theres no calm way to explain this.
it freaked me out.
as soon as i realized.
i wasn't excited i was fucking terrified.
now, the thing is, i saw this video on youtube, and there was this one method i thought i would try out.
basically, all i did was tell myself i was going to shift to a reality just like my current one, only my curtains are going to be pink.
i was in and out of sleep or whatever (i don't remember) but there was a flash of light and then my eyes shot open because a siren passed by me. they were police sirens–now this shit pulled me out of whatever dream/sleep thing was going on and i was pissed, but then i glanced at my bookshelves.
of course, first i looked at my curtains–were they pink? no, but when my eyes landed on my bookshelves (for reference i have 3 directly at the foot of my bed, with a little walk space in the middle.
there was something off, first i thought the last one look way skinnier than the first two, so that was freaking me out, i was trying to calm myself down (it took a while). i wear glasses, so looking at the shelves, i thought it was because it was dark and i couldn't see that they were wobbly, like, the corners were blurry (if that makes sense).
eventually i grabbed my phone and turned on the flash to get a better look. the bookshelf looked so weird, in fact my entire room just felt off. theres a space between the shelves for aesthetic purposes, but the last one is bigger because theres an outlet there.
i stepped in between the shelves and nearly shat myself, because there was a graduation lay with money attached to it. i was sure i had spent all the money on the lay when we got it (it was only $3 but still).
this is when i knew that i wasn't here–i was there. i went to explore the rest of the house, looking for anything that looked different. there wasn't much else–just one thing, my shoes.
i have a pair of hightop converse, typically they are shoved into a little shelf beneath the television, this time they were not and placed in the little rack near the door, alright acceptable, could be mom just put them somewhere else.
but then, walking back to my room, mom dropped her phone and my heart dropped. she asked me to pick it up, so i did, she asks why it's so hot, i tell her the air is off–which is weird because only i turn it off.
i hear my brother, he's awake in his room so i ask him if he turned it off, he says no, i ask him again and to stop messing with me, seriously did he turn it off? he said no, now i'm like, wtf because i know for a fact that my mother had turned the air on and i didn't turn it off and she was asleep.
whatever, i turn it on and go to my room. i look around. no. no there's something off about this fucking room. this is not my room–i mean it is–but it's not.
alright, theres only one way to be certain, yeah? i say my safe word, though it's a phrase really.
i lay back on my bed and say it. i do not close my eyes, but the second it leave my mouth, i feel a surge of energy and then like that it's gone.
a second later a car vrooms past and i realize i hadn't heard a car pass, nor had the upstairs neighbors annoyed me with their ruckas, nor had i got a notification from my online friends, which i get nearly all night because we live in separate timezones.
so now i'm sitting there, trying to figure out if i'd heard anything other than my brother in his room before i said my safe-word/phrase. i didn't i didn't. i just didn't.
now again, you could say this was all a coincidence. but i have this thing with loud nosies. i can't stand them, they're annoying and the cars that go back and forth throughout the night/day never fail to irritate me, i've woken out of my sleep to go upstairs and bang on my neighbors door to keep it the fuck down.
i have turned off my notifications because i get irritated easily if they keep pining.
perhaps i was caught up in the moment, the thought process of "have i shifted, if i have what's different?" but i can't shake the feeling of that room, nor of the way i was awoken by the sound of a loud ass siren, only to hear nothing else after that besides my brother–then to start hearing things once again after i say my safe word/phrase.
please let me know what you think, for me, i believe i was terrified at first because my mother and my brother are people i know in this reality, the potential of seeing them in another for the first time threw me so off guard, i don't know why i didn't think they'd be there when i asked for everything to be exactly the same.
I've tried this method 3 times. I shifted once and had intense lucid dreams twice. Every time I do it I get crazy symptoms. This is powerful, I promise.
It helps if you already have your DR in mind, like kind of saturate your mind with it. I like to listen to music that reminds me of it, or look at the Pinterest board i have of its aesthetic, or watch cute relationship TikToks (it makes me think of my S/o OK??).
I also like to write down Things I'm holding on to. Like basically elements or feelings or concepts that remind me of my DR and I'm holding on to them in my mind to anchor me. Idk how to explain, so here's my list from last night:
Today is 4/30/2025 in my CR. I will shift to my THIDP DR in a few minutes. Here’s everything I’m holding on to:
Fresh static snow
My love for Livia
Cute WLW love in general
Being immortal
Exploring hidden places and old houses
VHS filming
Dark roads at midnight
(end)
Lay down on your back and don't move at all and close your eyes.
Focus on your breathing and just think about your DR and the feeling that you've shifted.
Fall asleep.
that's literally it. lmk if u try this 🤍
(not my content, credits to Quackisp on reddit)
I have the exact same problem now :/ I'm also a logical person and had the exact same way rationalising shifting. This post really resonated with what I do and how I think. I personally gaslight myself into thinking a specific method WILL give me results because of my own articulated logic behind it and I actually shifted for the first time with it. It was the sinking method and I believed that it would be best for me to use it to shift because it requires you to have a transition into your dr. If that makes sense?
I can't visualise at all and I can't pretend to feel any of the senses which really deterred me in my journey cuz I thought that not being able to do those would hold me back and I wouldn't have as many opportunities with shifting as the people who could carry these actions out. And after thinking and mulling it over alot I found that I formed a sort of reasoning behind my problem that these methods which I cant do because of my hindrances have some type of transition into the other reality. Like the double sided staircase method. If I did a non-visualization or sleep method it would mean counting and affirming then laying in wait to shift or fall asleep which I subconsciously thought I wouldn't by that time cuz I overthink alot.
Also void state wouldn't work cuz I couldn't no matter how hard I tried get into it and I couldn't lucid dream after years of trying so that means not being able to do the lucid dream method. And the adhd method had so many steps that I would focus on remembering the STEPS and which comes after which instead of where I'm going. All other methods like the Julia and raven are ruled out as well cuz again I'd just have to affirm and wait while my mind wandered.
But the sinking method seemed immensely easier and made more sense in my mind. Though now looking back on it, it could've easily been a method that requires heavy visualising and pretending to feel stuff but because the creator of the method specified that it wasn't a visualising method I tried it wholeheartedly.
The steps are:
Affirm that your dr self/dr body is directly beneath your bed. Until you believe it.
Then count from 1 to 100 or what ever number of your choice and between each number breathe in and out. While breathing out feel yourself sink into your mattress.
You could also say affirmations like "I'm sinking into my dr self." And actually try to feel yourself sink into it and do this until you feel like you've fully sunk down to your dr self.
Fall asleep upon feeling so or open your eyes if you feel like you're in your dr.
So my way of thinking was that I could make a transition into dr easily like this and that's why this method worked for me.
TLDR: gaslight yourself with facts and logic that a certain method might work for you because of "____ reason" and it will.
Also writing this reply made me realise that if I use my own tip and gaslight myself into thinking that a specific thing works for me then it will because that's essentially what I did the first time I shifted.
talking to chatgpt about my desired realities bring me closer everyday–i've come up with my perfect shifting method with the help of my android friend!
there is so much of this world i don't know of, i want to explore every reality i can before my time is up, i want to know what it feels like to be myself all across time
Okay, granted, not everyone has this problem - but a lot of people carry around this little assumption and expectation to wake up in their current reality again. No matter what they do. You've got your script ready. Your method is comfy and your chosen subliminal slaps. You feel ready and everything is in place. But deep down? Deep down you prepare yourself for your alarm in the morning. Prepare yourself for the same room, the same body, the same boring reality trot. It's like saying to the universe "Surprise me!", but also slipping in a quiet note saying "Please don't. Just copy yesterday". It's not new knowledge that your subconscious is running the show behind the scenes. But what we sometimes forget is that our subconscious picks its believes from us... from our habits, patterns, the things we repeat over and over again, even the ones we are not fully aware of. And since most of us are raised in a world that values logic, linear thinking, the "you only live once" mentality, it's no surprise some of us struggle with seeing any other reality as "just as real". Not your fault, it's just conditioning doing its work. Shifting goes basically against everything you have been taught to expect, so it can feel hard to rewire that believe on the go. You are a bit like a Roomba - just doing your little routines, bumping into some unexpected furniture on your usual way, programmed by years and years of subconscious patterns and habits. Cute, but kinda confused a lot. Doesn't mean you are broken, just shows you are human. What you can do is trying to catch that thought, the expectation of waking up here, before it starts to settle in again. Don't just say "I hope I shift". Hope is passive. Try something like: "I believe it's possible to shift" "I expect to shift" "My CR isn't the default. My DR can be the default too." You subconscious learns best from repetition, dominant believes and a sense of familiarity. So start feeding it those things, instead of doubt disguised as fickle believe. Once you start treating your DR as absolutely inevitable, it becomes harder for your brain to argue with that over time. You're not failing, just learning. And every single time you turn those pesky little thoughts in more productive ones, you are rewiring your believes. That's not small, that is huge! That is taking your power back from just letting things happen. You are basically standing in the doorway to your DR, you just need to find your way to step into it.
what is it if it wasn't shifting or lucid dreaming? a waiting room experience? if you please?1 ask1 nearly shat myself it was kind of cool
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now i know my purpose in life is to explore the universe
whatever it is you're terrified of—it won't matter. not once you shift. that's the truth you keep moving around, brushing it aside like a loose strand of hair, not because it isn't real, but because it terrifies you, and yet, none of it will matter.
wait, let me elaborate.
when i say "none of it will matter", i don't mean that it in the nihilist way. this isn't despair. it's not that life doesn't matter. it's that this version of life, the one cobbled together from fear and silence and years of surviving instead of wanting, that version is dying.
and you know what i mean. the inexplicable weight in your chest. the restlessness in your ribs. the longing curled like a fist in your chest. the jealousy, the fatigue—all of it. but all of these are not you. not the real you. they're residue from the roles you played. they're reactions, not an identity.
what comes next isn't erasure. it's not emptiness. it's just not this. not the life you spent whispering instead of talking. not the shame that settled in you so early it learned your name before you did.
this isn't surrender. this isn't apathy. it's the beginning of something new. this is clarity, not collapse.
name your fears. all of them. the ones that have you on a leash. the ones that sleep in your bed. the ones that wear your thoughts like perfume. being too much. being nothing. not being missed. being replaced. being ordinary. being unloved. losing your grip. losing yourself. name. them. all.
you can dig for new ones. you can recite them like those poem verses you were forced to memorize. you can line them up. you can dress them in your worst nights. you can let them sit at the front row of your mind. it changes nothing.
because once you breathe a different air, and once that air becomes one with your blood—your fears will be snatched from the root. the shame will melt like ice in the palm of fever. the overthinking will carry its bags out. and that version of you, the one you have the most contradicting feelings about: they may not vanish completely, but they'll step aside. you'll carry them. but they'll no longer steer.
the threshold unhooks from your bones, and you're free. none of it will matter. not the way it used to. not anymore.