#ariashiftingjournal

I finally feel like I’ve processed (well… not really 😭) what I experienced, so I wanted to share this milestone in my shifting journey. A turning point? A moment where I became sure shifting is real? My actual shift? I don’t know. I honestly don’t know what it was but whatever it was, it was real. Lucid dream, sleep paralysis, OOBE, astral projection, shifting? I believe it was shifting because it felt too real. No, because it was real.

Yesterday I mentioned how I’d been receiving messages a lot about shifting, and right after that.. something really strange happened.

First of all, I’ll share my method separately, but what I did yesterday was simply set my intention. I couldn’t sleep, and I really wanted to because I had to wake up early. I was so done at that point, everything was just too annoying. So I just told myself: “I’m going to shift no matter what. Just sleep.” And then I thought I fell asleep.

For the record, I always get astral projection signs when I try to shift, and it happened again. My ears felt pressure, my chest felt like it was floating, even my gums were under pressure. It was SO intense and I was panicking, because it felt too real. Every time this happened before, I’d wake up in my body because I couldn’t stay calm. So this time, after I felt the signs, I reminded myself to keep going.

I don’t know what happened, but I think I astral projected? I literally felt my arm rising, it lifted up, like really lifted. I even thought, “What if someone walks in and sees me like this??” Because my arm was up. It probably wasn’t even my physical body lol, but I swear, everything started spinning. I was spinning, like in a spiral, it felt like I was leaving the couch spinning. I don’t mean those intentional spins people do for signs, I was actually spinning.

I ended up in front of the couch, and I knew that if I looked up, I’d see myself. But I was scared, so I tried to calm myself down. Everything was black and white and extremely blurry, I couldn’t feel comfortable. I felt suffocated, trapped, like I was hearing sounds. It was almost like a panic attack. My vision looked like a grainy photo or a static TV screen. (like the gif I put)

I kept reminding myself, “You’re astralling right now. Just make a portal and shift!” But again, I was so scared and overwhelmed. I wanted to reach my s/o, so I tried to see them. But I couldn’t move, so I reminded myself again that I needed to shift. Yet everything felt so real that I stopped myself, I thought, “I can’t shift into my DR. Not there.” Because my DR is a mafia universe, and I was already scared out of my mind 😭 I was like, “Okay? Just make a portal or something??”

I thought about my s/o and I was like, “Wait… isn’t this how it works? Can’t I just go there if I think about it?” But sadly, it wasn’t enough, I felt like I was stuck in between, like I was both feeling my physical body and experiencing something outside of it at the same time. (but not exactly feeling my physical body, only the astral projection signs)

Then I told myself that I was “Lucy” (which isn’t even my DR name, I’d never had that name before 😭), and that I needed to go to another DR, my high school DR. Because my mafia DR was already too scary to shift into. Then I felt a pillow under my face, but it wasn’t my pillow, it felt like someone else’s arm was under my head instead. I was still panicking. (I was Lucy after shifting to my high school DR, probably?)

Then I told myself I was going to shift no matter where, and suddenly, I was somewhere else. My vision was insanely blurry (but with colors), like I was looking through frosted glass. My mom and her friend were talking and asked me something, but I was basically having a panic attack. I was there in first-person, not third. They were sitting in a kitchen/balcony area. When I walked away, I heard them say behind me, “She’s been like this ever since that happened.” (I think it was about losing my father?)

It was a completely different house. I had two brothers, I was sure one of them was my brother, but I wasn’t sure about the other. I ran out of the kitchen/balcony area saying I was going to the bathroom. I looked in the mirror, my hands were on the sink, and my face was mostly mine, with a few small differences. I saw myself in the mirror, but everything was extremely blurry.

I tried to calm myself down, it was all too real and overwhelming, so I told myself I wanted to go back. And I did. I came back because I thought I couldn’t go back, and because I wasn’t ready to fully let go of this reality.

I experienced all of this in first person, not like I was watching it happen. It was way too realistic to be a dream, I felt all that pressure. I’ve never had a lucid dream before. My dreams do get more vivid when I try to shift, but even then, I only see events, not myself. This wasn’t a dream. It was real. And it was something I was honestly scared of because of how real it was. It was so real that it overwhelmed me.

So… has anyone else experienced something like this? Or did I actually shift completely for the first time, but without grounding myself?

───────── aria ❀.ೃ࿔ 23 yo ❀.ೃ࿔ she/her ─────────

a shifter, tarot reader, theta healer, spiritual person and thinker who loves exploring the space between consciousness and reality. also pharmacist in her cr. here i share my own theories, experiences and reflections about shifting, awareness, and the deeper layers of the mind. this blog is entirely based on my personal thoughts and journey.

if you’re someone who questions, feels, and believes all at once, you’ll probably feel at home here (i hope so? this is a safe place for every shifter/manifestor)

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i’ve been on this journey for a while now and have already manifested many things, even physical appearance changes, so i’m super excited to connect with others who are walking a similar path!

and if you have any questions feel free to use my ask box! (as long as i'm comfortable answering, of course) i'm trying to help as much as i can!

but i don't want people to think like i'm super powerful, full of knowledge or anything like that I'm some kind of guru. i'm just a girl on her own journey like everyone else, learning, searching everything and sharing her experiences and theories along the way!

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some of my posts

☽ The Non-Existence of "OR" & The Quantum Consciousness Theory of Shifting

☽ proof of "everything is connected" (I just LOOVEEE how everything is connected!!)

☽ my first shift (I don't know what it was holyfckinairball but success story / shifting / oobe)

☽ my first lucid dream experience and second shift (First Lucid Dream Experience°❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:･ (connecting to shifting))

☽ what changed — and how I finally made REAL progress (shifted) in my shifting journey after 5 years (and what you can do too)

☽ if you keep waking up in your "CR", here’s what you can try

☽ connection appreciation post

☽ little reminder / shifting motivation

☽ my friend's shifting experience (How my friend shifted without even knowing she shifted)

☽ connection appreciation post

☽ twinflame signs

☽ my dream to shift to lucid dream experience

☽ Aria’s “Nothing” Method (for shifting, void state, astral projection, lucid dreaming)

asks about:

☽ but what I’m scared of is that I feel like once I shift successfully it will be as if I’m not in the „real” reality.

☽ I was wondering if you had any advice for limiting beliefs/doubts?

☽ what appearance changes have you manifested?

☽ do you have any advice on intrusive thoughts?

☽ I have this conflict between spiritual and rational, logic and belief! for rollercoaster shifting journey!

☽ thoughts on twinflames

☽ how do we know it’s shifting and not lucid dreaming

☽ void state

☽ about letting go

☽ how to shift to your dr from lucid dream

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tags:

#ariaisanswering (answers for asks / yapping)

#ariashiftingjournal (journal about shifting / success)

#ariasigns (journaling and counting about signs)

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you don’t have to agree with everything I say, some parts might not fully click for you, and that’s okay! you don’t have to believe every single word. what matters is how you interpret and use what i share according to your own beliefs. (you don't even have to use them or interpret at all!) i can only offer what i’ve experienced and what i believe, it’s up to you to make it your own.

happy manifesting and shifting!

-aria

I have absolutely no idea what happened, but something super weird happened last night, a new shifting and lucid dream experience (applause) (And honestly, I finally understand why people confuse lucid dreaming and shifting at some point. I’ll talk more about that in another post when I have the energy to write it all down. You actually can tell the difference, but for someone who doesn’t know about shifting, it can really feel like a lucid dream sometimes.)

Okay, so basically, I realized I was lucid, but it felt like the version of me inside the dream was the one who became lucid. I remember thinking, “Oh wait, I’m lucid dreaming.” (I don’t remember if I looked at my hand or poked it in the first or second lucid dream, but I did it at some point, I’ll get to that later.)

I've been trying to make my method more effective and honestly, I think it’s working. After 5 years of trying to shift, I suddenly made so much progress in just one month. So yeah, even if it takes you years, what really matters is doing what feels comfortable and works for you. It doesn’t matter how long you’ve tried or how much it seems like“it’s not working.” it just happens. Believe me.

Okay so basically, I was doing my method and then I started dreaming (it wasn’t a lucid dream at first).

In my dream, my mom and dad were there, and I was telling them something about shifting, but I was kind of half asleep while talking. They didn’t believe me at first, but then time started changing outside, like it turned from night to day in seconds and that’s when my mom got convinced. While that was happening, I was still half asleep and shifting felt so easy for me there I was getting the symptoms instantly (in my dream body).

Then I said I wanted to shift (inside the dream) and there was this servant or helper-like figure helping me, I don’t know if it was my higher self or a spirit guide, but he looked hilarious, like one of those half-bald, pot-bellied butlers.. Somehow, I shifted to my grandparents’ house (again, I have no idea why I keep ending up there), but literally, I shifted inside the dream. So maybe that was a dream within a shift?

The house was different, the walls were this awful pistachio green (disgusting btw), and there were cupboards where the couches were supposed to be. What’s interesting is that I could actually read the text around me. I was holding something in my hand that said something like “nesrinone” or “nesminone,” and the rest was in french (which I don’t even speak, but I somehow knew it was french). It was written on a poster, and unlike in my usual dreams, the letters didn’t melt or blur. I could read everything clearly. My mind just felt foggy, like I was trying to make sense of what was happening.

I heard my grandparents talking, and I was about to go somewhere. Then I felt my shoe not going on properly, and I literally felt my toe. I was like, “wait, I can feel this? did I shift??” but at the same time I was thinking, “I wanna shift to my dr,” because I had told myself before sleeping that I was open to random shifts, like, I didn’t care where I ended up.

Then, after that, I suddenly found myself at school or maybe in a cafeteria? I remember someone talking to me, but I couldn’t really process it, probably because I went straight into a lucid dream while still thinking about my dr. At one point, I even felt the pressure on my gums here, in my cr body.

Until I came back to my body, I kept thinking, “why am I here? I should be in my dr.” and in that cafeteria part, I realized I was lucid dreaming, and the moment I realized it, I came back. But the return felt weird, like I came back from far away. I was pure consciousness there, because when I became aware here again, it wasn’t like slowly waking up, it was like snap, instantly aware.

The part with my parents and the cafeteria were definitely dreams (the parent part just a dream, cafeteria one a lucid dream), even though they were kinda vivid. But the part at my grandparents’ house, where I shifted inside the dream, that one felt like a real shift where I just didn’t ground properly. Because I honestly didn’t want to.

I know it was a real shift because in my last lucid dream, when I tried to read something, everything melted. I couldn’t read properly, but this time, I could.

So yeah, it’s definitely progress. My senses were way clearer this time.

And now I totally get why people think shifting is the same as lucid dreaming or like “advanced lucid dreaming,” because when you don’t fully ground yourself, it feels like more than a lucid dream but less than a full shift. But it’s still a shift, just without being completely grounded.

I've made so much progress in just a few weeks and I really wanted to share it.

You might be closer than you think.

Thanks for reading!

Happy shifting!

Honestly, I’m not entirely sure what happened because I felt so drained that when I got back, I fell asleep without even taking notes 😭 But I’ll write everything I remember as clearly as I can.

At first, even while meditating, I felt my DR, which was strange because it was the first time I had felt so clearly like I was lying in that reality, in that bed, even before doing an OOBE or shifting. But it really only lasted for a very short time.

Then a memory flashed. I saw my DR face and my s/o and I were leaning against something at night, like at a campsite and I had a dark green hat on my head. I got startled by my mother’s movements in CR and got a little annoyed because my focus broke so I fell asleep repeating my mantra without taking off my headphones but also without trying to stay awake while doing my method. (And I guess I didn’t actually sleep? I’m not really sure.)

I swear it wasn’t a dream but it wasn’t exactly a shift either (or it was multiple shifts and not only one). It felt like something between a dream and a shift. I remember thinking about ... "(@/yunspidey I'll write her name because it is the only way to remember who is it lmao)" and there were also some people from Bridgerton there (in different states and I think he was Anthony) lmao. Everything was incredibly clear but it felt like my awareness kept shifting to different places. It slipped so easily. It was like experiencing everything everywhere all at once.

I remember shifting somewhere and saying that I needed to ground myself (that’s why I don’t think it was just a dream). It was a random reality. I was somewhere on my grandparents’ street and my vision was starting to become clearer. Everything was becoming incredibly vivid. But at the same time, I was thinking that shifting shouldn’t be like this because everything still wasn’t completely stable and it still felt slightly dreamlike.

It was like my dream self or astral body or whatever it was shifting every millisecond to somewhere else while I was half-conscious. I was trying to ground myself, my vision was clearing up but my awareness kept slipping between states.

Then I found myself in the void. I don’t remember the details very well because it felt like all my energy had been drained (and this is the first time I’ve ever felt like this). I wasn’t in a state to take notes which I usually do to avoid forgetting. It felt like I had physically traveled somewhere and wandered around for hours (it lasted about three hours, btw).

When I found myself in the void, I said I needed to manifest something, but I don’t even remember what I tried to manifest 😭 But I’m pretty sure I shifted to a parallel reality.

When I returned from the void, I didn’t wake up suddenly like from a dream. It felt like my awareness or astral body slowly returned (?) here and I woke up as if I had come back from a distant land. I don’t know how to describe it.. like a whooshing feeling 😭 It wasn’t like waking up from sleep.

I only remember the parts where my vision became clear and certain specific moments, but not the full details. I clearly remember thinking:

“I need to ground myself, my vision is getting clearer but something feels off because why does it still feel like I’m dreaming? Shifting should be clear, it shouldn’t feel like this.”

Maybe I was dreaming and then shifted into the void because I couldn’t become fully lucid? Or I shifted multiple times without grounding myself (couldn't actually) I honestly don’t know. I hate getting confused like this because most of my experiences are very clear and I can usually tell "yes, this is shifting" "no, this is astral" "no, this is lucid dream" etc. But this one? I genuinely have no idea.

All I know is that everything felt extremely real in that moment and when I came back, it felt like all my energy had been pulled away from me 😭

Again, something realistic happened last night. It wasn’t a shift, but it was my first lucid dream experience (finally.. even though I shifted before ever lucid dreaming 😭🤚🏻).

I was probably already dreaming when I suddenly realized I was in a dream. I remember trying to text my friend like, “Hey girl, I got symptoms again,” and then everything started to melt, the words and my phone were literally dripping down. That’s when I realized I was dreaming and I was like, “Girl, you’re dreaming, shift now!” (which is crazy because I’ve never had a lucid dream before, and honestly, it was kinda cool).

Then I found myself at my grandparents’ house, but it was slightly different. I was talking to my grandmother, thinking fast but also feeling this weird rush, because I was sure I’d ground myself there soon and shift there. It really felt like I was about to shift, my blurry vision was clearing up, and it was like a lucid dream turning into a shifting portal. It felt like I was standing right in between.

Instead, I quickly answered her random questions about one of my friends and said goodbye. I also told myself, “Okay, now I’ll go to my high school DR,” since that was the one I wanted to go to that night (because holy shit, after yesterday’s shift and knowing shifting is real, I was terrified and definitely didn’t want to go to my mafia DR 😭. A random reality was already overwhelming enough lol).

Then I started spinning and melting again, it wasn’t a shift yet, but more like a lucid dream portal leading into a shift. But I couldn’t shift to my DR, and I ended up coming back here.

Still, ISTG it was the BEST feeling ever. If someone had told me earlier how funny and exciting the feeling of shifting and lucid dreaming is, I would’ve tried this way more often and wouldn’t have waited this long to succeed 😭.

The funny part isn’t even the shift itself (yet) it’s the process. I love how I spin. I love how I proved to myself that it’s real. I love shifting without grounding myself and then managing to lucid dream, because they’re clearly different things, and now I know which is which.

(Btw, I was never one of those “shifting is just lucid dreaming” people. Even before experiencing it, I knew they were separate things. I just wanted to say it clearly here for anyone who still thinks they’re the same, they’re not 😭.)

After trying for years, I’m finally enjoying the process, every single part of it. And shifting to my DR feels closer than it’s ever been before. I’m overwhelmed with joy, but god, it’s so, SO amazing. ✨