u/FoxAndThorn

I have several neighbors with dogs. It drives me nuts when the dogs are barking and their owners start yelling at them to be quiet. It doesn't work. The dogs don't listen and now I have to hear both of them. Train your damn animal properly! Don't just stand on your porch and holler at them, because obviously it either has no idea what they want or it doesn't care. In fact, unless the owner has specifically trained it to understand what "be quiet" or "shut up" means, which I doubt, they're probably just making it worse because now the dog thinks the owner is barking with them.

Technically, I've been trying to learn astral projection for about three years but, officially, it's only been a couple of months that I started being consistent with it.

I haven't managed it consciously yet, but I do have these experiences when I'm asleep, which I actually had sporadically even before I started practicing regularly, and I'm not sure if this is unintentional astral projection or lucid dreaming. It happens most commonly if I take a nap during the day verses sleeping at night.

The sensation is pretty much always the same: I will have a "false awakening" and attempt to get out of bed. Usually I can only make it a few steps at most before I start feeling something like an intense dizziness, then I find myself back in bed again. I have had times where I've made it pretty far and have been able to move around, but it usually feels like I'm fighting an extreme force of gravity that's trying to pull me back to bed.

Today, this started happening and I kept fighting the sensation. I started walking through my house, which was still my house but it looked a little different. I made it outside and everything was very vibrant and clear. My neighborhood was, in part, still my neighborhood, but there were also buildings that obviously aren't in my neighborhood, like small castle-looking buildings. There were also people I could interact with. I don't recall actually speaking with them; it was more like telepathic communication.

Some of the times that I've had lucid dreams, it's often that I'll be having a "normal" dream, and then I'll be, like, "Oh, wait, I'm dreaming" and gain control over my interactions in the dream. In comparison, during these experiences where I "wake up", I always recognize that I'm in my bed and I mostly have only been able to stay in my house. Today was the first time I've maintained that state long enough to go outside.

I would love some insight on whether I'm actually managing to project in my sleep, or whether these experiences sound more like lucid dreams.

Thanks!