Some Form Of Astral Projection?

Yes, you can project while fully awake. That's called bi-location (a remote viewing term). You can split your consciousness between two places at once. I took a remote viewing course and bi-located to the unknown target (they only give you numerical digits). It was Stonehenge and the experience was totally amazing because I temporarily lost my vision where I was at and fully "there" at Stonehenge, breeze, grass and all. This was not an astral experience but a consciousness one. In other words, it appeared on the physical level where the astral can be quite bright and gauzy. Remote viewing is a gift inherent in all of us, we just don't know it. If we practiced, we'd need not travel by air ever again! My step mother practiced continually and got so good that her daughter could not stump her on blind targets, no matter how difficult.

However, the other thing you speak of is where part of your astral form takes shape somewhere else and is visible to the naked eye. That too can occur though it's more rare simply because the physical and astral are not vibrating at the same frequency, however, if the astral form is dense enough it can be seen. This is more common when people die (especially if it's from like an accident or a suicide versus old age) and are seen by loved ones for up to about three days following death because their astral still holds enough etheric material to be visible.

As for a dry spells and messages, dry spells happen to everyone. It's called life. A hundred different things affect our ability to pick up subtle realm information. If you are to receive a message, you will, just don't pigeon hole the way it can be received and it will come.

Anne