Re: Astral Projection or Lucid Dream?
I rarely project, though I have done it (generally by phasing; I never have exit symptoms). I also occasionally have lucid dreams, though not as often as I'd like.
And, I have a third kind of dream, one that I think of as a Significant Dream. These are not lucid when I'm having them, but they have a kind of clarity and exist in a sort of dream space that is just different from everyday, garden-variety dreams. Sometimes these dreams are some sort of precog, but more often they're messages from my own subconscious or from Spirit (or both; I'm starting to really think there's no clear dividing line from where one leaves off and the other begins).
On the occasions when I project, I am always aware that I am focused to/in somewhere other than usual environment. I don't experience it as being "outside" of my body, only that I'm either unaware of my physical self or I'm totally unconcerned about it. I experience it as being in a different kind of reality (a bit like the way you "go into" a really good movie or book, becoming part of the environment, but only a bit like that).
My personal perception is that lucid dreams take place in your own private dreamspace, within your own personal consciousness. Projection takes place in the wider, shared consciousness, and although the two are related and there is some exchange between them, it's the difference between your own back yard and the rest of the neighborhood, metaphorically speaking.
I don't personally think you "go" anywhere when you project, not in the sense of "inside" or "outside" or any side, really. I think you just shift your focus and your conscious awareness to a different area.
I hope that made sense. It's hard to find good metaphors for this, at least for me.
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