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because if you spend ages trying to shift, you deserve to be y/n when you're there

˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥　 crowd surfing at a concert and the band/artist posts a picture of you in the crowd

˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥　 jumping off a cliff into water on vacation and everyone who was hesitating jumps after you

˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥　 you're a regular at a small restaurant/café and you always tweak a meal slightly before ordering. The owner ends up adding the meal on the menu named after you!!

˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥　getting mistaken as a celebrity while you're in another country and people ask to take pictures with you

˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥　 a street painter asking to do a portrait of you for free because they love your looks

˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥　dancing with a street musician to his music

˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥　being known for always wearing a certain thing, or having your hair in a certain way

˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥　going to a national park in a tropical country and baby monkeys climb onto you (bonus points if a worker takes a picture of you and you end up on the homepage)

˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥　at the beach, kids ask you if you're a mermaid hiding in your human form

I miss my DR friends so baddd oh my god they're literally my siblings even though we aren't related 😓💔💔 I miss my bros my pals my comrades my my my buddies myyy lads I MISS MY FRIENDSSSUH

i also don't believe most shifters in shifting tumblr cause why would you choose you stay in this reality when you just can't? espeically those who post about the wars or genocides and other fucked up things happening in this world? can't you shift to A CR where it doesn't?? i don't want to come off as an anti but a lot of stuff that shifting blogs is self contradicting and sounds fake af.

or maybe the solution to this is that i will only see or intrepret things from my point of view, that is its impossible to prove shifting by pure logic or science because this reality is in my control and if my subconscious does not believe in shifting, it will show up like shifting is fake. like if you shift to a future reality and shift back, and tell us some information you can only know if you have indeed shifted to the future then i will not get that information because you will not shift back to this CR but rather a parallel one??

i am lowkey crashing out btw cause i really need shifting to be real.

Hello!

I first want to start this off by saying that I don't appreciate your attitude. Don't take this as an attack, your feelings and worries are valid, and I absolutely welcome you to voice them. But your approach is to pretty much call every shifter on here a liar, simply because they choose to go to a reality like this.

You cannot expect help and kindness when you approach someone with a ton of accusations, rather than calmly voicing your worries. We are real people that put our time and effort into trying to help you guys understand our views on shifting. I completely understand your frustrations, but next time I hope you can be a bit more civil about them.

Let me give you an example. Say, you are born on a boat, on a sea that that can be very wild and unpredictable. Growing up you're terrified, you hate it there. You might be used to the sea, but you don't like being on there. You dream of being on the land, and exploring things you can't ever do on that boat. Then one day you solidify that desire. You step off the boat, go to a different country, or multiple, and stay there for a year, or five years, or twenty. But your parents, maybe even some siblings, friends, or pets, they're still on that boat. And maybe after 15 years you like to visit them. You still don't prefer it, it's not your favourite, and you'd never settle there. But spending 2 days on the water, knowing you can leave at any time, really isn't as bad as feeling like you're stuck there like you did in the past.

I don't think I know any shifters that prefer this place, or even love it. But once you start shifting to dozens of other realities, this becomes just one of them. Personally my husband and I sometimes go to other realities for hundreds, even thousands of years, and I'm never in this place for more than a day or so at once. We're not stuck here, we're free to stay and go as we please, and that makes it way, way less bad to experience.

You act like I have never shifted to places where there is no war, places where I'm not sick, or live a better life. My husband and I have been to better crs dozens of times. We have lived so, so many fulfilling lives, in so many places. I'm sure thousands of versions of me already decided to never come back here. But the truth is that the version of me that you experience in this reality, will always keep shifting, and inevitably, just like some versions leave forever, others will come back eventually.

I have friends here, people that are very dear to me, and some people that I don't often see in any other realities. It's nice to know that when I leave this concept behind forever, it's because I finished my life in a way that feels satisfying to me.

Other shifters will also always have their reasons for coming back here. That does not, and will not mean that all of them are lying.

Your own frustration and struggle does not make everyone else's story a lie, and living with a mindset like that will genuinely make you doubt everything that anyone will ever tell you.

my very first shift to my mha dr ⋆.˚༄

hi everyone! so as some of you may already know, i have successfully shifted to my MHA DR! this was super recent and i only stayed for a day, but i wanted to share my very first experience with you all! to keep track of my own shifts, and hopefully motivate you too!

(do note: i won’t be sharing every single detail bc my DR involves other people and i respect their privacy. also, long post ahead lol.) ⊹₊ ˚‧︵‿₊୨୧₊‿︵‧ ˚ ₊⊹

background info ── ⟢ ・⸝⸝

i am starting UA about a month later than the rest of 1-A. reason? because i love the sports festival, it’s one of my favourite arcs and quite frankly, i don’t want to wait. so yes, this means i completely missed the whole USJ arc, which i’m okay with.

however, i still took the entrance exam at the same time as everyone else. i just scripted that i got admitted later due to administrative reasons and didn’t elaborate in full detail.

in my DR, UA is a boarding school, so everyone already lives in the dorms.

my hometown, where my older sister and i live, is a few hours away from musutafu. i got my admittance letter on friday, and she drove me to UA on sunday evening.

aizawa fetched me from the school gates and brought me in. he briefly explained some school administrative things, then left me to unpack on my own. i also scripted that before leaving, he told me i could arrive to class slightly later than everyone else since i reached UA so late (lol shifter privileges).

i scripted that i will wake up in my dorm on monday morning for my first day of school. the sports festival happens that same weekend.

waking up ── ⟢ ・⸝⸝

honestly, i didn’t even notice at first. i heard my alarm and woke up around 7:45am. i was really tired and groggy since i’d slept late the night before, busy unpacking my essentials. i only realised i had shifted when i stepped into my toilet and looked in the mirror.

i gasped super loud, and my heart started racing. i don’t know if you guys have experienced this before, but you know that déjà vu feeling? like when you randomly feel like you’re in a dream and everything feels unreal? i remember feeling exactly that. for a second i wondered if i was dreaming, but i quickly snapped out of it because it felt too real. i just knew i had shifted.

i didn’t cry or freak out (in my DR at least). i just felt so happy, pacing around and chanting in my head like, “i shifted, i shifted, omg i shifted.” and i finally understood what other shifters meant when they said how natural it feels. i had all my memories from the night before, and they didn’t feel distant or foggy at all. it was exactly like recalling what you did yesterday.

and yes, my DR looks exactly like the anime but in 3D. i didn’t even notice it was different from my CR at first because i had lived there my whole life as my DR self, so it just looked normal. one thing that stood out though: we had lips. before shifting i always wondered: how to kiss if no lip? but yeah, question answered. they’re not the same as in this reality obviously, more like a pale outline.

i paced around like that for a solid 10 minutes before remembering i had to get ready for school. that whole process felt like a blur, i was on autopilot, still reeling from the shock. one thing i noticed while getting ready was how not anxious i felt. in this reality, i’m an overthinker with insane first-day jitters, but in my DR, i felt totally calm. which makes sense since i had scripted confidence and no anxiety. honestly, it felt surreal to move through my morning with that kind of ease. can’t believe people in this reality just live like that all the time.

in school ── ⟢ ・⸝⸝

after getting ready i walked to school. it’s supposed to be a 5 minute walk, but i lowkey got lost a little so it took me about 10 minutes. also because i was busy enjoying the scenery and watching all my fellow students streaming into school. the school is so pretty. it felt so surreal and yet so normal at the same time, such a strange feeling.

i’m assuming aizawa already told the class about my arrival because they didn’t seem surprised at all to see me. they were more excited and intrigued, like when a new student joins a class (because that’s exactly what happened lol). aizawa let me introduce myself, literally just my name, because everyone immediately started asking me questions about my quirk (so cute honestly). aizawa was having NONE of it, so he told them to pipe down and ask later since first period was about to start. love him btw, and he smells faintly of cigarettes in my DR.

after that, he pulled me aside to give me my laptop and quickly go over some administrative stuff like school fees and whatnot. i honestly can’t really remember much because he said to come by his office the next day to discuss fully, and i haven’t shifted back yet to have that convo. oh yes, he also gave me my school-assigned laptop (i scripted everything to be online because i’m not dealing with physical textbooks in this digital era).

then i went to my seat, which i didn’t script, but i’m sitting next to todoroki. i did script, however, that we’d be seated in pairs.

i didn’t really get to talk to or interact with every single person on my first day. if you want me to talk about someone specific just comment, but please don’t expect me to know ashido’s mother’s cousin’s dog’s name. also, i feel super weird calling them by their first names since i’m not close to them yet, so i’ll be using last names for now.

so for todoroki, he is the most nonchalant person in the world. he did not give a flying fuck about me. i kept looking at him, trying to make eye contact so i could properly introduce myself since i wasn’t supposed to know his name, but he never looked my way. if he did notice my constant glances, then he hid it really well. so okay, message received, i let him have his emo moment and left him alone.

now bakugou, i sit right in front of him, and i was genuinely tweaking out in my seat because for some reason i was scared he’d spit in the back of my neck or something FML. he’s like a ticking time bomb. i was so wary of saying the wrong thing and setting him off. weird thing is, i wasn’t anxious or scared like i’d be if he existed in this reality, just…wary and cautious. it's so interesting how i reacted similarly to how i would in this reality, but the responses feel different because i'm aware of a completely different body. it's like the electricity is the same, but the output changed.

honestly, school was freakishly normal, at least the academic part. math, science, regular lessons. being seated next to todoroki and in front of bakugou gave me this surge of competitiveness. i knew they were good, and i felt the need to prove myself too. normally i’m not this competitive, but in my DR? i wanted to be better than everyone (in a healthy, non-toxic way lol), and i knew i could do it. i was so sure of myself, and i wanted to show them my capability both academically and hero-wise.

ashido is so so so sweet. during break, she was the first to introduce herself, then kaminari, then asui and uraraka. she really is the definition of an extrovert adopting an introvert.

in my DR, the class isn’t really split into “deku squad” or “baku squad” (at least i don’t think so, i didn’t notice and didn’t script that), so everyone just kind of mingled. at lunch we all sat at one long table. i was at the far corner, next to ashido, with kaminari in front of me and kirishima beside him. everyone finally got to introduce themselves and tell me their quirks. it was adorable

this was the first moment i started to feel really emotional. when i woke up in my dorm i didn’t feel the tears much, but sitting there talking to them? ugh, if i’d been alone i probably would’ve bawled my eyes out.

btw, lunch rush’s cafeteria crowds are INSANE. the line took me like 30 minutes. but the food? SO GOOD.

hero training ── ⟢ ・⸝⸝

we get 10 minutes after our hour lunch to change into our hero costumes because the second half of the day is dedicated to hero lessons and training.

my hero costume was exactly the way i had scripted it. thank god i scripted it to be comfortable because it did not look comfortable at all. but after putting it on and training in it, i’m definitely going to be modifying it when i shift back. the initial design i chose has this flowing cape thing at my waist all the way to my ankles, and it is SO ANNOYING. i keep stepping on it and nearly tripping, so i’m definitely getting rid of it. really excited to meet mei and discuss costume alterations with her!

hero lessons were SO FUN. honestly they just felt like PE lessons but with quirks. the lessons are split into 3 blocks/periods, but sometimes they combine them for a longer session.

i’m not going to go too into detail, but we did a rescue simulation with mannequins at USJ. the mannequins have sensitivity sensors, so if something hits them, they let out this loud “beep” sound. our goal was to save them from different terrains without them getting hit (replicating real injuries). every time the impact crossed a certain threshold, we got points deducted. this was a team exercise, so it was really fun. i was with ashido, shoji, and iida. all 3 are absolute sweethearts, especially shoji, he’s so soft-spoken and SO kind. iida is so nice but lowkey annoyed me a little because he was kind of bossy, but valid, still love him loads.

later we split up to do general cardio/quirk training individually, and it made me realize the team ones are so much more fun. i honestly don’t know what else to talk about that’s significant, so please comment if you want me to share something specific!

we were sweaty as hell after training and it was so uncomfortable. we ended at 4:30pm and got about 30 minutes to cool down, change, or shower before our debrief with aizawa. we’re supposed to end at 5, but usually (according to the class) it’s like 15 minutes later because everyone takes forever cooling down. i took a quick shower because i was sweating way too much, it was so overstimulating. insane thing is, i didn’t even feel tired, just sweaty. makes sense though, since i scripted myself to be super fit with high stamina.

also, i didn’t explain much about my quirk because i’m honestly afraid of being judged for being basic. i remember a period of time on tiktok where mha shifters kept saying, “why would you copy powers from existing media instead of creating your own, isn’t that boring?” so i’m really scared of getting judged LMAO. maybe eventually i’ll talk about my quirk, if you guys are interested in finding out more.

but generally speaking, i felt really powerful. i just felt so armed. like, in this reality i feel so vulnerable as a woman because a man could easily hurt me, but in my DR i felt unstoppable. like i could hurt you so easily if you tried anything with me (hypothetically speaking). i felt so protected by myself. also, using your quirk feels very natural, it’s like muscle memory. i love love love it.

back in the dorms ── ⟢ ・⸝⸝

when we got back to the dorms, i showered fully, changed, and then took the time to talk a bit with the others i didn’t really get to before.

we all had dinner together in the dorms. i learned that they either cook and all eat together or get delivery. sometimes they go out to eat, but rarely, because they need permission and have to be back before curfew, and everyone’s just too lazy. plus, by the time we finish school, it’s peak dinner crowd at malls, and queues for restaurants get insane unless there’s a reservation.

yaoyorozu mentioned that after the whole USJ incident, everyone’s honestly afraid of going off on their own. the mood kind of dampened after she said that, i could tell they were all trying hard to avoid bringing it up. but then one of the guys changed the topic and everything went back to normal. that moment made me realize again how real my DR is, and how every single one of these people are real with their own emotions. i obviously knew this before, but it really hit me harder then. the USJ incident was so glorified in the media and yes, the class got so much attention and popularity, but it was at the expense of their mental health. the anime never really focused on how traumatic it was for them, but i got to see firsthand how much it impacted them, and it made me so sad. (i don’t want to go too into it since this post is long enough) but let this be a warning for anyone who keeps in the war arc or other encounters with the LOV. be careful, it can and will affect your mental wellbeing.

after hanging out for a while, everyone slowly retreated to their rooms one by one once the exhaustion from training hit. i went back to my room at around 11:30pm. (btw, in my DR everyone has to be back in the dorms by 10pm at the latest, but what time we actually go to sleep doesn’t matter.)

then i went to sleep, intending to shift back to my CR. i didn’t want my first shift to be too long. i wanted to take some time to process everything before the sports festival arc.

after i shifted back ── ⟢ ・⸝⸝

cried.

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thank you guys so much for reading all the way if you have. please comment down any questions you have. i know this was so long and i am so so sorry for that oh my god. i’m also so sorry if this post was everywhere, i really was just writing based on my stream of thoughts.

i just realised there hasn't really been alot of storytimes like these lately, and these type of posts are always my favourite to read in the community. i feel like i'm leaving out so many things but its honestly difficult trying to remember and write down every single detail AAA. till next time <3

so, there are not enough people posting shifting stories imo, like the advice is nice BUT, the shifting stories are more fun and alot of the advice is just repeated. ANYWAYS, enough yap heres the stories.

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(All photos from Pinterest none of it is mine.)

So, this happened last night I haven't shifted in a few days and decided to spend time in the waiting room with Ventus and Liu, we were suggesting things to do tonight such as making videos maybe a stream or revisiting some realties we shifted too in the past. I opened up the lifa app and after finding a few realties I stumbled upon an Animal Crossing waiting room, I remember hearing about it when I first got into shifting (Back when I used Instagram more than Tumblr.) I never truly understood what sort of reality it was, so we decided to check it out. When we first entered the waiting room we entered into an empty house there wasn't much in there. A kitchen, bathroom and a few bedrooms with basic beds for sleeping and the classic phone from wild world/city folk.

Seeing nothing much from the house itself we figured we'd decorate it later. So, we head into the main village and notice everything is in the wild world/city folk art style this is mostly because the owner of the waiting room isn't a fan of New Horizons, they're a bigger fan of the previous games with City Folk being their personal favorite. We learned that the waiting room is like a crossroad for people to go from DR to DR like a rest stop where people can hang around a cute waiting room and later go to their DR or another reality using the train kind of like how people visit other towns on the official game. The town layout was based on New Leaf though Mainstreet and Island Included.

So basically, we spent the day just hanging around the waiting room, we talked to the villagers (The ones we met were Tammy, Kitty, Rover was visiting and a few others I can't remember. Obviously, Isabelle, Blathers, Brewster, and all the other mascot characters to shop and make the space a home.) One of our first stops were the roost in the museum the drinks were as good as you expected. They were warm and flavorful and just felt cozy I love the newer games roost, but the early games are pretty nostalgic in terms of its design.

So, we discover that KK Slider was preforming that night (This was Friday by the way he performs in the Roost on Fridays and Club KK on Sundays every other night is him as DJ KK since he can't be in two places at once. We later join the performance and had so much fun listing to his set and hearing his songs live I like his acoustic songs better than his album versions. After the show the three of us enjoyed the night air at a nearby park. Before we ran into Kitty who was going to the city for some karaoke at midnight no less (Everyone is a party animal I guess.)

But we decided to join in any way it was super fun the city was much bigger compared to the games there were movie theaters, restaurant, and of course clubs similar to Club LOL. Karaoke was so much fun we had the time of our lives singing KK songs (Both normal and club remixes.) Songs that existed in this reality, but ya know in animalese which was super funny.

After karaoke we went to a small restaurant to grab some dinner before we went back to the house which we did decorate to look homier it was a nice place after the makeover. At dawn we went to a convenance store reality for some breakfast and went back to my waiting room to sleep more (We were up super late last night.) But yeah, I ended up shifting back to the reality at around 6:00 AM. It was such a fun night I love my partners so so much this was one of my favorite shifts and I'll look back on this day fondly.

last night i watched toy story and toy story 2 in preparation for the new film. made a tea and thought “i bet it’d be cool to be a cowgirl doll”

shifted to fucking toy story

toy. story.

basically your Dr is the alpha, you cr is the omega therefore when you go shifting (specifically sleep) your Dr will dominate your cr naturally because it's the alpha, and your cr can't dominate it And appear to you because it's the omega, and you affirm in that way

I thought of it as this crack method bc it seemed funny

I try it for the first time yesterday then proceed to dream about shifting twice (in the same dream) and I find that SO funny

Bring back whimsy and crack methods even if they don't get you progress they're funny asf to do

When I get my hands on you…

just let it happen‧₊˚♪𝄞࿐₊˚⊹

as someone who has shifted more times than i can count: when i think of shifting, i don't think of a feeling like fireworks going off. i don't hear a snap, i don't see flashing lights, and i don't feel a rush. a lot of people expect a rollercoaster ride into their dr, but i've never experienced that. my lucid dream methods have given me that feeling while within the dream, sure, but the actual shift itself has never felt like that. to me it feels like laying in bed listening to music, and suddenly my old favorite song fades in and my brain still, almost like it's automatic, remembers all the words. it's surrendering to the moment.

this is the best and most important advice i could give. lay down and get comfortable. think as your dr self. what would be on their mind? what would their plans be? how would they think about themself? this itself is a method. you're not waiting for a sudden change in scenery, but rather shifting your awareness directly to your dr self (which of course it's all you, but just for clarity's sake, i'm going to use the terms cr or dr self). don't try to forcefully shove away all of your cr self's thoughts, just let them pass like clouds. don't try to micromanage every thought you think your dr self would have, just let it happen. you'll feel what your dr self feels. it should all be very natural.

and that's the thing. you're thinking as your dr self. you're feeling as your dr self. just like i mention in this post, you probably won't notice you shifted because of this. things will feel like they've always been this way. ....can we get a little personal here? this is going to be a bit embarrassing but i think it's necessary to drive the point home... im shaking........

i shifted into my ex celebrity crush's bed. i was imagining laying in bed with him (i feel like i sound pathetic guys i'm embarrassed omfg), and i was paying no mind to my cr surroundings. i was just thinking as the version of me that would be dating him and experiencing that. and then i was just actually that version of me. i could feel his body heat, his arms around me, i could smell the mix of his cologne and cigarettes and sweat, and it just so familiarly him. my eyes were closed but there was that innate knowing, and i honestly couldn't tell you i even noticed that i shifted until about 10 minutes later. i just knew that he was there and there was nothing crazy about it. eventually those 10 minutes did pass and i eventually realized the gravity of the situation, that i shifted. and then i shifted back because i got scared. but i shifted nonetheless. and not even on purpose mind you

happy pride yall

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