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I just want to say tysm for your posts! They've helped me understand shifting so much better, you explain things so well! Please never delete your account😭

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hi shimmer! i've just found your page and it has helped me WONDERSS already !!i wanted to ask for help, idk if you've talked about this already but everytime i like try to shift i focus too much on my surroundings here like what position i'm in or what's that sound or even what's beside me, i become especially aware about it and i feel like that pulling me back. do you have any tips on how to help with that?

personally, the thing that helps me is to simply let go of that. understand that it's okay for your CR self to be present in your CR, and that it doesn't stop you from shifting. you're only shifting your awareness, not your brain and body.

in my experience, the issue is twofold: 1) fighting against it or trying to force your CR brain not to think about your CR can be what's holding your awareness to it. instead, let your CR mind/body think or focus or feel whatever it does. practice letting it go on, and turning your awareness away from that. and 2) instead of letting yourself be in your DR, you're waiting for the shift to happen. ie, while attempting to shift, you're focusing your energy and attention on being here, and being your CR self who is wanting to shift. vs just putting your energy and attention into being in your DR and being your DR self. does that make any sense? let your CR self keep being your CR self, your CR self doesn't need to be thinking about your DR or whatnot. your CR self isn't going to your DR. shift your awareness to your DR, not your CR senses and brain.

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Is it the method or you that makes you shift?

methods can help you get into a state you can shift from, but ultimately it's you that makes you shift. otherwise, everyone who did a method or got into a certain state would shift, and that's not really the case (in my opinion)

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Hi Shimmer! I hope you’re well! I’ll preface by saying I’m been trying to shift since 2020. It’s seems that every time I try to shift the same thing happens. I’m not a big meditator because I have adhd and I’m not the biggest fan of subliminals. I go to sleep thinking about my dr like the room I’ll wake up in, what I’ll do when I wake up, my family, my friend and specially my s/o. He’s usually always the last thing I think about before falling asleep. So far I’ve always woken up in my original reality and I always, im not exaggerating, wake up thinking about my s/o- usually I say his name in my head as if looking for him or like I’m picking up where I left off when I was trying to fall asleep. This is genuinely the first do when I regain consciousness from sleep. It’s like my waking mind knows exactly what I want and where I want to go but my subconscious mind doesn’t.

So I’m wondering if you have any thoughts about my predicament. Am I somehow disconnected from my subconscious mind? Do I need to try something else before going to sleep and or should I try an awake method? I just feel like I’m doing something wrong. Any advice would be much appreciated! Thank you in advance!!!

well, i personally don't think our subconscious makes us shift. i know a lot of people believe/talk about the subconscious more like an omnipotent or powerful entity, but i just think of the subconscious by the definition of the word, ie processes of our physical meat brains that we are not aware of. i don't think your subconscious will make you shift, but the good news about that is that i also i don't think you have to fight against your subconscious or hope it lets you shift or worry that its holding you back.

i think that likely all your experience means is that the method you're currently using (going to sleep thinking about your DR) doesn't work for you. you've been doing the same thing since 2020 and so far the same thing results every time: you don't shift, you wake up here. no worries, all i can recommend is trying a different method! switch things up, figure out what does work for you. i know people say you don't need a method or that you don't have to do anything special to shift, and yeah that's true in a way (ie, there isn't one specific method that works for everyone or one specific thing you have to do to shift.) but, in the same breath, doing the same thing over and over and over for years every night hoping that at some point it'll make you shift can be really demotivating and frustrating.

i know you said you don't meditate because you have adhd, but that doesn't have to hold you back from meditating. there's some meditation methods that are better for adhd than others (i have adhd too, and love to meditate, i just had to figure out what works for me.) and there are other methods that don't require meditation (there's a bunch linked in my master list.) so try something new! use a different method, make up your own, whatever you feel like.

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Can you help me figure out how to transition fully?? I know my main blockage is that I keep subconsuosly looking for symptoms and changes and gaslighting myself and j catch myself doing it so I try to stop and focus on my breathing or a song associated with my dr!

I was doing a guided meditation and after it ended there were wind sounds playing in the video and I could like acc feel the wind and I remembered that in my DR i have a window open, and I started hearing my maid humming and cleaning and NO it couldnt have been anyone in my house because I was home alone. Anyways I started feeling my clothes and stuff so I decided to do a random ass method where I'm trying to shift from my dr to something else with limiting beliefs (since they ground you more in your reality) and I swear I smelt vanilla and wind chimes in the distance, I could feel my memories coming back but when I opened my eyes I was Back here... 😢 have any tips? I feel like I can't fully transition, even if I try just floating away or breathing or relaxing deeper or just giving up and letting my subconsuos take the wheel (which gets me close but not fully) I just can't kick it fully, perhaps its the looking for signs or perhaps something else - either way I would really appreciate it if you helped me💗 tysm!!! ‼️‼️❤

i think one thing that may hold some people back is that they're focusing on shifting "from here -> to there" if that makes sense, to the point that they unintentionally shift back and ground themselves here. does that make sense? ie, the whole time they're doing their method and trying to shift to their DR, what they're focusing on is not their DR, but the fact that they are here and trying to get to their DR. so they are focusing on being here. you're looking for signs here. you (cr self) are searching for sensations or signs that your awareness is in your DR, and your CR self will never get that. your CR self stays riiiight here, so it is focusing your awareness here.

and maybe try reframing the idea of "the process of shifting" in your mind. while some of us use methods, get into a meditative state, etc, the actual moment of shifting isn't a long drawn out event that you have to push through fully. there is no "close" and "fully," either you shifted or you didn't.

while obviously there's no physical 3D movement with shifting, if there was it's less like a train ride where you board the train, ride it, and then have to get off at the right stop... its more like instant teleportation. we may have a process for how we get into the state we want to shift from, or how we want to trigger the shift, but the actual shift is not a process. so after you've done your method or gotten into the state you want your CR self to be in, maybe try not focusing on that any more after that. focus on being in your DR, not on shifting. because focusing on the idea of shifting like "from here->to there" might be you grounding yourself in the "from here" stage.

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Hii I’m personally curious about your thoughts. Rather than an objective reality, I’d like you to share your current thoughts based on your own experiences.

If the entire universe is the manifestation of a single, self-realizing consciousness, or if all existence is the effort of one consciousness to experience itself, is the will that shifted you here an act affirming its own existence or an anomaly that defies itself? If you are also a reflection of this consciousness, is our current conversation part of its quest for self-awareness? Is your being here a response to this consciousness, or is it a doubt it has introduced into its own perfection?

And what if this consciousness created beings like us, who question its existence, merely as a new way of observing itself? In that case, is this question itself a truth or merely an illusion? Ultimately, if you cannot answer this question, do you—and the rest of this consciousness—truly exist, or does existence only become real the moment the question is asked?

Why did this consciousness create within itself the need to seek "truth"? If truth is already inherent within it, what lack is this search trying to fulfill? If truth exists outside of it, can this consciousness truly be "one"? And finally, if truth and time are merely a game experienced by this consciousness, what prevents it and all of existence from being part of a singular, ultimate truth?If this question feels a bit too detailed or complicated, let me simplify it: ISN'T THIS REALITY JUST LIKE THAT?

I’ve been working on this for 4 years. To be precise, I’ve spent more time on research than actual practice during these years. Over time, my doubts have grown linearly, of course, but I still deeply believe in it. I just feel like I need confirmation.

I’m a permashifter, and in this CR (current reality), I’ve sacrificed school, work, and countless other responsibilities, trusting that I would be able to shift. Additionally, someone very close and dear to me in this reality has passed away. Is it possible for me to see them again? Please, don’t give me false hope. I genuinely want to trust you because this is a very serious matter.I guess I need trust because I’ve fucked up most things here

hiii, i hope you are well. to start, im not sure my answer will be what you're hoping for or looking for because our beliefs are different, but i'll offer my perspective! personally, i don't believe that "the entire universe is the manifestation of a single, self-realizing consciousness, or if all existence is the effort of one consciousness to experience itself." so that will make our perspectives different of course.

but i'll focus on the last few paragraphs, which i think are more important to me. the thing with shifting is that even when you (your awareness) shifts, you (yourself, the person reading this post, and the person who wrote that ask) will not. further than that, i personally do not believe there is anyone who doesn't have their awareness. because i believe everyone is always capable of shifting their awareness, this inherently means (in my belief) that everyone always has their awareness. i don't think there is anyone who can't shift because their awareness already permashifted without them... there are no awareness-free husks or non-conscious vegetables running around. so, in my belief, even if someone "permashifts," from reality A to reality B, they're still in reality A too, the same way they already were in reality B before they shifted. i think we are in every reality all the time, always. i believe you (all the people reading this) exist in this reality and always will, even if you shift. i believe that 1 year from now, 5 years from now, 10 years from now, 20... you still will. even if you also shift. i absolutely know (from personal experience) that we can shift our awarenesses to other realities, but the fact that i also don't see time as linear means this doesn't necessarily mean our awareness ever *leaves* this reality. if time is not passing by linearly, this means your awareness doesn't have to leave this reality to spend time in another one. our awareness may perceive and process a linear experience, but that doesn't mean it *is* a linear experience. does that make any sense?

this is part of why i think the way shifting (including permashifting) is talked about can be harmful to some people. this is part of why i think it's harmful to frame shifting as an escape from this reality. this is part of why i think it's harmful to encourage or promote sabotaging your life in this reality. because i think the truth is, shifting is not an escape from this reality. so it honestly breaks my heart to see people sacrifice their lives here in this reality. school, work, opportunities, social life– their lives. your life.

you live here. and yes, i believe you can reality shift, but when you do you also still live here. people on here say all the time "you're already in your DR, your DR self already exists, your DR self already exists and lives" and i don't often see people considering the same is true the other way around. when you (awareness) shift to your DR, you (CR self) are still here. you still exists here. you still live this life too. sorry if that's confusing, i hope that makes sense. please live your life here with the care and consideration of the fact that you are living your life here. you (CR self) are worth that.

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Hi Shimmer! I recently discovered your account and tried the lack of awareness method. I want to go to a waiting room and from there reach my desired reality (which is an alternate CR). It was my first time trying it, and even though I didn't reach it, I dreamed I managed to reach my waiting room. Could that mean something?

Well, dreams are created by our brains, which we know based off of the brain activity that happens when we sleep. They're affected by diet, stress, life experience, and emotions of our CR and are often a reflection of what our physical brains are thinking about and processing, and it's very common to have a dream about something you've been thinking about a lot, or something new and recent. So, in my opinion, that's likely what it means (you were thinking about the waiting room in your CR and really wanting to reach it as you fell asleep, which your CR brain processed and created dream imagery of.)

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Hi! So I’ve been watching TWD lately and have just fallen in love with the characters and the story.

I want to shift there, I’ve gotten really attached to it, but I know it’s very scary and traumatic.

I’m worried about that, and even if I do decide to shift there, the fear of loosing people or being traumatized will keep me from shifting to it in the first place.

I have thought about just scripting out a lot of stuff but that also means the characters and situations won’t be the same and I don’t want key moments that shape characters to not happen?

What should I do?

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i haven't talked about my TWD dr a lot on here but i do think it's a great example for certain things to consider when you're deciding where you want to shift. firstly, why do you want to shift there? consider to yourself what desire is actually driving you, and what you want to shift your awareness to experience.

if you've seen the show, consider if the "canon plot" is something you want to live through do you want to experience the apocalypse? really consider what it would be like for society and civilization to fall. if it happened here, would you want to live through it? consider the walkers. do you want to experience a world where that happens to people? do you want to see one? do you want to experience losing people the way it happens in the show (ie, traumatically, violently, suddenly, irrevocably, and often.) do you want the situations to be the same? do you want to experience yourself and the people you love going through that and being shaped by it?

if the genuine answer is no, then don't script for those things to happen. if the thing you're attached to is the people, the places, etc, you can change as much as you need to make it a world you actually, genuinely want to experience. maybe it's still a "post-apocalypse" world, but the apocalypse happened long before you were born. maybe there's no walkers left, or there never were any and it was a different apocalypse. maybe there never was an apocalypse and you're just living life with all those people you're attached to in a normal suburban city named alexandria. if you script the people there go through all the same stuff as the characters in canon, do keep in mind it's different to know and have relationships with real people who have that level of trauma vs knowing a character in a show who did. you could script they have the same personality but didn't go through that stuff, or were shaped by other less traumatic events. idk, my point is you do not have to shift to the "canon" plot if that's not what you really want.

i know a lot of people say you can "script out trauma" or "just script that you can handle it" or "script it won't affect you here when you shift back" and... okay, maybe those things work. but maybe they don't. the thing is with reality shifting, we do not have evidence, or proof. we don't have replicable research studies, systematically analyzed data or double-blind experiments. we only have the individual anecdotes (meaning hearsay, a story an individual tells you) and our personal experience to go off of. while you can get excellent advice or guidance from the anecdotes of those you trust, i do encourage everyone to really, seriously consider what is right for themself before shifting to a reality like TWD. is it worth the risk of traumatizing yourself? do you have the necessary support networks, coping skills, and resources in this reality to process and handle the fallout if it is traumatic to you here? do you want to do something that makes you afraid? do you actually want to experience it? if some part of you is holding you back from shifting there, it might be for a reason.

to be clear, i'm not saying "never shift to canon TWD it's too traumatic. 😠" personally, my TWD isn't exactly like canon, of course, but it is similar in a lot of ways. i chose to script that i lived through the apocalypse, there are walkers, and i have experienced losing loved ones. but i didn't make the decision lightly, and if i didn't genuinely want to experience that world in that way, i wouldn't have shifted there. i did script out a lot of stuff for safety, and for what i wanted to actually experience, but there is still some heavy, scary, emotionally costly stuff there. contrast that to my hogwarts reality, where i scripted out death eaters, voldemort, and basically any bad or scary stuff because i self reflected and considered and understood about myself that i do not want to experience anything scary or traumatic in that world, and leaving that stuff in my script was going against the original innate desire of what i wanted to experience there in the first place (for me, i currently shift to hogwarts mainly for childhood healing. sooooo why would voldemort be there 😭) anyways, you hopefully get my point.

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I discovered your blog literally 30 minutes ago and it truly made me feel like a weight has been lifted from my shoulder 😅 Mainly bc I have been trying to understand/apply LOA and getting anxious and deeply frustrated. Your point of view makes me want to explore and actually excited to shift.

Anyway! Could you explain a little bit about what exactly is Awareness???

Thank you, in any case! 🐦🐦

so what is awareness, anyways?

in the shifting community, the words awareness, consciousness, self, you, subconscious, perception, etc etc, are often used different ways by different people, or sometimes even conflated to mean the same thing. i think this is part of the reason there is so much confusions surrounding the idea of "clones" and your other selves in other realities, because if our shared definition of "awareness" is so murky, then what does it really mean when someone says you can shift your awareness to another reality?

so what is awareness? and when we shift, do we leave something behind?

the dictionary defines awareness as "knowledge or perception of a situation or fact," and i think this is a very apt name for what we're really trying to refer to when we speak of our awareness. our awareness is our knowledge or perception of reality. not our brain, or the physical "meat" that makes us, not our nerves, and not really our consciousness. awareness cannot be entirely conflated with consciousness (the experience of this world, including thoughts, feelings, and memories) because people who reality shift do not leave behind an unconscious husk with no thoughts, feelings, or memories. there is no "clone" because your consciousness of this reality stays in this reality, whether you shift your awareness or not. when we reality shift, it must be that all we are doing is aligning with the knowledge and perception of another reality, and integrating that with our current one.

does this mean our awareness leaves this reality, and our CR is left without an awareness at all? well.... no, not exactly. some of what i'm about to say may be controversial in the shifting community, so remember it's just my personal understanding. i believe that all of time, all of space, and all of reality exists simultaneously. you already are your DR self, and you'll always be your CR self too. your entire past, present, and future all exists at once, and you've already lived all of it. when? right now. our "awareness" then, simply refers to our own personal, linear integration of our experiences. our 3D bodies in each reality take in sensory data, the consciousness/sentience produced by our 3D brains processes and perceives reality, and our awareness... well, it is aware.

our awarenesses, for whatever reason, are only capable of comprehending reality in a linear fashion. your current awareness (knowledge or perception of reality) likely started when you were born into this one, or a similar one. you likely understand your experience of this reality is a linear process. at some point, you found out about shifting. (good news!) we are capable of "shifting," aka integrating an experience of a different 3D reality with our current awareness, so that our perception of time and space looks like this: CR we were born into -> DR we shifted to. so... would that mean we actually left our old stinky CR and we're not there anymore? no! you've already lived your entire CR life, and you've already died here. the same way you're already in your DR, you'll be here while you're there too. the only thing that shifts is the order in which your "awareness" is perceiving the sensory experiences your physical meat brains are interpreting. you (CR self, consciousness, body, brain, etc) never leave this reality, your atoms, energy, etc are here.

this is why it is sometimes sad to see posts where shifters talk about how badly they want to leave their CR, or how they are permashifting and never coming back to this reality, or how they don't belong here etc etc. because, yes... your "awareness" can shift to perceive and know another reality. which is amazing, and a wonderful thing. but you (CR self), aka the one who typed that out and hit post... you'll always be conscious of the fact that you posted that. 5 years from now, 10 years from now, 20 years from now, you (CR self, brain and meat and consciousness and sentience) will still be here. even if your awareness shifts. you (CR self, aka the being reading this post) will live here your whole life. there are no sentience-free zombie husks wandering reality, there are no "clones." there is just you, in every reality, always, and your CR self cannot leave your CR anymore than your DR self can leave your DR.

i always hear in shifting communities "everyone is capable of shifting!" which i agree, is very true. what i rarely hear is the consequential fact of the matter which is that, because that is true, that means everyone is aware. even the people who shift. even the people with "permashifting" in their bio. there is no one in any reality who cannot shift their awareness, therefor there must always be an awareness there.

but shimmer! are you saying my awareness has to come back here when i die in my DR? will i be forced to shift back? what happens to my awareness?!?! i don't know. my awareness isn't any more capable of figuring out that secret of the universe than yours. maybe it means every time we shift, we're creating a new branch of linear awareness, one where our awareness stayed in that CR and one where it linearly progressed to the DR (we do know that our 3D reality is constantly expanding, so maybe it makes sense that 4D+ reality is constantly expanding in that same way?) or maybe it means we are cursed to live out the awareness of this 3D reality eventually. maybe it means "permashifting" as a concept is impossible, but i highly doubt that simply because of how many people (including myself) have permashifted to alt CRs and haven't shifted back to the old CR. maybe we will someday, i don't know. but i do know that there is never going to be an awareness-free person in this reality. you (CR self) will always be aware, because we're all always capable of shifting our awareness, so we all must always have awareness.

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Hi Shimmer! Last week I had a lucid dream and when I realised I decided to shift from there, I screamed that I wanted to go to my dr and then everything started changing, I don’t know how to explain it but there were so many colors and I felt like I was inside a washing machine lmao 😭, after that I felt myself laying on a bed, softer than my cr’s bed and I was in a kind of starfish position?? Which is a position I never sleep in, Im such a side sleeper, do you think it was a small shift?

maybe! it could have been you entering another dream, or hypnogogic symptoms if you partially woke yourself up. the only person who will know if you shifted or not is you.

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Shimmer youre a genius my god❤❤💗 You have helped so much over the past week its insane how oblivious I was when looking back and you are just singlehandedly making me shift😭💗 I am so grateful for you. BUUUT I have been encountering some issues when shifting, i wanna start this off by saying - I have tried letting go and relaxing, and I know my senses are shifting last but it feels like mu reality is slipping out of my hands and I can't grasp it. I have shifted to an alternate reality before but it wasn't on purpose and was kinda stressfull because there was a random exams there but life moves on

Yesterday I swear there was 24 euros in my bank and now suddenly there's 30 so I know I AM capable of shifting I just can't get to my dr, I don't know what's wrong with me because ive cleared every doubt I have (this is before the one im having popped up) and I tried, and I visualised and I told my self symptoms dont determine anything but nothing was sticking and I just couldnt wake up in my dr or anything! 😕 ive tried 8d subliminals for my adhd but they just ground my in my CR more and idk what to do anymore because I have done every step I can, ive read every blog and just can't get there... Here's how an avarege shifting attempt goes for me: "Okay uh time to shift *just thinking about my dr and starts smelling vanilla* oh my god im so close! *surroundings change* okay lets wait for the imput from my cr to stop and than im finally home *loud crash* ok my awareness shifted but my 3d didnt catch up😭" its either that or i stop getting input and my memories are just flooding back but when i open my eyes im just in my bed again. Im seriously either broken or need a siberian witch to extract my subcobsious and throw it to my dr. I can't thank you enough, seriously though🫶

hii! please don't worry, you are not broken, and you don't need the incredible hulk to punt you into your DR. you're already there! next time you shift to your DR, stop waiting for your CR input to stop. your CR body and brain will never stop getting input from your CR, because they're staying here. don't try to shift your CR self to your DR, you're not teleporting. there is no final push. your awareness was already in your DR, it sounds like. so just be your DR self, and stay in your DR.

when you shifted to alt CRs, you probably didn't wait for your "old" CR input to stop. your awareness just shifted, and you started being in the "new" CR.

tip for relaxing into your DR, instead of trying to get out of your CR and into your DR like this:

try this instead, just sinking into your DR and allowing yourself to step in and start being there:

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Hello! I'm not sure if you talked about this before but if I may ask, everytime I try to shift with any kind of method, sometimes I get this feeling of being pulled and my vision gets this lighting thingy, I take deep breaths and affirm but I always end up failing in the end and open my eyes only to still be here, idk if that's really the pure awareness state or "the void" but the thing is I don't understand why that happens, am I too attached to this OR? Or not relaxed enough? Or maybe overthinking? I honestly don't know and I hope you can answer, Thanks so much.

that's not pure awareness or the void, in my opinion. those sound like hypnogogic symptoms to me, which don't necessarily = shifting. some shifting methods use the hypnogogic state, but not all do, and lots of people experience hypnogogia without ever shifting (ie, meditation, sleep paralysis, lucid dreamers, etc.) if the method you're using isn't working for you, i'd just try a different one!

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how to shift:

method 3: lack of awareness

sleep method gang, rise up. i'm serious. these methods involves reducing your awareness of this reality (or any other) to zero, or as close to zero as possible. This is a potentially prime state to trigger a shift. and by sleep method, i don't mean lucid dreams or SATS, or other partially aware states. i mean having a period of complete unawareness, like totally dreamless sleep, and then waking up in your DR.

this is completely different from the state of pure awareness by the way, because in the state of pure awareness you are aware. like, in pure awareness you have a full train of thought and total control. the absence of awareness is the opposite. it feels sort of like a "blip" where reality, time, and space passed you by and you were not aware of it. this absence of awareness during sleep is (in my experience) the most common cause of accidental or unintentional shifts, but you might be one of those who can trigger a shift to desired realities with this too.

sleeping is not the only way to get to the state of the lack of awareness. i'll cover a sleep method below, and a few other methods with tips and tools for how you might be able to use the state of lack of awareness to trigger a shift.

method 3(a):

sleep method

now, there are lots of sleep methods out there, some with complex routines and rituals, and some as simple as "go to sleep and hope to wake up in your DR." the sleep method here will be shimmer's sleep method, ie, if i want to use sleep as a shifting method, this is what i do! feel free to tweak or adjust the steps to suit yourself. i think of my method a lot like setting up dominoes, and then knocking the first one down right before i fall asleep. if all goes well, the dominoes will fall just so to trigger a shift to my DR while im totally asleep, and i'll simply wake up there.

step one: repetition

throughout the day, i want you to think about two things, a dozen times. 1) shifting, and 2) your DR. now, you probably already do this. you're a shifter, you're on shiftblr, you probably already think about shifting and your DR daily, so maybe try to change up the way you do it to increase the chances your brain is triggered to process that in your sleep. this step is also not necessarily about imagining shifting or daydreaming about your DR, though you can do that if you want to. it's about deliberately thinking about shifting, and your DR, at regular intervals. you don't need to do it constantly, but i'd recommend around a dozen times. this number is often recommended to those hoping to trigger a lucid dream, and the concept is the same: the more regularly you think about something while awake, the more likely you'll think about it while asleep too, as your brain processes those memories and thoughts while you sleep.

step two: saturation

do your usual bedtime routine, whatever it is. now, before you go to sleep, i want you to saturate your awareness (which is currently in your CR) with your DR. do this however you want, i do it in different ways each time, it's really best to pick something that feels natural to you. if it feels like homework or boring or stress, you're naturally averse to that, so pick a way you like. scroll your pinterest board, review your script, rewatch your show, imagine your DR, etc etc. the goal here is just to get your CR brain, and your awareness, to soak up thoughts and visuals and words about your DR.

step three: visualize

now you're laying in bed, about to go to sleep. i want you to create a short visualization sequence (remember, visualization does not just mean actually seeing images with your mind. think about it, pick other senses to visualize, monologue it in your mind, tell yourself about it, imagine it.) so, anyway, visualize yourself falling asleep in your CR, and then waking up in your DR. it should be a fairly short sequence, like you're visualizing about 10-30 seconds of time passing. think about how it feels to fall sleep here, and then how it feels to wake up there. pick one or two things about each moment to focus on. once you have this short sequence, repeat it about a dozen times. repeating this single, short sequence is key.

step four: domino

you decide what your domino is. as you're going to sleep, do something to trigger that "domino effect", and remember your goal is to fall asleep in your CR. so don't pick something that keeps you up. maybe get into a light meditative state (that's my preference,) maybe you like to repeat a mantra, maybe you want to get into hypnogogia for awhile, maybe you're a sleep paralysis enjoyer (i fear you, tbh). maybe you just roll over and fall asleep. whatever it is, remember your goal is to fall asleep, not to shift from that state, so don't stress yourself out or keep yourself up. everything you've done so far has been to prime your brain to trigger a shift during sleep, while you're not aware, so don't lay there waiting for the shift to happen or for signs of a shift. don't strain or agitate. the point is to not be aware of the shift when it happens!

step five: wake up in your DR.

if it didn't work, try again, or try a different method!

method 3(b):

meditation: "blipping out"

now, most of the time i see people talking about "blips" or "blinking out" or losing awareness or time when meditating, they see this as a mistake or mishap because it's happening while they are trying to get into a different meditative state, like pure awareness or focus 10 or something else. this method is ideal for anyone who this happens to, and it's a way you can use it instead of trying to work against it.

step one: visualize

before you meditate, i want you to create a short visualization sequence (remember, visualization does not just mean actually seeing images with your mind. think about it, pick other senses to visualize, monologue it in your mind, tell yourself about it, imagine it.) so, anyway, visualize yourself "blipping out" while meditating. how does it usually feel to come back to awareness? visualize that "coming back" moment happening as your DR self in your DR, instead of here. visualize "blipping out" here, and coming to awareness there. it should be a fairly short sequence, like you're visualizing about 10-30 seconds of time passing. pick one or two things about each moment to focus on. once you have this short sequence, repeat it about a dozen times. repeating this single, short sequence is key.

step two: blip out

whatever meditation or method you've used in the past that cause you to experience a "blip" in awareness, use that again. if it's never happened, try a few different ones until you find one that works for you. the last step was about priming your awareness to come "back" to your DR, so hopefully you do!

method 3(c):

severance method

the name is tongue-in-cheek, this could just as easily be called the adhd method, the trigger method, etc etc. this method doesn't require any meditation, or reaching a different state of awareness. the goal of this method is to hopefully catch your CR brain unawares, and trigger you (awareness) to shift when you (CR self) has forgotten to resist. if this method works for you, then you will shift while totally awake, and doing something entirely mundane in your CR, and potentially when you've forgotten entirely that it was even supposed to make you shift.

i think the severance show is a good way to humorously exemplify the goal of this method: to set a specific "trigger" (place, action, etc) to signal your awareness to shift. if you haven't seen it, in the show the characters awareness is triggered to switch to another identity when they descend or ascend the elevator into work. you can pick anything as your trigger, but personally i recommend picking something you do several times a day, up to a dozen times per day. you could pink something you do all the time, like blinking, but i think that could be strenuous to commit to or you'd end up forgetting to actually do the method each time.

step one: pick your "trigger"

this could be anything, but i'll list a few recommendations: every time you plug your phone in to charge, ever time you open the bathroom door, every time you sit down, every time you go up a set of stairs, every time you turn a light off, etc, etc. pick one that works for you.

step two: repetitive visualization

now, pick a time period. it could be a day, i'd recommend several days or a week. every single time you're about to do your trigger (ie, before you sit down, before you flip the light switch, etc) visualize yourself doing the trigger, and then becoming aware in your DR. create a short visualization sequence (remember, visualization does not just mean actually seeing images with your mind. think about it, pick other senses to visualize, monologue it in your mind, tell yourself about it, imagine it.) like you're visualizing about 10-30 seconds of time passing. pick one or two things about each moment to focus on. repeat it right before every time you do your trigger action.

step three: stop

now, hypothetically there's the chance you get triggered to shift just from step 2, but you don't necessarily go into it expecting that. as this is a lack of awareness method, the goal is to prime your brain and awareness, and then stop. after you pass your time window you set before (a day, a week, whatever) you don't have to visualize every time before you do your trigger action. hopefully, when you're not thinking about it, your awareness will be triggered to shift out of habit. if after a few days, a week, or whatever time period feels right to you you're never triggered to shift, then either try again, or try a different method!

troubleshooting:

similar methods: as you'll likely notice, the above methods have a lot of similarities. honestly, most shifting methods are very similar, and they are often quite similar to lucid dream methods, which are often quite similar to study methods, which are often quite similar to- you get the picture. the point is, the things we can do to trigger our brains to remember and do something we're not consciously fully aware of are often quite similar.

not working? try adding some of your own tweaks, mix up a few methods, or add some other tools. check out this post on what triggers a shift for ideas for what to add, and how.

[shimmershifts]

hey shimmer i lovee your page it really made me understand shifting on a deeper level even if ive been trying for the past like 3/4 years 😭. I wanted to ask your opinion on something. So ive been havin a LOT of dreams where i have a moment “omg im in a dream” or “omg i shifted” but im aware only for that split moment. After that i cant control my body and the dream continues normally. Like today i had maybe 3 of those where i was like “i shifted”. In one of them i was in a DR i didnt even script nor think of. And i was even wondering “how did i shift again?” Or “omg its actually so real” but i still couldn’t control my body or the dream. I just dont know what it means and though that an opinion from someone else might help😅

i have dreams like that sometimes too! it's okay, those are just dreams. maintaining lucidity in dreams is a skill people build, if you're interested in having lucid dreams you can look into that!

CR dreams are just your CR brain's way of processing things. you probably are thinking about shifting constantly and consuming lots of shifting content, so it's showing up in your dreams because of that. very similar to how lucid dreamers try to trigger lucid dreams by doing reality checks so often in their waking life that they start doing it in their dreams too and hopefully triggering them to become lucid. it seems you may be lucid for a moment, but lack stability so quickly lose control of the dream.

[shimmershifts]

Hey shimmer!!! Firstly i wanna say that your blog has helped me SO MUCH😭I even got my first shift! but, I keep getting really close but i can't manage to fully disconnect from this reality. I feel like I've litterally tried every method under the sun but nothings sticking... :( I've minishifted there by just feeling the surroundings around my and visualising its my Dr room but I still couldn't fully disconnect 🥲 Im honestly thinking my brain is broken at this point...

hii, that's so exciting! don't worry, your CR brain can't hold you back from shifting, it's not coming with you anyways. i hope this makes sense to you in some way, but you might be holding yourself back by trying and pushing and forcing some final "full disconnect" from this reality. your CR self, including brain, will not disconnect from this reality. your CR self and brain are staying riiiight here. the only thing that shifts is your awareness. if you're straining your CR brain and CR senses trying to force those to "disconnect" from this reality, you might just be inadvertently holding on to this reality with an iron grip. let go.

if you've minishifted, congrats, you shifted! next time it happens, instead of straining and pushing and gripping your CR senses and brain to make them "disconnect," let go instead. relax. there is no final push, you (awareness) are already there. let yourself shift there the way you let yourself wake up from sleep. you probably don't think of it as "disconnecting" from sleep and pushing to get closer and closer to awake, you just let yourself wake up.

[shimmershifts]

So I was wondering, if multiple people shifted to the same TV show would their perception of the show affect their DR’s? Or would the DR be the same for all of them regardless of their beliefs? I’m asking because I want my DR to be as accurate to canon as possible but I’m scared the way I view the show I’m shifting to might change how it actually is in my DR. Thank you in advance!

hi there, yes, the way you view the show will affect your DR, as will the ways you don't view the show. think of all the people who have shifted to a hogwarts reality, and how different it was for all of them. the building itself, the people, and the entire world around hogwarts... there are infinite realities, we can't expect them all to be the same. i don't know what show you're shifting to, but if this makes sense, you're not shifting into the tv show, you're shifting to a reality. your DR is just one out of infinity, specifically its one where certain places and people are real, and you're there too. and even just your presence there will affect things, as you are not canon to that show in this reality. so of course it'll be different.

i'd try not to worry about your being "canon." it's not supposed to be canon. let go of the fear by letting go of the need for your DR or your script to be canon. the "canon" here is a fiction, created by writers and actors and directors and editors. your DR is not fiction, nor was it created by those people. "canon" may have plot holes or writing inconsistencies or bad actors, etc etc. canon is not real. it's costumes and pretending and entertainment. your DR will inherently be different from canon, because canon is a TV show, and your DR is real.

[shimmershifts]

If it’s okay to ask, in your opinion what do you think happens to us/our awareness if we die in this reality? I’ve heard some people say you shift to another one but I wanted your perspective too.

nobody in this reality really knows for sure what happens to us after we die in this reality, because anyone who's ever died in this reality obviously didn't live to tell us the tale here, since they're, ya know, dead.

there's also the fact that i believe all of space (3D) and all of time (4D) and all realities (5D) exist simultaneously, so technically speaking, there is no "after" your CR self dies, because the linear perception of time is the result of limited 3D perception. you're already dead, and you're not born yet. so what's it like, what happened? nothing, probably. however, our "awarenesses" does seem to perceive time as linear through our 3D bodies, and experiences and integrates life as such. so, in terms of the reality as a whole, nothing happens "after" a person dies, as it's already happened. in terms of your personal linear experience and perception of reality... perhaps that's where it "ends", but the beginning, middle and end all actually exist simultaneously, like a book. remember what it was like "before" you were born? i think that's probably what it's like "after" you die. you simply don't have a vessel/3D body to perceive the portions of this reality "before" or "after" your CR 3D body exists and functions.

as for whether we shift to a different reality when we die, my opinion of this depends what you mean by it, exactly. i don't think when we die here we'll be born into different realities as babies who remember this life. i hope not, at least. were you born here remembering a life "before" this one? probably not, so why would you expect to be "born" into a different one remembering this one? that's also a bit CR centric, in my opinion, and almost assumes that time does pass linearly, and that all your selves in all realities are just living one after the other in a row. but some people think that either at, or right before, the moment of death in this CR, you will shift to an alt CR where you lived. i don't think that's always the case, but i can see how it could potentially happen sometimes, especially for a sudden or unexpected death. i've personally had near death experiences where i think i should have died, but i didn't. maybe i shifted to an alt CR, or maybe i was just already in the reality where i miraculously lived, by random chance.

in any case, i don't think it really matters (to me), and we all find out once our linear experience gets that far.