Is it all in my mind?

Hi Dbstman,

  Depending on who you ask you'll going to get a different answer. One school of thought has it that dreams and astral projections are completely different  and the other is that they form a continuum. I prefer to side with the latter.

  In my opinion your experience counts as astral projection if:
 
  - you've been fully conscious through the experience
  - the vividness of the experience was strong enough for you to mistake it with reality

Since the experience you described seems to fulfil both the conditions then it is, in my view, a genuine astral projection. At worst, it demonstrates that you have considerable potential to achieve it. I believe that, in order to make the best of your skill, you should learn to control it - not the easiest thing to do, but very rewarding.

Dbstman
last night I slept and found myself inside a lucid dream. My dream took place outside my house with people playing and doing their regular life business. but I was scared of my dream because I was afraid that If I got to close to someone, they would come and hurt me because I heard that entities can come into your lucid dreams from somewhere.

I decided then to leave my dream since I was scared and alert of everything so I literally pulled myself up from the bed and tried turning on the lights of my room but my hands went through the on and off switch.

I then realized that I must be dreaming again and somehow I ended up getting up from my bed again but finding out that my hands would just go through the light switch ;(

This happened like 4 times

I finally woke in reality but could not tell what was real or not

Is my mind playing tricks on me, or was it just a dream or the astral projection experience thing?

It reminds me of something called A dream within a dream...astral projection related....i've had dreams of dreaming of something....In dream, I was sleeping, dreaming of a lion coming in the door, & tried to wake self up, only to "wake up" in the same room, just as a lion came in, & yet stood my ground,  and then woke up in real time....I've had a few like this over the years....Its almost like you were on a higher astral level {first dream}, came down a notch {felt awake 'dream'}, then finally to this level...kind of thing....physically awake.