iâve been getting a lot of skeptics in my inbox lately, people who are just finding out about shifting and realising how deep it goes. which honestly surprises me a little, because it means you somehow found your way into a very niche corner of the internet and ended up here asking me about fundamentals like whether shifting is just lucid dreaming.
and i want to preface this by saying iâm not judging you at all. i actually welcome the skepticism and doubt if it means youâre taking the time to think this through and come to your own genuine conclusion about shifting and what it means to you, instead of blindly jumping on the bandwagon and immediately dismissing or bullying a community you donât understand.
iâm just genuinely baffled by the question itself. (also this is nothing personal against the previous anon, this isnât directed at them specifically at all. iâve just been receiving alot of the same questions and iâm just genuinely perplexed.)
like, think about it clearly.
do you really believe shifters would consistently talk in this much detail, with this level of continuity, about entire lives, relationships, routines, memories, if it were just lucid dreaming? lucid dreams donât hold that kind of stability or persistence.
do you think people would willingly stay in a niche, misunderstood community, knowing theyâll be mocked, dismissed, or called delusional, if there was nothing real behind it? thereâs no social reward here. no widespread validation. if anything, thereâs A LOT of pushback. we experience so much social harm being a part of and advocating for this community. why would any of us willingly do this to ourselves?
and what confuses me the most is the underlying implication behind that question. it assumes that all of us are somehow too dense or too deluded to tell the difference between a dream and waking reality. like weâre all just lucid dreaming and⌠none of us realise it?
that doesnât really hold up, does it?
youâre talking about thousands of people, across different backgrounds, ages, beliefs, all independently describing something with the same core distinction. and the assumption is that every single one of them just⌠canât tell the difference?
your confusion makes sense, i donât blame or judge you for asking questions and having doubt. after all, i was in your position once. youâre trying to reconcile something new with what you already understand about reality. but donât reduce everything youâre seeing to âit must be a lucid dreamâ just because it doesnât fit neatly into what youâve been told is possible.
question it, yes. be critical, sure. but also be fair in how youâre evaluating it. and most importantly, be kind, please.
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