reality shifter

shimmer shifts masterpost <3

about me: hi! you can call me shimmer, and i am a reality shifter. i made this blog to post about my experiences, advice, and my theories about life, the universe, and everything. i have been reality shifting since i was a young child in this reality, but i stopped for a long time and more recently i had to teach myself how to shift all over again. my goal is to in some way support others in their journeys by sharing a piece of mine. just saying since it comes up on here often: i do not believe in the Law of Assumption, but i totally respect if you do. i've read Neville Goddard's work and it just did not align with me. my beliefs and opinions are based off my own personal experience with different forms of meditation and reality shifting, and i encourage everyone to form their own beliefs the same!

my realities:

hogwarts | the walking dead | alternate CR

sky: children of the light

quick links:

shifting methods: pure awareness | destabilized awareness | lack of awareness

what triggers a reality shift?

what is awareness?

intention and belief didn't make me shift. what now?

what are my shifting blockages?

letter for those who haven't shifted yet

i can't visualize, what now?

shifting with adhd or distracting thoughts

what is "the void?"

how i shift

awareness shifts, 3D follows

i don't think anybody currently knows what makes us shift, but i do suspect it's not intention (or, at least not intention alone, and intention is not necessarily a required ingredient.) we only really have anecdotal experiences (which are not technically valid evidence in a scientific context) to go off of in terms of what has and hasn't happened with shifting. personally, i have shifted without intending to, and to realities that i didn't want or intend to shift to. i've never specifically intended NOT to shift, so i haven't had the experience of shifting then, but that's no reason to declare it impossible. you can't prove a negative, even if we did have science and evidence.

speaking more as an "ideas guy" so to speak, compare it to something we feel familiar with, like moving your leg. you can intend to move your leg, and then move it, but it's not really the intention itself that made your leg move. it was a complicated series of chemical interactions between molecules, messages transmitted between neurons, a harmony of tendons and muscles and bones that all worked together to move your leg. but a few thousand years ago, humans didn't know any of that. we didn't know about molecules or neurons or how that played into moving legs, so it would be very easy for the humans of that time to simply say "i intended to move my leg, and then it moved. intention and will is what moved my leg." however, there are plenty of cases where intention does not move your leg. what if your spinal cord is severed, and you're paralyzed? then you might intend to move your leg, and nothing happens. what if someone gently bumps a tool against your knee, activating reflexes that move your leg on your behalf, without any intention at all? prior to developing the scientific understanding, tools to collect evidence and methods of analyzing the data, there was no way for humans to say what actually made our legs move. actually, we might currently be wrong about what makes our legs move and get proved wrong at a later date.

well, this is often a multifaceted issue, if it's really an issue at all. my initial question would be "why do you want this to change?" what are you hoping the result would be? are you trying to be happier, to shift easier, to clear your mind, etc. figuring out what your goal is or what result you want, and then consider whether doing those things will actually help achieve it.

a) if you're thinking it'll make you shift, i'd remind that there are plenty of people who are in love with shifting, do think of themself as real in other realities, and don't obsess over scripting and still don't shift. thinking of these things as being the things that stop you from shifting might not be accurate. some people don't even believe shifting is even real, and then shift. some people are obsessed with their scripts and shift all the time. some people who have shifted fall out of love with shifting. basically, anything along these lines that you think is what's "holding you back," isn't necessarily actually stopping you from shifting.

b) if you're scripting without thinking of that reality as real, or of yourself as really there, then my question would be: do you actually want to shift there? like, deep reflection for a moment, do you really want to be real in that reality? people have created self inserts and OCs and lore and fanfictions and fanart and written self indulgent stories and daydreamed probably since we were capable of thought, and there's nothing wrong with that. if that's the part making your brain happy, and that's the part that interests you, just do that. you don't have to shift there. it doesn't have to be real to be worthy of your time or interest.

But what I don’t get is how they shift back to this specific CR instead of an alternate one. If they perceive Hogwarts to be a certain way, regardless of how it actually is, then wouldn’t they end up shifting back to a different version of their CR where their false perception of Hogwarts matches up with the movies? Because that’s what they believe to be true. But instead they end up back here. Like you said, there are loads of Hogwarts shifters with differing stories. But I don’t understand how that’s possible because if perception dictates where you shift wouldn’t they all end up in different realities based on their perceptions of their CR?

Sorry if this is hard to follow, I hope I was clear. 😭

well, for hogwarts specifically it would be nearly impossible to shift to a "one to one canon accurate" hogwarts, as the canon contradicts itself, has lore or timeline mistakes, etc. When you shift to hogwarts, i'd hope that it's *not* "one to one canon accurate" because i think the majority of shifters would be disappointed if they arrived to find bad CGI and racist/transphobic undertones and plot holes and actors who were recast between films. If your hogwarts was "perfectly canon accurate," then certain people would have completely different faces and voices in different school years, and that would be weird.

media itself isn't even "one to one canon accurate." media like books and movies are inherently imperfect creations, and subjectively perceived as they are consumed. game of thrones has a starbucks cup in it, would you expect to see that after scripting your game of thrones DR is "exactly like the show, perfectly canon accurate?" probably not.

and... i think we're not omnipotent or all knowing, and that our perception is flawed. and that there is nothing particularly special about this CR, (in terms of how reality functions.) i think it's entirely possible that people often do shift to alternate CRs when they intend to shift "back" to their "original CR," because their perception and understanding of their original reality is inherently imperfect and subjective, and there's nothing special tying you to a specific "CR." and you might not ever even know. there are so many things you don't already know in this reality. if you shifted to your DR, and shifted "back" and those things were different, how would you even know? i don't necessarily think this is happening constantly, just that it could happen.

i also think of how so many people have such different experiences of what it's like to "shift back," either to their CR or to their DR. some say they had an experience of a "clone" (which is a whole other topic,) some people experience "time ratios," etc etc. while a lot of this can be chalked up to humans explaining and describing similar experiences in different ways, it can also mean that some folks didn't actually shift "back" to their "original CR," but to a different one. when you shift regularly to your DR, or "back and forth" to your CR, there is no way to prove you've shifted "back" to the exact same one. which, if you've read my other posts you may think is a contradiction as i've said that shifting isn't a way to escape this reality... which it isn't. the thing is (in my beliefs) when you shift, you do not leave a reality. you just integrate the experience of another one into your perception/linear understanding. the fact that this reality may not be your "original reality" doesn't mean you ever left your "original reality." i think it's impossible to leave a reality, as every reality we're in, we're always in because time is not actually linear in the way we perceive it. you cannot leave your CR the same way your DR self cannot leave your DR.

personally, the thing that helps me is to simply let go of that. understand that it's okay for your CR self to be present in your CR, and that it doesn't stop you from shifting. you're only shifting your awareness, not your brain and body.

So I’m wondering if you have any thoughts about my predicament. Am I somehow disconnected from my subconscious mind? Do I need to try something else before going to sleep and or should I try an awake method? I just feel like I’m doing something wrong. Any advice would be much appreciated! Thank you in advance!!!

well, i personally don't think our subconscious makes us shift. i know a lot of people believe/talk about the subconscious more like an omnipotent or powerful entity, but i just think of the subconscious by the definition of the word, ie processes of our physical meat brains that we are not aware of. i don't think your subconscious will make you shift, but the good news about that is that i also i don't think you have to fight against your subconscious or hope it lets you shift or worry that its holding you back.

i think that likely all your experience means is that the method you're currently using (going to sleep thinking about your DR) doesn't work for you. you've been doing the same thing since 2020 and so far the same thing results every time: you don't shift, you wake up here. no worries, all i can recommend is trying a different method! switch things up, figure out what does work for you. i know people say you don't need a method or that you don't have to do anything special to shift, and yeah that's true in a way (ie, there isn't one specific method that works for everyone or one specific thing you have to do to shift.) but, in the same breath, doing the same thing over and over and over for years every night hoping that at some point it'll make you shift can be really demotivating and frustrating.

I was doing a guided meditation and after it ended there were wind sounds playing in the video and I could like acc feel the wind and I remembered that in my DR i have a window open, and I started hearing my maid humming and cleaning and NO it couldnt have been anyone in my house because I was home alone. Anyways I started feeling my clothes and stuff so I decided to do a random ass method where I'm trying to shift from my dr to something else with limiting beliefs (since they ground you more in your reality) and I swear I smelt vanilla and wind chimes in the distance, I could feel my memories coming back but when I opened my eyes I was Back here... 😢 have any tips? I feel like I can't fully transition, even if I try just floating away or breathing or relaxing deeper or just giving up and letting my subconsuos take the wheel (which gets me close but not fully) I just can't kick it fully, perhaps its the looking for signs or perhaps something else - either way I would really appreciate it if you helped me💗 tysm!!! ‼️‼️❤

i think one thing that may hold some people back is that they're focusing on shifting "from here -> to there" if that makes sense, to the point that they unintentionally shift back and ground themselves here. does that make sense? ie, the whole time they're doing their method and trying to shift to their DR, what they're focusing on is not their DR, but the fact that they are here and trying to get to their DR. so they are focusing on being here. you're looking for signs here. you (cr self) are searching for sensations or signs that your awareness is in your DR, and your CR self will never get that. your CR self stays riiiight here, so it is focusing your awareness here.

and maybe try reframing the idea of "the process of shifting" in your mind. while some of us use methods, get into a meditative state, etc, the actual moment of shifting isn't a long drawn out event that you have to push through fully. there is no "close" and "fully," either you shifted or you didn't.

If the entire universe is the manifestation of a single, self-realizing consciousness, or if all existence is the effort of one consciousness to experience itself, is the will that shifted you here an act affirming its own existence or an anomaly that defies itself? If you are also a reflection of this consciousness, is our current conversation part of its quest for self-awareness? Is your being here a response to this consciousness, or is it a doubt it has introduced into its own perfection?

And what if this consciousness created beings like us, who question its existence, merely as a new way of observing itself? In that case, is this question itself a truth or merely an illusion? Ultimately, if you cannot answer this question, do you—and the rest of this consciousness—truly exist, or does existence only become real the moment the question is asked?

Why did this consciousness create within itself the need to seek "truth"? If truth is already inherent within it, what lack is this search trying to fulfill? If truth exists outside of it, can this consciousness truly be "one"? And finally, if truth and time are merely a game experienced by this consciousness, what prevents it and all of existence from being part of a singular, ultimate truth?If this question feels a bit too detailed or complicated, let me simplify it: ISN'T THIS REALITY JUST LIKE THAT?

I’ve been working on this for 4 years. To be precise, I’ve spent more time on research than actual practice during these years. Over time, my doubts have grown linearly, of course, but I still deeply believe in it. I just feel like I need confirmation.

I’m a permashifter, and in this CR (current reality), I’ve sacrificed school, work, and countless other responsibilities, trusting that I would be able to shift. Additionally, someone very close and dear to me in this reality has passed away. Is it possible for me to see them again? Please, don’t give me false hope. I genuinely want to trust you because this is a very serious matter.I guess I need trust because I’ve fucked up most things here

hiii, i hope you are well. to start, im not sure my answer will be what you're hoping for or looking for because our beliefs are different, but i'll offer my perspective! personally, i don't believe that "the entire universe is the manifestation of a single, self-realizing consciousness, or if all existence is the effort of one consciousness to experience itself." so that will make our perspectives different of course.

but i'll focus on the last few paragraphs, which i think are more important to me. the thing with shifting is that even when you (your awareness) shifts, you (yourself, the person reading this post, and the person who wrote that ask) will not. further than that, i personally do not believe there is anyone who doesn't have their awareness. because i believe everyone is always capable of shifting their awareness, this inherently means (in my belief) that everyone always has their awareness. i don't think there is anyone who can't shift because their awareness already permashifted without them... there are no awareness-free husks or non-conscious vegetables running around. so, in my belief, even if someone "permashifts," from reality A to reality B, they're still in reality A too, the same way they already were in reality B before they shifted. i think we are in every reality all the time, always. i believe you (all the people reading this) exist in this reality and always will, even if you shift. i believe that 1 year from now, 5 years from now, 10 years from now, 20... you still will. even if you also shift. i absolutely know (from personal experience) that we can shift our awarenesses to other realities, but the fact that i also don't see time as linear means this doesn't necessarily mean our awareness ever *leaves* this reality. if time is not passing by linearly, this means your awareness doesn't have to leave this reality to spend time in another one. our awareness may perceive and process a linear experience, but that doesn't mean it *is* a linear experience. does that make any sense?

this is part of why i think the way shifting (including permashifting) is talked about can be harmful to some people. this is part of why i think it's harmful to frame shifting as an escape from this reality. this is part of why i think it's harmful to encourage or promote sabotaging your life in this reality. because i think the truth is, shifting is not an escape from this reality. so it honestly breaks my heart to see people sacrifice their lives here in this reality. school, work, opportunities, social life– their lives. your life.

I want to shift there, I’ve gotten really attached to it, but I know it’s very scary and traumatic.

I’m worried about that, and even if I do decide to shift there, the fear of loosing people or being traumatized will keep me from shifting to it in the first place.

I have thought about just scripting out a lot of stuff but that also means the characters and situations won’t be the same and I don’t want key moments that shape characters to not happen?

What should I do?

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i haven't talked about my TWD dr a lot on here but i do think it's a great example for certain things to consider when you're deciding where you want to shift. firstly, why do you want to shift there? consider to yourself what desire is actually driving you, and what you want to shift your awareness to experience.

if you've seen the show, consider if the "canon plot" is something you want to live through do you want to experience the apocalypse? really consider what it would be like for society and civilization to fall. if it happened here, would you want to live through it? consider the walkers. do you want to experience a world where that happens to people? do you want to see one? do you want to experience losing people the way it happens in the show (ie, traumatically, violently, suddenly, irrevocably, and often.) do you want the situations to be the same? do you want to experience yourself and the people you love going through that and being shaped by it?

if the genuine answer is no, then don't script for those things to happen. if the thing you're attached to is the people, the places, etc, you can change as much as you need to make it a world you actually, genuinely want to experience. maybe it's still a "post-apocalypse" world, but the apocalypse happened long before you were born. maybe there's no walkers left, or there never were any and it was a different apocalypse. maybe there never was an apocalypse and you're just living life with all those people you're attached to in a normal suburban city named alexandria. if you script the people there go through all the same stuff as the characters in canon, do keep in mind it's different to know and have relationships with real people who have that level of trauma vs knowing a character in a show who did. you could script they have the same personality but didn't go through that stuff, or were shaped by other less traumatic events. idk, my point is you do not have to shift to the "canon" plot if that's not what you really want.

i know a lot of people say you can "script out trauma" or "just script that you can handle it" or "script it won't affect you here when you shift back" and... okay, maybe those things work. but maybe they don't. the thing is with reality shifting, we do not have evidence, or proof. we don't have replicable research studies, systematically analyzed data or double-blind experiments. we only have the individual anecdotes (meaning hearsay, a story an individual tells you) and our personal experience to go off of. while you can get excellent advice or guidance from the anecdotes of those you trust, i do encourage everyone to really, seriously consider what is right for themself before shifting to a reality like TWD. is it worth the risk of traumatizing yourself? do you have the necessary support networks, coping skills, and resources in this reality to process and handle the fallout if it is traumatic to you here? do you want to do something that makes you afraid? do you actually want to experience it? if some part of you is holding you back from shifting there, it might be for a reason.

Anyway! Could you explain a little bit about what exactly is Awareness???

Thank you, in any case! 🐦🐦

so what is awareness, anyways?

in the shifting community, the words awareness, consciousness, self, you, subconscious, perception, etc etc, are often used different ways by different people, or sometimes even conflated to mean the same thing. i think this is part of the reason there is so much confusions surrounding the idea of "clones" and your other selves in other realities, because if our shared definition of "awareness" is so murky, then what does it really mean when someone says you can shift your awareness to another reality?

so what is awareness? and when we shift, do we leave something behind?

the dictionary defines awareness as "knowledge or perception of a situation or fact," and i think this is a very apt name for what we're really trying to refer to when we speak of our awareness. our awareness is our knowledge or perception of reality. not our brain, or the physical "meat" that makes us, not our nerves, and not really our consciousness. awareness cannot be entirely conflated with consciousness (the experience of this world, including thoughts, feelings, and memories) because people who reality shift do not leave behind an unconscious husk with no thoughts, feelings, or memories. there is no "clone" because your consciousness of this reality stays in this reality, whether you shift your awareness or not. when we reality shift, it must be that all we are doing is aligning with the knowledge and perception of another reality, and integrating that with our current one.

does this mean our awareness leaves this reality, and our CR is left without an awareness at all? well.... no, not exactly. some of what i'm about to say may be controversial in the shifting community, so remember it's just my personal understanding. i believe that all of time, all of space, and all of reality exists simultaneously. you already are your DR self, and you'll always be your CR self too. your entire past, present, and future all exists at once, and you've already lived all of it. when? right now. our "awareness" then, simply refers to our own personal, linear integration of our experiences. our 3D bodies in each reality take in sensory data, the consciousness/sentience produced by our 3D brains processes and perceives reality, and our awareness... well, it is aware.

our awarenesses, for whatever reason, are only capable of comprehending reality in a linear fashion. your current awareness (knowledge or perception of reality) likely started when you were born into this one, or a similar one. you likely understand your experience of this reality is a linear process. at some point, you found out about shifting. (good news!) we are capable of "shifting," aka integrating an experience of a different 3D reality with our current awareness, so that our perception of time and space looks like this: CR we were born into -> DR we shifted to. so... would that mean we actually left our old stinky CR and we're not there anymore? no! you've already lived your entire CR life, and you've already died here. the same way you're already in your DR, you'll be here while you're there too. the only thing that shifts is the order in which your "awareness" is perceiving the sensory experiences your physical meat brains are interpreting. you (CR self, consciousness, body, brain, etc) never leave this reality, your atoms, energy, etc are here.

this is why it is sometimes sad to see posts where shifters talk about how badly they want to leave their CR, or how they are permashifting and never coming back to this reality, or how they don't belong here etc etc. because, yes... your "awareness" can shift to perceive and know another reality. which is amazing, and a wonderful thing. but you (CR self), aka the one who typed that out and hit post... you'll always be conscious of the fact that you posted that. 5 years from now, 10 years from now, 20 years from now, you (CR self, brain and meat and consciousness and sentience) will still be here. even if your awareness shifts. you (CR self, aka the being reading this post) will live here your whole life. there are no sentience-free zombie husks wandering reality, there are no "clones." there is just you, in every reality, always, and your CR self cannot leave your CR anymore than your DR self can leave your DR.

i always hear in shifting communities "everyone is capable of shifting!" which i agree, is very true. what i rarely hear is the consequential fact of the matter which is that, because that is true, that means everyone is aware. even the people who shift. even the people with "permashifting" in their bio. there is no one in any reality who cannot shift their awareness, therefor there must always be an awareness there.

Yesterday I swear there was 24 euros in my bank and now suddenly there's 30 so I know I AM capable of shifting I just can't get to my dr, I don't know what's wrong with me because ive cleared every doubt I have (this is before the one im having popped up) and I tried, and I visualised and I told my self symptoms dont determine anything but nothing was sticking and I just couldnt wake up in my dr or anything! 😕 ive tried 8d subliminals for my adhd but they just ground my in my CR more and idk what to do anymore because I have done every step I can, ive read every blog and just can't get there... Here's how an avarege shifting attempt goes for me: "Okay uh time to shift *just thinking about my dr and starts smelling vanilla* oh my god im so close! *surroundings change* okay lets wait for the imput from my cr to stop and than im finally home *loud crash* ok my awareness shifted but my 3d didnt catch up😭" its either that or i stop getting input and my memories are just flooding back but when i open my eyes im just in my bed again. Im seriously either broken or need a siberian witch to extract my subcobsious and throw it to my dr. I can't thank you enough, seriously though🫶

hii! please don't worry, you are not broken, and you don't need the incredible hulk to punt you into your DR. you're already there! next time you shift to your DR, stop waiting for your CR input to stop. your CR body and brain will never stop getting input from your CR, because they're staying here. don't try to shift your CR self to your DR, you're not teleporting. there is no final push. your awareness was already in your DR, it sounds like. so just be your DR self, and stay in your DR.

when you shifted to alt CRs, you probably didn't wait for your "old" CR input to stop. your awareness just shifted, and you started being in the "new" CR.