Was this a vivid dream, or something like astral travel?please help
After doing a random guided meditation on YouTube, I felt very sleepy and fell asleep.
During my sleep, I had a very vivid experience. I was traveling in space with someone. In the dream, I knew who the person was and felt their presence clearly, but I couldn’t actually see them — and after waking up, I don’t remember who they were.
At some point, we stopped and were floating in front of a black hole.
The black hole felt extremely intimidating, and I became very scared while staring at it. During that moment, I said to the person who was with me, ‘’and they say Hell doesn’t exist.”
The fear felt intense, and after that, I woke up.
After I woke up, I still felt a bit scared. Later, while I was doing my work, I opened the washing machine and the inside looked very dark, almost like the black hole from my dream. For a moment, I felt really scared again. I know it was just a dream, but I’m confused about why I reacted that way.
I’m trying to understand how to interpret this:
Was this most likely just a vivid dream influenced by meditation?
Or do some people interpret experiences like this as astral travel?
In either case, how is the presence of another “person” usually explained? I mean who was that person with me
I’m open to psychological, neurological, and spiritual perspectives.