I've been trying for 8 years to finally astral project (or have an out of body experience) but when I finally just decided to try something else (lucid dreaming) I finally realized (after I started to get lucid dreams by the ton) that I never really needed astral projection. As it turns out, all the stuff that I wanted to do (be able to fly among many other things) I was able to do in a lucid dream but I never realized it. I even tried lucid dreaming for the sole purpose of astral projecting but it never happened (astral or lucid). I then decided to pursue lucid dreaming alone and it turned out I was a natural at it and I started to have lucid dreams and realized what I was looking for wasn't astral projection, but instead it was lucid dreaming!
According to what I heard from people who do astral projection, I should strive for it but I love lucid dreaming and it feels like lucid dreaming was what I was really looking for all that time, am I missing out on anything by not pursuing astral projection?
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