Astral Projection or Lucid Dreams?

From my understanding lucid dreaming, is just being very conscious when your dreaming, so you have the ability to change circumstances or outcomes in dreams. Astral travelling and lucid dreaming can be one and the same experience.

About two years ago while drifting off to sleep I half woke to this really loud pulsing humming sound, it was so loud it felt like pressure waves... was a tad freaky.
I tried to move because it was scaring the krap out of me but I couldn't I was totally paralysed, which just freaked me even more. The noise was so loud, that I thought my eardrums were going to burst,(like g-forces) kind of a painful experience and it took about five minutes before I could actually move a muscle. I explained this to a group of people who told me it was an OBE (or at least a partial one, caught myself leaving my body apparantly) and tried to encourage me to allow it to happen next time.

Following that episode, it happened a lot more frequently, and when I would wake my dreams were always relevant to goings on in the world. Example..one night I dreamt I was flying (typical astral travel indicator) and I found myself at prince williams birthday party, he was up on a stage and there was a huge security operation, long story..but when I woke the next morning, the first thing I did was turn on the radio and the first words I heard were "an intruder who gatecrashed prince williams birthday party last night has been reprimanded by police follwing..."
I had no idea it was williams birthday at the time, let alone know he was having a big outooor party to celebrate. the only thing I don't understand is if I was astral travelling, what the hell was I doing at prince williams bday party, when I could have gone somewhere interesting...(I even had a chat with the queen?)

I've been (apparantly) to an internet chatfriends house(s) (in US), I described the house, the design, the colour of respective rooms, significant elements that could only be attributed to her home.

more recently I was in Iraq and people were being taken hostage, this was the week before they very publically started taking hostages.

I think if your trying to prove these things, you can really only do that by having the experience yourself, the more confirmation you get, the more evidence you have to support it.
btw..once you start becomming lucid in dreams, that consciousness passes over into waking state and you can begin to achieve the same results in an awake state.
as far as I am aware the ability to do this consciously is known as remote viewing.

was it the colour red?

heh