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Welp....i guess I have a new DR

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Was on shifttok for like two seconds and started questioning even my own expiruences cause they're so negative over there. Anyways I'm back and won't be traveling over there again...

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I keep thinking like "I'm so upset I never see any progress with shifting, is shifting even real like why do I even try" then I read my post from like a week ago talking about how I shifted or heard my dr or made crazy progress and how great shifting is.

I get so miopically focused on the end goal that I don't even acknowledge the steps as progress and then beat myself up because I "haven't made any progress"

That's so silly of me, I should stop that

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Sometimes I'm so frustrated with shifting. Like it's so abstract athat I dint even know what im doing wrong and I really have little control over when it'll happen for me. If only there was a step by step. It could be the hardest thing, you could tell me I needed to brew a potion with baby toes and I'd do it if I knew it would make me shift. JUST LET ME SEE MY HUSBAND

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Had a dream abt my dr for the first time since I made it. It's so comforting seeing them even if just in dream form

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I was RIGHT THERE and I just about shit myself

A chronological playthrough of the shifting attempt i just had

Step 1- "fuck it we shift NOW"- I had been planning to shift all day and ending up having an absolute nightmare of an evening and being busy much later than intended, so my shifting wndow all but disappeared. I was going to go to bed at around 10:30 but decided why not, I'll try an awake method until my bf gets home at 11:30..so I laid down in the good ole starfish cause idk I like the raven method and started counting

Step 2- shit goes cray- so once I got to 100 I was like, meh let's keep going cause i wasnt feeling relaxed or anything so I started counting backwards. I got to 98..98 and my soul flung itself from my body. No exaggeration I was fucking flying. All of my limbs went numb, my heart was racing, and my body was going right round baby right round. I've had shifting symptoms before. I have shifted before(no significant amount of time and never whede im actually trying to go...usually not even on purpose lol). 5 years I've been doing this shit and NEVER have they been this intense.

Step 3- freak tf out- for the first time i went "holy shit it's real, I'm gonna shift it fucking real oh my god" and I realized I was scared. I started thinking about the world and all the conversations ive conceptualized while planning my dr. I thought about having to speak to my s/o. And it truly clicked to me how real it was going to be. Ppl always say like "maybe is fear holding you back" or "you don't understand how real it is" and I've always been like "nahhh, not me. I know its real, why would i be scared". Bitch i was terrified and suddenly so aware how real the possibility of me shifting felt. Like it just clicked in my brain that i would see these things and people with my own eyeballs. I started going down my script and realizing how wattpad it was and how there's no way I could say the shit I was planning on saying and for the first time I was genuinely nervous about having to talk to these people.My ass got so nervous about having my meet my s/o too. Like wdym I'm going to see him. Wdym he's going to perceive me. WDYM

Step 4- "we shift NOW" pt 2- so I knew i was freaking out and I knew that that's not good. My heart was racing. Thoughts going wild. So I was like ok let's calm down just a bit. I took some steadying breaths and just tried to imagine the sensations of where I wanted to wake up....nothing. so I tried to connect with my emotions in my dr, the excitement of opening my eyes and seeing everything, the feeling of meeting everyone for the first time ect ect...nothing, but i was not going to give up. So I started counting again and my soul goes flying again. I'm much more equipped for it this time and I just try to steady my breaths and continue counting and after a little while I STARTED HEARING MY DR??? ok this is followed with a big question mark because it was so so quiet, but my apartment was completely silent aside from my loud ass neighbors stomping upstairs. But in one ear I could hear them and in the other I started I could hear distant brids chirping and the trickling of water. Like a river or something of that sort. Now mind you I live in Las vegas and it was 11:30 at night, no way it hell are those noises in my cr. I sat and listened for a while but my boyfriend eventually came home so I didn't fully get there but it was a wild ride.

Takeaways- I think this was huge progress for me. Much clicking happening in my brain that I can take into the future. If every attempt is a step foward on the staircase of my shofting journey I think this was a leap. So yeah that's it bye

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Shifting and confirmation bias

I just had a click clack in my brain...this might be a "no-duh" to some people but confirmation bias is real and definitely affect shifting(excuse me if this is not well written. I'm pretty much word vomiting to get the idea out)

I dont feel like writing a while lot but basically is you beleive, subconsicously or not, that you won't shift your brain is going to look for all the reasons that you're not shifting during an attempt. Further confirming the mental bias and reaffirming the idea that you won't shift

So if we want to reprogram our brain to think that we can shift and whatnot, during an attempt it would make sense that you should look for and acknowledge specific things that affirm you are shifting. "I am very calm, that is good for shifting" "i feel super connected tk my dr, that will make shifting easier" ect. To rework your subconscious patterns via confirmation bias. And after a certain point in would just come naturally, as confirmation bias is a natural thing your brain does when it has a pre-established belief, and you will naturally be affirming and reprogramming your brain to shift...

Does that make sense to anyone but me?

-sincerely a psych student desperate to smooch Gale

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Yall yall yall yall....oh no...i think bg3 gave me a thing for wizards. A fucking wizard kink.. FUCK

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Do other shifters get the vague sense that they shifted but don't remember it? Like when you know you had a dream you just can't remember it. That's how I've been feeling as of late. I know something happened, I know I went somewhere. Maybe it was a dream, maybe i shifted, but I just have vague feelings and no memory.

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Sooooo i have a new dr......the shifting grind is back on!!!

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Didn't shift but I did have a dream about my s/o in that dr. And had quite a few other dreams, which is cool and doesn't happen often for me!

Gonna try shifting with mugwort tn, I'll update yall l8tr 😼😼😼😼

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Gonna try shifting with mugwort tn, I'll update yall l8tr 😼😼😼😼

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An expirience in had during a shifting attempt today

I had an unsuccessful shifting attempt today (i have a new puppy and she is sooo loud) but even though I didn't shift i had a strange experience that I want to share

So this was an awake method, I was just laying and meditating on my dr in silence and mentally counting. Fairly quickly I felt as though my body was numb and I was floating almost, this is fairly normal for me as I get in meditative states pretty quickly and it's never really been indicative of me being close to shifting. But what happened after was I felt my brain get..quiet? Like not my whole brain, but I kind of intuitively recognized it as the section of my consciousness staying in my cr if that makes sense. It was like the part of my brain counting, while still there, felt far away. -Anyways, it was weird. Maybe i was close to shifting or maybe i was just in a very deep meditative state udk, but it was cool and I thought I'd share

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Ive never been much of a holidays person, but the thought of Thanksgiving and Christmas in my Dr is bringing me so much joy right now

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Is shifting dangerous? I’ve heard you can die but that was just one shifter on discord idk if it’s true

Ok so to unpack this Firstly we need to talk about the two different schools of thought for shifting

The multiversity theory and the consciousness theory

The multiversity theory is the train of thought that were are experiencing actual lives in other actual realities outside of ourself. And just like with any life, you will inevitably die. That being said, i can't speak for myself or for what happens when we die in this reality, but i can say that since this reality is your original reality (i assume) and you are tied to here, if you die in a another reality, you would theoretically just revert back to your original reality. This has been backed by most if not all of the people who have experienced dying in their drs. Shifting through this theory is just moving a facet of your consciousness, not your body, so if your body dies there that facet would just return to it's source, which is you here.

Consciousness theory is the theory that reality shofting is not moving to realities outside of ourself, but rather through the expanse of our own Consciousness. It is contingent on the subjective nature of consciousness and how utterly untapped the human mind is. It generally believes that we have a universe within ourselves and we are, maybe not creating, but experiencing another facet of our consciousness. Within this theory it is debatable on whether or not the things you are experiencing are "real" and depends on your beliefs within the theory, but either way again you're just moving another part of your consciousness and therefore should your dr body die that consciousness would merely revery back to its source.

Basically short answer- no, not really

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The time I accidentally shifted to Attack On Titan...

Ok, bear with me cause this was like 3 years ago but one time I accidentally minishifted to THE MIDDLE OF THE WALL FALLING IN SHIGANSHINA in my aot dr.

-Firstly, I was NOT trying to shift so this took me by major suprise

-Second, yes I do have an aot dr, no I did not mean for my first shift there to be mid titan attack

Basically I laid down for a nap midday (naps are when all my shifts happen lmao) and suddenly I wake up in a dark stone castle. The floors are hard wood,cold, and the walls are made of stacked circular stone. There's a small cut out window with moonlight streaming through but otherwise it is completely dark. When I open my eyes I find myself huddled in a corner on the floor. I am very confused and disoriented. I take in my surroundings a bit, it hasn't clicked for me that I've shifted so I am just so freaking confused. I put my hands against the wooden floor and begin to crawl/ stand up. The SECOND i move, a giant eye appears in the window. I get so scared that I guess I just blip out of the reality and wake up in bed cr bed basically hyperventilating.

-side not, abt a week later I was rewatching the show and found the exact titan that saw me. It was this btch

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Some advice that I literally shifted the other day with

Start somewhere small and closeby. Yes shifting is easy, no matter where you go it's all about perspective, that being said, shifting to an anime in outer space is a lot harder to conceptualize than shifting to your life but your bedsheets are green instead of blue. So start with baby steps. Walking two feet is easier than walking ten, so start with two feet. Go to an alternate of your cr and familiarize yourself with the feeling and action of shifting, affirm to yourself that you can do it then prove it to yourself with small shifts that eventually turn into big shifts.

You obviously don't have to do this and not doing this will not take away your ability to shift to your drs, but if you're struggling it may help. I shifted to an alt cr the same day i got this advice, so take that as you will.

Happy shifting <3