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Dreams & Lucid Dreaming

Every night when we sleep, we go through several different cycles or states, where the brain will operate at different brainwave frequencies. When we are dreaming we are in REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep. During this time, the mind is active and viewing imagery. We are usually unaware that we are in a dream. We act in our dream as if it were reality.

The imagery we see in a dream can be vague and mystical, not unlike an astral projection. It is a common belief that dreams are really astral projections, but we are not conscious of that fact. Since our subconscious mind is in control of the experience, the imagery we remember may not make sense. We are essentially wandering around the astral plane without our conscious faculties intact.

Sometimes, you may find yourself in a dream, and aware that you are dreaming. This phenomenon is referred to as lucid dreaming. This can be achieved by will or it can sometimes happen spontaneously. This is where it can start to get confusing.

If a dream is really an astral projection without conscious awareness, and a lucid dream is where someone becomes consciously aware of that they are dreaming, is that not then an astral projection? I believe that lucid dreaming is a state kind of in between a conscious astral projection and dreaming; A state where you are aware that you are creating imagery by thought, but not quite conscious to the fact that you are out-of-body. All it takes to induce a fully conscious astral projection from within a lucid dream, is to simply step out of the fantasy imagery world your mind has created. Simply will yourself to.

It has been shown through experiments by Charles Tart in the 1960s that not all OBEs happen during REM sleep, which is when dreams usually occur. In fact, he could find no discrete OBE state when comparing EEG readings between different subjects and their OBEs. So a dream could possibly be an OBE, but OBEs are not all dreams.