Confused about a lucid dream

[Spacefrog]

I woke up in bed and had just had a dream about going to the barbershop so I felt with my hand on my head and there was long blonde hair on the back of my head. Right then I realized I don't have any hair in real life so I now knew I was dreaming.

But then something strange happened. The next moment I was lying in bed with my eyes closed. No vibrations, just blackness. I still knew I was lucid and (guess I couldn't think clearly) started to try to astral project by rolling out of my body.
I was actually succeeding but it was going very slowly and with much effort. Especially my head wouldn't come out. It kept glueing to the physical body.
When it finally got out I felt I was out of the body and floating over the floor, but whenever I would open my eye (it was still black) I would be staring at the ceiling from out of the physical eyes, right on the bed.
I was scared of waking up so I kept them closed and floating into the hallway of my house.

I felt like the physical body kept trying to pull me back and it took a lot of effort to move.
Also there where moments where I felt like the physical body was going to fall into a deeper sleep and I was clicking out sometimes (couldn't go through the door so opened it).
Then I realized I had to get back to the body because Robert wrote that the first projections should be kept ultra short to be able to get back to the physical body and download the memory.
I went back and woke up with a vivid memory of the dream(?).
There was no paralysis.

I'm guessing this was all a lucid dream in which an astral projection seemingly happened.

Anyone?

[CFTraveler]

I think you had an OBE early in your trance. The effect of bilocation and separation before paralysis usually don't happen until you've acquired some experience. Vibrations don't always happen; perhaps you're more advanced than you think.

[Spacefrog]

So CFTraveler if I may ask, what makes you think it was actually an OBE and not a dream of an OBE?

[CFTraveler]

Because you had an exit. You see, a dream is a projection to the personal part of the astral, and the moment you become lucid you can 'leave' the personal part of the astral and go into the collective part of it, or you can think of your body and become conscious of it and then do an exit into the rtz. That is a 'standard' method of exit in that case, and it's exactly what you performed. The rest of the description (the feeling of magnetic attraction to your body, etc.) is pretty typical of an OBE, which is in my opinion what you experienced.

[Spacefrog]

Oh wow. Now I'm beyond excited to continue! Thanks for elaborating!

[CFTraveler]

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