Quote Originally Posted by Rimbecano View Post
The same things happen to me. For a long time I was hung-up on how to know if an experience was a LD or an AP, and whether it was a "real" external phenomenon or an internal one created by my own dreaming mind. But now I think the differences are ultimately just semantical; when I go straight from being awake to a "different" environment WITH exit symptoms, I think of this as an AP directly to the astral planes, skipping the RTZ. When this happens WITHOUT exit symptoms, I think of this as a WILD (Wake-induced lucid dream). With these, I do feel a slight falling or dropping sensation right at the transition.
It's what some of us call 'phasing'.