All right so i guess im a newbie, been having lucid dreams off and on for quite a while but havent made too much astounding progress as work and school kinda make it hard. Anyway I used to have lucid dreams where i would be in a dream then realize i was dreaming by doing a reality check and things like this. Just recently i started having lucid dreams of a different kind which i guess from the description would be astral projection but i just am not sure. It happens every now and then when i go to sleep and then a minute or less after i lose conciousness i become aware that i am asleep...but i am not in a dream, i can feel my physical body and i hear a very loud buzzing and feel very intense vibration...then my body floats up and i start flying around (or i pull myself up and crawl) and go through my door (which is usually kind of painful..feels like im being electrocuted). I get a far enough way away from where my physical body is and the vibration and noise stop...now i feel as if a i am in dream and see dream characters and interact with them, although they have always been the family members in my house. Anyway my problem is that refocusing on my hands or rubbing my hands together does absolutely nothing to keep me in the dream. In fact last time this happened it felt as if my hands were very dirty and had too much friction to rub fast enough..I have yet to try spinning although i plan to. So if anyone has any suggestions please let me know..also is this a dream or astral projection? feels the same as a dream but the introduction is completely different.

Thanks
-Mitch