Love Meditation - Sleep Wish - Arms out - Lucid Dream - Updates

So I have been doing a love meditation the past couple of days. It has been helping a LOT. Past couple of weeks I went through a negative period and I am coming out of it. During that time, the negativity prevented me from being able to dream or astral project. I'm happy that has passed!

So, lets start off with a wish I made. I made a wish to myself that I would not sleep as much and have more energy when I am awake. So, since that wish a couple of days ago, my new sleeping schedule follows a basic 4 hour sleep from about midnight to 4am. Then I wake, potty, have some water, do more love meditations and then return to sleep for about another 2 hours. When I wake again I usually spend another hour, laying and resting and meditating in bed before I get up for the day. So far I really like it and plan to continue.

The day before yesterday I had an astral experience that was not a full projection. The familiar body buzzing started and only my upper body separated for a short time and then I was snapped back in. Hey, after the negative period this made me feel relieved and overjoyed! I feel like I'm coming back, hey! So basically what happened is I could feel my arms out. I could feel the weightlessness of them and could see them on and off. Seems like when my head separates I can see and when its connected with the body I can't. Interesting nonetheless.

So last night I had my first lucid dream since the negative period. At night I did the love meditation (send love out, feel love, get comfy but staying as aware as possible) So, I started to dream I was shopping and a friend was driving me somewhere and as I looked out the window I saw several animals, a cat, a bear, gorilla, big foot, horse except they were in the city and they were out of proportion. The kitten was the size of the bear and the bear was the size of the kitten. Just then I recognized this was a dream and became aware. I called out that this is not real. I lifted my arms up high and said see ya later, I'm outta here! Just then the dream came to an end and I was in the inbetween dream state. Its all dark there and my mind feels like its awake and aware yet my body is completely paralyzed and unable to move. I recognize this paralysis. I was getting prepared to project from there but unfortunately my cat came and woke me up! So, I didn't get to project but I was close and lucid dreams are a step in the right path. The more lucid dreams you have the easier it is to project (in my experience)