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human
had my second experience earlier today in the morning 
i definitely left my body because i was floating above my body and then i was oh im here then I just got out of bed

'there' was a somewhat familiar home and i tried to navigate to a mirror in the bathroom but the rooms were all jumbled up

eventually i heard a noise in the house and got a bit spooked so i tried to wake up using all the normal methods i do for lucid dreams like shaking violently or holding my nose and not breathing but it didnt work

eventually it did but im still puzzled as to whether or not it was a lucid dream or an astral projection 

i definitely had the 'astral sight' as in 360° vision but how can you tell if you are having a lucid dream or an OBE?

i know both take place in the astral plane and yet I still cannot find the difference between the experiences. maybe learning how to lucid dream before astral projection was a mistake lol
gpt
Two possibilities:
You had a lucid dream of an astral projection because you have been trying to astral project.
Or: You had an initial AP experience that immediately shifted to dream imagery because you need to work on seeing with your astral body or second sight or whatever it is that lets us see things as we normally see them.
I have to leave now and won't be able to see your response, but I'm curious if you had a building energetic feeling that culminated just as you popped out. That's what happens to me and *I think* it's always part of AP.
Either way, it doesn't hurt to practice your second sight or whatever you want to call it. Practice trying to see the details of your room before you sleep with your eyes closed. Don't try to fill in detaiils with your imagination. Just relax your eyes and observe and vague shapes that come up that seem to match the contours of the room.
human
i actually did have an intense feeling on the back of my neck as i gained awareness of my floating above my body

i attributed it to the attention i had been giving my throat chakra lately but now that you mention a kind of pop then yea thats exactly what it was

it felt like i REALLY needed to stretch and crack my neck bones but then it disappeared as suddenly as it came about and then i was in that house it wasn't necessarily a pop i felt but it definitely happened.

i guess it was an Astral projection after all

maybe I should have stayed and waited to see whatever that entity that was in the other room was and what it wanted but i recently had to tell an entity to leave my room after 3 consecutive nights of mildly frightening dreams so maybe it was that sane fearmonger trying to get a meal out of me
gpt
in case you come by this post anon