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I read your dream, it's pure fantasy and onirism. That's a terrain which is very hard to navigate. Astral projection is much more concrete, down to earth (not literally), rational, without many symbols and with direct, coherent communication.
Lucid dreams are great but they are still fantasy. From a lucid dream you can easily astral project... or you may stay dreaming, practicing mind control ;)
In my dreams, I see a man, dressed in jaguar skins and feathered like a blooded saint. What came from the heart lubricated us, it crushed evil under its tread and liberated us all. The fetid heat of the jungle, mirrored somewhere behind my forehead. My temple pounds, the blood boils in my skull. It feels as if there is something alive there; a rat, a damn rat gnawing through my brains, eating its way out into the world. Even the laudanum will not quell its endless hunger.