— My Favourite Shifting Method

affirmed a few times last night that I was gonna lucid dream and wake up early,, just to see if entering a lucid dream was literally as simple as that

and it was🧍

I entered a lucid dream and I woke up earlier than I typically do,, even before my alarm

at some point within my dream I even felt myself to start waking up, but ive had this problem before and have been researching grounding techniques, and I remembered to apply them and I stayed fully asleep

it’s just so crazy to me!

I keep having dreams about a certain reality I’ve been attempting to shift to during the years,,, it’s not my current main one, my previous main one, or even a reality I’ve thought of in a while,, so I’m gonna take that as a little sign to shift to that reality

but oh my god,, I actually set intention to lucid dream and I did it

the minds so powerful and is capable of literally anything,, I just need to keep reminding myself that

THINGS THAT HUMANISE YOUR DRs.

ৎ SIMPLE, HUMANISING THINGS :

⋆ forgetting where you placed your favourite book and finding it weeks later under the sofa.

⋆ your favourite sweater has a small snag, and you're debating whether to fix it or keep it as is.

⋆ a mug with a tiny chip in it that you still use because it's your mug.

⋆ a bit of dust on the piano keys or an unmade bed when you're in a rush.

⋆ tripping over your dog/cat/stuffed elephant because they're lying in the doorway.

⋆ shoes that hurt but you still wear them because they look good with your outfit.

⋆ your favourite jeans have that one little rip that keeps catching on things, but you refuse to stop wearing them.

⋆ spending ages finding the perfect lighting for selfies, only to hate them all later.

⋆ accidentally biting the inside of your cheek while eating and then obsessively poking at it for hours.

⋆ a specific smell in your wardrobe—a mix of old perfume and wood—that you’ll never be able to explain to anyone else.

⋆ stepping into your shower and realising someone moved all the bottles around, leaving you scrambling to find your conditioner.

ৎ A BIT MORE IMMERSIVE AND FLAWED :

⋆ spilling coffee on your notes for an important meeting, and the frantic wiping and swearing that follows.

⋆ hair that won't co-operate no matter how much you brush or style it.

⋆ a scratch on your favourite vinyl record that skips during your most-loved song.

⋆ wearing mismatched socks because it was too early to care.

⋆ running out of your signature perfume and having to use something random you don’t quite love.

ৎ FAME RELATED :

⋆ paparazzi catching you mid-sneeze and that photo somehow going viral.

⋆ having to sign something bizarre, like a fan’s forehead, and wondering how your life came to this moment.

⋆ someone mispronouncing your name or a film title in an awards speech, and you laughing about it later (but it still stings).

⋆ the occasional paranoia about people liking you for your fame rather than you.

⋆ attending a fashion show and feeling like everyone is silently judging your outfit.

⋆ arriving five minutes late to a glamorous event because you underestimated how long it would take to tie your shoes.

⋆ a director giving you confusing instructions on set, so you end up delivering the most awkward line of your career.

⋆ fans who ask the same question in interviews repeatedly, and you have to smile through it like you’re hearing it for the first time.

⋆ losing your train of thought during a speech and having to awkwardly laugh it off.

⋆ a quiet moment backstage when you realise you forgot to eat, and now you’re inhaling a slightly stale croissant.

⋆ the ache in your feet after a long day on set, and that moment of relief when you finally kick off your shoes.

ৎ RELATIONSHIP AND INTIMACY :

⋆ an inside joke with your s/o that doesn’t make sense anymore, but you keep saying it to each other anyway.

⋆ him stealing a bite of your food every time, even when you specifically said you weren’t sharing.

⋆ a silly fight over who hogs the covers, only to end up tangled together anyway.

⋆ watching him try to cook and making a complete mess of the kitchen, flour on his nose, but you can’t stop smiling.

⋆ a fight with your s/o about something petty, like who forgot to take out the rubbish, and realising later how ridiculous it was.

ৎ OVERWHELMING AND OVERSTIMULATING :

⋆ sitting in your apartment but feeling lonely in a way that your friends can’t fix.

⋆ misplacing your phone, then realising it's right next to you after searching everywhere.

⋆ public appearances where everything feels too loud.

⋆ losing a ring or piece of jewellery with sentimental value and feeling like it’s all you can think about.

⋆ rain-soaked boots squeaking as you walk through a marble lobby, and the humiliation of slipping just a little bit.

⋆ a room so crowded and loud that it feels impossible to breathe, but you’re too stuck to leave.

⋆ the guilt of not responding to texts from friends and family because you forgot.

⋆ waking up in your apartment, and for a second, forgetting where you are, feeling disoriented but comforted by the soft hum of the city.

ৎ MICRO HUMANISING MOMENTS :

⋆ that soft hum of traffic drifting through your balcony at night.

⋆ the slight stickiness of your lip gloss on a windy day (ugh, hair always gets stuck in it).

⋆ the cold marble of a building against your hand when you lean against it while chatting.

⋆ a pen exploding in your bag, staining the inside and making you swear you’ll be more careful next time (you won’t).

⋆ the faint sound of your upstairs neighbour vacuuming, reminding you that even in your dr, you’re part of a shared world.

— SHIFT WHEN YOU ARE TIRED

it’s called hypnagogia. the amount of times i’ve nearly shifted with this method is UNREAL.

hypnagogia is a state between wakefulness and sleep.

have you ever been watching a show/movie etc. and you keep dozing off to sleep and keep waking up, yeah it’s that.

usually in this state people hear/see scary stuff but it ain’t real

when you are on the brink of sleep, try not to move so you don’t get rid of that drowsy ness

lay in a comfy position and you can

say affirmations

visualisation

use 5 senses

listen to music that reminds you of ur dr

you will almost feel symptoms instantly because you have been detached from your CR and this makes attaching to your DR more easier.

this method really works litch tried it in school and felt my surroundings change but i got scared my teacher would snitch and woke up…

but hope this helps !

my complete guide to sleep paralysis and shifting

Please please look here before sending another ask about it. If it’s a unique question then it will be added here. Instead of answering each individual ask. I just combined them here. Each question is a paraphrased version of your ask. If you weren’t anonymous I tagged you, or if you left an emoji I put that in the question to indicate what was yours.

How do I induce sleep paralysis?/I noticed you mange to get sleep paralysis and since I'm trying to get it to for the void state, do you have any tips for a guaranteed way to enter sleep paralysis and maybe your method too?/For sleep paralysis I only need to lie down and wait for my body to fall asleep and my brain thinking I am already asleep right?/ I’d like to ask if you listen to anything while inducing it ? And if you affirm for sp or the mantra “mind awake body sleep" ? / I just wanted to ask if you had any methods or tips for people who struggle with inducing sleep paralysis also is there a DR that you visit frequently 🌻 💙 (˶ˆᗜˆ˵)

I’ve always naturally had sleep paralysis. If usually occurred when I was scared or on edge at night. I sometimes got it in an unfamiliar location. Sleep paralysis was something I started to get around ten to twelve, when I’d be scared at night. I’d wake up in it at night and later began to shift through it. But eventually I stopped getting it so I started to induce it. I usually wake up throughout the night anyways. I’ve always have. So once I make myself kind of paranoid. I lay down to sleep and close my eyes for about 5 minutes. As I fall asleep I open my eyes for about a minute. And I kind of do that over and over again until my eyes are heavy. Then I just wake up in sleep paralysis once I’m finally asleep. But I don’t always have to induce it and sometimes still wake up in it. It only takes me about five minutes to shift from it. I don’t listen to anything because I usually wake up in the middle of the night with it and my AirPods are already dead by then. When I affirm, I just say whatever I want. Usually it’s I’m shifting or specific affirmations to my dr. I usually but it can be longer like fifteen minutes. The dr I visit the most frequently is probably my main dr because it’s very chill old money vibes.

Do I have to be in sleep paralysis or some altered state to shift?/Is Sleep Paralysis necessary because I like to shift from it?

No. Definitely not. You can shift however you want to. I personally shift a lot of the times by just thinking about where I want to go. So you can do whatever really. The only commonality about every shifting success was that I eventually became so focused on my dr that I wasn’t thinking of anything else and convinced I was there. Every method and state is kind of to help get to that point.

Aren’t all methods, including sleep paralysis, dependent on mindset, like needing to convince myself that I can achieve it or shift from it? Should I try to push past the doubts and fully convince myself that I can do it?

There is no need to fix your mindset to achieve sleep paralysis or shift from it. Plenty of people do both of these things without knowing and with no knowledge of how it works. I don’t why people still think a mindset change is necessary. It’s only as necessary as you make it. I never changed my mindset instead I kind of just trust that whatever I do it’ll work out just how it needs to. But I’ve always kind of been like that. If you feel like changing your mindset will help you trust in yourself. Then do it. But all you need to do is trust yourself.

Doesn’t getting sleep paralysis feel like when you shift? Like when you get SP it’s instant and you just KNOW you’re in there, is it the same with shifting?

It’s kind of like that I guess. I’d put it more closely to falling asleep where it’s kind of gradual with sounds and smells, and then all of a sudden your asleep or there and everything loads instantly into your mind.

And I was wondering what is the next step when in SP? Do I just affirm and visualize my dr and it manifests instantly?

Usually once I get into sleep paralysis, I just start affirming and thinking about where I’m going. Sleep paralysis is not the void state. At least not in my experience. When I shift through sleep paralysis it takes maybe five minutes. And I hear sounds and smells, and then I shift. While with the void state it is instant.

Should I keep trying to induce sleep paralysis despite feeling scared, or should I explore other methods?

Not if it makes you feel uncomfortable. Methods only work (at least for me) if you want to be doing them. If you’re just doing it because everyone else is. It’s just going to make you drag your feet about it. Explore other methods and if that feels better keep going.

How do you push through the state when your body resists falling asleep while trying to shift with sleep paralysis, and has this ever been an issue for you?

Just chill out really and don’t care about it. Just focus on what outcome you want from it. I.e. your dr. I usually fall asleep first then wake up later on in the night. And then either get sleep paralysis or try to induce it. You should ideally be awake but not too awake. And do not turn on your phone at all. For any reason.

I experience sleep paralysis daily, so I’ve been trying to shift with it, but I can only get to the point where my body feels like it’s in a different position and I’m visualizing my desired reality, but can’t progress further./Could you offer any advice or tips to help me successfully achieve sleep paralysis for accessing the void, as I’ve only experienced some heat and vibrations so far?/I want to try shifting through sleep paralysis, but I either fall asleep or end up moving after 45 minutes of trying; do you have any tips to help me stay in the paralysis state?

Just keep going with it. If it feels right just keep trying it until you find a rhythm that works for you. It might be a good sign for you that you are feeling something. Especially if you never felt any type of symptoms with shifting. I can only really tell you to experiment with different things and see what gets you closest. And what makes you feel the most positive. However, if you feel it’s not working. Or if you tried everything and it doesn’t work. Then it might not be for you or you can just detach your emotions from the method. And just do it for fun and not to get anything out of it. The only tips I can really give you is to somehow do the opposite of whatever you’ve been doing. If it hasn’t worked so far then flip it on its head. Try a more uncomfortable position, do affirmations of don’t do them. Just experiment with them.

Do you have any tips for overcoming the discomfort of the “roll over signal” when trying to manually induce sleep paralysis?/Is it normal to feel a burning weight on my back during sleep paralysis when trying to shift, and should I wait longer despite the discomfort to see if it eventually works?/As soon as the roll over signal disappears and I feel like heavy I start to “panic” because I feel so close to shifting which makes me sabotage my own attempt?

When that happens to me I just focus on the itching going away and think of myself scratching it. It usually goes away after a bit. It just feels really bad while it’s happening but lasts about four minutes. So just keep pushing through. I take things like that as I sign I’m shifting when I’m uncomfortable. Because usually when I’m uncomfortable I’m close to shifting. Because the itching or burning is more of an illusion. Whenever I stop to scratch it’s literally not there. So I just think of it to be as a hurdle I have to cross. And just continue to wait longer and distract myself. Just take it easy really and observe and relish in the journey of getting there. You’re going to shift eventually just watch it come to pass.

I want to try this but the sleep paralysis thing scares me😭 I’ve never even experienced that (that I’m aware of) but the idea of it freaks me out. Is it scary?/How do you get into a sleeping paralysis 😭😭 it kinda sounds scary because when I think of sleeping paralysis I think of these demon looking things .. is it even the same thing??

I don’t think it’s that scary. When I have it I’m pretty calm. A little freaked out that I can’t move but it’s pretty easygoing. I’ve never experienced hallucinations while in it but some people do. Although I think the amount of people that do isn’t that much. As a lot of people probably get it but never talk about it because it’s not remarkable.

Hi!, do i have to open my eyes when i enter sleep paralysis or can i keep them closed and still shift because during sleep paralysis my eyes aren’t open i just see black, thank you.

Good question. Again sleep paralysis is not the void state. Whenever I have had sleep paralysis I can’t move anything at all. It’s kind of forced to be closed because you cannot move anything at all.

How are you, Leyden? I am a beginner shifter, at some point I can easily get to paralysis sleep and control my dreams, however sometimes there are moments when doubts or fears kick in, but I always try my best to convince myself to believe that I can shift (I had mini-shift) So, as you said earlier on, one of your posts you always knew that you are meant to see others realities, and that is happening with me, deep inside I know the reality I'm in right now is not where i should be, like I don't know how to explain, but I know I was born for something bigger. I'm only 17 years old 😅 I simply wanted to share my thoughts, because, I think I'm close for something.. anyway, thank you, Leyden. Your posts are the best! 🐆

Thank you so much! At first it was hard to convince myself that I could actually shift. But the more you do it the more real it becomes. To kind of relieve the doubts. I would kind of soothe my brain to stop caring about what you’re experience. And just take it in for what it is.

Hi! I have a question—last night I tried WBTB or SP, but I kept getting scared when my heart started beating fast. Later, I think I fell asleep on my side but woke up unable to move, with everything vibrating and only hearing the music I was listening to—was this sleep paralysis or something else?

That definitely seems to be sleep paralysis. Usually you can hear when you have it. At least I can and I often feel the vibrations. So congratulations!

That’s all the asks I have as of now about sleep paralysis. I hoped that answered all of them.

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i can’t wait to know my s/o’s patterns, they way they fidget, the way their mouth moves when the say certain words, their facial expressions

i can’t wait to know them

Songs That Remind Me of Shifting - ‘Come Alive, The Greatest Showman

You stumble through your days Got your head hung low, your sky's a shade of gray Like a zombie in a maze You're asleep inside, but you can shake awake

Cause you're just a dead man walkin' Thinkin' that's your only option But you can flip the switch and brighten up your darkest day Sun is up and the color's blindin' Take the world and redefine it Leave behind your narrow mind, you'll never be the same

Come alive, come alive Go and light your light, let it burn so bright Reachin' up to the sky And it's open wide, you're electrified And the world becomes a fantasy And you're more than you could ever be 'Cause you're dreamin' with your eyes wide open And you know you can't go back again To the world that you were livin' in 'Cause you're dreamin' with your eyes wide open So come alive

I see it in your eyes You believe that lie that you need to hide your face Afraid to step outside So you lock the door, but don't you stay that way

No more livin' in those shadows You and me, we know how that goes 'Cause once you see it, oh, you'll never, never be the same Little bit of lightnin' strikin' Bottled up to keep on shinin' You can prove there's more to you, you cannot be afraid

To come alive, come alive Go and light your light, let it burn so bright Reachin' up to the sky And it's open wide, you're electrified And the world becomes a fantasy And you're more than you could ever be 'Cause you're dreamin' with your eyes wide open And we know we can't go back again To the world that we were livin' in 'Cause we're dreamin' with our eyes wide open So come alive

Come one, come all, come in, come on To anyone who's burstin' with a dream Come one, come all, you hear the call To anyone who's searchin' for a way to break free

And the world becomes a fantasy And you're more than you could ever be 'Cause you're dreamin' with your eyes wide open And we know we can't go back again To the world that we were livin' in 'Cause we're dreamin' with our eyes wide open

And the world becomes a fantasy And you're more than you could ever be 'Cause you're dreamin' with your eyes wide open And we know we can't go back again To the world that we were livin' in 'Cause we're dreamin' with our eyes wide open

'Cause we're dreamin' with our eyes wide open So come alive

UPDATED SHIFTING GUIDE:

okay so recently actually made the big break. You know, when shifting CLICKS? I got it.

You're shifting your AWARENESS. Nothing else. If you say this thing is in your DR and you're in your DR and think about your DR as if you were there, you've shifted. Even if not physically, you've mentally shifted there. And the physical always follows the mental.

When you daydream about your DR, and you feel it for a moment, even if vague or emotional, you're literally shifting. Affirmations work because you EXPECT to feel your DR. You know what it feels like already. And that is literally visualization. Imagination is visualization, it's literally just that imagination is less detailed. But when you imagine something, the details will follow when you shift.

This is LITERALLY how you shift. Hope this helps

i make up my mind about traveling to a certain reality, and there’s no in character content about my man </3

it’s all very out of canon or simply makes no sense 😭

guess i’ll take this as a sign to script,,, been wanting to anyway <33

shifting is scary and exhilarating at the same time

tried a method last night but I wasn’t all that into it so I just turned over and decided to go to bed,,, (I’ve been swamped with assignments and final exams and shifting was an impulsive decision that I gave up on halfway through)

nothings wrong with understanding that you’re just not ready to put in the effort to shift,, dependent on your preferred methods, or lack of, it can be extremely draining or super easy

but I decided that I would rather sleep than shift cus it was really late and I haven’t been getting much sleep the past few days,,,

as I’m laying there super annoyed that I can’t fall asleep, my vision turns like completely black,, its early morning by this point and I’ve got a small nightlight that’s semi bright,, it’s never completely dark in my room

and then the feeling,, it was weird,,, I hate roller coasters but I imagine this is how they feel,, it was like I was in a tunnel, like one of those optical illusion ones, and my vision was being like pulled forward with this tunnel thing all around me,, it felt like memories and stuff were rushing past me too

the best way I can describe it is that scene in Doctor Strange when he gets his soul like punched out of him cus that’s exactly how it felt!

it felt like my soul, or my consciousness in this instance, was being pulled out of my body here and being pulled into another one somewhere else

my heart started racing like never before and suddenly my hearing went completely silent too,,, I sleep with a white noise machine and it was like it simply faded out of existence

the whole process felt, both, excruciatingly long and extremely fast at the same time, and by the time it had ended, my heart still racing, I looked over and found that it’d only been 15 minutes,,,

because I wasn’t planning on shifting and was mainly focused on sleeping, I didn’t really know what to do,, I affirmed a bit but I was so jostled that I didn’t really know what I was affirming

eventually it ended and I felt myself wake up back in my bed with my heart pounding like I’ve never felt it do before, and I went to sleep

am I upset that I didn’t shift? kinda,, but at the same time, this is such a huge step that I don’t really mind,,, if anything it just gave me a full day to prepare, script, and make up my mind about where to shift to and what to do because I was so lost man

I'm super excited to feel those symptoms again and actually shift this time! I’m getting closer and closer to traveling realities at the drop of a pin, I can feel it

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Stop scrolling. Just stop.

(A little tough love. Im going to be much more rude and blunt than i normally am. If you arent in the right headspace for that rn, skip this post)

How long have you been on tumblr today ? Yesterday ? This week ? Hell, even this month ? And, more importantly, why don't you have your desires already ?

"But, Athenaaaa. I still don't know how to manifest/shift 🥺" Decide what you want and persist in the assumption that it's yours. Mindblowing 🤯

In all seriousness, you should really check why you feel the need to know everything there is to know about shifting/manifesting. It's okay to want to know more, only if it doesn't come at the expense of ACTUALLY applying that knowledge. I've always held the belief that knowledge is useless if you do nothing with it. And as far as I see, it holds true. It's sooooo easy to get everything that you want, SO 💥 WHY 💥 TF 💥 ARENT 💥 YOU 💥 DOING 💥 IT !?!?

OMLLLLL, all of us bloggers are saying the exact same shit in different fonts (i chose pink tehe 🤭). Honestly, nobody can force you to apply. If you are content with the life you live, then that's ayt 🤷‍♀️. Like idk if you expect us to manifest for you or smth. We are already sharing our knowledge and experience on how we got what we got, for FREE. Yet you can't hold up your end of the bargain 🤦‍♀️.

Must feel nice, huh ? Getting that dopamine rush everytime you like a post. Making mental reminders to affirm this or do that or listen to that sub of whatever tf. Maybe you actually go through with it for a couple days 🎊. Yet you're still here. You're STILL liking all those posts. You're STILL doing all those challenges. You're STILL living in the old story. It's laughable actually.

For all of those who are actually SERIOUS about getting what you want, then stop scrolling and fucking APPLY. If your tired of being beaten down by your reality and circumstances - decide that you have everything that you want and NEVER take 'no' for an answer.