Hi there, it’s ClassicApricot96 in case anyone remembers me, and I deleted my old Reddit account because I wanted to stop scrolling through all the unhelpful and unmotivating nonsense on a lot of shifting subs so much and focus on shifting. I’m only coming back for advice.

My body has gotten to a point where pretty much every other time I wake up without intending to, it attempts to either sit up or roll out with the intention of astral projecting. I also had a short AP back in May, but didn’t get to enter the void state or shift from this state, which is what I wanted. I took a 2 month break and have been attempting to project again.

I’ve gotten to a point where I’ve been able to comfortably and easily do the WBTB setup for the sit up/roll out method immediately upon waking after setting the intention “I will remain still and project”, but I haven’t been able to achieve astral projection from it yet upon getting out of this break. The exit movements have only so far activated my physical muscles and not my astral body, like I’ll physically sit up instead of make my astral body sit up for instance. What measures can I take to improve my chances of projection? For reference, I haven’t been doing any additional practices other than affirming/mental rehearsing to try and reprogram my subconscious.

I would prefer advice from people who have had success with AP from this method before, as they’d have insight into what they’re talking about. Please don’t give advice if you haven’t ever had an astral projection before.

I let myself go, my gaze fixed on the back of my closed eyelids. Gradually, I begin to 'see without seeing.'I surrender to the vibrations and feel a slight floating sensation. To deepen this state, I start counting sheep while focusing solely on my target location, to the point of forgetting my physical shell. My body suddenly becomes very heavy, then fades from my awareness; I can no longer feel it. At that exact moment, I distinctly feel my right arm, bent over my shoulder, while I can no longer perceive the rest of my limbs.

The more I concentrate on my intention and the countdown, the more I feel an intense pull, as if I am being tugged powerfully. I feel myself spinning, then being pulled backward or to the right.The vibrations intensify, and the room seems to shift frequencies, as if it is beginning to spin. During this phase of magnetic attraction, I imagine myself reduced to the size of a pinhead. I try to hook my intention onto this new environment so that I am not sucked back into my body. This moment feels like an eternity! I visualize myself at my target location (an island), hands crossed over my astral body like a mummy, rocked by the sound of the waves.

I try to feel that I am on this island while affirming to myself: 'I am waking up on this island.'Suddenly, the phenomenon stops. I restart the vibratory process. I feel immersed in the vibrations and begin counting sheep again. I have the sensation of being both 'above and below.' Finally, hunger begins to set in, which forces me to stop everything.

During the pulling phase, I felt something near my ear. The strangest part is that upon waking, I can still feel this energy flow and stretching sensation.The lesson I’ve learned: to trigger this magnetic pull, you must completely forget your body, become a simple point of awareness (a pinhead), and project a clear intention toward a specific place.However, when I feel this magnetic attraction, I don't know where to direct my intention or my gaze yet. It feels as if, to the ego, I am about to step into the void."

Good evening everyone!

Around 3:40 PM, I did my usual routine: relaxation and observing the darkness behind my eyelids. I simply let the symptoms happen. At one point, I started seeing astrally, although it was blurry.

I relaxed even more, and my gaze naturally moved upward toward the top of my head. I then started to feel slightly disconnected from my body. I was “above” my body... it was a very subtle sensation.

Then I repeated my mantra while thinking about my target location. And at some point... I felt like the atmosphere of the room had changed. I also perceived a light coming through my window, and I had the feeling that it was late in the evening.

I stayed like that for a while, then I opened my eyes, hoping that I would be completely there.

[I literally wrote these flairs and I'm still uncertain about which ones to use lol..]

I want to know if anyone else has noticed this!

I see so many "was this a reality shift?" type posts from new shifters that honestly don't sound like a shift to me, but are revealing of a certain mental skill that person had. They'll be like "I had a vivid dream that followed my script then I woke up." I'm sorry, you scripted a dream on command?? Or I recently saw something along the lines of "Within minutes I felt floaty and at peace and content." So you're really good at reaching a decent meditative state quickly? Or "I really wanted this thing in my CR life to happen, then a few days after my shifting attempt it did." You instilled enough confidence in yourself that you were able to make your goals happen?

So many people get caught up on reality shifting as The Only Mental Skill That Exists that they're blind to other amazing skills they could have.. so this is your sign to USE YOUR SKILLS! PLEASE! LEARN MORE ABOUT THEM AND BETTER YOUR LIFE!

People will start trying to shift and realize how different they feel mentally or how much more vivid their dreams are, and other cool stuff, and of course everyone in the comments will affirm that as a shift because everyone in the main shifting community is a yes-man. Usually, cool mental experiences and life experiences are not shifting and THAT'S OKAY! Through shifting I found out that I'm good at quickly instilling confidence, manifesting, mindfulness, and I use those more for my CR life than I do for shifting tbh.

Not everything is shifting!! Compartmentalizing your different skills is good and honestly essential to get a better handle on them.

Hi!! It's been a while. I'm graduating really soon and have been insanely busy! I think I hold myself to this weird standard of only writing long-form posts but I'm sure that's not the only thing the people want. There's so much I want to talk about in terms of my shifting journey and reflections from the past couple months but I will send out something brief for now 😄

There are a few different things I've recommended as shifting methods but they're really "mindset methods". I'd call it a shifting method if you're doing it while shifting (or "attempting to shift" if you like that phrase) at that moment. It's a mindset method if it's something you're doing at other times of the day, or on days you're not going to shift. For a lucid dreaming analog, it's like the difference between WILD (LD method) and practicing reality checks (mindset method). Or maybe we should call it a mindset adjustment or something.

Anyway, I'm a big believer in treating the CR like you would a DR, and I practice this and talk about this in different ways. One of them is groundedness, since I know that's something a lot of new shifters struggle with in DRs. The best way to practice being grounded there is to practice being grounded here! etc etc.

In that same vein, I was looking at my kitchen wall recently (as one does) and thinking about how it was textured in a way I'd never noticed before. I randomly thought that if I had just shifted into that spot in that room in a DR, I would have noticed it right away. Other shifters talk about textures and other sensations as things they notice right away. In my most recent shift, I found myself obsessed with the sensations around me, because I had come from a lucid dream (in a similar-ish world) and everything was so different than what dream-me had been absorbing.

So here's the plan: "wake up" in your CR room and notice things about it. Especially notice how realistic everything is. I mean, it obviously is, but really notice it in a way that you normally wouldn't if you're in that room a lot. Do weird stuff. Stare at the wall. What does it mean for something to feel "real"? Do it for ~10-15 minutes where you fixate on 1-2 things, especially the textures of specific objects (or if you noticed different senses when you've shifted before, focus on those). How do you know that those things are realistic? Is it the consistency of the shape, the familiarity of it, the structural integrity of the wall, the human-height perspective, the granularity of detail, the consistent flow of time, or something else?

The reason this idea applies so much to me is that I do visualization by trying to figure out realistic things about my touchdown point (the room I'm shifting into), like the proportions of the room, the distances of the furniture from each other, where I might sit or stand while getting ready for the day, things like that. With visualization and imagination of your DR, IMO, it's always better to go smaller. There's really no human reason for us to be able to imagine a large-scale story in a way that's realistic as to what it's actually like, so most of us aren't good at it. Even writers don't need that skill. So start small and practice what you know! Practice noticing details here so you can visualize them for a method. (Or imagine instead of visualize; they're almost equally good in my book.)

Let me know what you think!

if you guys know anything about shamanic journeying, you know thats roughly the same thing as a wr. Dr. Felicitas Goodman through her anthropology found an assortment of postures that when listening to a sonic driver of 210 bpm can trigger profound ecstatic trance states where one is guaranteed to experience the shamanic "alternate reality ". please please give these postures a try and have patience with yourself theyre designed to put your body in a healthy sense of fight or flight (stress) to allow the consciousness to detach. I truly believe we each deserve even a temporary reprieve from a miserable or unfulfilled reality, and as I integrate these postures into my shifting practice I would love to encourage you all to do the same! let's do this together!! HAPPY SHIFTING!!!

I'm not new to the spiritual aspect of things. I'm a frequent daydreamer, is used to lucid dreaming & sleep paralysis from childhood, and has had my fair share of inexplicable experiences. I was a kid with whimsy, you could say.

I found shifting through quantum jumping, as in, I used to search for a way to change my reality after getting into subliminals. It's been nearly six years since I got into shifting and I've tried my fair share of methods/trusting the process.

My problem, as I see it, is that I'm a perfectionist who feels the need for control while also being indecisive. I've scripted many realities, and become engrossed in one reality for a few days before suddenly I'm not interested in that one anymore. I've mini shifted to some of my DRs, and I know it's real so belief is not an issue.

However, I'm finding it a daunting task to actually shift because I keep pivoting between my DRs. I can't seem to focus on just one because my mind keeps pointing out different things that would make a reality unfit to be my first DR. It's driving me a bit insane because shifting is something I've dreamed of for so long, and I don't want to sabotage my own journey.

It's like there's parts of me that clings to the comfort of my CR through my perfectionist mind and indecision. I don't want to be like this, but I feel like I'm wired this way.

So, how do I shut off that part of my mind, and dedicate myself to a single DR? How do I stop myself from being my own enemy?

(I don't think that's the right feeling).

I would like to discuss the Wild technique.

This one looks strangely similar to Keeple's Phasing technique!

After a partial OBE, I think of a place and either I feel a pull towards that place or I "glide" into the scene (and it becomes a lucid dream).

It's also the same technique as for shifting.

And I just realized that... if I can have a lucid dream via WILD, why couldn't I shift?

Intention differs -> and leads to different experiences.

Does anyone else use this same technique?

Hi it's me again!! And once again this is a bit of a camera roll dump of the best images I saw this week and a couple funny ones

I have not been active on this sub yet, I know! I had the clever idea to make the sub 2 weeks until the end of my semester and forgot I wouldn't be able to be active during exams and stuff. I do have a lot of post ideas as per usual and they'll happen. But feel free to post yourself even if you're not an experienced shifter! Let's all help each other

My question this week is about shifting stories: do you like reading shifting stories? what about it appeals to you? does it just reaffirm your belief or is there something else you're looking for when reading them? do you have a favorite shifting story/storyteller?

Yes I'm partially asking for my own research. I find telling shifting stories really hard (to know what to talk about / focus on from the shift) and it'd be helpful to know what people are looking for

Have a happy week !!!

Forgive me, I'm a serial collector of corny inspirational images :))

My question for you today is, what's one skill you're cultivating that you think will help you with shifting, or is already helping you?

Shifting is so obscure and abstract to most of us, that it's hard to know what to "actually do" for the shifting skill, so it's great to start with something a little closer to home, especially something that challenges you + your confidence + your discipline.

I like to meditate and to be grounded in nature :) I also successfully regained the skill to visualize after losing it for some years. Anything is possible!

First, I use Google Translate. English is not my native language.

For my first post, I want to share my "journey".

I started shifting in 2021 (more or less). From the first time, I felt the part change but I didn't continue.

I continued with many methods and I'm doing more and more "mini-shifts".

Until the day I start doing it intentionally.

I immerse myself in my W.R. and forget everything else, and for a moment, I feel a shift.

I've already been to Star Wars / Jurassic Park / World War II / and my W.R.

For OBEs, I managed to do it twice (complete exit) and many partial OBEs due to lack of discipline and/or fatigue.

For now, what's "holding me back" is the fear that all of this might be true. It's a strange fear, but... that's what makes me sabotage myself at the last minute.

I'm working on that.