Mason's shifting cafe

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There is something that bothered me for quite a long time now, and prevents me for even trying to shift. I apologize in advance for the messy ask :p

What happens to your identity when you shift ? You have been living many lives, and as you said in a previous post, you had different tastes, and maybe even different personalities. But when they eventually end, you still come back to your home reality, you still love Daeron even though you have been a different person than the one you are right now.

So, do we have some kind of « core personality », that cling to us no matter the reality we experience ?

And if not, how do you keep wanting to come back to your home reality once your life ends, since it’s not something that the « you » in the reality you’ve just left would have necessarily wanted ?

For example, let say I have a home reality that is a little cottage in the wood, and I want to come back there each time I die in any other reality. Then, I shift to become some evil bad guy or anyone whose dream is nothing but living in a cottage in the woods. When I die, why would I go the the cottage in the woods since it’s not something the evil me from that reality would have wanted ? Why would the me wanting to live in a cottage win over the other one ?

(sorry for the awful example lmao it’s the simplest i could think of)

That is something that scares me. I’m afraid to shift and become someone else entierely, and decide to experience completely different DR or do things that the « me » in this reality would not want to.

Sorry for the silly question :’)

Have a wonderful day !

Hello! Not a silly question at all, please don't apologise!

I kind of view life as one big playground. There are no rules, no ''set in stone,'' no ''This is the way it is.''

The reason some people might have a ''core personality,'' is simply, and only, because they choose one! Right now I am Mason, I am Voldemort, I am Queen Elizabeth, I'm a girl named Anna living in Norway. I'm not any more Mason than I am Anna, or Voldemort, or a rock in a river. The distinction? I choose to be Mason, not any of the other options!

I choose to have my memories always return to me the way they are now, and I choose to always stick close enough to the person I prefer to be. It does not mean that I have to be like that, but it is simply just a decision!

Just like, how when I shift, I have the intention to live a life and shift to a specific place afterwards, or to leave that life behind in a specific way. Even those small things are all details you can control!

You can be a villain who absolutely hates everything pink, only to die and wake up in your pink castle with rainbows and cotton candy clouds waiting room, simply because you decided that that's what you want to happen. No matter how much you might've hated pink in that life before that.

Now obviously you can get very complicated with this and think about free will, infinite realities, all your choices leading different versions of yourself in different directions, etc. But all you really have to remember is that if you want to stay a certain way, you can, and will! If you're open for change; that's possible! If you want to change, but stay roughly the same, you can! No limits truly means that there are no limits. No matter how weird or unlikely it might seem.

Hello!

Hello!

Yes! It's funny actually, my husband and I used to say we'd never do such a thing. But then we decided to live most of one of our lives without any memories of shifting or all our experiences, and only remember it after a while. And we were having such a good time in that reality, that we almost regretted remembering everything.

There is something so amazing about living a full life like it's your only one. To meet the person you love all over again, to have all your ''firsts.''

We've grown really fond of living lives that way, it is fun and it really makes everything feel so much more meaningful. We almost always script out our memories now if we want to live a full life somewhere!

There are many versions of it too, or different approaches. @leiablackx doesn't script out her memories, but they're always so far in the back of her mind that she usually doesn't even remember them for most of the time she's in her dr. Yet still gets to have that ''Omg I shifted,'' moment, and decide, at some point, that she wants to shift back.

I have a disability that makes me extremely fragile and vulnerable. Recently this has gotten worse, which led to a lot of injuries and therefore, exhaustion. I'm currently healing from more than 8 wounds.

I do shift to not be hurt anymore! In fact, in 90% of my drs I am healthy as a horse. But there are two reasons why that won't change anything for this reality.

First of, I could totally shift to a better cr, and I have done so many times! But me shifting there will not change anything for your perspective. You'll still have to deal with this sick version of myself, unless you shift somewhere else yourself. No matter how many times I leave this place behind, unless I'm literally not alive, there will always be a version of me who is posting here and, therefore, sick!

The second reason. I don't want to get better here. With that I mean, that I don't like this reality. It's not bad being here every couple of decades and making a few posts, or catching up with family and friends. But I have no desire to live in a version of this place where I have to live for another 60 years. I have peace with the fact that my life here will likely be a short one. And by shifting somewhere I'm healthy, so many aspects of my life would change that at that point I might as well just go to one of my drs that I actually like.

But even though I haven´t gotten to live it by firsthand and experience it fully, I´m so grateful for the effort and time you take either way as I´m sure everyone in here also is

Like I truly appreciate how, through sharing some experiences you have made me understand so many things, expand my view on what we have come to think reality and existence really is and means and get over some fears that were very heavy for me to deal with

It's okay. It really is! Shifting is something so vast and infinite, but the absolute beauty of it is that there is no time limit tied to it, no expectations, needs, or musts.

It's not something you have to believe in right now, or something you have to completely embrace in this moment. You can shift tomorrow, next week, in 10 years, in 60 years. You can shift after you die, you can shift in 5 lifetimes.

In fact, there is no ''can,'' it's more like a ''You will shift.''

Dealing with our lives here, our brains, feelings, and everything we're taught. It's not weird that these things can be really difficult to fully grasp or believe sometimes. And it really doesn't change anything. Not your capabilities, not your future, not how worthy you are.

ive gone to culinary school and run a bakery in my dr, but i genuinely dont know anything about cooking in my or so ngl im a little bit scared.

It's important to remember that when you shift, not only your body is different, but your mind/brain is too! And that can absolutely mean that you have the exact same memories, personality and/or experiences if that's what you want, but when you shift it's not like you are a stranger in that body, or someone who doesn't actually belong there.

You've been born in that place, raised in that place. If you script you went to culinary school, you have years and years of experience with cooking and baking in that reality, and those are all memories and habits that will come naturally to you. Even if you don't know anything about it here.

Just because you don't know how to do it here, doesn't change anything about all those other realities!

I've shifted many times to do things that I know nothing about here. The prime example being archery. I'm way too disabled for it in this reality, and I have shitty eyes, so it's something I really suck at. In some of my drs I could shoot an arrow through a ring that someone throws in the air.

I don't have a question or anything but I just wanted to tell you I channeled my soon to be husband (in my criminal minds dr) using tarot.

Hello!

Hello! No need to apologise. I'm an open book!

I have gotten tired of existing, but not of existence. Let me explain.

I'm sure you know the feeling of having a hard day, time, of being hit with punch after punch with barely any time to breathe. I've had many moments where life just felt so heavy and part of me wished it would just all... poof, you know?

Everyone recognises those rough days where life just feels impossible and for a moment, or sometimes longer, it just feels like not existing would be better than the cards you're dealt.

But I have never gotten tired existence as a whole. In fact, I feel like I'm far, far away from ever feeling done with it.

Also sorry for asking so many questions but this really feels like i can talk to a celebrity and im going a bit crazy w it (ーー;)

I am disabled! A tragedy, truly. I don't often really keep my actual disability. Truth be told, my body and health here are a wreck, in most cases I cannot even be touched without it causing pain.

If I fall onto the ground, I can't be picked up or helped upright. If I get an injury, I can't be carried without it bruising and hurting me all over. That's not the type of life I wish for myself even in other realities.

BUT.

I know, there it is.

I am a sucker for the ''he saved me,'' trope, and for the ''he helped me through a hard time,'' trope. And lucky me, my husband loves being there for me and feeling like that saviour. So we have had a bunch of drs where my disability from this place showed itself differently, and was more like an illness that, in some cases, could be healed. That way we could have our little trope, while still having the reassurance that I'll be fine and healthy eventually.

However, most of the time I'm completely healthy. Can't be arsed to deal with this shit in every life I live, and it's not exactly convenient to need a wheelchair when you're in medieval times. So it's only for some occassions!

So many to talk about! Recently Daeron and I shifted to a few time travelling drs. One where I travelled back into the past to a kingdom he ruled, one where he travelled from that time period to modern times and met me there. We shifted to HTTYD, to a roadtrip dr with our dragons. Kind of like a better cr? Also a second kind of better cr, but a bit different. A dr where he was a dragon shapeshifter. A very whimsical place with magic. We spent a lot of time in our waiting room with our twins and youngest son. Our youngest son, who, by the way, is likely a young deity who was put under our care by another deity to guide him into his destined life. We shifted to Ranger's Apprentice a few times. A modern royalty dr. And the list goes on and on and on.

I visit your titok page religiously everyday ,so that's my search bar automatically

(Ily sooo much thank for everything 🙏🙏🙏🙏😼)

i saw your post where you said your first shift happened through daydreaming, and then after that you started shifting more and eventually learned how to do it intentionally. i feel like i'm kind of at that stage now, so i was wondering what that process was like for you.

i feel kinda silly asking because i KNOW i can do it, i've shifted before and i've probably consumed everything i ever could ab shifting but i'm still struggling to actually make that jump into shifting consistently. so anything about that process, or anything you could share that'd be so helpful thank youu :>

Hello! Thank you, I hope the same for you!

For me that switch kind of came when I had shifted a bunch of times, but I realised that, when shifting (half) asleep, the reoccurring problem was that I scared myself back. The confusion of actually being somewhere else, led to me consistently shifting back within the first few seconds or minutes, and simultaneously I started noticing how my not-shifting-just-daydreaming method started becoming more and more about shifting, I'd focus way too much on any sign that it was happening again, which defeated the whole purpose of me shifting because I wasn't actually trying to.

That's when I decided to make a change.

At that point I already knew that I could shift, I just wasn't entirely sure how to achieve it at a moment that I decided I wanted it.

So I stuck with my original approach, shifting without necessarily forcing it. But at the same time I switched to awake shifting only, and deciding the time and place when I wanted it.

I'd do small exercises, listen to music, close my eyes for a few minutes and envision something from a dr, keep my eyes open and watch the world change around me, daydream a little, meditate, count, affirm. Anything that felt right in the moment. The whole point was to not put pressure on myself over it. I simply did what I enjoyed, when I felt like it, and kept trying to see shifting as a bonus, not the only goal.

Obviously this didn't always work, I still got frustrated, I still forced it too much sometimes, and I still got disappointed if it didn't work for some time.

But I slowly started seeing an increase in results! Sometimes only symptoms or small changes, like feeling the wind, seeing the sun, or hearing the trees. Other times I got bigger results, leading to almost or fully shifting.

Eventually I had my first proper shifts where I decided to come back myself, and that was a huge milestone! After that I got way more confident, and I also got the practice of shifting between other realities, which helped with my mindset here as well.

Then over time, naturally, shifting became easier, quicker, and it stopped being something I really worried about or tried to force. Which brings us to the present, where I'm in a blessed position where, luckily enough, I don't struggle at all with shifting!

i'm currently in a very coffee mood but my body is hurting too much to get up and make a cup for myself (chronic pain core 🤝) and suddenly it made me wonder, what is your all-time favorite type of coffee, across all realities you've been, and what do you put in it?

i prefer medium roasts with some milk, and both artificial sweetener and a little sugar. it's the perfect blend for me. ☕️

-eve [@everlynshifts]

Hello! Thank you :)

Being in a coffee mood and unable to actually make coffee is so real and relatable! I feel you.

I honestly don't think I have one favourite coffee across all realities, for one simple reason. All my lives, and therefore, preferences, are different! Which doesn't mean that at the core I'm not the same person, but in a place where I grew up in medieval times in relatively poor settings, I'm more likely to prefer something really strong, whereas in those same times where I grew up more rich, I might prefer coffee with milk!

Similarly for modern times, if I grew up with stomach issues, I am more likely to prefer something with milk and generally softer on my stomach, whereas if I did not, I also lean more towards espressos or lungos!

I think that's also the beauty of it all. Across so many different realities, I can appreciate so many different ways of drinking coffee! Sometimes I'll discover something I did not like prior to shifting to a reality, but then grow immensely fond of afterwards. How fun!