Did i astral project and why did i finally succeed?

Im 18 years old( just thought i should include that). A while ago for a couple of weeks i kept practicing astral projection. I didnt really have much success but i did learn how to induce sleep paralysis. Whenever i attempted astral projection I would always go into sleep para;ysis and from that point i would either fail, see weird entities, and sometimes i would be able to get my hans out of my body but thats it, and sometimes when i really kept focussing i would for some reason see an image of myself. ANyway i gave up on astral projecting for a few months but for some reason early in the morning i had sleep paralysis and i decided i might as well give it a shot since im under sleep paralysis. So i tried it and i succeeded i felt my spirit or whatever it is lift out of my body and go to the side of my bed where i wanted it to. Everything looked really blurry and it felt dreamlike but im prett sure i succeeded. After a few seconds i started freaking out and i was immediatly pushed back into my body and i was completly awake. Does anybody have any oppinions on this and should i try it again. And why did i finally succeed out of random. Another thing i could see part of myself when i astral projected and for some reason i was a black see through color ( Im refering to my soul not my body cause i never turned around to look at it, actually i dont think i had much controll over my soul it was rather strange.