Also! Someone explained to me in another way, but I do like your insight! It helps me understand it more. Um, the other person who responded on another forum said:

"castlecrumpett" That was a good first experience. Any of the three basic types do not âœneedâ to be visible to the average viewer. They are still Out-Of-Body-Spirit-Projections, and their form depends on your intention.

These classifications are mine from observing and teaching art students to use these types of out-of-body-projections as art tools. All of these three types can be used to view/see into the inside of things as well as the normal viewing the outside of things. 1.] The most common one written about is Remote Viewing. Many writers put this type of projection into a separate catagory, but the techniques of projection...(continued)

Last night was one of my first times astral projecting... Well i almost astral projected... But when i was in the vibrational stage it felt like someone was holding my hand. Their was that sensation that someone was holding my hand. Ive astral projected in my moms room before by accident... (i had a night terror about this scaled red pig guy....) anyway. this was a few nights after that incident. but i astral projected and i don't member having that sensation at all. in face i remember have a good time. Other then the fact their were 2 people standing in the room i astral projected in ... it was quite strange and foreign to me. Any ways another thing though is that it happened twice that night. and when i was leaving my body. it was white everywhere and you know how it feels like the worlds shaking? well it stopped and went...(continued)

My experience is that during your waking hours, your eyes only register what you mind puts together through the action of all other senses. 
And all of the sensory registers are based on a range of vibrations per second. 
The astral world  is probably some octaves above the range that we can sense.
I believe that there is a point where all dimensions, the natural, the astral, the celestial, come together and it is there you may become 'born again' into another Kingdom.
The 'beings' that you saw are probably wondering the same thing you are, like 'I don't want them watching me.'
We are at a time right now in our history that the 'dimensions' are coming together. 
And the norms of the dimensions are very different.
And you wonder, 'Can they choose you to become one of them?'  Like, training you in...(continued)

hehe yeah, that would be great. like a forum-meeting on the astral plane  :o

can imagine my wife's look...

"what you're doing honey?"

"preparing for a forum-meeting at the moon in the astral plane"

;D

You mention 3 things: Astral projection, Lucid dreaming, and OBE. I think the difference is in the vibrations, the frequency. You know they have discovered a particle that can pass through matter; the neutrino.  The neutrino is like the dividing state between our physical dimension and the dimensions you describe.

You have to consider your own state, being physical.  You do everything in a physical world.  Your physical eyes can only see physical things.  When you sleep, it is not your physical eyes that see, it turns into the actual experience of another dimension, a vibratory experience.

It is hard to describe the differences in those 3 things, it's like, you can see the difference. I think it has to do with appearances.

In Astral Projections there are auras. In the astral world, you can determine the...(continued)

I use to have those dreams very often actually, I hated that slow feeling weighed down feeling I use to get, I probably still get these dreams from time to time. Btw there is one thing I have not mentioned, before my experience I had on Friday this happened to me which I record by the side of my bed pretty much like when I want to write down a dream so I do not forget it, this happened as I was about to leave my body.

A male voice spoke to me on Thursday 16th august 2012, this was in the morning, perhaps slightly before 9am or slightly after. I was lying in my bed as still as possible using rapid out of the control thought patterns, or thought patterns that I would suddenly pause, then quickly continue, and I would usually repeat them, and then voice began to speak to me,...(continued)

My friend stayed overnight with me last night but when she left this afternoon I was still tired and was lying in bed on my stomach.
Then all of a sudden I was dreaming that I was walking through my dining room but I felt really really tired and kinda, collapsed to the floor. Then my body started moving backwards along the floor and go into the living room as if it was being pulled in by something.
Then I started to float up towards the living room ceiling and my whole body was vibrating and I could hear a weird static noise in my ears like when your radio isn't quite tuned in properly but you can still hear people talking and stuff.
I was still facing down as if I were in bed though, which is even weirder. At one point I thought I was going to go right through the wall or ceiling and...(continued)

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.

Hi, I am new to the site, so hello everyone...

I have always wondered about a recurring dream or experience I had as a child. For several years, a few times a week, I had the sensation of being pulled on a conveyor belt of energy ( only way I can describe it ) Almost like a magnet pulling me. I used to fight it, really having to strain and put all effort into resisting it, because I did not understand what was happening and it scared the child that I was. I always won the tug of war or fell asleep. I felt like I did not have a body and was energy too. Was these astral experiences or dreams? Did it have any significance? I do remember starting to float or turning around on my bed upon falling asleep on other nights. I also remember getting up out of my body on one occasion as a child. But these "dreams" were very different... I really want...(continued)

I had an experience of being pulled out and one that someone/thing was "trying" to pull me out. I logged them in my journal... here they are.

June 11, 2011 ( from 12:15 pm to 12:15 pm)

8th O.B.E.: 6/11/2011 around noon I was actually pulled out of my body... I can't ever really make out what is pulling me, but it appears to be shadow-like. Anyway, during those OBE's I don't seem to be doing the "driving" either. The places I decide to go to, my movements, asking to go back into my body... I don't seem to have much control over any of these things. I say, not much, because I'll think to go back into my body a few times and nothing happens... until the third time, or so. I'll ask to go somewhere and end up going somewhere entirely different and foreign to me. I'll be flying at an insane speed to all these different...(continued)