Is this Astral Projection?

[StellaBlue]

I fell asleep during the day today and had a "dream" that really scared me. I was having a dream that was like a repeating record. The same dream kept repeating over and over. I visualized a wheel spinning (as the dreams repeated). I called it a dream wheel. It would get faster and faster until I was aware of myself laying face down.

Then my face became tingly all over, and there was a pulling sensation on the back of my head. The top part of my body lifted out and my face felt like there were little pins all over it (not painful, though, more like vibrations). I was paralyzed and I couldn't move my mouth. As I pulled further out, I started hearing this loud growling noise. It scared the crap out of me, so I started imagining a bubble of white light all around me, and I started yelling (in my mind, I guess) "Jesus loves me, Jesus Loves me." I don't know why I yelled that as I'm not particularly Christian... I was raised that way, though.

As I resisted and yelled, I fell back into my face and I started having the same repeating dream over again. Then, the "dream wheel" would go faster and the same thing would repeat. It must have happened 8 times until my phone rang and I snapped out of it. When I woke up, I was laying exactly how I was in my "dream," my face was still tingling all over, and my heart was beating like crazy. It was very real.

If that was astral projection, was something really growling at me or is that just "background" noise? It was really intense, scary growling...