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This is your go-to shifting guide for the newbies. Welcome cutie! Here you will find all the resources, explanations, and tips that you need~
Shifting, also sometimes known as quantum jumping, is the act of moving your awareness from your current reality (CR) to your desired reality (DR).
The multiverse theory: According to the multiverse theory, there are infinite realities co-existing. The classic example to explain this is the following.
Imagine you choose to eat an apple for breakfast. There is a reality where you chose a pear, or cereal, or skipped breakfast entirely. Every time we make a decision, blink, breathe, or move, we shift. We have been shifting ever since we were born, and there are infinite realities out there where we blinked/moved a second later, or where we look/act differently.
Infinite versions of you exist across these realities, and they are all you. Your consciousness exists throughout all of them, but you can only experience/be aware of one reality at a time. Shifting is becoming aware of your consciousness in a specific reality (that you want to go to), like switching to a channel on the TV.
P.S., if you are a believer in the law of assumption/attraction, you would know your subconscious beliefs/thoughts create reality. This means based on what you were brought up to believe about yourself/the world has made you shift into the reality you are in right now. If reality is built on our subconscious thoughts, and we shift all the time, you have shifted into your CR. Knowingly or unknowingly. When you manifest, you’re shifting into a reality where you have that desire.
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Shifting is NOT moving your consciousness, since all versions of you in infinite realities are conscious and living their own lives with actual thoughts, feelings, emotions etc. You’re just becoming aware of the version of “you” in your DR.
Shifting is also NOT “creating” a reality. Since infinite realities already exist, there is a version of you in every reality you could possibly imagine. You’re simply choosing which reality to become aware of. You can be as specific as you want down to what happens in that reality, not because you created it, but because a reality where that specific event happens, already exists. We shift all the time anyway, we’re just putting a bit more intention into shifting to exactly where we want to be.
You don’t just spawn into a new reality, you’ve always been there, you’re just becoming conscious of yourself in your chosen reality.
“Is shifting related to mental health issues?”
Shifting is not psychosis, maladaptive daydreaming, lucid dreaming, astral projecting, or related to any mental health disorders. They are all separate and different things from shifting, and many people who experience both shifting and those other things mentioned have made it clear that shifting is entirely different. Here are some examples;
Shifting VS lucid dreaming: In a lucid dream, reality checks often fail, because it is a dream. You might have 6 fingers, be able to breathe through a closed nose, mirrors and words would be weird/off. While being fully lucid, you are also able to fully control what happens next, because it is your dream. In shifting, reality checks work, because it is an actual reality. It feels/works just like your current reality. Time would go by normally, mirrors and words are perfectly normal, etc. You also can’t control what happens next, because it is an actual reality, where the people in it are actual people. Unless you intend to be in a reality where a certain thing happens, things are out of your control, just like how it is here. While you’re shifted, the version of you that you leave behind also wakes up and continues life as per normal, going to work/school, doing chores etc, (more on this later), but when you lucid dream, you can only dream while you’re sleeping.
Shifting VS maladaptive daydreaming/psychosis: Any vivid daydreams/hallucinations caused by mental illnesses are out of your control, shifting is self induced and you are in full control of when you shift and when you want to come back. You can also choose to never shift again, while psychosis from mental health disorders are uncontrollable and are likely to occur again if left untreated. Hallucinations/daydreams also may last up to a day, while shifters can choose to spend weeks/months/years in their realities. In a maladaptive daydream, you often make facial expressions, speak quietly, etc while in the dream. Daydreaming also keeps some people from reality, leaving them unable to complete tasks. When you shift, the version of you that is left behind goes on with life as normal, with no trace that you are somewhere else, and is able to complete tasks. Because you aren’t in a dream, you’re quite literally in another reality.
Shifting VS astral projecting: Astral projecting is an out of body experience caused by you projecting your consciousness into the astral plane of our reality. You don’t have your 5 senses, and your body is just a vessel for you to return to. When you shift, you have all your senses, you are in a physical body from your DR, and there is a version of you that you leave behind in your current reality. P.S, do NOT try astral projecting if you don’t know what you’re doing. It can be dangerous.
“Can I get stuck in my DR?”
No. Just no. You can’t be stuck in any reality, because then you’d be stuck in time. Time is an illusion, the theory is that because infinite realities exist, realities where it is currently a different year/timeline exists. As you shift, you move forward in “time”. This is why you can shift to the past, and this is why you can script to come back to your original reality after 10 minutes even though it’s been a few months in your DR.
We are always shifting anyway, and if your intention brought you to your unfamiliar, new DR, it can easily bring you back to your good old, familiar CR.
“Is shifting against my religion?”
In short, no. If you shift to commit murder and choose sin in your DR, then yes. However, shifting itself is not a sin, because it is a natural process that we do all the time, every second. Pray/ask your God if you are still unsure.
“Can I bring things back?”
Nope. When you shift, you aren’t moving your physical body. You can’t shift with physical things, Things from your DR may not even exist in this reality. You can, however, script that an item from your CR exists in your DR as well, but it won’t be the same object.
Clones are the other versions of you that exist across the infinite realities out there. When you shift, the version of you left behind is a clone as well. The word “clone” is a poor choice of wording though, because they aren’t copies of you. They are literally just you, extensions of you throughout all the realities out there.
Clones are not evil beings that you can’t trust when you shift. Once you’re shifted, they wake up and continue life as per normal, because they are you. They won’t do anything that you wouldn’t do, so whatever they did while you were gone, is exactly what you would’ve done that day.
If you shift for a long time, and are gone for days or months, your clone will still go to school/work, sleep, eat, and do everything you would do.
No. Although you are technically the clone of other versions of you in other realities, and you and all your clones are the same person, the term clone is used to represent versions of you that you are not currently experiencing.
So you can’t technically ever be a clone in this context, because you are experiencing one reality right now. You, reading this, right now, are not a clone. I hope I make sense.
This is up to personal belief. Some people believe they can script clones to be aware that they are clones, and that you have shifted. Some people believe that their clones won’t know you’ve shifted. Whatever it is, your clones have awareness in the context that they are real people; they are you. Clones can shift, you and all your clones are shifting every second anyway, so they may attempt to shift if they/you would want to.
You can’t communicate with your clone that you leave behind, in my opinion, because there isn’t any way for us right here, right now, to receive any messages from other versions of ourselves in other realities.
“Can I see what my clone is doing?”
There is a way to know what your clone is doing via the LIFA app (more on that later). I’ve never heard of anyone being able to physically see their clone, though. But why would you want to? You shift to leave this reality, why would you want to observe what you would normally do anyway? Just enjoy your shift and trust that your clone won’t do anything you wouldn’t.
“Can I script/choose what my clone is like?”
Let’s take the example that you want to script your clone to be productive and study for your test while you’re gone. The clone you leave behind in your original reality is quite literally just you in that reality. So if you normally aren’t productive and studying 24/7, neither will your clone. However, you can shift back into a reality exactly like your original one, except you are productive.
In that context, you can “control” what your clone is like and make sure it completes certain tasks, but you’re not returning to your exact original reality, just an alternate one where you ended up completing the task. Remember the multiverse theory? Every time you make a decision you shift, so you’re just returning to a reality where you chose to do it, or your personality is slightly different.
But don’t be too afraid that you’re not returning to your exact original reality, because we shift every second anyway, we are not attached to any reality permanently.
“Will I remember what I did when I return?”
Yes. When you return to being aware of your original reality, you remember your experiences in that reality. It’s the same as remembering that you brushed your teeth the night before. The same goes for when you shift.
In my experience, when I shifted into another reality, I could remember my whole life in that reality, what it was like even before I shifted there, because I am now aware of myself in that reality. When I shifted back, memories of what my clone did came back to me.
The LIFA app is an app shifters can use to shift back with a push of a button, learn what their clone is doing, check the CR/DR time, change their scripts, and manifest money/clothes/anything into your DR. The LIFA app is not an actual downloadable app on the app store, but people script that it already exists and is on their phones in their DR.
However, you can manifest the app onto your phone in this reality. People have done so before, and provided screen recordings of them using the app. People used to say it was impossible, but I guess we’re only as limited as we believe. It is possible to shift into a reality exactly like this one, except you have the app. (AKA, manifesting.)
The app can look like anything you want, people have different versions of the app, it looks different for everyone. If you’ve manifested it in this reality, you can tap a button to shift to your DR, change your appearance in your current reality, or even manifest anything here.
People often script a feature on the app to see what their clones are doing, by receiving notifications or a diary entry of what their clones did in real time.
More on the LIFA app here, plus a video of an interactive LIFA app prototype: https://www.instagram.com/p/CLKzwm0nKap/?utm_medium=copy_link
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Here are some important terms to know in the shifting community.
CR/OR- Current/Original reality.
WR- Waiting room, this is often a reality with just a single house/room/building for a shifter to rest between shifts, work on their scripts, or go to for a break. Some people shift to their WR first and script that there is a door/portal to their DR. WRs are also used when people don’t want to return to their CR in between shifts.
SCRIPT- A list/entry where people can specify which reality to shift to in an organised way. You can script your appearance, life, friends, etc.
SAFEWORD- A specific word or phrase where you set the intention for it to bring you back to your CR.
SUBLIMINALS- Audio affirmations masked by ASMR/rain sounds, to change your subconscious beliefs about shifting/your abilities. Your beliefs create reality, so if you believe you shift easily, you will. Subliminals help make shifting easier, in general.
For more on subs/LOA, see here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ib5VNDJyAh7cwoQA4nd_1rMsSRK9LOSknYK1QlSD374/edit?usp=sharing
Scripting is the first step for many attempting a shift. Scripts are not necessary, however, because all you need for a successful shift is your intention. But, scripts are useful to keep you organised and help you be clear/sure of exactly which reality you want to go to.
You can include whatever you want in your script. Most people script things like their name, age, appearance, school/work, housing, friends/family, and pets in their DR. It can be any length, in any detail, on paper or on your phone, as long as it helps you know exactly where you want to go, it will work fine.
“What if I forget to script something?”
It doesn’t matter, you don’t have to script everything perfectly. Your script doesn’t shift you, you do. As long as you know where you want to go, you will get there. Your subconscious will know everything you want in your DR. Scripts just help you be more clear and organised.
“Can I script that I’m dating someone?”
Yeah, it won’t be forcing them in my opinion, because a reality already exists where you’re dating them. You’re just choosing to experience that specific reality where that already would happen.
“Can I script a change in my appearance?”
Yes. You can change your assigned gender at birth, your weight, height, age, every detail about your face, etc. There are infinite realities where you look like every person under the sun, so there is definitely a reality where you look like your desired appearance.
You can even script different family members, social economic status, a different house, anything, really.
“Can I script a change in my CR?”
Technically. You can always script to shift back into a reality exactly like your CR, but with the changes you want.
To get you started, here are a few things to include in your script.
TIME DIFFERENCE- You can script how much time passes in your CR while being in your DR. (E.g.1 hour in my DR is 1 minute in my CR).
SAFEWORD- Pick a word to bring you back. You can script that you will only shift back if you say it with the intention of shifting back, so you don’t say it on accident.
WORLD- In certain DRs like Hogwarts, the world might have different physics/laws. What is your DR world like? Are there magic or supernatural powers, and is it on earth?
BASIC INFO- Your name, age, height, weight, appearance, family, friendships, housing, etc. Where do you live? And with who? What are your best friends like? Do you have a S/O? Do you have special powers? If you’re at a school like Hogwarts, what is your house, wand type, patronus, blood status etc?
BACKSTORY- What was your life like growing up? How did you meet your S/O, friends, etc?
PROTECTION- You can script that you don’t die, can’t get injured, that you don’t bring trauma back, that people don’t suspect you shifted, that you don’t ever smell bad, etc. Not because you are suddenly superhuman, but because a reality where those things didn’t happen exists. You’re just shifting there.
General shorter DR script:
SCRIPT MASTERLIST (including tips, info, inspo, templates of multiple DRs):
Once you have your script, you can use methods to help you shift to your DR. Methods are different routines/things people do to help them shift.
There are awake methods, and asleep methods. Awake methods can be used to shift while you are aware, you should feel your surroundings start to change. Script that you open your eyes automatically when you’ve shifted so you won’t open your eyes too early and snap out of it. Asleep methods are used before you sleep, and usually ends with you drifting asleep. You’ll wake up in your DR. It helps to visualise yourself waking up in your DR and planning out what you’d do in your DR the next day before falling asleep. Almost all methods can be modified to either be an awake or asleep method.
SYMPTOMS- While doing methods, you might experience symptoms such as numbness, feeling floaty, seeing a white light, or even hearing voices/feeling touch from people in your DR when you’re really close to shifting. Some of these symptoms are common when you’re getting into a state of calmness called the void state, so it may not mean shifting, but it is a good sign that you’re getting there.
IMPORTANT: Methods are not crucial. Following the method exactly is not crucial. Methods are just there to help you feel as though you’re already in your DR. Methods work differently for everyone, what works for someone else may not work for you. Feel free to mix and match methods, or do a method that feels right to you at the moment. Follow your intuition, and trust yourself. Methods don’t shift you, only you can shift you. Don’t be too particular about methods.
That being said, here are of the most popular methods:
Lay on your back in a starfish position (no limbs touching). Close your eyes, focus on your breathing, clear your mind and count to 100 slowly. Try not to move. Take your time, and after you reach 100, visualize your DR. What’s the temperature like there? What would you see when you open your eyes? Are you sitting or laying down? What sounds would you hear? Picture it clearly using your 5 senses. Feel the emotions of actually being in your DR. Say affirmations like “I have shifted” and “I am in my desired reality” until you fall asleep. you should wake up in your DR.
(Optional) meditate for 5-10 minutes. Put on some theta waves or subliminals, whatever helps keep you calm. Lay down, close your eyes and deliberately relax every muscle in your body. Try not to move and clear your mind. Repeat, “I am”, or “I am shifting”, until you feel yourself in a void state/feel some symptoms, then start counting from 0-100. After you’ve finished counting, say identity affirmations like “My name is ___”, “I am in my desired ___ reality”, “I am __ years old”, etc, until you feel yourself disconnect from your body. Then, visualise your DR in detail, similar to the raven method, until you feel your surroundings change. You can also fall asleep at the end of this method.
Imagine yourself on a train heading to your DR. You can listen to train ambience sounds for a better effect. Look out the window and visualise scenes from your DR playing out. Keep visualising until you feel the train stopping. Once the train doors open, step out and see your DR self sleeping in your DR room. Look behind to see the train disappear. Walk towards your DR body, and imagine yourself merging into it. You should wake up in your DR.
Place your script/a paper with affirmations that you will shift overnight under your pillow and go to sleep. You should wake up in your DR. This method can be used on top of any other method.
Lay down, get comfortable, close your eyes and imagine you are physically in your DR. Really feel it in detail with your 5 senses. How do your sheets feel against your skin? Do you feel the weight of your hair against your shoulders? If there is a fireplace, do you feel its heat? Is it raining outside the window? Can you hear any sounds from your DR? Do you smell or taste anything? Are you laying in your bed or sitting up somewhere? Is anyone talking to you? What would you see if you opened your eyes? Keep visualising and affirming that you ARE in your DR, until your surroundings start to change. You can also fall asleep and wake up in your DR.
Imagine yourself on an elevator, feel yourself going up. Affirm between each floor that you are shifting to your DR. Visualise each floor to be scenes from your DR, or other alternate realities. When you feel ready, imagine the elevator stopping. Get out, and you should see your DR. Visualise yourself being in your DR body when you step out and you should be there.
Pick a song (usually one that reminds you of your DR or a person from your dr). Imagine you are dancing to or enjoying the song with someone from your DR. At the end of the song, they lead you to a door and open it, revealing a bright white light. Say your affirmations and walk through the door. You should only see white light. You will experience the normal symptoms (numbness, tingling, feelings of heaviness, feeling like you're floating, etc). Once the symptoms subside, affirm once more and fall asleep. You should wake up in your DR.
Imagine yourself climbing a staircase. Really picture the stairs, feel your legs climbing it. Climb for however long you desire. When you reach the top, there will be a door and a mirror, look into the mirror at yourself. Observe yourself as it will be the last time you see your CR self for a while. When you are done and feel ready to shift, feel yourself opening the door and stepping through it to get to your DR. Fall asleep and you should wake up in your DR.
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Imagine yourself in a field, sitting against a tree. Feel the sun, the grass against your skin, smell the crisp air around you, etc. Visualise someone from your DR running past you. Run after them, they will run towards and fall into a large rabbit hole. Fall in after them. Feel yourself falling for as long as you like. While you are falling, you should feel symptoms. Once you hit the bottom, visualise a table with a key on it. Look around to find a door, and once you find it, use the key to open it. On the other side of the door you should see your DR, walk through it and close the door. Fall asleep and you should wake up in your DR.
Close your eyes or put a blindfold on. Imagine yourself walking up to your DR self, feel yourself merging with them, becoming one. You are now your DR self. Fall asleep, and you should wake up in your DR.
Use this method when you are really drowsy and falling asleep. Get into a comfortable position, close your eyes, and think about your DR. Really visualise yourself in it, with your 5 senses. Once you are drifting asleep, affirm “I intend to wake up in my DR.” Visualise waking up in your DR room, what you plan to do the next day, etc. Keep affirming and visualising this until you fall asleep. Have no doubts about being in your DR the next day, and you should wake up there.
There are other methods out there, you can find them on reddit or amino, but these are the most common ones.
“What if I can’t stay still/visualise easily?”
You don’t have to follow methods exactly as they are written. Methods are just what works best for that specific person, you can even come up with your own method that works for you. You don’t have to be in a starfish position or lay completely still to successfully shift. If you think there are requirements/rules in order for you to shift, there will be. The only thing that really matters is your intent and belief. Intend to shift, and believe/trust that you will. This is why visualising what I’m going to do in my DR the next morning works so well for me. It sets an intention to wake up in my DR and do those things, and it makes me trust that the next morning, I’m going to be there to do it.
There are also non visualisation methods where you just affirm and believe, or feel the emotions of being in your DR, for people who can’t visualise. People have shifted in class, on the bus, in the shower, with their eyes open, etc. Although the majority of people shift in the starfish method, you can shift in any position you want. If the starfish position makes you uncomfortable and keeps you grounded in your current reality, then don’t do it. It’s more important to feel connected to your DR.
Because we’ve grown up believing that things like shifting are impossible or too good to be true, it’s so rooted in our subconscious that it’s not logical/possible. This is why we don’t just shift overnight on the first try (although you can). The truth is, shifting is easy. It’s as easy as breathing, we’ve just been so wired to believe that it’s not.
Even if you tell yourself you’re going to shift, ask yourself if you really believe it. Changing subconscious beliefs isn’t easy, and it takes time. If you don’t shift overnight, don’t react to it. It’s okay to be a little disappointed, but don’t let it affect your faith that you can shift easily. If each failed attempt leads you to believe “I just can’t shift, it’s so hard”, then that’s what will manifest. Subconscious beliefs and your thoughts create reality. Don’t make it hard for yourself.
Some people take a week to shift, some people take 2 years. Everyone’s shifting journey is different, and most of the time people take longer because of their beliefs/habits/outlook on shifting itself. Don’t compare your shifting journey to someone else’s.
Persist in knowing you can shift easily. Affirm it everyday when you wake up, and really believe it. Each “failed” attempt is getting you closer and closer.
Don’t put pressure on yourself to shift.
It’s okay to use shifting as a coping mechanism to escape reality, especially if you are in a toxic/abusive household etc. I understand you’d want to shift out of your rough life as soon as possible, but this could be what is holding you back.
Shifting is often a hobby for people. When you use it for escapism, or when you set a deadline you have to shift by, each time you don’t succeed, it starts to matter to you more and more. Because there is so much pressure on you to succeed, you are now in a place where you feel like you lack your desire (shifting successfully).
This ties in with manifestation. In order to manifest a successful shift, you have to always assume yourself to be, and feel the emotions of already being a master shifter. Manifestation works by always knowing your desires are already yours. You’re not trying to achieve/get anything, because it’s already yours, no matter what your reality shows you. Persist in knowing you already have your desire long enough, and it will manifest, because thoughts create reality.
Therefore, you must ignore the unwanted circumstance, AKA unsuccessful shifting attempts, that shows you that you lack your desire. Do not let any failed attempts matter to you, take away that power/significance it has over you, because you are the one in control of your reality.
When you absolutely have to shift because your life is tough here, it gets hard to ignore those unwanted circumstances, and you’d start to give in to what reality is showing you. You’d start questioning why you haven’t shifted yet, why it’s so hard for you, and those assumptions will manifest, making it even harder for you to shift.
So take care of yourself in this reality. Accept yourself being in this CR as it is, don’t let yourself being here bother you/have any power over you. Complete the chores you’re holding off until “after you shift”. Take breaks from shifting if you feel burnt out. Act as if you are here in your CR by choice, not because you are forced to be. Because you can shift, easily, anywhere you want.
PERMA SHIFTING & RESPAWNING
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You can shift permanently to your DR. It doesn’t have to be a DR like Hogwarts/MCU, you can permanently shift to a DR exactly like your current reality, but you look different, have a different family, etc.
No you won’t shift back unless you intend to. Yes, you will have memories of your CR, but looking at the experiences of shifters who have spent years in their DR, their CR memories started to fade after a few years. Just like how you probably don’t remember much from when you were 7.
“How do I permanently shift?”
Literally just shift and don’t come back. Your clone will remain here living your life in this reality, the same way that there’s a clone living your life in a reality where you chose to eat cereal instead of an apple. You still have the option of coming back if you want to.
“Am I abandoning my CR friends/family?”
Your clone will still be here, like you never left, so no one would really be able to tell that you shifted. So no. Also, according to the multiverse theory, there are also infinite versions of your friends/family, and we can only experience 1 reality at a time, so who’s to say that your friends/family in your CR aren’t just clones?
Your mother might be aware of/living in another reality where things are slightly different, but her clone is here in your CR with you. The same goes for everyone else around you on the planet. We won’t know who is actually here, experiencing the same reality as us. Because clones are real people and real versions of them, and especially if they don’t know about shifting, the clones aren’t aware that they are clones.
“When I die, will I return to my CR?”
In short, no one really knows. Nobody knows what happens when we die for sure. But, I will say that we are always shifting every second of the day, this is just deliberately choosing exactly where to shift to. Once we get to our DR, we continue to shift as we move, blink, make decisions etc. It’s not really that different from our daily shifts. We are not tied to/connected to any specific reality since we shift all the time. So in my personal opinion, no you won’t return.
“Can I continue to shift in my DR?”
Yes. You can shift anywhere once you get to your DR. It’s simply another reality, you can continue to shift from there.
You can also respawn to your DR. Respawning is simply shifting to your DR and cutting ties with your CR. If you respawn, you cannot come back, and you can script to forget your CR ever existed. Basically, reincarnation. You do it the same way with shifting, but instead of shifting, set your intention to respawn.
Respawning does NOT have to involve dea*h. It can if intended, but I would not recommend this route. It is simply cutting ties with your CR. You can’t accidentally respawn, and you may return to an alternate version of your CR, but not your original CR.
I’m not too knowledgeable on this topic, and I understand how respawning is a sensitive thing to discuss, so here is a guide on it if you are interested (please be safe and smart!):
Remember to take everything on forums/online with a grain of salt, there is a bit of misinformation online (especially TikTok).
Intro to shifting on the shifting subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/shiftingrealities/comments/mn86d1/start_here/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
Multiverse theory information:
A shifter’s experience having shifted for 7 months (in CR time): https://www.reddit.com/r/shiftingrealities/comments/mzkt5v/i_shifted_for_7_cr_months_to_escape_this/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
7 Tips from an experienced shifter: https://www.reddit.com/r/shiftingrealities/comments/o610jz/7_tipsunpopular_opinions_from_someone_who_shifts/
AMAs from experienced shifters:
Subliminals for shifting (long) :
Subliminals for shifting (short) :
(futuristic makes a lot of shifting related subs and they’re all great so here’s their channel): https://www.youtube.com/c/HYSTERIA555/videos
A playlist with a 100 shifting subliminals (short, now 94 because some channels were deleted): https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHaUPp0kl8hMcv8bzHwGrlx0zTozISBkH
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