OK, i know this may sound very weird. But i was dreaming that i had sleep paralysis and had tried to astral project in my sleep. I remembered dreaming having felt vibrations and i was willing my mind to astral project( but it is a a dream when i found out later, but i didnt know that i was dreaming ). This just shows how powerful the subconscious mind is as i was reading alot upon this subject on astral projecting. Although i wasnt aware i was dreaming at that time, i was able to "think" like as if i was really awake, I was willing my mind to be in another part of the room( to get out of my body ). I also tried to call out my "spiritual guide" as i remembered that they might give a hand to help you leave your physical body behind( though nothing happened ).

Is this considered "lucid dreaming" ? I know that lucid dreaming is when you are aware that you are dreaming. I wasnt aware that im dreaming, but i thought i was awake and was trying to astral project( trying very hard in this case ) and not some random events in a regular dream where you have totally no absolute control and memory until you awake. Maybe, this is some kind of subdued lucid dreaming.

Anyway, i waked up feeling giddy and tired( as if im zapped away all my brain energy ). This certainly is the weirdest "dream" i ever had, any explanations whatsoever( if you somehow understood what i was saying ) on what i had went through?

My pov. Not quite lucid dreaming, because you were not aware, while dreaming, that it was a dream.

However, the interesting thing is that your conscious interest in astral travel is seeping into your subconscious or dreaming state. This is a good sign.

Keep trying to make a connection, both ways, between your conscious and subconscious minds. Once your conscious mind breaks into your subconscious, while you are dreaming, you will have taken the first step towards lucid dreaming.

You will probably wake up, but if you work on it, you can induce a semi conscious state where you are dreaming, but aware of dreaming, and sustain it for a long time.

Then you can work on the nature and content of the dreams you want to create.

My longest created and controlled lucid dream( which i described on another thread) involved flying around the world at approx 35 degrees of latitude.(south) It took somewhere between 6 and 8 hours, and was very tiring mentally, as I had to sustain flight and lucidity at the same time. I suspect this was actually also an OBE, because i saw things and went places which only years later did i see and recognise in the real world (this was before TV or documentarys) and later I did have several lucid dreams which were verifiable as OBE's.

Well, you answered your own question about lucid dreaming. No.

The simple circumstance of feeling as if you are awake and doing something while dreaming doesn't have a consensus name. If the dream is convincing and realistic while it occurs, then many people like the term "vivid," which just means life-like.

It is not so unusual that those things with which we occupy our waking hours turn up in our dreams. It is interesting that your dream focuses on the rituals involved, rather than the results.

For what it is worth, and that is probably nothing, let me make an observation based on the dream and my own experience as a meditator. There is a lot of effort and willing things to happen in your post. You are visibly trying to make something happen.

You would have much better results if you just stopped treating yourself like an object, and relaxed. Whatever happens then will happen. Maybe you will not have the experience that you think you want, but you will have an experience. Whatever it is, it will be your experience, and not someone else's.