I had a strange dream, and dont know what to call it.

I think with astral projection you are supposed to keep trying to wake yourself up when your about to fall asleep, or so i hear. And this was similar because I had an alarm programmed into my phone to wake me up in an hour so i could watch this show.

Anyway I fell asleep and in the dream I was in my neighborhood, and it was just the most realistic dream I had, and I had complete control over my actions. Was this Lucid Dreaming or Astral Projection or something (it was night time, and it was night time in the dream).

Seems like Lucid, but when you dream I believe you are in the astral realm.

Astral projection is done while conscious, not sleeping. Semi-conscious would be better, I.E. in a near sleep state, but still fully aware.

Astral projection is done while conscious, not sleeping. Semi-conscious would be better, I.E. in a near sleep state, but still fully aware.

Not arguing here:

However, through personal experience I know for a fact you can be conscious in a dream, in fact I sometimes feel more alive and aware in my dreams then I do in "real life" (which is kind of sad).

I would reword that to perhaps, "being aware of physical being/state"

I'm not very much into astral things, so I can't argue what classifies astral projection.

b;10718050']Not arguing here:

However, through personal experience I know for a fact you can be conscious in a dream, in fact I sometimes feel more alive and aware in my dreams then I do in "real life" (which is kind of sad).

I would reword that to perhaps, "being aware of physical being/state"

I'm not very much into astral things, so I can't argue what classifies astral projection.

Most people feel much more alive in their dreams/astrally than in real life. My brother and friends who've been fortunate enough to get them all say the same thing: That!

I can honestly say a lucid dream, and even the couple astral experiences I've had have felt more real than real life. Things looked brighter and feel more real. Often I back out of these experiences eventually because it's the only way to tell if its real or not.

Last night I had a very vivid lucid dream, and I tried to fly and jumped straight into a snowbank. I picked up the snow and it was bright and crystaly, I also couldn't tell if it was actually cold or not. Then I tried to fall through the ground [seeing as how flying didn't work out] and I failed as well. I got this idea from a dream a few nights ago [maybe a week] were I tried to fly and instead fell through the ground into blackness, experiencing intense g-forces.

Seems like Lucid, but when you dream I believe you are in the astral realm.

Astral projection is done while conscious, not sleeping. Semi-conscious would be better, I.E. in a near sleep state, but still fully aware.

I'll second this, depending on how iris defines "astral."

It is customary to define "conscious" as either the alpha, beta or theta state; sleep--whether one is in REM stage, not dreaming or whatever--is the delta state.

This may be what you are after: http://www.astraldynamics.com/tutorials/astral-projection/part-1.html#1

After you are alive, hopefully.