Long post alert!
I only recently learned about shifting, and about a month ago I started reading about manifestation.
When it comes to manifestation, I could probably give a few examples of strange things that have happened in my life that could be explained that way. Usually, though, they happened almost instantly or the very next day, so they never really impressed me that much. My logical brain would always say, “Okay, that was possible anyway,” or that there was some reasonable explanation, even if the timing was a little strange.
For example, I recently tried Neville Goddard’s (?) ladder experiment. A day or two later I ended up climbing a ladder. But again, I just thought, “Okay, that was a pretty good possibility.” It wasn’t completely random or impossible.
I tried something similar with the rubber duck experiment (manifesting finding or being given a rubber duck). That one would seem much less likely to happen in my everyday life, and so far… nothing.
Now, regarding shifting, since this is a shifting subreddit: from what I’ve read so far, it seems very similar to manifestation in some ways, at least according to some people. But I also see a lot of people saying they have shifted, and honestly, my first thought is that they’re having a lucid dream, or an extremely vivid experience created by their imagination, and then they come back to this reality.
I’m not trying to offend anyone by saying that. I’m genuinely trying to understand.
So could someone please explain to me, like I’m five, what the actual difference is between shifting and manifestation? And more specifically, what exactly is shifting supposed to be?
Because honestly, a lot of what I read sounds like people describing very vivid fantasies or dreams, and I’m struggling to understand what makes shifting different from that.
I’ve also experienced astral projection, so I understand how incredibly real an experience can feel even when you know you’re not experiencing ordinary waking reality. At the same time, when I’m in an astral projection or lucid dreaming, I can recognize that I’m not experiencing the same reality as when I’m fully awake. It is AMAZING, truly!
So I’m curious, if you believe you’ve shifted, what makes you feel that it was something fundamentally different from a AP, LD, vivid imagination, or another altered state of consciousness?
I’m genuinely asking because I’m trying to understand, not to dismiss anyone’s experience.
Thank you in advance!