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shifting tiktok: you're not dreaming (probably)

for my last ever post, i wanted to focus on the topic that i originally intending on covering first, but felt it was better as a grand finale: reality shifting.

putting it briefly, shifting is a tiktok-centric phenomenon wherein you put yourself through hypnotic-like rituals to move your consciousness into a different reality. is it real? no. will people die on the metaphorical hill that it is? oh, you bet. this is tiktok. the truth literally never matters.

so, when someone 'shifts' realities, the most popular theory says that it is someone's consciousness shifting into a different universe in the 'multiverse.' the multiverse theory says that there are infinite timelines coexisting, and shifting just allows you to enter one different than your own, whether it be fictional, the past, present, or the future.

most shifting tutorials include the following:

1. scripting - the process of writing out the life you're trying to reach. it goes from big things like what time period or fictional universe you're traveling to, all the way down to the finer details, like what job you'll have and who you're dating. 2. manifestation - while writing down your script, you can listen to subliminal audio videos. very long and complicated story short, they are videos with various tones playing at different frequencies while subliminal messaging is either shown on the screen or whispered in the background. things like "i will shift" and "my shift will be successful" are common ones. when typing in "shifting" into the youtube search bar, these are the first two suggestions:

the following are the first few search results for "shifting subliminal":

3. hypnosis/meditation - after scripting your DR (desired reality) to get out of your CR (current reality), you are ready to shift. there are countless methods describing how to do this, but the bare bones is guiding yourself through meditative journey. popular ones include imagining yourself entering a room in your CR and exiting it in your DR, and some other methods are just repetitions of affirmations.

here's a link to the following tiktok, which is a short summary of shifting as a whole:

lexa's tiktok - if you are thinking, wow, this all seems like a very concrete way to fall into a deep sleep, you (and these comments) would be right. that's all that these people are doing. falling asleep and having incredibly vivid dreams.

shifting is notoriously difficult, and people will beg and plead for methods and helpful advice to do it correctly. which makes sense, as it's an impossible desire made true: changing the universe around you to meet your exact wants and dreams.

liz's tiktok - this shifter is crying while claiming they shifted, they shifted, they shifted! it goes to show the endurance needed for a pseudoscience like this, and the reward you feel after forcing yourself into a lucid dream. notice the comments, the first fulling buying into not only transferring universes but worried about the risk of getting stuck in one, and the last comment, self-aware and knowing that all of this is "just a dream". the middle comment is all of the rest of us, wondering "how did we got here? this certainly cannot be the right classroom."

as far as 'shifting' goes, the biggest population of shifters are cosmically traveling into the harry potter universe. other tropes include shifting into a reality where you're famous, and, my personal favorite, (the presence of which is antithetical to the core message of the entire series) one where you win the hunger games.

one of my favorite shifting tiktoks i ever came across was a girl warning her fellow shifters 'not to shift into the trojan war' because 'even though you're a medic' it's still 'very traumatizing'. i can only find a link to a reaction video, but i promise it was an earnest tiktok when it was posted.

the most common defense of shifting is in reference to a mysterious scientific study that seemingly everyone cites but no one has an actual link to.

wa gè's tiktok - the trend implying shifters are effortless and lowkey about their knowledge, whilst 'anti' shifters boast their rhetoric superfluously. here are the comments on this tiktok:

notice anything? all requests for proof are acknowledged (liked by creator) and left unanswered, or responded to with a 'i'll find them later.' wouldn't solid evidence of something you do that is constantly under intense scrutiny be always on hand?

some of the other 'defenses' of shifting fall into a very dangerous line of thinking: "well of course it's real. that's why so many people say it's not...because they're afraid of the truth." this conspiracy theory way of rationalization can lead to very scary places; if someone convinces you something is true purely based on the fact everyone is saying it's false, it can lead to the belief of pseudoscience and harmful conspiracy theories.

luckily, the venn diagram of young women shifting into gryffindor tower and flat earthers are very far apart, but it's a way of interpreting the world that can be harmful in the long run.

originally, shifting boomed during the pandemic, a time of peak loneliness and isolation. there's actually a great study posted on the national library of medicine dissecting this exact relationship:

link to study - it's part of the library's "covid-19 collection" and incredibly detailed and sourced. the study also debunks the mysterious 'scientific data' that shifters are always referencing; simply, it's a profoundly misunderstood physics concept, and to quote the above article in reference to said theory: "The theory does not posit, however, that individuals can create their own realities and is considered unfalsifiable and thus questionable by some in the mainstream physics community."

there are still active 'shifters' on tiktok, though shifting reached its peak during the pandemic. people are still getting famous, dating fictional bad boys, and surviving the zombie apocalypse; you just aren't part of that reality, so you haven't heard about it. shifting is the ultimate "you wouldn't know my boyfriend, he goes to another school" card.

building upon everything we've learned from this blog, we know people will always want to insert themselves into realities they love and are currently not existing in. whether that be hogwarts, a mafia house, or the avengers tower, people in pain will always dream of someplace better, and i think we'd lose some of our humanity if we told them not to (just maybe just tone down on the pseudoscience, guys?).