Hello all,

I'm Edge. When I was about 8 years old I had an experience where this zombie was trying to snatch me up. But when the sucker got to me I looked in his face and thought to myself. Zombies don't exist, I must be dreaming! So I proceeded to force myself awake. Awakening basically took some sort of straining myself to move until I finally broke out of the paralysis.

Fast forward three or so years and I start to have an awful night experience where I think that I'm awake but cannot move (I just found out this week that that's called sleep paralysis). So for years I experienced this, I would feel awake, but wouldn't be awake, many times I fell like I'm shaking, and moan and try to get someone to snap me out of it. At first I thought I was being possessed as I felt the shaking and the lack of control. This was super scary for a young kid. I would be afraid of going back to sleep, and when I fell asleep I would normally have the experience again.

Also I had a lucid dream here and there, but I would always go outside and fly, get super happy that I was flying and wake up lol. But that's all I ever did was fly. This afternoon I had one of those sleep paralysis, and now knowing what they were I used the following strategy to go from SP to LD.

I tried getting up in my dream but I was paralyzed. So I took it one small step at a time. In my dream I was laying on the couch in which I was actually sleeping. So I tried to raise my hands. I succeeded. Then I tried to move my fingers one at a time. I succeeded with that. after having exercised my fingers a bit I thought I'm ready. So I got up and made my way towards the door. I panicked that I was going to wake up so I ran towards the door. When I got there I opened it, step outside and Flew away. tried different styles of flying including a sort of legs first type of flying kick. Man it was fun!

after flying around a bit I was getting very excited and woke up. As soon as I woke up I went online and found this forum and that's where I am right now!

I started reading and I am really interested in the possibilities, because until today all I had done was fly, but apparently theres so much more to do!

Can you guys tell me if there's a beginners guide thread somewhere? Mainly I was looking for acronym definitions. I've read "DC" and haven't figured what what that is.

I really want to find a spiritual guide. Lately I have started to believe in church less and less, but my belief in God has actually increased. I have realized that there is something fundamentally wrong with organized religions, so I've been looking for to formulate my own spiritual belief. I actually have asked God to help me find the truth. and I think maybe he is answering by making me aware of how to find my spiritual guide. So that's one thing I am looking for, but I need to understand more about the dream world before I can find and know that I have found the guide.

So again can anyone point me towards a thread that answers some more questions.

Thank you,

Edge