My first LD/Astra experience, Help me understand it

So I've been reading about LD for 1-2 week maybe and got too exited in trying it out. I'll give the story after a short explanation about my sleep habits.

I've always been able to fall a sleep quick. If I'm tired, which I am often it takes me 1 minute and then I sleeping. My issues has always been the waking up scenario. I can wake up 5-6 times a night with a gap of 20 minutes during each sleep which kills me.. I'm so goddamn tired the other day. I tried medicine but it doesn't help. However I know or realized that I am to worried or my muscles can't relax enough. So meditation seems like a good help.

I dream and I am aware that I'm dreaming many times, I can wake up whenever I want except when I am at that stage where I belive so hard it's real that I don't even think I am dreaming (false awakening?)
I got a lot of fear, fear from things and people I never want to see again. In nightmares, instead of fear I try to challenge them and it works. So LD and learning it seems like the next step of my dreaming.

The story

So far I've been writing a journal for 1 week~ I can't write all my dreams, (normally 3 dreams a night) because of the fact that I got a work the next day and don't want to wake up between every dream. Anyway.. I have written 1 or 2 dreams a night.
I always listen to music with binaural beats, vivid or something to help me relax. I'm not sure but at least 2 times I've been in a paralysis but I always keep my eyes closed (fearful of seeing nightmares in the eye) but I've heard a door closing 1 time.

This night I fell to sleep, woke up after 30minutes ~ (happening everyday) and I fell my body was vibrating A LOT. This happend one time before but I was too exited to enter LD so it failed (I guess).
However this night I just relaxed as much as I could and I felt my body flying away (with eye's closed). This felt 100% real, like I would enter a room without gravity. Shortly after that, with eye's closed.. everything turned into white, and I heard people's laughter and I saw a group of people sitting in a circle. At this time I saw aware of I was going to enter LD and then BAM. I snapped out of the dream.

I guess I was too exited in joining the dream but what I really need help with is.. Was this Astral Projection (when my body was lifting) and LD (when everything went to white and dream was appearing) and what should I do from now?
I haven't read much about Astral projection and it's hard to find good info. People on youtube explains it like u already know half of the info.

Anyway thanks in advice for all help!

Hey there,

First of, congrats on your great experience!

Now, I don't know about astral projection, so keep that in mind when I give you my opinion. Likely, other people will tell you differently.

But, what you describe sounds a lot to me what I feel when my body goes to sleep. Whenever I stay inactive for some time, especially when trying to be aware like during WILD excercises or meditation, I'll feel my body go to sleep. It usually starts with a tingling, then a numbness in my limbs. Often I'll feel like my limbs are in strange positions or don't feel them at all anymore. This can be coupled with a loss of sense of balance, causing vibrations and/or sense of floating.

Next, the hypnagogic images start, which can cause me to completely 'space out' of my waking awareness as they pull my attention. More often then not this 'spacing out' will only be for a second or even for a fraction of a second before my bodily sensations pull me back. Eventually though, every so often the body sensations will get less and less strong while the hypnagogic images and sound get more and more pronounced/ The later will then develop into a full sensory experience. At that point I'll be dreaming and having a WILD.

So yes, if you ask me, you had a lucid dream, more specifically a Wake Induced Lucid Dream :)

Just my 2 cents,

-Redrivertears-

RED Thanks for that answer and make sense.
Quite funny that since I started this, I think more about it on daily basis and the meditation is something that I will go even deeper into. During the days, when I'm at home, work or anywhere else I think about my dreams, how it feels to meditate and it's like I found a new key to understand life. Might sound ridiculous but it's the truth.