A little AP help please

[moonlit]

HI! This may be a silly question but I'm rather confused.

I have had an expirience many times where I feel like I'm astral projecting, BUT I'm totally conscious, semi- conscious, or I become consious quite often. It's usually always when i'm going to sleep or in some cases I'm becoming conscious from sleep. For some reason, I thought that you only astral projected in your sleep and you hardly ever remember it, or if you do remember it it's like a dream. But I can actually think to myself.. "Oh my God , I'm projecting." Sometimes I can even will myself not to go...

Is this even astral projecting at all or something else?? Maybe etheric projecting? I'm really stumped here so any help would really be wonderful.

moonlit

[watershield]

There are two concepts that come to mind
First Astral projection and second lucid dreaming.

Either can occur while awake or asleep and it's very easy to confuse the state of lucid dreaming with AP.

Now it's been a long time since I have been able to AP, but that was a state that is unique and very clear in alertness, awareness, clarity, etc.....

LD is a bit on the fussy side. You have awareness, but only as to certain objects or events of focus.

There are a couple of older posts on both of these subjects in here some place. so look around.
A couple of folks that have posted on recent first hand experience seem to be away just now, so be patient.

[moonlit]

Ok thank you!!! I will research lucid dreaming more and see how it compaires with what I'm currently going through.

moonlit