Astral projection or dream

[Lordvoldemort666]

I’m curious about an experience I had whether it was a dream or astral projection??? Any one?
So I was sleeping and I felt conscious almost as if it was my will to move around the experience. I imagined weed and I was in this grow room that had the most beautiful looking buds ever and so I told my self omg if I move my physical body I’m going to wake up and I’m going to stop seeing this. Then I imagined women and boom I was around beautiful women. This place looks brighter than the physical world from what I remember. I also told my self to fly and i started floating around a forest then boom i woke up because my arm was numb from staying in a certain position. What I noticed from this experience was that I had conscious control of what I was doing at all times. What you guys think? Was this astral or dream?

 

[freakstarsh]

Lucid dream

 

[Keldan]

Yeah, it was a lucid dream. The biggest giveaways are the spawn requests and the level of full creative control you had. Those are lucid dream features.

If you want to test if it’s a lucid dream next time, try an information test. Before you go to sleep, put a random word hidden somewhere you can’t see. Have someone else write the word and give it to you. If you have one of these dreams like this again, try to go to your room in the dream, read the word, then check it after you wake up.

 

[moonbow]

I'd say both since all dreams are happening on the astral. The only difference is in what is called a "normal" dream you astral project entirely in self-created environments, while in "normal astral projection" you may project into words that exist independend from you and were created by something or someone else. It's astral projection regardless, you're just playing in your own room or in someone elses room.
Sometimes the border between dream and projection may be so thin and you may be constantly switching back and forth between dream and astral projection that it's hard to tell what's what. On top of that you can have a ton of control and power in other "real" astral places too, not only your own dreams which makes it even harder to tell. A lot of "normal dreams", not lucid, may be genuine astral adventures in worlds that really exist out there too apart and independend from you.