"Shifting Isn't Real" When We Live On A Floating Rock, In A Solar System Of 8 Planets And 5 Dwarf Planets,

i'm sorry but so fucking SICK of shifttok. everywhere i turn, there's a mf going "guys do you promise shifting is real? 🥺" or "omg i haven't shifted and i feel like it's a big joke" or "isn't shifting just lucid dreaming?" on vids where this shit isn't even a topic of conversation.

like i'm trying to be kind but if you don't take your non-believing ass on somewhere and gtfo my FACE. PLEEEASE go do your own research and stop asking ppl the same question twenty times when you can easily look it up on your own. why are you relying on these random ppl to answer your every question as if you don't know there's a hundred million resources abt this shit out there. it takes LESS THAN 30 SECONDS to search on tiktok "what is shifting" and hit search like do not pmo.

but even then, some shifters are nice enough to answer the question and explain their definition of shifting or whatever. and what really pisses me off is that you can CLEARLY see the person answered the question abt fifty fucking times and you decide to bring yo ass in here and repeat the SAME SHIT. oooh i cannot STAND these mfs, i just can't.

this is the best fucking thing ever

☾　　˚　　🦥　　❏ᵎ　　til i reach the end

☾　　˚　　🥕　　❏ᵎ　　and i’ll start again

i was gonna shift tonight and instead had 3 back-to-back nightmares what is this nonsense

and just like that my motivation to shift has been recharged

241205 | © aster

They deactivated their acc, they do think rationally tho. I thought it might help some of you.

Learning lucid dreaming to reach the void state

The existence of a brain as powerful as ours opens the door to infinite possibilities. The human mind is extraordinarily complex; we have yet to fully understand its capabilities, and every day we witness brilliant minds and creations.

Dreams take us to an even more astonishing aspect of our minds, offering a vast range of possibilities. In dreams, you can be whoever or whatever you want, experiencing the limits of your imagination, leading us to lucid dreams.

Lucid dreaming is the closest thing to scientific "transcendence." When you develop and refine the ability to have lucid dreams, the possibilities become endless. As someone with experience in lucid dreaming, I can say it’s an extraordinary feeling.

To achieve the ability to lucid dream, there are various methods, but it all begins with questioning reality. "What proves I’m not dreaming right now?" or "Could this be a dream?" are ways to train your brain. It doesn't happen overnight, but the moment you rationally question whether you're dreaming, you’ve already gained awareness. That’s a significant step. From there, you’ll start noticing oddities within the dream or sensations that attempt to simulate real life but verge on strangeness.

Once you achieve awareness within a dream, staying in it becomes another challenge. Your brain will try to wake you up because you’re venturing into territory it hasn’t "simulated." You’ll need to be firm in staying within the dream while remaining conscious. It’s normal to feel your body in bed, but don’t give up — you’re still in the dream. Since you're in a drowsy state, there’s a good chance you’ll enter a trance that allows you to stay a bit longer. Luck also plays a role, and you’ll need focus if you want to transition from the current dream to a desired reality.

The void state can be reached through lucid dreaming, and from there, anything is possible. Your mind is incredible, and you can use it however you want — it just takes practice. You’re in control, so don’t let yourself think otherwise. You can do it.

Nothing can stop you.

me realising that the dangerous DR I'm shifting to is indeed dangerous and I actually have to fight demons and I can't just be silly with my friends

just for anyone wondering (life update)

no, i did not shift on that thursday. no, i'm not angry in the slightest. i unfortunately had to face one of my extreme fears (heights) because we were going on a trip to ZA the 26th. i failed every single time after thursday, but i wasn't bothered a bit! the two plane rides were much more underwhelming than i thought, and i managed to stay positive throughout the beginning of my trip when i felt most out of place!

i would get that feeling like "oh my god i want out", "this isn't where i wanna be", "i don't wanna live this life", and immediately i would remind myself i could shift! it was like those negative thoughts didn't affect me anymore.

anyway by this point in my recap it's a happy new year! even though that day i was so drained and sad (i had just lost a friend in my shifting friendgroup who turned out be an awful person). now the next 3 days are just bringing back the bond i had with my other 7 friends and just having a ton of fun. and now, we make it to today! the day i realized i had no reason to be upset about how i had failed my attempt at manifesting my dream life, despite being extremely motivated and all the circumstances being perfect. (i even wore my most comfy pjs 😭)

i was helping one of my friends by introducing her to shiftblr (someone from the shifting fg) and i put her on to a lucid dreaming method that u could use to enter the void state. she'd also entered the void state once before which was nice. anyway i'm kinda yapping this part doesn't really matter but the method does! i had another shifting realization that took me an INSANE amount of time to realize.

i was way too obsessed with my first official experience being perfect.

and how do i know this?

i refused to believe that i could shift on my period.

i also refused to try to shift when i got sick.

i thought if i was sad i couldn't shift.

i was obsessed with awake methods and i thought if i moved or scratched an itch i would be taken out of the trance (this hardened into reality unfortunately)

you see the issue? and i think what makes it even worse is that i KNEW none of this played a role in whether i could shift or not. when i would help baby shifters i would tell them they could feel any way they wanted, they could move anytime they wanted, hell, one of the first shifting experiences i'd seen someone put in a tiktok comment section involved her shifting to escape her period cramps! (she was already on it)

now! what does this have to do with the lucid dreaming method i spoke to my dearest friend about? with lucid dreaming, we know this but i'ma say it again. you are already not aware of your cr. you dont need to do extra steps, you don't need to be extremely relaxed, you don't need to affirm until you fall asleep or any of that! even the method i planned to use that i said was really gonna get me this time, is still harder than simply lucid dreaming! i was worried about all these variables, when i completely forgot that the lucid dreaming method is the ultimate lazy method of all time! i could lucid dream while being sad, on my period, sick, and after moving around a lot! you wanna know how i know? take this morning for example.

today jan 5th, i woke up at 4am and stayed up till somewhere around 9. i was watching one of my comfort movies (bratz, specifically the live action), and talking and giggling with that same shifting fg on discord. i made ramen for myself and had a brief interaction with my mom. i finished the whole movie and realized how tired i was, and went back to bed. now the wbtb method is usually for 10-50 minutes, and you're not meant to use screens. i was awake for nearly 6 HOURS, and by then the wbtb method is null and i'm just awake. i didn't intend to do anything besides sleep, and i had a vivid dream at first, but then i had a false awakening and started realizing what was going on. i don't really feel like explaining the full details of my dream, but know that at some point i realize "wait... i could use this to-" and i cut myself off with a brief "nah" and decided to kill the creature in my room (it was probably gonna become a lucid nightmare).

i'd completely forgotten i naturally have vivid dreams and lucid dreams! and that singular conscious thought helped me take control of my dream. if it isn't obvious by now, i tend to overlook and underlook and it's KILLING ME. but, i'm much happier now knowing that i had a kinda sorta shifting experience while being in ZA when i'm usually extremely hot and uncomfortable in my room (i also have to share a room with my sister).

yea guys i'm pretty happy now! i feel just as motivated as i did then, but i know for a fact that none of those things i was worried about can stop me! (also i've disproved the moving while shifting and swallowing while shifting before, so i have no idea why i still thought i couldn't shift after doing that!!)

byeeee next time i post directly it will likely be my success story!

SHIFTING YAP SESH

so since today is my last day before winter break (i manifested my parents letting me stay home on friday) i'm gonna be manifesting my dream life tonight!!! the method i'm using is perfect for me despite not even being made by myself 😭 but overall i'm really confident in it, so confident that I won't be posting on tumblr until I have my success story. i've done this before in the past where i've 'found the perfect method' but i really have this time. this method isn't just some 'oh i think it's cool' or 'many people have succeeded with it so i will too' no! this method or should i say technique, is something i've been doing unknowingly and labelling as hypnagogia. if you aren't familiar with this term it's basically just the state between awake and asleep, (about to fall asleep and/or the brink of falling asleep) and I used to think that's what i was doing. i was very wrong.

i was actually doing hypnagogia's hotter sister, hypnapompia, (the state between asleep and awake, a.k.a about to wake up) without realizing. i think a better way to describe it is as your body is about to wake up. a key part of the void state or just shifting in general is that you want your body to be asleep and your mind to be awake. i only discoveeed this devastating mistake a month ago, and i always wondered why hypnagogia never worked for me while it also did. no dumbass!! hypnapompia is what worked for you!!! i used to use wbtb to shift, and on the "btb" part i never shifted then. i always shifted when i had a natural awakening, before my body could lock in and realize we were awake. in that time, i would start affirming. the few times i've managed to do this were my closest to shifting EVER. i even realized that back in aug 2023, i also had an encounter with hypnapompia and that was another one of my craziest shifting experiences (i legit started ascending i cannot make this up). but the fact that i would label it as hypnagogia (i also knew what hypnapompia was which makes it even more upsetting that it took me so long to realize) made my journey a lot more difficult.

if i could've remembered the existence of hypnapompia back in aug 2023, i promise you, i would've shifted already. i don't think the problem is that we aren't acknowledging what makes us shift, it's that we don't know what makes us shift. (stay with me now) of course the answer will always be you, but there are some variables that make it 10x easier. maybe doing affirmations is your variable, maybe visualizing is your variable, maybe one of the hot sisters hypnagogia and hypnapompia are your variables, maybe you don't need a variable at all! but it pains me so much when i read 'almost shifted' stories and they simply don't know what got them so close. and i think misplacing my trust in hypnagogia is what made my experimenting era so damn LONG.

so uhm i'm gonna be using a technique tonight that involves HYPNAPOMPIA!! and not fuckass hypnagogia cuz that never worked for me actually.

STOP SCROLLING ON TUMBLR FOR SHIFTING ADVICE. YOU ALREADY KNOW ENOUGH. GO SHIFT