Astral projection is just a lucid dream where you're deluding yourself that you're astral projecting because you think its so exciting and cool and you really really wanna believe it so to you its so real but you forget the fact that you used the exact same method to 'astral project/OBE' as you would induce a LD (yes there's minor differences but at the base it is WILD) but you expect it to be an OBE, and as we all know if you expect something to happen in an LD, it will... dont think about scary monsters becasue they WILL show up in your LD if you think about them, and dont think about the whole silver cord thing that you read on a website because you WILL see it ... just like the monsters because you expect to see it.