Hi again and thank you all for your thoughts on this. I am tending to think this was probably a very vivid lucid dream except for the fact as has been mentioned that lucid means that you are aware that you are dreaming. For me this experience was more like a case of i was aware that i was not dreaming. Anyhow, i have come down on the side of my skeptical head and gone for the lucid rather than the astral. I had to smile when i read what you had said robot butler about the ghost of christmas future as the next day i was thinking about it all and it occured to me that it was something akin to the story of scrooge... perhaps there is a message in it for me after all..Now where did i put that turkey!..lol