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“To create a ghost story is nothing. Quickening of the heart, a brief half-image of terror. In the end, nothing. But to create a ghost…”

— Dark Academia.

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Have you heard of The Dream Revolution ? Seek it tonight, or whenever you sleep and it will come to you. In fact, it already has ; you must merely open your heart to the possibly the Magic is, in fact, real, and always was . What does Magic look like for You? Like to Charge , Reblog to Cast .

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Wow I really stepped down a few levels to give this answer. There would be no steps necessary, no process to undertake if you would just establish yourself in the I AM alone.

You are sooo lost in your play you forget reality.

You are moving from now into now. Investigate your days a little. How different is today from yesterday? It's basically the same day over and over and over with slight alterations. All the weekdays you go to school/college/work, maybe yesterday you had sushi for dinner and today you have pork. Maybe you texted your crush all day today, but yesterday it was your best friend. Maybe you've been complimented by ten people yesterday and none today. You go into today thinking all day about the yesterday in which everybody praised you, you're half conscious of the actions you even undergo during today because of how much yesterday is on your mind. You think tomorrow you might get complimented again. You may or you may not but you think about it. The tomorrow happens and you get complimented by 5 people, somebody treats you to lunch, your boss gives you a raise, you get an A. All these things weren't yesterday but how much has actually changed? It is still yesterday but with some small modifications, since you also went to school/work, also picked an outfit in the morning, also ate pork at night, also brushed your teeth. There are more similarities than differences.

Just look at it. See how little anything actually changes.

That is because you recreate the world every day from memory.

There is no yesterday but your memory of it. There is no tomorrow but your thought of it.

You are moving from now into now, and nothing has reality but in your mind.

In deep sleep you are no one, no thing, you are not aware of being anything. You are just aware of being. There is no world, no one, not even 'yourself'.

In the absence of the mind even the sense 'I am' dissolves. There is no 'I am' without the mind. All experience subsides with the mind. Without the mind there can be no experiencer nor experience.

Take full advantage of this information and act on it.

You are so very lucky to be here. You are so very lucky to wake up.

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how to “enter” the “void state”

exist.

that’s it. just exist.

you are the “void state” because the void state is pure consciousness and you are pure consciousness.

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Oh god I remember. That movie made me cry multiple times. (Also re-motivated me for shifting so yk. You should watch it. It's such a good shifting movie)

thought this looked familiar

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Joanna Glenn, from her novel titled "All My Mothers," originally published in 2021

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i don't care if it's nazis, mormons, or a bunch of misguided autistic people. if anyone ever tries to tell you your soul is from another planet and you're actually part of the class of impressive people that secretly did everything cool in the world but is now extinct and lives on through your broken genome, you RUN. YOU WILL RUN AWAY. YOU WILL SPRINT FULL SPEED AWAY FROM THAT.

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your speed doesn’t matter, forward is forward

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I think the first step towards the life you want is often to just say yes to more things. Accept that coffee invitation from your coworker even if it seems awkward. Sign up for that free class at the library that you're not sure you'll like. Join that club. Book that tour. Say yes to as many things as you can and kill the part of your brain that gut-reacts with a no.

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Sorry to break it to you but you literally have to face your fears and slaughter them. Otherwise you will live a small life that you do not want. You literally have to view your biggest fears and attack them head on. You have to fall into the abyss to find your way out. The easy path does not exist. There is no get out of jail free card. You have to allow yourself to die a spiritual death over and over again in order to reinvent yourself into the person you are actually supposed to be. And you have to be painfully honest with yourself and the people around you. It’s horrible but it’s truly the only way.

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⋆ ⋅ The 5 senses and their role in Shifting ⋅ ⋆

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Hey guys! Nice to see ya. I've been working on some things recently and I've been thinking about my shifting attempt a few nights ago. Now, a lot of you know that I haven't shifted yet, and it is what it is, yk? Disappointing, but we all get it.

Now, during my last attempt, I was pretty heavily in the void state, more or less. I didn't actively try to enter the void state, and I never really do these days. I just took deep breaths, motivated myself, and there I was. Unfortunately, that also means I have a bad habit of falling asleep before I even really did my method, which is so annoying tbh. But anyway, during that method, I was hearing things. Like, actually hearing things.

Sounds from my dr have always been my biggest symptom. Hearing is my most 'dominant' sense, ig. Whenever I visualize, the first thing I do is hear it. I have a feeling that when I actually shift, the first sense to come in will probably be hearing.

During my attempt (oooh, 555 popped up on my clock!!), I kept fazing in and out. I could hear things, but then I suddenly couldn't. It was annoying and I remember trying to call it up. I was trying too hard to control it, which is a big issue I've been dealing with. I'm still figuring it out tbh. It can be hard to let go of control.

But what I was thinking of, and this could benefit you, was the 5 senses. I've had a good amount of success with the 5 senses in the past, and for a lot of you, 5 senses is the method you would like to stick with, which is pretty good ig. For some people, this method is the easiest imo. (I don't even really like methods, and I usually just kinda vibe when I attempt but yk)

Now, what do you do when you use your 5 senses in shifting? Do you hear it first, see it, feel it? Well, I have a better idea. Use your dominant sense.

Don't just count out a bunch of different things you see or hear or feel. If that isn't working out for you, then try using your 5 senses differently. Use your 'dominant' sense and use that to ground yourself in your dr.

Now, what I mean by dominant sense is your strongest sense. When I tell you to visualize something, which comes in the strongest? Can you hear the thing, see it, feel it, taste it? Either way, use that. Summon up that feeling and use it to ground you. As far as you know with your eyes closed, you're already in your dr. For a lot of people, putting up scented candles that remind you of your dr and pretending you're smelling your dr is really useful.

Be creative with shifting! Have fun with it! Don't stress out and do the fun stuff. Try different methods and experiment with them. For a lot of people, traditional methods just don't work. I don't even use methods. I just kinda vibe and stuff and try my best to 'feel' my dr emotionally. You can shift with basically any method, or without one. All that really matters is your mindset. Do you think you can shift? If you can't, you probably won't. It's a belief thing. Like manifestation. All you need to do is believe in yourself and any method you try will work.

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Yessss. Basically, don't waste your life waiting for the right time to live it.

Do it for the aesthetic. Romanticize your life.

Be as obnoxious and pretentious as you like. Read for pleasure and only study what truly interests you.

Change your major 5 times and never graduate.

Idolize dead authors and completely lose your grip on reality.

Do some acid and have a bacchanal in the woods.

It’s fun you should try it!

(Henry Winter ghostwrote this post, I guess. I speak from experience though, it IS fun, you SHOULD try it)

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Yes yes yes someone gets it! I 'race change' but only in so much as its convenient for the plot. I'm Arab irl, and in a lot of the drs I have in mind, I have a whole different life and canonical parents who are of a different race that is in some way integral to their story. Am I gonna go through the effort of changing it because I don't want to be white or Asian or wtv? No. If anything, that feels racist to me.

Because here's the thing, if I tell people I'm yt in some of my drs, they won't look at me weird. If I tell them I'm Japanese in some of (very animated btw) anime drs, they start going apeshit. Like naaaah.

And even telling them that I don't even change my looks much when I shift doesn't change anything. My cr self is racially ambiguous. I got pale skin, but I also have an ethnic nose, freckles, and curly hair. I can fit a lot of races. I probably won't ever shift to be a race that's super different from mine, like black or latina or smth, but I won't be super upset at someone for doing that either. (Encanto is an exception haha, but if I do shift there I'll probably be one of the lighter skins in the Madrigal family)

And in my drs I never have a super drastic face change. It's all me, just better looking. I 'look' like that race only in so much as I look roughly like my parents. I don't do it for fetishization or any weird reasons. I just want to shift there. :/

Shifting is to gain experiences! If I want to experience being yt, or part Italian, or a Japanese teenager going to UA, then what's the problem?

I'm not being weird about it, and it will be super cool to have those experiences. If you think it's weird, that's on you. But I'm not going to close dr possibilities for myself because 'race-changing is bad.' For me, it's not. I'm doing it in a respectful way and that's okay. There's a lot more nuance to things than people think there are.

just do whatever the fuck you want with your reality. it’s yours for a reason.

realities are infinite, every kind of possibility exists out there, a reality where some of you aren’t fucking stupid maybe (for my followers: i love you, this isn’t about you).

you want flowers to grow when you walk? do it, it’s kind of fun tbh.

you want to have a morally grey person as your s/o? go for it, they’re sexy ngl.

you want to race change? for hells sake realities are infinite, this means that you’re any ethnicity in other realities. if you do it out of fetisiciqsion (i don’t fucking know how to spell it) you’re a weirdo, but if you do it just to understand other cultures that’s super fine. i feel like it’s even more racist to think that you cannot go there because you are from somewhere else for fucks sake, every reality is the same, people can shift to be aliens but they cannot shift to be south american or sum?? that makes no fucking sense to me, coming from someone who shifted for a lot and lived several years in other realities and built myself some fucking rational thinking.

you can block me anytime, i’d be glad if i don’t see your dumb being here. so don’t go to my asks or dms to insult me, i’m just gonna go to bed with your dad.