When you say "astral projection", I think of the movie The Men Who Stare At Goats and governments attempting to find underground bunkers by having "psychics" navigate the word by writing down phrases in sealed envelopes.
I will talk about "lucid dreaming" whenever I feel like in front of whoever I want because I've been having dreams like this since I was 5 and know they are true, so whoever these people who don't believe in them are, they are simply wrong and haven't experienced one themselves.
I don't say any chants, commit a blood sacrifice, or pray to demons for a dream I'm consciously aware of,
I go to sleep like I do any other night and sometimes I'm aware of the transition into a dream, or sometimes I say "hey, this isn't right, oh I'm dreaming!" and then it picks up from there.
There is nothing evil or occult about recognizing the dream isn't reality and being aware of it, anyone who takes issue with this are probably those people who dream in black and white or don't even remember them to begin with. I'd rather upset these people than silence myself about the innocent truth.