Astral Projection Development Thread

[anagogy]

Sometimes those particular astral critters are projections from your own mind, rather than actual astral critters. Sometimes, they are actual lower astral critters that smell fear like a shark smells blood from miles away. All the same, though, they can't hurt you, and when you realize that, you will have removed one of the blocks you have to conscious astral projection. And once you stop giving out the food these beings come to eat (the fear energy), they won't show up in the first place.

I had a lucid dream this morning, which was brief, but I became conscious, and found myself in the house I grew up in. I was trying to stabilize my consciousness but then felt inordinately heavy and dropped to the ground, the environment faded to black, and I woke up in bed.

What is the relationship between dreams, lucid dreams, and astral projection?

My experience is that dreams take place more "inner" than an out of body projection does. A normal out of body projection is close to the physical plane, whereas dreams take place higher up in the subtle planes (usually not very much higher up from the physical, normally just barely out of phase with red ray physical). The more conscious you become within the experience, the higher in the subtle planes you may will yourself to go. You ordinarily won't unconsciously dream in the higher levels, though, it does sometimes occur.