I have projected out fully aware twice but only for a few minutes.
While I was dreaming I was able to do it more and I was able to project and comunicate with others in thier dreams and in the later days speak to those people and they did share the dream with me and remebered the experience.
I have also had other strange out of body type of experiences but I just cant explain them, but they were enough for me to believe in other dimensions. and the exsistence of the mind out side of the physical body.