of light. I have never experienced this before.

In my lucid dreams I have various amounts of control. But when I am as aware as I have described above I am able to attain control and manipulate my environments and abilities with relative ease.

This was like being in two places at once. I was almost always aware to some degree of my body in bed while I was in another place at the same time.

I believe this took place on an Astral Realm because of the environment.

I remember not having any idea what to do... at all. It was like a multicolored blank slate as I stated. The only thing I could think to do was manipulate the colors like a child would with a paint brush at first.

It wasn't until I stopped really trying to manipulate it that things started to take shape on their own but even then it wasn't "REAL" looking. It was multicolored and obviously a "copy" of a "real" world object made out of the environment I described.

Originally Posted by MistDragon

This was like being in two places at once. I was almost always aware to some degree of my body in bed while I was in another place at the same time.

Regardless of whether it was a lucid or ''astral'' experience, isn't that a bad thing? I've done my fair share of research into both fields and in neither are you supposed to hold on to the physical world while experiencing whatever it is - perhaps this explains your inability to control things. It just sounds like being half awake/half dreaming; simultaneous experience of both realities, and could potentially serve as a hindrance to other elements of such.

Before you pass me off as a non-believer, I don't doubt that astral projection is possible, I just see no reason to believe that what people are experiencing isn't just strange lucid dreams. I've had a few ''projections'' in my time, but all of which were dreams when analysed out of the box.

Originally Posted by MistDragon

I believe this took place on an Astral Realm because of the environment.

I remember not having any idea what to do... at all. It was like a multicolored blank slate as I stated. The only thing I could think to do was manipulate the colors like a child would with a paint brush at first.

It wasn't until I stopped really trying to manipulate it that things started to take shape on their own but even then it wasn't "REAL" looking. It was multicolored and obviously a "copy" of a "real" world object made out of the environment I described.

How does that suggest things being a ''copy''? I'm confused.

Also, in regard to the title change, if you're absolutely sure it's not a lucid dream, but you're not sure if it's an A.P, what does that leave if it's not a projection?