To the person who asked me:
"i just wanted to ask you: how should beginner shifters or shifters in general not get demotivated by anti-shifters, who repeatedly keep calling shifting "hallucinations" or "malpadative day dreaming"?"
I didnât want to target anyone directly, so I decided to answer it this way. (so please send me an ask again if you read this for clarification, this is the first time I answer an ask as a post)
Do NOT take this personally but looking for external motivation or letting someone who has absolutely no place in your life, someone who doesnât even know you (your experiences, your life, your thoughts and you as an observer), demotivate you with their words honestly pisses me off. Because youâre putting your power between someone elseâs lips, forgetting that you are an ocean and seeking validation from a drop of water. And that hurts to see. So I want to approach your question from different angles.
Everything in your life acts as a mirror. Good or bad. Anything you read, any post you come across, any person, any text, even you asking me this question right now. Nothing is a coincidence. If there is a thesis, there must also be an antithesis. This is what creates existence just as much as absence. You canât recognize something as âgoodâ without understanding what âbadâ is. So anti-shifters are not a problem, they are, in a way, motivation.
If you can believe people who say âshifting is a hallucinationâ then you are also capable of believing people who say âshifting is real.â And ask yourself this: is it really possible for this many people to be lying? With this much detail? With consistent patterns, similar experiences, similar processes? If they are lying, why would they dedicate so much time to it?
And let me make it personal: what kind of âimagination" âdaydreamâ or âhallucinationâ could completely change someoneâs belief system? What kind of hallucination would make someone goes from who believes in God and hell to accept the possibility of going to hell? What kind of hallucination would make someone spend their time writing posts like this, answering questions, sharing experiences?
A hallucination doesnât teach you a new language. It doesnât make you solve something youâve never known before. It doesnât let you remember years of lived experience in detail. The brain distorts what already exists (hallucination) but consciousness creates entirely new experiential fields (shifting). What kind of âimaginationâ could be so powerful that it completely dismantles a personâs core belief system?
If this is a dream, then dreams are more powerful than what we call reality.
Anti-shifters are not necessarily wrong from their own perspective. I canât say they are lying, because within their framework, shifting really is seen as daydreaming or hallucination. And if they approach it from that perspective, then that becomes their reality.
But what about yours?
If reality is tied to the limits of your consciousness, then can something be unreal for someone else but real for you? We see this idea in so many so called "sci-fic" movies, especially The Matrix and Inception. Itâs all right in front of us. Just like thereâs a difference between looking and truly seeing, thereâs also a difference in how reality is perceived.
My experiences, or any shifterâs experiences, donât become less real just because someone else says so.
Hallucinations are inconsistent, short-lived and lack coherent structure because they are tied to brain chemistry. Daydreaming is also something you can clearly distinguish. If I ask you to imagine an elephant right now, you can do it in detail, right? But shifting is different, because it is a reality, not just imagination. How I'm so sure? Because I experienced it.
So how does an anti-shifter define reality?
Scientifically speaking, even our atoms never truly touch each other. Technically, youâre not actually âtouchingâ anything. If reality is just electrical signals processed by your brain, then wouldnât this reality also be a âhallucinationâ? Where do you place the quantum observer effect in this?
Without an observer (consciousness), particles exist only as probability waves. That means what we call ârealityâ is created in the moment through observation. So calling your OWN perceived illusion âthe only real thingâ while labeling SOMEONE ELSE'S observed reality as âhallucinationâ doesnât that seem contradictory?
If everything is energy, which science already supports, then whatâs stopping you from accepting something beyond what is currently known?
You believe in what is known today (which was unknown years ago), but what stops you from believing in what is currently unknown? (which could be known after years) If we only understand, say 50% of reality (and honestly I think itâs much less), stepping into the unknown 50% doesnât make things worse, if anything it makes everything more exciting. :)
You have two choices: to believe or not to believe.
But even your belief is not required for shifting. So why place yourself on the side that limits you?
If I call you stupid, does that make you stupid? If you cut your hand and someone tells you âitâs nothingâ but your brain processes the pain intensely, does it stop hurting? Not for you because you are the observer. You are experiencing that pain.
Perception and perspective.
Someone telling me that my experiences arenât real does not make them hallucinations. It does not change the fact that they are my reality. Because I'm my own observer, in my own reality.
And letâs say, for the sake of argument, that everything is just a hallucination created by my brain. Then doesnât that prove how little we actually understand consciousness? That the brain can create an entire reality, make you live years within it, experience it fully?
Then that just means science still has a long way to go.
The only person who can prove shifting to you is yourself. No one else can do that for you. You are the one who interprets the difference.
Personally, Iâve experienced enough to clearly distinguish between normal dreams, lucid dreams, astral projection, void state and shifting. They are NOT the same.
If you get easily demotivated, then donât read those posts. Block them. Move on. But remember, those posts can also push you toward proving it to yourself. When I had my first shift, I was so tired of not being able to prove it to myself that I was ready to shift to a completely random reality just to confirm it.
So whether you see these posts as demotivating or motivating depends entirely on your perspective.
I canât promise that you wonât feel demotivated. Until you prove it to yourself, your brain will keep functioning within the limits of this human experience. Even after proving it, doubts may still come because youâre still experiencing being human in this reality.
The key is accepting that demotivation can exist without defining you.
If you can say: âI might feel demotivated but this doesnât define me. Just like someone calling me stupid doesnât make me stupidâ then you can start using it to your advantage.
Doubts are normal. Feeling demotivated is normal. But none of these change your essence.
Nothing changes the fact that you are pure consciousness.
If there is one universal truth across all realities, it is this: you are pure awareness beyond all forms, an energy capable of taking any form.
No, we are not crazy. No, we are not just daydreamers or hallucinating people. Because if that were true, wouldnât this reality also be filled with uncontrollable hallucinations? Wouldnât life itself become unstable for shifters?
If you have too many doubts, try to build your own logical framework. Not because you need logic to shift, you donât, but because it might help you feel more grounded.
Thatâs what I did. I looked into religion, then spirituality, then science and found a common ground between them. Thatâs how things started making sense for me.
Long story short: You can feel demotivated. You can have doubts. You donât even have to believe. None of these are obstacles to shifting. What matters is not what others say, itâs your own perspective. Even what Iâm saying doesnât matter as much as what you feel is true. If 2+2=5 is true in your reality, then that is your reality because you are already living according to it. What matters is internal consistency within your perceived reality.
Turning demotivation into motivation is entirely about perspective.
So try to look at things from different angles. Accept that you may feel demotivated but do not let it define you. Your essence can not be changed.
Remember that you are pure consciousness.
Trust yourself. Trust that inner voice. Because deep down, you already know what is true.
I donât know if this is exactly the explanation you were looking for but I hope it helps. And I'm sorry if that sounds harsh (because writing is different than speaking and believe me I wrote all of them in a nice way) but I think some of you guys need to hear this.
And if you ever have more questions or if something feels unclear, donât hesitate to ask!
Thank you for your time!
Happy shifting!
-Aria
