DR

its been a while since i last tried shifting seriously. i haven't been particularly active in the community so i have nothing interesting to note, except for some changes that i have noticed in myself since i stopped trying consistently that i will get into in a moment.

i think the last journal entry that i did i talked a bit about the lucid dreaming method and how it was the closest any method had gotten me to shifting. i also mentioned why i felt like it worked so well for me, and both of the things i talked about still stand true.

however, since i stopped consistently trying to shift, i really fell out of practice in taking control of my lucid dreams and i noticed i fell back to the same spot where i started: i have very vivid dreams and when i am in the dream, in front of my mind i can tell and rationalize that i am indeed in a dream, and what i am seeing is not real, but i can never fully "wake up" and take control of the dream to do what i want.

when i was regularly practicing my methods i managed to gain enough consciousness in my dreams that i could try and look for a portal or any sort of gateway into shifting. i managed this more than once, each time under different circumstances obviously, at different times in the dream and if i found anything i always did in different ways. if anyone is interested in me expanding on what each of these times was like i can make a separate post about it.

i think my main goal for now is to get back to where i left off, starting first by being able to manage to take any sort of control over my dreams, though im afraid it might be difficult because i had no particular steps or anything to do in my dreams to get to that point. i also don't want to leave out the chance of trying different methods. i know the lucid dream method works for me because im already predisposed to heavy dreams and semi-lucidity, but i don't want to turn down the idea that there may be something else that could work better.

however, i wanted to see if anyone had any suggestions for what to add to my new script considering the following: im shifting to somewhere generally dirty (as in baths and showers won't be an accessible every day thing for myself and most people surrounding me), where i will be prone to injuries.

i already have the following ideas in mind, but i want to make sure i don't miss anything that might be convenient:

my and the people surrounding me's body odor is not immediately noticeable and is tolerable but definitely noticeable

i am safe from any long lasting trauma

moderate-high pain tolerance, but i can still feel pain

Hi anon! This is probably one of the nicest asks ive received in any of my blogs in a long time! It makes me very happy that even though i haven't gotten around to updating it people still find it useful! It really made my day, so thank you very much!

I have been quiet on here, I know. I don't want this to sound like every other excuse but the simple truth is that there’s been a lot  going on in my life that's left me feeling very burnt out.

So when my body says its time for bed, it's time for bed, and because I prefer night/sleeping methods (since those have worked best for me), i've been prioritizing sleep and haven't been trying to shift at all, which is why there haven't been any updates.

Things are starting to get a bit better for me now, so i’ve been trying to get back into the rhythm i had before and i plan on redoing some script stuff (or just starting it all over) as well as trying some new methods.

I’ve been meaning to get back into making this blog a little more active but semester just started up again and I haven’t been able to put much time aside for this, but I’m procrastinating right now and i’ve been dying to talk about this so I’ll get straight to it.

I haven’t shifted yet, but I’ve made a lot (a lot a lot) of progress. I’ve been trying out some new methods I hadn’t tried before, including lucid dreaming methods (I will be making a new rating the methods post as soon as I get some free time) which have been great and shown a lot of results.

I’ve always had very vivid dreams almost every day, and kind-of-lucid-dreams (i like to call them semi-lucid dreams because I’m aware of the fact they’re dreams, but I don’t really manage to take control them), so I thought it would be a bit easier for me. 

I started trying a few weeks (maybe a month?) ago and after a few days of trying, I decided to take a small break a certain day because I was very tired, so I just went to sleep while saying some affirmations. Immediately I started having a weird dream; I won't go into details about the dream because it’s not important, but at some point in the dream, someone was leading me to a long corridor.

I could see a few meters into the corridor and there was a sort of veil that basically blocked off view from the rest of the corridor. I took a few steps into it, I reached the veil, stopped for a second as I stepped into it (I was kind of nervous, I’m not a big fan of the dark and it was pitch fucking black in there) and continued walking. After about three steps, I had stepped out of the veil and I could see down the rest of the corridor, it kept going and going.

I felt a sudden calm and then something in my head clicked that made me realize that if I kept walking down the corridor, it was going to take me to my DR. I don’t know how to explain how I knew that, I just knew.

I went back from where I came and asked the person that had led me there about it and they said yes. At this point I had realized it was a dream and was able to take control of it and thought to myself “this is a portal to my desired reality” and made the conscious decision to walk through it.

I started walking further and further into it without looking back and then everything started morphing into where I had scripted I was going to “wake up” in my DR. There were still some weird elements around that didn't belong there but they were sort of phasing in and out and didn’t seem completely solid (?). Unfortunately, I started getting very nervous, because even though I knew I was shifting, and I was asleep, and lucid dreaming, I started feeling my actual body in my OR – as in literally me laying in my bed. And I really think that that feeling of nervousness really messed me up because after that everything just slipped and fell away and I just fell back into a normal dream (it was DR related but not lucid or anything).

So I didn’t shift that time but the experience just really made me super happy and excited about how close I was and really motivated me, especially since I was going through a little bit of a slump. And since then I have really made a lot of progress in terms of just being able to grab hold of my dreams a lot more easily.

So since then, I’ve tried to mostly stick to shifting via lucid dreams and have had two instances where I managed to grab hold of my dreams, the first one after that made me a bit frustrated with myself because it started out very promising. I was taking a nap after a class and in the dream I was laying in my bed in my uni dorm and I felt someone grab my ass. It was my friend and after laughing about it, I got up, went to the bathroom and did a reality check. I realized it was a dream but for some reason, I just thought to myself “I don’t really have anything I want to do right now and I’m not anywhere interesting so I’ll just wake up” and it didn’t even dawn on me that I could’ve tried to open a portal until a few hours later.

It was a very unfortunate realization but it’s okay, I made my peace with it and laughed it off. And lastly, my latest happed two nights ago; I was having a weird dream as usual and at a certain point, I accidentally made a reality check and realized I was in a dream.

After this, the person I was with and I went our separate ways and I found a little isolated spot and started trying to open a portal. Key word “trying”, because I wasn’t sure how; the last time the portal had just sort of been there in the form of a corridor, so I just started thinking about it. 

I got as far as to accidentally summoning Beelzebub from Obey Me (don’t ask) before I completely lost track, lost my grip on my dream and completely forgot about opening a portal to my DR and fell back into a normal dream.

Tagged by @shifty-bandit, thank you!

I know there are a couple of different symptoms, but they all vary. Some people can feel many different symptoms at different times, while some people don’t feel any at all.

Some of the most common symptoms I’ve heard of are:

Tingling and/or numbness in your extremities

Feeling like you’re floating

Headaches throughout the day

Having very vivid/lucid dreams

Ears ringing

Feeling pins and needles in your body and face

Seeing angel numbers

Feeling the strong urge to move while trying to shift

Missing people from your DR or feeling very detached from your OR, as well as being homesick from your OR even though you haven’t left it.

Seeing things from your DR reflecting in some way in your OR

I haven’t had much time to write down a fully fledged update but I thought I might give a quick update on what’s been going on.

I haven’t shifted yet, I’ve had some really good days as well as a really bad slump when I stopped feeling symptoms, but I’ll focus on the good stuff for now.

I started recognizing some symptoms and differentiating some stuff that were just unrelated; I tried some new methods and found that the Estelle method worked really well with me and it is with this one that I feel that I’ve gotten closest to shifting.

There were a few times when I was too tired to try to shift but coincidentally had shifting-related dreams and/or semi lucid dreams, most of the time its a mix of them where shifting is mentioned or things that I’ve scripted have happened in the dream but Not Quite and still have that Dream Like weirdness and quality that dreams have where something is just Off. Something that also stood out about these dreams was the fact that during them, I could almost Feel the things I was touching. When I have vivid dreams like these I can usually imagine what the things Im touching feel like, and even though I didn’t manage to actually physically feel them, it felt almost like a ghoting touch, if that makes sense.

A downside to these dreams is that since I never manage to gain full control over them, sometimes they drift into very weird and vivid nightmares that leave me feeling really freaked out and very emotionally drained after a particularly bad one.

The closest time I feel like Ive gotten to shifting was actually relatively recently. A few weeks ago I was doing the Estelle method, like I mentioned earlier, and started hearing things related to my DR, started feeling very detached from my OR to the point where I actually stopped feeling like I was in it anymore and felt like I could almost see someone from my DR. I still didn’t feel like I had fully shifted into my DR, but what hit me the most was definitely was the fact that even though I couldn’t feel any new surroundings, I also couldn’t feel any of my original ones. I’ve managed to detach before but never as effectively.

As a tiny side note for my script, though I feel like it’s great as it is already, I’ve been wanting to edit and tweak it because I realised some stuff is a bit off, and though I know it’ll work itself out as long as I don’t worry about it too much, I still think I should, I just haven’t had the energy.

I think a good place to start would be scripting that you cant get STIs, STDs or UTIs, you know, just in case.

As well as some other preventive stuff like: you won’t get interrupted, walked in on or that you just won't get caught in general (unless you’re into that or you want it to feel a bit more natural with the thrill of it of course).

That you can’t get/get anyone pregnant.

Something interesting that I’ve seen people script is that there’s background music during.

After that would go just pretty much anything you want; kinks, what you’re good at, what you like, what you don’t, that whoever you are trying to rail is good at it, all that good stuff, but most of it just comes down to personal preferences. What I think is most important is scripting out anything that you think might be an inconvenience or that you might not like or enjoy.

I had a terrible weekend shifting wise, especially yesterday was really bad for me, I had some emotional trouble regarding things that I can’t really control and every time I tried to shift my mind would drift back to that; I kept trying to stay positive and forget about the negativity because I’ve felt like the entirety of last week had been leading up to simply getting closer and closer to my goal but it just really put a damper on my spirit, so I just gave up and went to sleep while saying affirmations. I talked about it with some friends and I feel a lot better about that now, but I’m really disappointed that something dumb like that really kept me from being able to concentrate. I hate to make excuses, but it’s just the way I feel.

I feel like i’ve been close to shifting these past two days (like really close), especially the day before yesterday. I think that if I’d been persistent and resisted scratching my side (it was too much I was dying) maybe I would’ve been able to do it.

Unfortunately last night was a bit of a mess and didn’t go as well as it had before; I tried some new methods involving songs, but youtube ads had this really funny idea of wanting to completely take me out of the experience and then Spotify also did me dirty by automatically playing more songs than I had queued (and no, the queue wasn’t looped, so it wasn't that either). The setbacks made me feel super frustrated, which obviously didn’t help, so I decided to keep giving those methods a try some other day and went back to using the raven and sunni method combination, which (as I mentioned in a previous post) has so far worked the best for me and shown me the most progress. 

Now, there’s two aspects of this that I want to explore, firstly it’s why I think I’m getting close, what have I noticed that changed? What’s different? What am I doing right? And the second one is why I feel like I haven't shifted yet, what am I missing? What am I doing wrong?

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As for what I’m doing right, I feel like the Raven/Sunni method combination is working the best and most efficiently, and think I should stick to that one until I manage to learn how to shift with ease before trying something else and risking setting back or stalling my progress the way I did last night.

Now, there are a couple of reasons why I think I’m getting close: the symptoms have been coming way easier and more persistently than they did the first few days. The first few days that I started trying to shift I only seemed to get to a point of meditation and stopped there, which is great, it helped me concentrate and focus on visualizing, so that felt like a good first step, but recently, I’ve gotten past that and actually felt a bit different.

I’m going to talk a little bit about the symptoms that I’ve felt in more detail, mostly because I feel like most people who talk about them just say “dizziness, feeling like you’re floating” which, yes, that is what it feels like but personally for me, sometimes its hard to just base everything off of one word, because to me, there are different kinds of “dizzy”, for example.

Now, because I know these symptoms aren’t necessarily something that everyone experiences, but they seem to be the most common and generally accepted ones, as well as the ones that I have personally experienced so far and I will list them. They are in no particular order, since they all happen but don’t seem to have particular pattern in which I experience them.

Floating

This one is a bit confusing for me, not in the literal sense of the word, but it sort of overlaps with Detachment. The closest thing I can compare it to is when you’re swimming and you just completely relax your arm in the surface of the water and it’s, well floating.

I like to think of it as air fairies holding my arm up so it doesn’t fall through the mattress, I sort of stop feeling the sheets of my bed and the cold air of my AC, it’s this sort of just neutral feeling. In general, it’s just very relaxing. However it is with this symptom that I personally have the most trouble dealing with because as I start feeling it, at first its just calm and comforting, but after a few minutes, I start to get itchy spots (mostly in my legs and torso, which are the worst for me personally) and I have to concentrate really hard not to scratch them or think about them.

Dizziness

I felt dizzy, but it was a strange sort of dizzy. I’m anemic so, I’m pretty familiar with bed-dizziness, and for a second, I thought it was just that, but, it felt different. Instead of it being like everything around me was moving, it felt like I was the one moving. My back was still to the bed but it felt as if I was standing and the mattress was behind me. And yes, the world around me does move a little bit, though its not painfully disorienting, it just feels sort of like when you get off of a trampoline, or done a lot of exercise a lot and your legs make the ground feel wobbly, but in my head.

Detachment

I don’t know if this is what people call but the best way I can describe it is feeling detached from my body, something similar to disassociating (if you know what that feels like). To me, it feels the way a 3D movie without glasses looks, off kilter, like my body is the red and I am the blue. When I say I, I mean my brain, my soul, my essence, whatever you’d like to call it, but thats what it feels like. They’re not quite separated from one another yet, like in a 3D movie, they’re still touching, but they’re definitely out of phase.

The most noticeable parts for me are the arms, sometimes they feel a bit shorter for my actual, physical arms (which makes sense, since I did script that I start at a younger age in my DR) and they want to move forwards and reach for what I’m visualizing in front of me. The only thing that has stopped me from actually doing this (re: reaching out) is that a lot of different elements are still the same (i can still feel my sheets, i can still hear my AC running, etc.) and I don’t want to break concentration until I’m sure 100% I’ve shifted.

Other Symptoms

Some other symptoms that I’ve been feeling (but honestly I don’t think too much of them for a couple of reasons) are seeing Angel Numbers and Migraines /Headaches. Now why am I talking about these separately? Because they don’t particularly mean anything to me, but they are listed as some of the most common symptoms you experience during the day when you’re close to shifting (but not necessarily attempting).

Migranes/Headaches are something I experience quite often, it’s just something that runs in my family and my caffeine addiction doesn't help at all, so even though I had one throughout the entire day yesterday (the day after I have felt the closest ever to shifting), I don’t want to get my hopes up about it, since it’s not an uncommon thing to happen to me, however, it is still worth noting (if this is something you experience though, and it doesn’t happen to you often, then I’d probably take it as a sign that you’re close! Hooray!)

And as for Angel Numbers, they’re something that I’ve been seeing a lot of in these past two-three days (of course, when I say “a lot” I mean once a day or so.) I don’t count the Angel Numbers I see on my fyp on Tik Tok for example, because it makes sense to me that I’d see them on posts regarding Shifting Realities because those feel a bit like cheating, of course I’d see them under that particular topic. Though not gonna lie, I’m a little bit of a skeptic when it comes to Angel Numbers (I know i shouldn’t be but i just can’t help it), but it doesn't take away the fact that I HAVE been seeing them

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Now that I have the positives down and the changes I’ve felt identified, I want to focus on why I think I haven’t shifted yet. Other than the fact that yesterday all the shifting setbacks really threw me off from the progress I thought I had made, it made me feel really frustrated and I feel like that negative thinking and feeling carried on with me until I fell asleep, which is never good, so I need to stay positive, and I think I will, now that I’ve mulled it over, so that should be good.

I’ve also had a really busy week so I’ve been super distracted in general and haven't been able to prepare as well as I would’ve liked for the Sunni method, but I’m going to try to get some preparation in before I go to bed, and since I can sleep in tomorrow, I won't feel as much pressure. I hope that’ll give me the last little push that I need to shift.

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I thought I would make a small post talking about some of the shifting methods that I have tried and what I thought about them. I won't go into detail about how each of these work, but if you’d like me to explain each of them, please let me know and I will make a separate post talking about it.

It is important to remember that these are all obviously my personal opinions on them and they’re all based on personal experiences, just because they didn’t work for me, does not mean they can’t work for you!

Train method:

Visualizing myself in a train was very simple and super relaxing, I didn’t feel distracted by having to visualize the train at all and it made it super easy to visualize what I was actually planning on visualizing in the first place. 

Visualizing one thing and then another felt super smooth and easy, my only trouble with this method is that I’m not too sure I’ve gotten the hang of it yet and it would be really hard for me to tell if I’ve shifted or not.

Elevator method:

Honestly, my least favorite method so far, I had a really hard time concentrating and trying to visualize my DR. Part of the reason why I had such a hard time visualizing my DR was because visualizing myself in an elevator (the doors opening and closing, traveling from one floor to another) was way too distracting and really took me away from the moment and what I was actually meant to be visualizing.

It felt too stiff, and I feel like all of these harsh cuts between each floor it would make it very difficult for me to tell wether I have shifted or not. It wasn’t for me at all.

Alice in Wonderland method:

I haven’t seen many people talking about this one, which seems weird to me because it honestly was much easier and natural for me to visualize than the other two. 

I didn’t have to pay too much attention to visualize my surroundings, my only focus on the character ahead, so it wasn’t half as distracting as the Elevator method, which made it a lot more relaxing and once I started falling it was just very straightforward and I feel like at this point it would be much easier to realize wether you have shifted or not, unlike in the Train and Elevator methods, where I feel like I’d have a harder time telling if I have shifted or not.

Sunni method:

Hate to sound basic but the Sunni method has so far worked the best for me, it’s very simple and to the point. It’s so easy to prepare for and I feel like it’s much more flexible when it comes to what scenes you can visualize and still make the transition feel smooth and natural, and it would make it so much easier to tell wether you’ve shifted or not.

It is worth mentioning that when it comes to all of these, I don’t just lay down and get straight to visualizing, I usually do a combination of them with the Raven method, where before you start visualizing, you count down from 100 to 0 while making affirmations. I did this in hopes of making the transition a little bit easier, and for me personally, it did, so it is something I do recommend you try if you feel like closing your eyes and just visualizing makes you feel a bit stiff.

I will document my experiences, everything from my process and methods, to an actual journal of my experiences in my Desired Reality(ies).

Though I’m making this side-blog mostly for myself, if anyone is interested in following me in my experience, you are more than welcome, it is also one of my goals to be able to help anyone who is curious and thinking about shifting as much as I can!