#shifting rant

[punchliiine]

so, i keep getting asks in my inbox about whether shifting is real or not. hello? i mean it when i say it is real. shifting is real. idc how many posts people create in order to make you feel like it's not real or that it's just a teenage phase. it is real.

i have shifted plenty of times. i can fucking promise you that it's real. it will not be blurry or fuzzy or distorted or anything that might come close to a dream. it will not be astral projection, it will not be a psychotic episode or anything people (anti-shifters) say it is.

shifting is real, like so fucking real. and i completely understand how hard it is to trust strangers on internet. and not even strangers, TRUSTING AN IDEA THAT GOES BEYOND YOUR COMPREHENSION AND THIS REALITY. YOURE PUTTING YOUR FAITH INTO SOMETHING UNKNOWN.

BUT I PROMISE YOU I PROMISE YOU I PROMISE YOU SHIFTING IS REAL!!!!1

i have debunked and tried all those ways in order to find out if it's a lucid dreaming or whatever, i have tried them all. and they all proved to me that shifting is real.

i have healed myself of shit i couldn't have fucking imagined to ever leave me, shit that stained my soul. i have cried, laughed, snorted, breathed, screamed, talked, jumped, slept, touched.. i have lived. LIVED. and it was real, safe, and everything i've ever hoped for. I HAVE FINALLY LIVED FOR MYSELF.

i have met the man that i feel everything for, i touched his hands, i took pictures with him, i heard his voice and it was not something that could be disturbed by poor wifi. i even fucking know what shampoo brand he uses. i got to know him and he got to know ME as well. it is real. it is true. it is not impossible.

i felt it ALL. i promise you i did. ik my promises mean nothing since the whole idea of shifting is just crazy even if people tell you it's not. even if people say it's a religious practice and that it has existed for many years, it's still crazy and i get it. I HAVE BEEN THERE. but that doesn't make it not real.

it is real. those people are real. those experiences are real. everything is real. your scripts are real. shifting is real.

this is not a big inside joke nor is it a coping mechanism for covid or anyone that is mentally unwell. i know it demotivates you seeing tons of shifters trying for years with no progress. i know it demotivates you seeing people shit on shifting because we believe in something that is quite literally beyond everything we, as humans, have ever known. i know it demotivates you seeing tons of shifters saying that they were lying about their experiences and that shifting isn't real. but again, that doesn't mean shifting is not real.

i know these words are recycled and you've heard them plenty of times before, but there is nothing that i could do to make any of you believe me when i say shifting is real. i have had some experiences that me and my friends could vouch for, to prove that shifting is real BUT they could easily be rewritten as lies or me having 'telekinesis' or being set up or whatever. so i really don't wanna bother.

people will always ask for proof and will always try to debunk it, that's the way your brain works and i am not saying you're wrong for doing so or even asking for it. it's normal. but then again, even if i couldn't prove it to you or my attempts to prove it are 'debunked', it doesn't make shifting not real.

you can tell me shifting isn't real day and night, for eternity, but what i have experienced is not a lie. nor is it something that could ever come close to a lie. it is real life.

your belief or faith in shifting is unwavering because you haven't shifted, DUH??? THAT IS NORMAL!!!! but once you shift, come back to this very post and tell me how was it. was it something like a dream? or did you feel everything? consider it a dare.

i am not trying to make an anti-shifter believe, i couldn't care less. but if a shifter thinks about giving up and leaving their wildest dreams behind, please do not (i am going to kill you) do NOT. it is worth it. it is worth all of it and i bet my soul on it.

no matter how perfect your lucid dreams are, no matter how intense your maladaptive daydreams are, no matter WHAT. shifting is nothing of that sort. it is real. it is real. it is real.

i want you to just get out of wherever you are, stand in the wind, smell the air, pinch yourself, splash water on your shirt and feel how cold it gets, eat something sour, look at everything around you and notice the tiniest of details, look real close at a piece of wool and notice the tiny strings. see how you can experience all those in your cr? you can experience all those with shifting too, and infinitely more. shifting is THAT real.

it's okay to doubt, it's okay to need reassurance. it is 100% fine. but what's not okay is you constantly doubting your own power when you've been possessing it the moment you came into consciousness. you'll do wonders once you finally drop your doubts and just give it to yourself.

this is a recycled talk, i completely understand. but please just stop asking for confirmation, you ARE the confirmation.

[finsmultiverse]

I’m gonna rip my heart out of my chest I wanna shift so bad please please it’s like a burning ache in my veins I need to hug my friends and feel their touch I’ve been waiting for so long why why why is this so hard for me

[3ternalreal1ty]

I think my issue w shifting is that I genuinely don’t find it easy. I’m trying to affirm I do/believe I do but I just can’t find it in me. It feels impossible. It feels far away. Advice, anyone?

[i-left-my-room-tidy]

small rant

lmao idk if this is just me but. does anyone else get incredibly bitter in their CR—whether because of the life you're living at the moment or because of past decisions—because you can't exactly tell anyone else irl about shifting???

lately, a lot of people have been telling me that i could be doing and getting better if i just had myself and my life together—and i do, i really fucking do, but i can't explain that I've already achieved the success and contentment they're talking about because those are in another reality. i know i could easily try to permanently shift just for that reason alone, but personally, me doing so now feels an awful lot like running away and leaving stones unturned.

it would be easy to talk about it on online platforms where shifting has a community, but I'll be honest: the closure and emotional satisfaction simply aren't the same. it's a hard truth for me, i suppose.

[dallussy]

This blog is slowly becoming very mentally ill and I don’t like that.

SO I wanna talk positive stuff.

Im taking a lil break from shifting and have been focusing on my friends and school. I genuinely feel more content with my shifting journey. Ive been trying to practice more mindfulness and do things more for me. I’m starting to wonder if focusing on this reality is what’ll help me shift. The next time I’m gonna shift I’m gonna make sure I’m one hundred percent willing/wanting to shift.

[sameboot]

Simon petrikov coping FAIL compilation

[rollercoasterwords]

the tiktokification of ao3

or: some of you fundamentally misunderstand ao3 and it really, really shows

i was talking about this with a friend a few days ago and since then i've seen multiple posts of various sorts that have just made me think about it more, so. here is me breaking down a disconnect i see particularly with younger members of the marauders fandom (i say marauders specifically just bc that's the only one i'm plugged into):

okay, so i've seen many (usually younger) marauders fans either talking online about how they wish ao3 was more like social media (specifically regarding algorithms) OR talking about ao3/fanfiction/fanfic writers as if they are operating under the same etiquette/guidelines/assumptions they would bring into social media platforms. this ranges from being mildly irritating to genuinely harmful, and i want to talk abt why.

first - you have to understand that social media, in this day and age, exists in a profit economy. and when i say social media here, i'm referring to platforms like tiktok, twitter, instagram, etc. all of these platforms exist in a profit economy where content is a product that can be monetized. this leads to a few important distinctions:

people posting on these social media platforms are generally posting with the intent to get their content seen by as many people as possible, as quickly as possible

they post with this intent because once their content is consumed by enough people, it becomes a product that they can monetize

therefore, if that content gets popular enough, these people can become influencers, where content creation is an actual job and their audience are, in a sort of vague and obscured way, similar to consumers purchasing a product

because of the profit economy surrounding social media, there are certain assumptions + forms of interaction that bleed across almost all social media platforms. the ones relevant to this little essay include:

operating under the assumption that anyone posting anything on the internet wants to go viral, ie. be seen by as many people as possible as quickly as possible in order to grow an "audience"

these influencers are creating content for us, their audience, so they should want to please us. they should also be trying to appeal to the broadest possible audience. therefore, if we dislike their content, we have a right to make that very, very clear.

in that same vein, we have a general right to critique content creators, as they are making a profit and we are the consumers purchasing their product--much like you might feel entitled to a certain standard of service in a restaurant where you are paying for the food.

when you carry these assumptions over to a platform like ao3, it creates problems. why? in a nutshell: because ao3 exists outside the profit economy

ao3 is a non-profit. it does not have an algorithm because it is not trying to sell you anything. this means that the writers posting their work on ao3 are not making a profit. we are not influencers. we are not creating monetized content to sell to a consumer-audience. where consuming content on other social media platforms might be comparable to eating at a restaurant, reading fanfiction on ao3 is more like coming over to someone's house and eating cookies that they made for free. you are in their house. the cookies are free, given as a gift. so what happens when those assumptions outlined above start to bleed over from other social media?

assuming that anyone posting fanfiction online wants their work to go viral -- i've seen this with popular fic writers getting questions like, "are you worried x isn't going to be as popular as y?" those questions are usually not ill-intended, but they demonstrate a fundamental lack of understanding about why writers post work on ao3. it's not to go viral. it's not to build any sort of online following. most of us who post on ao3 have jobs or schoolwork or other commitments, and writing fanfiction is something done for fun, out of a love for writing. those sharing their work online might be seeking community, but that is fundamentally different from seeking an audience, and in no way involves internet virality. if someone is posting fanfic on ao3 with the hope that it'll "go viral," then they likely either won't continue writing fanfic for long or will reach a point where they have to re-evalute their motivations, because seeking joy and validation by turning your art into a product for consumption just isn't very sustainable.

influencers are creating content for us, so we have a right to let them know if we don't like it -- nope!! fic writers are not influencers. yes, even the popular ones. no matter how much other people might blow their work up on social media, fic writers are still outside the profit economy. they are not creating content for an audience. they are not creating content for you. they are writing because they love it, and they are generously sharing it. if you don't like it, don't interact with it. you are never entitled to loudly and publicly proclaim how much you dislike a fic. i talk about this more here

we have a general right to critique fic writers, the same way we do with content creators/influencers -- again, no. you should not be treating fic writers the way you would treat an influencer on another social media platform, no matter how popular they may be. this is not to say fic writers are beyond all reproach; rather, it is a call-in to check your entitlement. fic writers are not little jesters entertaining in your court. they are not subject to your whims. they do not have to do things for you. they do not have to write things you like. in that post i linked on point 2, i talk about what etiquette might look like if you're really concerned that a fic writer is doing something harmful, but that is not what i'm talking about here. i am talking about the proliferation of negativity i have seen, especially on twitter and tiktok, where people essentially just talk shit about fics or fic writers as though they are entitled to have those fic writers working to please them. this is gross, and it needs to stop. you wouldn't go over to someone's house, eat the cookies they baked to share, and then spit those cookies back in their face and start shouting about what a shitty baker they are. or maybe you would--in which case, congratulations! you are Not A Good Person.

anyway, at the end of the day, a lot of this can be boiled down to: Because ao3 exists outside the profit economy, fic writers are not influencers, and you should never be treating them as though they are. i think i see this disconnect largely with younger people just because they've maybe only ever really understood social media within this sort of influencer-consumer-culture economy, and genuinely don't understand how to interact differently with the internet. so, consider this post a call-in to reevaluate the way you interact with fic writers and the etiquette you use when it comes to engaging with fanfic on ao3! i promise that ao3 being different from social media is a very, very good thing, and also a very, very rare thing, so let's treasure it and focus on fostering community rather than trying to morph it to fit the mould of influencer-audience dynamics that we see almost everywhere else <3

[keikuri]

TW: rant, suicidal thoughts, intrusive thoughts

disclaimer: SUBLIMINALS, LOA and MANIFESTATION AREN't RUINING MY LIFE. HAVE HAD THESE ISSUES FAR BEFORE I STARTED MANIFESTING. the only reason i am placing this disclaimer is because i know some random anti-loa, shifter, etc is gonna use this as an example.

i am honestly done with this fucking reality i hate EVERYTHING. i would blame it on being a hormonal teenager but i finished puberty five years ago so it's probably not that. i can't stand my mother, my father is slowly getting better, but i still have anxiety and i feel so numb all the time; they keep on taking me to places where they know i'd feel uncomfortable and sometimes mock me for being uncomfortable and tell me i need to toughen up, as if it's not related to sensory issues and other things. the intrusive thoughts have gotten to me and i genuinely want to kill myself and i can't get a therapist and my parent's only reaction/solution is to be christian. subliminals help but only for the duration of when i'm listening to them. otherwise i'm still incredibly suicidal. i can't post anything about this because the only social media they don't follow is my tumblr, and this is the only place where i'm allowed to be myself. I hate how i undermine myself by saying that there are so many other people who deserve help more than i do, because i'm a middle class black person and my parents make decent money. i hate how i can't see myself as better. i hate how i can barely talk to people i like or can be happy for more than 2 days before spiraling into a depression. i have headaches almost every day and i can't do the most basic things, i can't clean my room to the point where it's perfectly clean and when i try to lower the standards so i don't fucking hate myself for not doing it, she gets angry at me. yes i am fine living in a "less messy" space. no i do not like living in a pigsty, i just can't clean as well as you. no it is not a skill issue, because if it was, i'dve been getting better at this over time. i can't stop fidgeting and i keep feeling like i'm not myself anymore because of dysphoria and because of my parents they won't let me transition until i'm out of the house, which means i'll probably feel suicidal until i'm 18.

and now onto the shifting rant

i fucking know why i'm not shifting.

i know that i place my dr on a pedestal.

i know that i don't relax or detatch from worry. i can't relax or detatch from worry. it's really hard for me to not be anxious, especially when i can't stop worrying about whether or not i'm gonna die every day.

i can't stop doubting myself as to when or if my manifestations will come

i know all of this

but i can't get rid of any of it.

i would use subs/manifestation to get rid of all my issues but i can't manifest because of my issues, which literally creates a loop.

i'm probably gonna take a break from subs because my issues aren't getting resolved.

[cocozydiaries]

guys pls pls pls

i genuinely need people to realise that when they shift they will be the person they scripted.

when you shift you will live out those experiences and they will shape you out to be the person you are in that reality. that person is actually you

there’s nothing inherently wrong with scripting you had a specific sort of life that’s nothing like your own now. big or small chances idc but istg sm shifters make ocs instead of an actual person

but for a second think about it. is that smth you actually, genuinely, whole heartedly want for urself?

ur drself ≠ an oc

decided to edit this and add some more

why do some people talk about their drselves like it’s someone else and why do some people post stuff about them like they’re a character😭 like pookie that’s you😃😄😃 you know that right?

maybe it helps people figure out stuff ig? idk but i always talk about me like im talking about me? IDK if ur the kinds person who does this pls explain☹️ i would like a more rounded view on things pls and thxs

[kanachaka]

I LOOOOOVE SHIFTING SO MUCH OH MY GOD I JUST SAW A PICTURE OF SOMEONE IM REALLY CLOSE W IN MY DR AND I WAS LIKE DAMN. I KNOW HIM THATS CRAZY BUT ALSO LIVING IN THIS REALITY CAN BE SO TIRESOME SOMETIMES AND ITS SUCH A RELIEF KNOWING YOU CAN HAVE A BREAK FROM IT AND BE A CELEBRITY OR A SUPERHERO OR A FUCKING POET FROM THE 1700S IT REMINDS US WE’RE POWERFUL AND IN CONTROL OF WHERE WE ARE IN THE UNIVERSE AND I LOVE THAT FOR US

[punchliiine]

time ratios in the multiverse will forever baffle me. because what do you mean a universe has begun and ended while i'm just here eating waffles. what do you mean by that.

[vivian-shiftss]

is it me or is the shifting confessions blog kinda... creating discourse?

well not the blog itself. the idea is alright, but the people..ehhh

like it started out simple i think, with people just confessing silly little things, guilty pleasures in their drs and shit so thats cool

but then like? people started policing, going 'this is bad' and 'this is good' 'you cant do this or that' etc and now its all people answering to other anon asks in their asks and just making a whole thing about it

like one of the big things I've found in the shiftblr community is that people just let people have their beliefs and basically 'do what they want' bc at the end of the day someone is gonna do certain things in their dr, whether you like it or not

but idk, now people have just taken that blog and made it into this whole policing shifting business which isn't really all that good

[nya-in-the-multiverse]

shiftok: i miss the times when people were posting storytimes. how am i supposed to be motivated now? :(

also shiftok the moment someone posts storytime: YOU DID WHAT?? *insert the most random thing that they have no business to care about in the first place* I HOPE YOU DIE AND YOUR WHOLE FAMILY WILL GET CURSED FOR NEXT 7 GENERATION!!!

do they not realize that the toxicity of their community is the main problem?? you think people will tell you shit when the moment they open their mouth, yall jump on them like a group of vultures??

it makes me so sad ‘cause approximately since january i have seen so many new people on shiftok who shifted after years of trying and they were so eager to share their memories and to talk about their drs, yet all of them left as soon as they came exactly due to this reason

[3ternalreal1ty]

Hi, I need opinions on something shifting related. I had a crazy dream last night and need y’all’s opinion.

To start, I’ve never been lucid/had a lucid dream before. Ever. I’ve never tried to be honest. I’ve been awake you can shift through it but I just haven’t tried that method yet in my journey. Anyways, last night I either had a lucid dream or a dream where I was lucid in it. I don’t know which one it is.

The first thing I remember is being aware I was lucid in this dream. I took a second to process, then was like “wait oh my god- I can shift!!”

There’s a gap in my memory here, but next thing I know I’m around a relative of mine that passed earlier this year. That’s not really the main point just wanted to add it. Anyway, I created a door to my dr. I told said relative bye, then walked into the door into this very dark hallway which at the end had a staircase.

At this point my alarm woke me up before it progressed, sadly. So my questions- first, do you guys think this was a lucid dream or a dream? Secondly, should I start trying to lucid dream?

Also wanted to add I got a tarot reading the other day and the main theme was to trust my intuition- I’ve also seen multiple tarot posts on here telling me to trust intuition and what’s happening.

Thank you for reading,

Marlee

[dahlia-shifts]

the way that on shifttok if i get less than 30 likes im all dying and crying cs im flopping, then come on here and say like 3 words, get 2 likes and my day is made

[chickenoptyrx]

*sittin up projecting onto the baby blorbo when I should be sleeping*