Hello, niki123.
The hanky panky might have been you releasing some desire energy
before you can leave the dream environment behind. Then you meet a guide or facilitator who's nourishing and possible authority you might have identified with your mother - but your mind overlays that with a lot of visual differences that say "motherly energy, not quite your mother."
You could say the astral plane is the "backyard" of the dream zone, in a way. A lot less people make it there, hence the order of things (kind of back-to-front).
The environment you found yourself in sounds very promising:
Huge trees mean lots of growth. Flowing water can be energy, and water fountains is then energy shooting up. An ocean could mean the mental plane, I have now repeatedly read of accounts representing it as such. Seeing it through the trees might mean that this is the "perspective" of your growth, where you are heading, where you can aspire to now. If you couldn't there might have been some barrier, but seeing it "through the trees" kind of means you can get there "through growth."
There are other aspects which suggest the upper astral plane here, for example the sensations on top of your head. This could denote your astral crown chakra becoming active, which according to Kurt means that you're getting close to moving beyond the astral phase of your development. Also this would mean you would be able to reach the upper levels of the astral plane, bordering on the mental plane (the ocean).
Your feelings of this being so real that you classify it as OBE indicate that all of this might have been the case.
Oliver
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