
Hi g-man,
I had a similar experience twice, first was I went to sleep & I relaxed for sometime right after relaxing I entered into a dream like opening a curtain and entering into a room, after sometime I projected aborting the Lucid Dream. It was really awesome. But this doesn't seems that easy, coz this need a 100% concentration & will to do this.
After so many days I did the same thing, though I was trying daily. The success rate of this is very low. Coz Concentration is very very important here. I will shortly post the great technique that I used to achieve this state.
The projection depends on your thoughts & your energy level, If your thoughts are good & your are with high energy then you will be in Astral, if your thoughts are silly then you will be in Etheric plane, Its purely depends on your thought while projection, The techniques are same for both.
You can just read the techniques here: How to astral travel
Hope this helps :-)
Welcome LPC ;D
I recommend you to read the following link about pets & astral projection.
http://www.forumforastral.com/your-experiecnce-on-astral-projection/seeing-pets-when-astral-projecting/
You can start your discussion from here.