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Idk what to think, I started taking melatonin/magnesium supplements every night to help me get lucid dreams. I never dreamed at all as a kid or before I took these supplements. 

But when I tried to AP and actually did, I never saw a white cord and it was while I was taking those supplements for lucid dreams. Not only that, but reality in this astral world shifted to my expectations a little as I was there. 

I don't want to bore you with the details of the AP experience I had, but suffice to say it definitely wasn't just a lucid dream. I know that, but I'm just having some doubts about the whole concept right now. 

Has anyone else been through this?

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If you were to read a few of the threads you'd find this is a very frequent topic of discussion.
Just as you say here in
>suffice to say it definitely wasn't just a lucid dream
most people agree that there are qualities that make it differ from mere lucid dreams, but that there are still many similarities and the lines can blur a lot, with the projection devolving back into an LD if stability is lost, or with projection being attained from an LD.
We really don't know all too much other than this anon - it appears they're somewhat connected, but also differ from each other, perhaps in layers one above the other. Actual full on pure APs are far and in between, it appears. Very frequent during near-death experiences however, likely because with the brain dead (for a period of time), there is nothing left for the consciousness to do but just jump out of the body as a whole.