How is Dreaming linked to shifting?
โค Disclaimer: I only talk about what could be and what I think, I didn't back any of this up because I wrote this while being drunk asf.
The phrase "You're already in your DR" is told community wide spread and discussed. You already exist in every Reality that exists - Meaning, you don't go to a reality, you become aware of the you, in that reality.
๊ฉ How do we know that? How can we see this mirror into the reality we perceive?: The human brain is not physically capable of configuring new faces. It has always been configured within multiple seen faces and humans that made us create a human/face in our head. With this information we have gathered, we realize that, when we are dreaming, we meet people we have never met before. considering this, an argument about a topic like this would've already ended. Yet, even after contemplating about this, we have come to the conclusion that we must've forgot the person or people, we see in our dreams.
โณ Why is this wrong and yet the truth? When going into this with the believe in shifting and we actually assume and conclude that, when we dream, we enter an already existing reality but aren't aware of it yet, that we are actually aware. Meaning -> When we dream, it is indeed possible for us to see existing faces that we have not seen before or have made a mix of already seen faces.
๊ฉ But why does every dream feel different or differently vivid?: Taking different information and beliefs into perspective, we see that indeed, not every dream is a shift/another reality. Why is that though? In our physical sense and the logical explanation of this CR we shall include that dreaming is something created from the brain. A dream, puzzled from the brain, shall then not be able to give you any kind of physical signal to your 5 senses. As this is all in your brain, you shouldn't feel anything, expect emotions. These are altered from your brain to your dream. Taking this in account we also have concluded that, we can't really dream about something completely new or never seen before. Our brain mostly works with memories. - A dream is mostly a non-vivid crumble, built up by/with memories that already exist in the brain. - A shift is a completely different reality, like this one, which doesn't apply to the rules of a regular dream.
๊ฉ What about lucid dreams then?: Let's not forget about those. Lucid dreaming has been backed up by science since years. We can't argue that these are shifts, as they send Brain signals/waves, which a shift can't, the reason for it being - because it is not connected to the brain but the consciousness. Meaning -> A dream can't be a shift.
๊ฉ But how do I know if I shifted or its a dream?: A shift includes -> Having all 5 senses, seeing things more clearly/vividly, actually not knowing people/the surrounding you see. A dream includes -> not being able to feel anything physical at all ((or just tiny bits of it) - this is created by your brain because of memories.), almost not knowing a surrounding/person - maybe have seen them before.
๊ฉ Why do some shifts feel like dreams?: As we sleep, we wouldn't assume that we would shift but rather sleep/dream. Having done this your entire life, your brain and body have modified and acclimatized to make this be the neutral. If you have ever been in a dissociative episode or dissociate quite often, you must've realized that reality feels like a dream/not real. This resonates to the part of not knowing you've shifted. It's like a dissociation - Nothing feels real, like a dream and you have no control over it (you can't get out of the dissociation).
๊ฉ Sober Conclusion (help-): As dreams are backed up by science, it is also possible that we shift and not know. These shifts may seem and act like dreams, this is probably done by the dissociation that is awoken in those shifts. The dissociation is also making us believe it is a dream without actually knowing its a dream, this makes us react to specific things a certain way, which gets us woken up shifted back when specific things happen in those shifts.