Recently I had a lucid dream where I was ironically trying to practice controlling my surroundings. Out of complete NOWHERE- literally left field- an angel that looked like my older sister walked out from behind a bush and told me she was here to help me with my lucid dreams. (Usually I spend my lucid dream time trying to make it into an OBE.) I agreed and I expected her to help me learn to fly into space (because that's how I've tried to make it into an OBE, but I can never learn to fly.) To my surprise, we spent the dream learning to fall backwards without being scared of hitting the ground. She even told me my problem was that I was thinking too realistically, and that in a lucid dream, I could not get hurt. If I believed I was going to get hurt by hitting the ground, then I wasn't in the right mindset to have an OBE.
I've spent a LOT of time and energy wondering what that was all about, until one day I picked up my Astral Dynamics book on a whim and looked at the lucidity section. It turns out there's a specific section on falling backwards in hopes of turning a lucid dream into an OBE- I'm not even sure if that was the first time I've read it, and if I had I had LONG forgotten it.

So last night during a random lucid dream, I decided to try and ask my higher self how I can astral project. More specifically, I went up to my 'dad' in the dream, and asked "how can I learn how to astral project?" I didn't directly ask my higher self, but I was hoping they would answer through him. To my surprise, my 'dad' gave me an incredibly annoyed look. I wondered if it was because 1. I wasn't using the time to try to fall backwards, and instead was asking him this question. or maybe 2. A lucid dream is already an OBE? When I didn't say anything, he replied "If you don't try, you'll succeed." I was incredibly confused and tried to correct him by saying "don't you mean 'if you keep trying, you'll succeed...?" He looked extremely confused at this, and then after a pause, continued his annoyed look and said "yes, if you keep trying, you'll succeed." He said that last part as if he were only saying it to satisfy my confusion (like when you just agree with someone to shut them up.) The lucid dream ended there, as it was a really short one.

Should I really dwell on this too much, or do you think it was simply just the dream acting funny? I wasn't very lucid to begin with, and I was asking my 'dad' who was in the dream before the lucidity, so I wouldn't be surprised. I was hoping I would get something more profound like the angel earlier, who even seemed to predict the future, but maybe that just wasn't the case here?