So this morning around 2 a.m. I was having trouble getting to sleep. My initial reaction to this was to meditate, yet I was way too comfortable lying down to get into the proper position for it. In my lazyness I began to calm my mind and control my breathing while stilll lying down, and the effects couldnt have been better!

I had successfully touched upon the surface of the realm of lucid dreaming. That plane of conciousness so close to our own, yet so different at the same time. I had a short, quick experience, which I came out of fast because I was unsure of what was happening. After reaching an understanding and before my mind completely came back to this state, I delved as far and as deep as I could before coming to again. (Kind of like learning to dive in water, the first time your head ever goes under you panic, yet every time after that it is a sport to try and get deeper, yet you will eventually have to come back up for air)

I had written hasty notes between experiences, so I will try my best to elaborate.

1st Experience:

My breathing slowes, and my mind is clear. The sounds from the highway outside begin to detach from my conciousness, fading into what I can best describe as a binaural. Another sound begins to fade in, gunshots. The best way to describe them is a Big Team Battle in Call of Duty lmao. The gunshots begin to fade and the binaural comes in, (I could roughly place the frequency at a 938 or so, strictly because I am dealing with frequencies every day, being a musician.) My feet begin to lose their feeling, and it is as if they are slowly being filled with helium. I start to let go and then suddenly, clear as day, I hear a really, really BIG dog, from I am guessing behind me. He is not happy. I come back to reality quite quickly lol.

2nd Experience:

My breathing hits tempo again, and my senses drift. The cars outside fade out again, and are replaced by a very distinct binaural. Fron my notes and what I remember I was having a very casual convorsation with a woman. Although I have no recollection of the convorsation itself, the vibe I get from the situation is that I was asking questions, and she was answering them for me. Kind of a Teacher/Pupil vibe. Now my body begins to gain buoyancy, almost instantly my body from my hips down is fully suspended. My hands and torso come next, and my heart skips a beat, I 'gasp' in excitement. My head is now weightless, and this weightlessness is accompanied by a heavy binaural. My ego kicks in, I want my body back, but I cannot move. I try to say "Help" and I feel vibes of dissapointment coming from god knows where. I cannot speak. My last attempt to wake up is to roll over, my shoulders are heavy, I finally get on my side, and as soon as my right shoulder reaches it's apagee(sp?) I begin to plummet in a downward spiral. (Behemoth at Canada's Wonderland couldn't give me butterflies like that one!) I wake up in the position I left in, write in my new log (For this technique will definitely be an addition to my spiritual practices.) and go to sleep.

It was mostly, if not all audio experience, whether there were visuals or not I cannot remember.

This is very interesting I too have been playing with conscious dreaming or lucid dreaming.
I find that if I lie still on my back and focus on breathing I will want to fall into a deep sleep. After a while laying there clearing my mind, my body will tell me to roll over or get comfortable. I have a very strong urge to listen, give in, and get comfortable. However if I fight it, lie still, and focus on breathing I soon find myself in, what I think is, almost an awake REM state. Dreams come on very strong I see images, hear sounds, and feel the dream (i.e. if I take a drink of water in my dream I can almost feel a cooling in my throat)
And like you said in your second experience, you were talking with someone and the vibe was almost that of teacher/student. This is, for me, the most common happening during conscious dreaming.
My only problem is that I will let myself get so involved in these dreams that a lot of the time I will come out of REM stage and into Delta stage where I will lose consciousness. If I make myself aware though that the dream is slipping away I can sit up to a fully aware state and write down everything.
One more thing that bothers me a bit about it is that I am only a spectator, I am aware that I am dreaming, I am aware that my body is still on my bed, but I cannot make my dream self aware that it is only a dream. It’s like it’s not me in the dream but rather I’m watching another form of me. Weird!

forgive my ignorance, but whats being describe just sounds like dreaming in a sleep state. a nap.
how do you differentiate from the two?

Well... you are competly right. I am a very heavy sleeper and would like to be a better dreamer (lucid dreaming & astral projection). I used to not remember any dreams, now with the way I've benn practicing it is alot easier for me to remember them. I hope soon I can control my dreams.

oh ok.
so astral projection is just an adopted word for remembering your dreams?

I never said Astral Projection in my post. I am trying to work towards that. I really thought more people would reply to this thread and I might get some insite into how to control my dreams better, to ask questions and learn, and maybe how to begin some astral projection.
Thats why I posted what I did on this Astral Projection thread and because the thread itself sounded more about what I'm doing now and not really about astral projection itself.

I may have been a bit naive when I initially posted this. I had never experienced the feeling before so I assumed it was projection. My apologies for any confusion. All I know is I was on the outskirts of the realm of concious dreaming, which I havent been able to reach since.

Regards,

Periphery