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anyone else feel guilty when they stop focusing on one dr to script another

Does anyone else have any combined DRs? For example:

One of my DRs is the Guild Hunter universe because the idea of angels and vampires running around as part of normal everyday modern life sounds awesome. However, I don't want to be a member of the hunters' guild, I just want to be in that world so I can romance an angel or a vampire. So I had to come up with a different job for myself.

Since the angels are the upper tier of society that most normal people don't interact with, I figured that I needed to do something that would make them interested in me or make me valuable to them. There's a lot of reference throughout the series to how much angels are fascinated by human artists (because their work shows the world in a way only a mortal's fleeting time on Earth could) so I decided to make this also my fame DR.

I did actually consider making it my streamer DR for a while but now I'm pretty settled on being a singer. I was thinking of going for a very bluesy lounge singer vibe, but then again... I also really love Dark Pop.

Anyway, tell me what outside the box things you've planned for your DRs!

There have been some downright rude posts on here for a while now that I think started out as people trying to show "tough love" a la personal trainers, but it's incredibly irritating. If you have nothing constructive to say about shifting then just stick to memes/mood boards/storytimes.

Next person who swears at me over the fact I haven't shifted or tells me I'm an idiot for saying it, I'm going to shift to a reality where I have homing teleportation, warp to their location and smack them six ways to Sunday.

I know everyone likes to think that shitblr is significantly better than shiftok but it's slowly starting to become the same with the recycled advice and judgmental mindsets. Every single advice post is the exact same with the exact same rude "it's your fault you haven't shifted" vibe to it. Which, especially for mentally ill and neurodivergent people is extremely harmful and does nothing but make them feel worthless and like they'll never shift. It's not difficult to be kind, and if it is for you then don't make content that people will listen to.

Because shifting is my destiny

Another Facebook find shamelessly appropriated to my shifting blog.

~*~*~ Paraphrased entry from my diary because I have no-one to talk to about this stuff and I'm really excited ~*~*~

A few weeks ago I remembered a dream I had back in November 2023. It was about someone I'm interested in romantically in one of my DRs, and it ended with him saying the words, "You need to get stronger, little one." In the context of the dream and my shifting journey in general, I took it to mean I wasn't ready to shift and meet him yet, that I had more work to do.

Fast forward a year and I'd kind of forgotten about it. When I did remember it again, I also remembered the things I'd been testing out around that time and realised I'd kind of gotten off track a bit. I also realised I hadn't dreamed about him in a year, even though I used to dream about him a lot, for years and years.

So I decided to try and influence my subconscious with this thought: "When I'm getting close to shifting, I'll dream about him again and in the dream [some specific details relating to past dreams that will happen differently this time]." Well, the dream didn't happen that night as I'd hoped it would. In fact it's been weeks, so long I'd forgotten I'd even set that affirmation. Until last night.

Last night I dreamed about him again, and all the details I specified were there. In fact it was even better than what I'd asked for. So, according to my subconscious: shit's imminent. I can't wait.

Found this on Facebook. The shifting coded posts are everywhere.

shifting is comfortability

Do what feels right for you. If you believe that drinking water will make you shift, then so be it.

I think the reason why a lot of people struggle with shifting is because they may be putting aside their own needs and forcing what works for others onto themselves.

You will not be comfortable.

If you don’t like meditation but you’ve seen it work for people, then don’t force it upon yourself. Shifting is a very personal journey.

That’s why some stuff may work for other people and not for you, but thats okay. It’s not the end all be all.

Write down shifting attempts you remember and find out what got you close. With that you can make your method that is suited to your and your needs. If you believe this method will make you shift, then you WILL shift.

And then I go and spoil it all by saying something stupid like "I shifted for you".

Did half of shiftblr block me or something? I swear my feed only has, like, four posts in it at any one time now.

how it feels to be online these days

All right, kids, this question has been on my mind for a long time after I noticed a trend in people's success stories, but now I'm hearing some very adamant opinions in the AP community and I'm curious to see if I'm right.

I'm about to tell you something wild about Tumblr that will blow your mind:

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It's YOUR blog.

You can do whatever you want.

my proffesors wondering why i'm using my studio time to test the limits of green screen and why i'm trying to realistically edit myself into fake scenes from my desired reality 😔

ON A SERIOUS NOTE, is it socially acceptable on the tumblr side of life to post edits of your DRs or manips / scenes for motivation??

my goodness I met the coolest girl in college who is teaching me all about using your face to create AI renderings of your DRself and it is so so cool SHOULD I POST THEM DO PEOPLE DO THAT??

i've spent so long learning about ai in art classes and incorporating it into my life (logically and not letting ai do all of the work ‼️) and the results I have are SO COOL,, it has seriously pulled me out of my shifting slump bc seeing the process between green screen me and the edited end result IS CRAZY

I mostly just make these manips for personal motivation but idk it might be cool to recreate scenes or polaroids or moments from my desired realities ??

let me know what you guys think!! <3

Experienced shifters: Shifting is not that hard. Just pick a goddamn DR and stick to it. Me:

how mfs who knew about shifting in 2020 looked like with a 8 hour subliminal blasting in their ears😭😭‼️🔥🔥

This morning I realised I was still tired and could go back to sleep and try something. I'm not sure why, but for some reason I picked doing SSILD cycles. Well they sure worked. I had so many lucid dreams in a row, as well as another false awakening. If I could just get better at stabilising the dream I could be walking through portals every night.

People lied when they said the shifting police isn't real because by the way some of these "shifters" act trying to control what other shifter do in their drs no luv they're real and they're hiding in plain sight

Last night I actually managed to induce faint vibrations. And that was AFTER I successfully hypnotised myself on my own with no guided audio in about 30 seconds. (Look up the Betty Erickson technique if you want to try it too. A few popular shifting methods are actually misinterpretations of that hypnosis induction.)

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For some reason I just keep getting better at everything but shifting. Oh well, I'm choosing to look on the positive side - the more skills I learn, the closer I get to shifting regardless.

Me, every time.

not being able to choose a dr to shift to is messing with my head 😭

do I shift to my spiderverse dr?? my batfam dr?? my mha dr?? should I make new ones since those interactive fictions I love so much won’t leave my brain??

I really need to choose. like yesterday, I lay down, was like “I’m in my spiderverse dr” and then my thoughts start wandering and I confuse myself 💀

Not feeling great today but another quick update. No shifting yet, but all but one of my last 7 dream journal entries were some level of lucid. At the moment I'm playing around with meditating on the inner sound before bed.

Okay I've been missing for a bit because I was trying something new that I saw on YouTube.

My OG plan died because I got bored of the DR I was shifting to and couldn't make myself keep daydreaming about it. But then I was on the Astral Projection subreddit and saw people talking about this one really helpful community member's YouTube channel. I decided to check it out and saw he had a video basically centred around "last ditch efforts to help you astral project". And since I know some people have managed to shift through astral projection, I've been trying it for the last three days.

What I basically did was ground myself. And no, I don't mean I molested every cushion in my living room or tried to make myself smell vanilla, I mean I treated myself like a naughty child and took away everything I considered fun and stimulating except for the knitting projects I'm working on. Every time I got frustrated or wanted to take a break and eat a nice snack or watch some TV I would tell myself, "Too bad. No snacks until you shift. No TV until you shift."

And let me tell you, literally day one I got results. After one trip to the supermarket with my boyfriend lamenting the fact I couldn't buy donuts or macarons or any of the nice things I was walking past, I went to sleep that night and had my first ever false awakening. Literally I have never had one in my life before, I try this and BAM!

But it was so much more than that.

I was struggling to sleep, so I put on an Alunir video because I find her voice really relaxing and I figured that even if I didn't shift from it I'd still fall asleep. I had random dreams for a bit that I don't remember, but then I was suddenly lying in my childhood bed at my parents' old house. As I was looking around the room I heard Alunir's voice still playing through my sleep mask and that made me realise I was dreaming.

Obviously as soon as I realised that I closed my eyes in the dream and tried to follow along with the prompts and visualise my DR, but everything started to shake and I heard growling and I got scared enough to wake up. Which is incredibly annoying because if you know anything about astral projection THOSE ARE TWO REALLY COMMON THINGS THAT HAPPEN TO PEOPLE RIGHT BEFORE THEY LEAVE THEIR BODY.

So I'm super mad that I got too scared and woke myself up, but at the same time I'm really excited because I think that's the most progress I've had in a long long time.

I didn't have anymore progress last night but it was really hot and I struggled to sleep. We just had a storm and things have cooled down a bit so I'm hoping tonight will be better. Wish me luck!!

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Obviously because of this method I've mostly been on a social media ban but I figured I'd give a quick update to keep the blog active.

Found this on pinterest.

Felt inspired. Thought I should repost.

I like how more people liked my update post than the original instructions on what I was actually doing 🤷‍♀️

So it's actually been surprisingly easy to remember to practise throughout the day. I think it might be because lately I keep noticing a lot of angel numbers, so because I knew I was already checking the clock a lot I told myself, "Every time I look at the time I'll remember to say, 'I shifted!' and do my visualising."

The visualisations have NOT been clear at all, but I'm hoping that telling myself a little story about what I'm up to right now in my DR and just thinking about the fun and frustrations of everyday life will be enough to get my subconscious working on the problem. I've definitely thought more about my DR in a single day than I have probably ever.

Beginner Mindset

Recently while doing a tarot reading for myself about my shifting journey, I drew a card that said I needed to "embrace a beginner mindset". I've been thinking a lot about what that means, and as a results I've begun the process of starting my shifting journey from scratch. Coincidentally, I’ve also seen a lot of posts from others about going back to that baby shifter feeling, when it's all about being IN your DR not GETTING TO your DR; thinking about the end result, not the way of getting there.

In that vein, today I saw a YouTube video about training your brain to lucid dream after years of failure, and re-capturing the feeling of excitement around it. I’ve decided I'm going to apply the techniques outlined there to shifting.

These were the main points:

List out all the things you're excited to do in a lucid dream and highlight your top three

Think throughout the day, “This is a dream” and then imagine if this was a dream, what you would do to take control and achieve one of your top three things.

Keep lucid dreaming at the forefront of your mind throughout the day

There were other points too, but these are the ones I think are most applicable to shifting. So from now on I'm going to focus on one DR, and start keeping that at the front of my mind and think about all the things I'm excited to do while shifting there.

I’ve already started by writing the list of 20 things and highlighted my top three (let me know if you want to see a follow-up post with my list). From here, throughout the day, rather than tell myself I’m dreaming, I’m going to go, “Oh, I’ve shifted!” and then imagine that instead of being wherever I am, that I’m currently experiencing something from that list. Preferably the top three, but it was very hard to pick just three things so I don’t see why I can’t expand it to more. The idea was to increase my desire to go to/excitement over that DR anyway, and that has definitely happened.

I’ve been thinking for a while that the reason some people might be having more success than me, is that for a very long time now I’ve found it really hard to daydream. I don’t know why, given I used to do it every night to help me sleep, but for years now it’s like I keep stopping myself, like it's silly or something. Being a writer I often get too caught up in what’s realistic or a good plot/scene rather than just enjoying the process, so I can absolutely see how I could get in my own way like that.

My hope is that giving myself these parameters like, “Imagine you’re actually having lunch in [x] right now!” or “Imagine what it would be like to learn [y]!” will help make daydreaming more achievable. Rather than imagining bigger stories, I’m just living through those tiny everyday moments. And from what I’ve heard from some of the bigger experienced shifters, imagining those everyday moments can really help your subconscious start to see your DR as a real place rather than a fantasy.

At the very least I’m going to try and do it every day for a week. Given I find it really hard to build habits, I’m not expecting to remember to do this very often in the first few days, so I’ll definitely be extending the experiment to up to three weeks if necessary.

Anyway, thanks for reading my first post and another Big Brave Step for me into the shifting community after two years of mostly lurking. Please send love and encouragement so I can do more of these. I'd definitely be down to blog how the experiment goes from day to day, or answer asks about my DRs (I have so many 😅).