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WBTB hack for shifting, the void, lucid dreaming, AP, whatever you want

Yes it sounds click-baity, but it is what it is :⁠‑⁠X I actually thought I had posted this already, but apparently not !! Anyway,

First thing: whatever you intend to do with WBTB, you are not going to try to do it. In fact, you’re going to discard it completely. Don’t try to shift, don’t try to get into the void state, don’t try to lucid dream, forget the thing you’re trying to achieve. If your goal is to shift, don’t even think about shifting. That’s step one, trust me. I’m labeling this a hack for a reason.

Now, set an alarm for about four to five hours after you fall asleep, because that’s the sweet spot. If you wake up before the alarm, go back to sleep and let it ring later, that’s fine. The reason this timing works is because by then your sleep is favoring REM (those vivid dream windows where the mind is more likely to re-enter dreams/lucidity while you still maintain awareness).

When your alarm goes off, wake yourself up fully. Not a soft nudge, I mean WAKE UP. Jolt yourself awake, stand up, splash water on your face, check your phone if you must. Do whatever it takes to feel properly awake. Traditional WBTB advice says “don’t wake up too much,” but if you’re the type who falls asleep too fast, do the opposite: wake yourself up completely. If you reach the point where you think “Oh fuck, now I’m too awake and nothing’s going to work,” perfect! That’s exactly where you want to be.

Now tell yourself: “I am not going to fall asleep again tonight. I will stay awake if I have to.” Be comfortable with nothing happening, be comfortable with waking up back in your CR, adopt the mindset that you’d rather stay up all night than accidentally sleep and not progress anywhere. You want to be stubbornly awake in will even while your body wants to shut down.

Lie back down and let your mind do its thing. Dwell in frustration if you need to, think about your favorite food, even plan your day in this reality tomorrow—it doesn’t matter. Sing a song in your head, drift, daydream, anything. Even zoning out here is beneficial, because you just snap yourself out of it, and go back to doing whatever you want.

The point is: don’t try to induce anything. Don’t try to shift, don’t try to become aware of the void, don’t try to lucid dream. Your only goal is: “I will not fall asleep. I will stay awake until morning.” That’s it.

***And don’t go on your phone. Stay in the dark, roll over, toss and turn if you have to. It honestly doesn’t matter what you do mentally as long as you’re not forcing anything to happen.

From here, one of three things will happen.

1) Your body will fall asleep while your mind stays awake. And you won’t even notice because you weren’t trying to induce it. Then you’ll feel the pull of AP, or sink, or you’ll start sliding into a lucid dream or become aware of the void, and you’ll have that “Wtf just happened??” moment. You’ll probably jolt awake, sit there panting, and realize you just found a method that could change everything. Cheers!

2) You’ll accidentally fall asleep. That’s fine!! We’ve all been there. Just try again the next day, because now you know what to expect.

3) You’ll stay awake all night and nothing happens. You’ll wake up in the morning wondering why you lost sleep trying this stupid thing. That’s fine too, because you now know this method isn’t for you and you can try something else.

But !!! if you just read #3, and your brain is already spiraling into worry reading this, stop. I’ve had really, really bad chronic insomnia in the past— was heavily medicated for it—and the only thing that ever reliably helped me sleep was a version of this method, because I used it to sleep. What I did was stop trying to sleep in the first place. I lay there, relaxed, not trying to sleep, not forcing anything. And I’d tell myself: “if I don’t fall asleep, at least I’ll relax and let my body rest.”

That’s the state you want. Not the nervous, fidgeting, angry state of “why am I still awake?” The point isn’t to force what you crave, it’s to settle into the calm state of “this is good enough, so whatever happens, happens”. If you wake up tomorrow still in your CR, that’s fine, because your body and mind at least got some rest.

So yeah....forget the void, forget shifting, forget lucid dreaming… your only mission is to stubbornly not fall asleep.

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My (proven) belief at the moment is that by not knowing when you’ll shift, you know exactly when you’ll shift

(And I say proven because I shifted again last night. This time it followed the same logic I’ve been talking about where I just set the intention to shift and leave it at that. It was maybe 3 AM, and I just laid there thinking about other stuff. At some point, I slipped into a lucid dream without meaning to, and from there I shifted. So yeah....proof in practice).

Anyway, imagine someone wants to shift (but this goes for manifestation in general). They go online and see a post that reads “Omg guys, I did the Raven method last night and it worked, I shifted!”

And they’re like “bet, I’m gonna try that tonight.” So they crawl into bed, starfish position locked and loaded, count to 100, and… nothing. No shift. Just them lying there upset, like “why does this never work for me? Why is my brain allergic to methods?” Then, by accident, they have a random lucid dream that night—and they actually shift from there.

And of course, they run back online all excited like: “Guys, I shifted through a lucid dream!!”

Cue another person reading that post, who’s also been struggling, and they’re like, okay, THAT’S the key, I just have to lucid dream first. So they spend nights trying to lucid dream, fail, can’t shift, spiral into frustration. Then out of nowhere they remember this old method they tried once upon a time, one that gave them some symptoms. And they think “screw it, let’s try that again. And what happens? They shift.

Now they run online screaming: “Guys!! The APPLE METHOD worked!! I ate an apple before bed, affirmed I’d eat apples in my DR too, and woke up there!”

And naturally, another person sees that post, and thinks “oh my god, that’s genius, I’ll try the apple thing tonight”. They do it, wake up still in their CR, and they’re like “Wow, guess that doesn’t work for me either.” And then they have the most random night ever. They’re half-asleep scrolling on their phone, not even doing a method, and they drift off. And somehow, without even trying, they shift.

Then they pop back up and make a post, like “Guys, I didn’t even use a method, I just fell asleep naturally and I shifted!”

Now someone else sees that and goes “Ohhh, so I just need to not use methods at all, I need to just go to sleep naturally and I’ll shift.” So they put their phone down, roll over, and just… go to sleep. They wake up in their CR. Nothing happens. They’re pissed, like “How come that worked for them and not for me?!”

So then they decide “okay, maybe I should try using subliminals.” They put on subliminals every night, get tingles, feel good, but never actually shift. Weeks pass. They give up, stop listening to subliminals. And then one random night, they shift.

And when they come back they’re like “Guys, subliminals actually worked for me!! You just have to use them for a while and then take a break.”

And then, of course, someone else reads that and thinks “Ohhh, so that’s the formula. Use subliminals for a while, then stop, and then it happens.” They try it, religiously. Nothing. So now they turn to the law of assumption. They assume up, down, left, and right that they’re already in their DR. Then—after three long years—they shift.

Cue them writing a tell-all post about how the law of assumption is all you need. Another person reads it, applies it themselves to absolutely no avail, and quit shifting.

And then, through quitting, they immediately shift. Then they run back online adding another post to the pool of possibilities™, talking about how giving up was their key to shifting.

Cue someone else seeing this, trying to give up as a method—even though they absolutely do not want to give up—and nothing. No shift. They’re frustrated all over again. And then when they least expect it,, when they’re sick with a cold and passed out on cough syrup—they shift.

And when they come back, they go online and write “Guys, I shifted while I was sick! It’s called the Cold Medicine Method. Just get sick, drink NyQuil, and boom! you’ll be in your DR.”

And the cycle never stops. Next thing you know, multiple people are pounding NyQuil and meeting the hat man.

Let me engrain this in your head so deep that you don’t forget it: you are never, ever, ever going to see the shift coming. And that’s the most comforting thing in the world, because the moment will always blindside you in the best way.

You can plan it out exactly as you want, script down to the atom, you can do affirmations, you can stick to the law of assumption, you can run yourself ragged night after night—and yeah, maybe it can work that way. But even when it does, you’ll still be sitting there like “Holy shit… it actually worked.” Because you will never see it coming. Even if you do assume you’ll see it coming, I guarantee that you’ll still be floored by how powerful you are.

The beauty of this whole thing is that it sneaks up on you, even when you planned for it to sneak up on you. You can have gut feelings and intuition, but even then, it’s going to knock the wind out of you when it happens.

And it’s so easy to fall into the trap of saying “oh, I guess I don’t control my reality, I’m just at the mercy of it. But no. That’s not it at all. You’re not being dragged through the mud by fate. You do control reality through intention, through observation, through the decision that [this] is where I’m going.

You want to shift, and so you will shift. The problem comes when you hand that power away, when you start believing you’re at the mercy of methods, or of what worked for someone else, or of advice scattered online.

What if you’re not meant to know when you’ll shift—and through knowing that you won’t know—you do know?

(Bear with me). So you’re not throwing away your desire, you’re releasing the expectation of how and when it has to show up.

And there’s the paradox, because the very moment you release that expectation and trying, you’re stepping into the exact energy that allows it to happen. Because shifting comes when you least expect it, right? So by letting go of trying to micromanage the “how” and “when,” you’re naturally aligning with the way it actually unfolds.

Got it? You’re no longer blocking it, you’re pulling it closer without even trying, simply because you’ve matched the state it requires.

Like I said before, letting it go doesn’t mean forgetting about shifting, quitting, or forgoing methods. It’s not abandoning the process, because it’s actually the opposite. It’s you still doing your method, still affirming, still visualizing, still doing whatever feels natural to you. The difference is, you’re not clinging to it with fear and doubt.

It feels backwards, I know....and discard it if you want to, because it almost sounds like sabotage,, but the moment you accept the possibility that you’ll wake up in your CR tomorrow, that your method could “fail,” you’re dissolving the fear that’s been holding you hostage. You’ve already embraced the worst-case scenario, so it no longer has power over you. And funny enough, that’s when things start to happen.

Yes, by the law of assumption you’d think it’s all about locking yourself into the state of “already having,” and that’s true,, but pairing that with acceptance of the fear creates a balance. You’re not fighting yourself anymore when you know you have it, you know it’s yours, and you also embrace the opposite with “whatever, if I fail I fail, at least I’m trying” energy.

Strangely enough, that freedom is exactly the energy you feel when you start shifting consistently....now that I think about it.

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Ways intention getting fulfilled can sometimes look like intention failing (examples)

Manifestation: Suppose you want to manifest $1000 for whatever reason. And the way you want this to happen is by having a specific person give it to you. That person doesn’t give you the $1000, and you get frustrated. You think, “Well, whatever, I guess I failed.” But then something else happens (you win a raffle, or your job gives you a bonus, you suddenly get a refund you weren’t expecting, or another person, place or thing comes in allowing you to obtain the $1000). Because your intention wasn’t “so-and-so gives me $1000.” Your intention was simply to have the $1000.

Now, let’s say for shifting: You really want to be in your DR. You do a method, but it doesn’t work. You wake up in your CR the next day thinking, “What the fuck? I intended to shift. Why am I still here?” You get frustrated all day, can’t sleep that night, and finally crash at 6 AM. With only an hour left before work. But then, in that single window of REM sleep, your awareness is just malleable enough that you shift to your DR.

Another shifting example: You want to be a master shifter so badly. All you want is to shift at will, but you’re stuck in the stage of spontaneous shifts and mini-shifts. You consume a perfect mental diet, intending to be a master shifter, but after countless tries, it still doesn’t work. You feel powerless and frustrated. Finally, you give up on all the methods and decide to just meditate. And then you discover—you shift easily from meditation.

Another manifesting example: You intend to find a job because you need money for a better life. You apply to a hundred jobs, hear back from none, and face rejection after rejection. You’re frustrated, questioning everything. You vent to a friend, who then casually mentions their workplace has an opening. You apply, get it, and the job pays even better than all the others you were stressing over.

Shifting again: You’ve tried to shift to your DR for years. Methods, tips, tricks, nothing works. Finally, you give up and focus on another area of your life. You decide to manifest something else you need, maybe for a health issue to go away.Whatever it is that you did to manifest works so well for you, that one day you try it with shifting—and suddenly, it works. You shift.

Manifesting again: You want to move out of your parents’ house, but you have no money, no job, and they won’t let you. Three years pass while you’re trying to manifest it, and nothing happens. Then, out of nowhere, everything falls into place; you land a job, find a new place to live easily, and move out. Looking back, you realize if it had happened earlier, it wouldn’t have aligned perfectly—you would have had to sacrifice one or two things. Now, you have it exactly as you wanted.

Another shifting case: You want to shift so badly, but you’ve lost all motivation. You can’t stomach another attempt, and you’re stuck in limbo. One night you just say “Fuck it. I intend to be in my DR right now.” No method, no effort, just intention. Suddenly, an urge hits you in the moment: act as if you’re your DR self. And that very spontaneous act shifts you.

For the void: You want to enter the void to manifest everything—clear skin, your dream body, perfect health, to live in your dream city, have your dream job. You try so hard, but you never get there. You question whether the void is even real, and why you could never manifest from it. Then, everything starts falling into place anyway. Void or not. Your skin clears up, your body changes, opportunities align, and suddenly you’re living the life you wanted. You look back and wonder “If I never entered the void… why did I get all this?” The answer: because intention always prevails.

You can quit shifting, quit manifesting, quit everything. But as long as you still keep the intention, and keep your awareness pointed at it, nothing can stop you. Because at the end of the day, it’s never about how it happens. It’s about the fact that it does.

Failure is demoralizing and demotivating. It makes you spiral, makes you want to give up. But what is failure in the face of intention? In the face of desire? In the face of something you can’t let go of, no matter what reality throws at you? Manifestation and shifting, as I see them, are simply observing your desired outcome until all other outcomes/realities collapse to show you the one you want.

It’s not about “trust the process” or “rejection is redirection.”

When you hit failure, what if you think: “Hm. So it wasn’t this path. But it’s still moving.” Because you can’t stop moving toward something that’s already yours—unless you turn around completely.

*mandatory disclaimer that this isn’t the case for everyone and everything all the time. Take it if it resonates, discard if it doesn’t. Please.

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Thing that’s (technically) not a method but made me shift instantly

It’s called “changing the goal”? I guess? Let me just input the step-by-step then explain what happened:

1) Pick a goal that isn’t shifting. The goal for this method isn’t shifting, which is why it’s not a method at all. Daydream about your DR, listen to music and lip-sync in your head, make up a scenario, do whatever you want, because that’s what you’re going to “try” to do. Not shifting.

2) The idea is that your “mission accomplished” is just the goal that you chose. That way, you can’t finish it and say “ah fuck it didn’t work, so I failed.”

3) Focus only on that goal, and do it until you feel done. For example, if your goal was just to visualize this scenario that happens in your DR— after you visualize it, you’re done. Mentally check it off: goal accomplished.

Now, if you’re the type who can’t possibly let yourself do this knowing your “goal” wasn’t actually shifting to your DR, and you basically did nothing, hear me out:

So something fortuitous happened (in hindsight). I struggled to shift for 2 nights! But it had nothing to do with my ability or my methods not working (I wasn’t even trying, lbr). The problem was my sleep schedule was so catastrophically fucked that the second my back touched the mattress, I dropped every shred of intention or desire to shift and just knocked out cold. Then I’d wake up in the morning annoyed, like “Uggh, I can’t believe I chose sleep over shifting.”

And then, last night, I was watching my younger sibling play one of their car racing video games, the kind where you need gold to unlock the next level (this story will make sense in a minute, bear with me).

They claimed to have been at it all afternoon, grinding, determined to cross the finish line first. But no matter how hard they pushed for it, they kept failing. As I watched them, at one point, they were so close (nearly at the finish line in first place) when another car knocked them all the way down to last place again.

They paused the game, tears welling in their eyes, saying they tried so hard, got so far, and still ended up at the bottom. They were ready to rage quit, to toss the controller on the ground and walk away.

But then I took the controller before they could, wiped their tears, told them to drink some water, breathe, and let the frustration dissipate. When they calmed down, I told them not to quit the race, to go back in. Not to claw their way to tenth place, not to try to win, but just to finish. Because they had already made it so far in that race, so why not cross the line, even if they were dead last?

And more than that: why not just enjoy the game? I reminded them how lucky they are to even be sitting here with a game this good, in this moment, able to have fun.

They agreed to play for fun, and unpaused the game. But were no longer obsessed with the outcome, just playing for the sake of it.

And then it happened!! Without trying, they overtook every car, one by one, and crossed the finish line in first place.

Afterwards they stared at the screen, bewildered, and asked “How the fuck did I do that? How did you know?”

And of course I told them I was a witch.

But what I realized in that moment was this: The opportunity to come in first place is permanent, immovable, always waiting for you. The period that trips people up is the grind, the frustration, the obsession with getting it right now, and that pressure is what makes people rage quit.

That pressure is what steals the joy and places this invisible distance between you and your desire. But if the win is already guaranteed, if it’s already sitting there in the future with your name on it, then why would you even try?

So I went home and figured: if I’m struggling to shift, why not stop trying altogether? My core intention to shift isn’t going anywhere; it’s always there, in the background. So why keep forcing it in the exact moment my body is clearly resisting?

And then I tried something new. I let go of the active intention to shift (because it’d always be there), and replaced it with four shiny new goals. So I put on my music playlist to fight off sleep, and I wrote a little checklist in my notebook. Four boxes:

☐ Feel happy about my DR, that it exists.

☐ Feel happy about the opportunity to shift right now.

☐ Feel happy I even have the ability to shift in the first place.

☐ Daydream about what I’m going to eat when I get back to my DR next time (big back activities, sue me)

And that ended up becoming the method itself,, just having different goals altogether, and getting lost in my thoughts.

Somewhere in the middle of that, I slipped into hypnagogia (violently, okay, I violently slipped into hypnagogia). It was the usual mind awake, body asleep thing that carries me into shifting. Next thing I knew, I opened my eyes in my DR.

And I keep turning it over in my head—why it happened the way it did. Because, sure, my base intention was still to shift, that never really goes away, but in that moment I wasn’t trying to shift. I was doing something else entirely.

That night, I just wanted to feel good that my DR even exists, that shifting is possible for me at all. So I sat with my thoughts, letting myself enjoy the music, daydream about the cool stuff waiting for me there, and I actively chose to do only that. Shifting wasn’t even on the table anymore.

!!! And I don’t think the takeaway here is “just let go, stop trying, and eventually you’ll shift.” I hate that sm. As if you can ever “let go” of the desire to shift. Honestly, it’s not even what happened. Because I still wanted to shift. That desire was still in the background. But what I was doing in that moment wasn’t a shifting attempt at all,,it was this completely different thing, with its own purpose, and its own finish line.

I had shifted my focus to getting that done, and because I was so intent on this other goal, shifting got demoted to background noise. And that made me cool with whatever happened. Like, even if I fell asleep, even if nothing happened, I still hit my target for the night, so there was no way to “fail.”

And that’s the part I think is worth sharing. It’s not “give up and you’ll magically shift,” it’s more like: sometimes, swap the thing you’re chasing. If your current shifting attempt is all about “I must shift right now,” try making the attempt about something else entirely, like daydreaming in detail about your DR, or listening to music, or literally anything else like meditating, building a scene in your head, etc. Because when you make that the win, shifting stops being this desperate pass/fail trial.

Let yourself win, let yourself win more often, create victories for yourself that aren’t tied to whether or not you open your eyes in your DR.

Because bottom line.....you’re never going to see your shift coming. Even if you’re the kind of person who scripts it all out, does a method perfectly, and then wakes up in your DR,, there will still be that surprise, that moment of “holy shit, it actually happened.” It might feel natural, but it will never feel predictable.

And that’s the point. You can’t know if you’ll shift tonight, or tomorrow, or next week, but you do know that you’re going to shift either way. The only thing you do know is that it’s coming.

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When someone says “all you need is intention”, that doesn’t mean you have to drop the method you love, or stop listening to that subliminal, or quit meditating, or quit the law of assumption, or affirmations, or give up reaching hypnagogia or the void or whatever. No, you can keep doing all of that—because those things are part of your intention playing itself out.

“All you need is intention” doesn’t automatically mean you need to sit still and do nothing. If doing nothing feels right for you, cool, do nothing. But if doing nothing feels awful, then do something. Do the method you enjoy, listen to music , meditate during the day, try to shift in class, etc.

“All you need is intention” just means you’re not depending on the method, or any outside source to swoop in and make it happen. You just need intention, because it’s you! It’s your intention that’s the seed, the root, and the entire fig tree.

Just because you planted the seed, doesn’t mean you need to yank it out as soon as it grows roots because “all you need is the seed and nothing else.”

Intention is the thing pushing everything forward, and once you really get that, the method/process/thing you’re doing stops being the necessity and just becomes another expression of intention unfolding.

Because intention = action = inevitable outcome. And no action exists without a result. You can’t set an intention without it bending reality toward the outcome you want. That’s why no effort is wasted and no step is useless.

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The HOW comes after intention. You don’t fulfill your intention by figuring out the HOW.

That’s kind of my new mantra from now on, because this all hit me after I shifted two nights ago. Not with any method, no ritual, no step-by-step; just me, lying there, holding the intention like “eh, fuck everything, I’m shifting.” I let my mind drift while reminding myself I was shifting and that whatever happened, happened. I fell into hypnagogia, and just held the intention. And then I woke up in my main DR again.

The whole point of this (without rambling forever) is that we get so tangled up in the how. (and I’m so guilty of this too). “What method should I use? Am I doing it right? Am I screwing it up? What’s the step-by-step?” And it just becomes this endless stress spiral. But it’s so much simpler than that.

So when people say “all you need to shift/manifest is decision,” they don’t just mean you’ll spawn there in the blink of an eye. Or that your desire will be handed to you out of nowhere.

The case could also be that the intention to shift alone is enough to carry you through hypnagogia, the void, a lucid dream, sleep paralysis, or any other state that you’d like to shift from. Or that your intention to have any desire is enough to make you observe a reality where all is moving in your favor according to the continuity of that reality.

And your job isn’t to control the how, but to just control the fact that you’re going to shift. Or manifest.

Let yourself feel shitty. Let yourself feel frustrated. Let your circumstances be whatever they are. None of that matters as long as you keep holding the intention. That’s it.

If you’re shifting, for example, all you really need is: I’m shifting. Whatever happens, happens. That intention alone sets up the path. It’s infinitely easier if you stop micromanaging reality and just trust the intention. Whatever the fuck happens, it’s all carrying you toward the outcome you already planted.

So in the context of manifesting as a whole, what if you started interpreting all the negativity (the spiraling, the failure, the doubt, the confusion, the “why the hell isn’t it working”) as the right path? Not to make peace with dangerous and abusive situations, of course, I’d never say that. This is mostly when you just....don’t know what the fuck to do anymore. So what if, at your own pace and comfort, you gave in like the meme of the dog sitting in the middle of the—hang on me insert it here

What then? Think about it. You still have the intention, you didn’t drop it, so everything you’re going through is automatically part of “the bridge of incidents.”

That’s what Neville called it, but really it’s just the reminder that you don’t need a “how,” you don’t need to calculate the steps, you don’t need to keep poking reality. You just need an intention, to decide where you’re going, and know it’s already unfolding. That’s it.

Everything between now and there is “the bridge,” according to Neville. Even the stuff that looks contradictory, even the stuff that looks ugly, even the shit that feels like a setback. You don’t have to pretend it’s not happening, you don’t have to close your eyes and fake positivity. Freedom might just be treating it all as the road curving toward the thing you already claimed the moment you intended.

The bridge will build itself. The wood, bricks and scaffolding aren’t your job to micromanage. Contradicting circumstances aren’t in charge, you are. So if your manifestation looks kind of messy and all over the place right now, you don’t have to fear it, you don’t have to shove it away or try to “act as if” or any of that. You just trust that it’s one of the countless steps that couldn’t possibly block what’s already yours.

And here’s where observation comes in: The second you look at your current circumstances and say “oh shit, I must’ve failed, I need to start over,” what you’ve actually done is picked up a new intention: the intention that you lost it. And now you’re walking that bridge instead. Every time you declare “restart,” “I need to try again,” “I ruined it”— you’re pointing your intention somewhere else.

That’s why trusting the bridge matters so much. Even if your reality looks completely backwards, even if it feels like the opposite of what you wanted, that’s still the bridge doing its thing. Maybe it feels backwards because you’re expecting the bridge to look neat and pretty, all lined up like a grand staircase. But what if the bridge looks like detours, panic, thinking you’ve messed everything up? What if that’s the process? The difference is whether you observe it as “failure” or as “the right path.”

That means every time you wake up after intending to shift and you didn’t—that’s the right path. Every time the manifestation looks delayed or sideways—that’s the right path. You can decide it’s the right path. And the second you decide that, it is.

Oh, you intended for something to happen and it immediately didn’t? How do you know it didn’t? How do you know it isn’t already in the process, unfolding in ways you can’t yet see? How do you know that in the background, the pieces aren’t already moving, arranging themselves, creating the exact conditions for you to receive what you want? How do you know? You don’t.

The moment you decide something is yours, life will begin arranging a sequence of events (incidents, encounters, shifts, breakdowns, breakthroughs)as a bridge from where you are now to the fulfillment of that intention. You cannot intend to have something, and then not have it.

That’s why I say anything that doesn’t show you what you want right now is illusionary—it’s noise, it’s filler, it’s being propped up with cheap popsicle sticks as reality is moving through to line things up.

Say that when you finally shift (and you will) you’ll look back and realize: oh, if that failure hadn’t happened, I wouldn’t have tried this new angle. If I hadn’t burned out, I wouldn’t have dropped resistance. If I hadn’t quit for a while, I wouldn’t have stumbled on the thing I needed to do.

The bridge often looks stupid, even cruel. But in hindsight, it’s always perfect. For example, (and this is an isolated personal case) if I had first shifted earlier, before I did, I would’ve landed in a version of my DR that wouldn’t have made me happy. I’d have been disappointed and regretful. But I didn’t shift then—I shifted when it lined up, when the version matched me exactly. And now I can’t imagine being anywhere else.

That’s the point: Hold to the intention above all else, and it will carry you through, in whatever way the “how” arises.

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Stop trying to see your DR if it’s driving you crazy. Actually, stop trying to force any angle if it’s making you anxious

(I’ve been debating whether to post this for over a month because I kept thinking it might overcomplicate things. Honestly, it’s mostly for me to share a viewpoint I’ve been mulling over. It’s about how instant manifestation and pattern recognition works my unfortunately logical mind soo...take if it resonates, discard if it doesn’t :/)

If you can decide something’s yours and treat anything that contradicts it as noise, great, keep doing that, you don’t need to hear this. But if you struggle, genuinely struggle, then you don’t have to keep beating a dead horse. If you hate trying to see your DR, pretending you’re already in your DR, if you hate waiting for the visuals, STOP TRYING TO SEE IT.

Stop staring into your CR hoping to catch a glimpse of your DR, and instead focus on being the person who can shift there in the first place.

Because here’s the thing: seeing your DR is an external lens pattern (I’ll explain what that is in a second). If you’re the kind of person who obsesses over “Do I see it yet? Am I there yet?” you’re relying on proof, which means your brain is scanning for a logical “yes” or “no.” And if you’ve been stuck, that answer is almost always “no,” which just reinforces the same loop.

When I stopped asking “Can I see my DR?” and started asking “Am I the person who can shift to my DR?” the whole game changed. I didn’t need proof for that. I didn’t need to see my DR for it to be true. I could assume “I’m the person who shifts,” and had nothing to contest because that’s not dependent on whether I’m seeing visuals, hearing sounds, or feeling sensations.

And the second you think that way, you’ve basically cut the dependency on an external “yes/no” signal. You’ve flipped the lens. You’re not asking reality to prove anything to you— you’re deciding who you are and letting reality scramble to keep up. That’s why it works so fast.

Internal-lens pattern

Observing and interpreting reality through yourself; your thoughts, feelings, abilities, and role in a situation. Example: “I must have done something wrong, that’s why they’re ignoring me.”

External-lens pattern

Observing and interpreting reality through the environment; people, events, and circumstances outside yourself. Example: “They didn’t text me because they’re busy, or the situation isn’t favorable right now.”

Both are ways your mind recognizes patterns, and flipping between them lets you bypass contradictions.

The whole point is to break the momentum of the unhelpful pattern before it cements itself.

You don’t argue with it, you don’t try to force it to be “positive,” you just jump to the opposite lens and let that perspective carry you.

Pattern recognition is your bestie. Literally. Sometimes (not always) it’s the thing that green-lights manifestation to your logical mind. Think about it, every time you set an intention, like “I’m going to shift tonight,” your brain instantly coughs up a pattern to explain why it won’t happen. And that pattern is the giveaway.

If the pattern sounds like “I’ve failed so many times,” “I can never do this,” “every night I try it’s always the same,” notice the I in there.

That’s internal. That’s you blaming yourself, looping it back to your identity. And the second you catch that, flip it outward.

But if you’re the opposite—if you run external—your brain will feed you patterns like: “The method never works, a family member always wakes me up, there’s always noise outside, my environment just never cooperates, the attempts always fail, etc” Okay, great, you caught the external lens. So flip it.

When you flip it, suddenly you’re manifesting from a layer you usually ignore, which makes it feel fresh—and bypasses the resistance you’ve accidentally been feeding for years.

And if you’ve read this far and think “flipping perspective doesn’t matter,” then I ask: what was your outlook on life before you flipped it to believing in manifestation and shifting?

But (huge but):

It’s not that you’re always an internal-lens person or always an external-lens person across all situations. It’s situational, you’re not a robot. Some things, you automatically scan through yourself first (your thoughts, feelings, history, patterns). Other things, your attention naturally goes outward (environment, circumstances, what’s happening around you).

The key is noticing which lens you’re using in the moment and knowing you can flip it. Some situations call for an internal perspective, some for an external one.

For example, the other day I was craving sushi, so my first thoughts veered toward the internal lens: “Sushi is too expensive for me right now (it’s not, I’m just a cheap bitch). Nobody’s gonna want to go out for sushi with me. This isn’t realistic for me because it’s a Tuesday afternoon.” All of it pointed back to me as the problem.

But then I flipped the lens. I said: “Okay, I want sushi. Therefore, anything that tells me I won’t get sushi is an illusion.” And since I treat “illusion spotting” as an external pattern recognition game, the second I framed it that way, my brain stopped nitpicking me and started side-eyeing the outside world for false evidence.

Suddenly, it didn’t matter how I felt—because all of that was just “illusion noise.” I’d already decided sushi was happening. And it did. Instantly. Stupidly, tbh. My friend literally called me 20 minutes later and said she was craving sushi, then asked if I was up for going out with her to get sushi, and that she’d pay.

That’s the point: if you’re stuck, it might be because you’re manifesting through the lens you’ve been overusing your whole life to try to explain why XYZ will happen, and won’t happen.

Flip it, and the resistance falls apart, because you’re using one line of logic to explain why the other line of logic is actually illogical to your intention.

That’s why if you’re always looking through the external lens, obsessed with seeing your DR— stop. Stop trying to see it, stop asking reality to flash you proof. Because “Do I see my DR?” is an external question, and external questions are yes/no traps. If the answer comes back “no,” you’re stuck in the loop again, and you are going to keep scanning it over and over. I encourage you to label whatever contradiction you’re seeing, but that’s still external.

If that’s something you’re still struggling with, instead, flip inward: don’t ask if you see it, ask who you are.

The point is: whichever way you flip, you end up landing back in power.

Because the external world only exists in your awareness, and your awareness is you. Change how you observe yourself, and the world you observe reshapes. Change how you observe the world, and your self-image reshapes. As within, so without. As above, so below, yadda yadda yadda. Your awareness is the snake and reality is the tail. You’re an ouroboros.

“I don’t even know how to apply this, I didn’t understand anything you just said”

Okay cool, let me break it down with some examples:

Suppose your best friend is mad at you, you want to manifest that they speak to you again.

External observation: “They’re short with me, they don’t want to talk, they must be mad.”

External attempt to manifest: “They texted me right now, they’re texting as I speak, of course they’re calling me right now.” → stressed, external evidence seems to contradict intention.

Flip inward: “I’m their best friend. They can never stay mad at me for too long. I’m not bothered by this because it’ll be resolved soon.” → smooth manifestation, no contradiction.

Suppose you’re struggling with school.

Internal observation: “I’m too dumb for this subject, I can’t get it right, I always fail tests.”

Internal attempt to manifest: “I’m smart, I’m a genius, I can answer every question perfectly.” → stressed, internal evidence conflicts.

Flip outward: “The next exam could have easy questions, the teacher could grade generously, circumstances could bend in my favor tonight.....I intend to do well with school, so the external will bend to my favor” → smooth manifestation, no contradiction.

When you hold intention as the central axis, the sheer spread of patterns becomes irrelevant except in how they serve, bend, or dissolve in light of that intention. Patterns are the illusion forms that reality dresses itself up in. They can look infinite, they can seem to contradict each other, they can distract,,, but none of that matters, because your intention treats them as secondary phenomena. The only thing not swallowed by illusion is the intention itself.

“But I keep internally telling myself I’m a master shifter and I’m still in my DR”

SO FLIP THE PATTERN. Remember when I just said “flip it, and the resistance falls apart, because you’re using one line of logic to explain why the other line of logic is actually illogical” ?

WELL, if you’re someone who’s always inward, telling yourself “I’m a master shifter, I know this, I do everything right… but I still can’t shift, I keep failing,” then you’re choking on your own self-definitions.

That’s when you flip outward— and by outward, I don’t mean chasing proof or scanning patterns of failure. I don’t mean searching for your DR.

I mean looking at the possibility pattern. The external is wide open: Tonight could be favorable. Tonight you could naturally drift into an altered state without even trying. A method could work. Tonight your dream could turn lucid and you shift from there. Tonight your body could relax so deep, it makes the transition effortless. You could come up with a method on the spot that makes you shift. Tonight hypnagogia could be so deep that it pulls you in. Tonight external sounds or sensations could cue the shift unexpectedly. Tonight your dream could pivot toward your DR spontaneously.

You don’t knowwww. You’re just scanning for possibility patterns and assuming what will happen from there. So stop assuming that “because I failed 100 times, this next attempt will also be a failure.” And start assuming from “Because ABC XYZ, it means I can succeed.”

The external lens opens endless pathways that you can’t disprove. You can’t prove that none of those possibilities could happen, so automatically you’ve broken the loop.

And if you find yourself arguing that none of it will happen—because “none of those things ever work out”—well, that’s just an external pattern loop, isn’t it? So flip it inward. If you hate looking outward, remind yourself: you’re someone who can make the external happen.

Why it all boils down to “just assume it’s yours” (🙄)

Everything boils down to what you observe. The external world, the people around you, the circumstances; they’re all filtered through your awareness. What you notice, what patterns your mind latches onto, what you decide to give significance to—that’s what shapes your reality.

When you observe a situation through one lens—internal or external—you create a loop. If you only scan internally, you see patterns about yourself that can reinforce doubt or limitation. If you only scan externally, you see patterns in the world that seem to contradict your intentions. Either way, you get stuck in evidence that opposes what you want.

Label them as illusion, irrelevant, noise, and go about your day. That’s what I do. Buuuut, if pattern recognition is stifling your success, then the magic happens when you flip the lens. External contradictions become internal observations, and internal doubts become external possibilities.

When you flip your perspective, you remove contradictions. You’re not asking the world to prove anything, but deciding what’s true. You observe reality not as it seems, but as it must be according to your intention.

[cloverapple]

You can’t shift, you’re still in your CR, and you’ll never have your desire

Do you know what’s really funny? It’s that you’re out here feeding yourself a script that you don’t even believe in. Because I guarantee that the title made you pause, scroll back, and read this post with a critical eye as you get ready to not believe a word of it.

But it comes so naturally when you tell it to yourself, huh?

You’ve built this narrative about yourself that you swear is real, when I guarantee you don’t believe in it at all. Imagine you ask me:

“Why am I still not in my DR? Why don’t I have my desire? Why does every attempt to shift fail?”

And I answer:

“Because you’re worthless. Because you’re stupid. Because you can’t shift or manifest for shittt. Because you’re literally the one person on earth who can’t shift. Because you’re not worthy of your desire. Because you’ve done everything wrong, never even tried, and you’re doing it all incorrectly.”

Instantly, you go:

“Wait, what? How dare you! No way. I’ve put in the work, I’ve intended. I am worthy of my DR. I can shift. I can have my desire. Why are you telling me this? You have no clue what you’re talking about!”

You reject it. You’re defensive because it sounds absurd. But the second you list the same reasons to yourself, you swallow it whole. You believe it.

And then you realize the punchline: when the exact same message comes from an outside party, someone irrelevant, you shrug it off. You don’t believe it at all. What does that show you? That all external noise doesn’t matter, because deep down you know the truth. Isn’t that just the funniest, most absurd thing?

But fine, let’s say you’re reading this and you’re like: “Well, yeah, Clover, I do hate myself. I do think I’m worthless. Thanks for nothing.”

Okay.....great! You’re completely right, you’re worthless :) And you don’t shift because you didn’t intend to be in your DR :) in fact, I bet you’re not someone who can’t shift at all, right?

If the above agreement makes you want to punch me in the face, congratulations. It makes you want to argue with me because you know that’s not true. That spark of defensiveness is you knowing, deep down, that only what you define is real. And the reality is that you can shift.

You ask me “Why am I not in my DR?” and I tell you: “Because you’re in your CR. You’re still here!”

And instantly, you’re like “Are you kidding me? I’ve intended to be in my DR, I am in my DR.” See how fast you reject it? That’s the whole point. You already know outside noise isn’t the authority.

But if your case is:

“No, if you told me I can’t shift, I’ll just believe it more, so this isn’t very helpful to me”

So very gently, I’m pointing out that you’ve already handed me the keys. You’re letting me, an irrelevant outside source, decide what’s real for you. That means you’re not actually holding the authority—you’ve outsourced it.

Or rather.....you think you’ve outsourced it.

The only reason you’re even here, reading about shifting, trying to manifest, is because you already believe you have the ability to change reality!! The act of trying is proof you think you’re the one in control!!!!

It’s like saying “I know I’ll never win the lottery” while still buying a ticket every week. If you truly believed you couldn’t win, you wouldn’t waste the money. You wouldn’t even be in line at the gas station with the ticket in your hand.

So no, the problem isn’t that I could “confirm” anything for you. The problem is you’ve been pretending you’re powerless while constantly proving you’re not.

Let’s say you really do think you’re worthless, incapable of shifting, the one person alive who can’t do it. Now imagine I tell you: Stop trying. Just give it up. Never attempt to shift again.

What’s your gut reaction? It’s rolling your eyes at me, because “oh here’s this bitch who thinks she knows what she’s talking about.”

Or you’d consider it. You could take it as the sign you needed to quit shifting. But you’d probably feel that stubborn little spark, the “But I don’t want to stop. I actually do want to keep trying.”

Why? What does that tell you?

It tells you you’re not actually convinced you’re incapable. If you were, you’d shrug and walk away. The fact that you keep coming back means there’s a part of you that already knows you can do it, but you’re just smothering it under a bunch of false stories.

(side note: if this offended you in any way, I’m very sorry, and I want to make it clear that my point isn’t to belittle you. It’s to show you that your actions are already contradicting the negative story you’ve been telling yourself.

The fact that you’re reading posts about shifting, testing out techniques, and even questioning why you’re “not there yet” means you’re already operating from the observation that it’s possible for you. If you genuinely believed you couldn’t shift, you wouldn’t be here. You wouldn’t be asking, you wouldn’t be trying, and you wouldn’t be disagreeing with me. You’d have already closed the book and walked away. See?)

[cloverapple]

Is continuity in shifting and when you speak of it mean seeing your cr everyday, because you’re used to it? I know what the word itself means I’m just confused on what it means/how it applies to shifting and/or your posts

Basic rundown of continuity and why it doesn’t mean shhhhhit (but can still be helpful)

Continuity in shifting just means you keep experiencing your CR because you’re used to it, and because it’s your “default setting,” with nothing more to experience other than it + its laws.

Like:

• You wake up in the same bed, get ready, and go to work/school.

• You talk to the same people.

• You see the same streets, same house, same mirror every morning.

You’re so used to observing this setup as the only one, that it expects it to keep happening (because you’ve been conditioned to believe there’s nothing more), so it keeps “loading” the same reality over and over.

Continuity also works like this constant pattern-recognizer. Your brain watches what happens around you and builds these “if/then” rules:

• If you work hard, you’ll get rich.

• If you get on a plane, you travel somewhere.

• If you get sick, you rest and recover.

• If you fall, you get hurt.

It learns these from your own life and from what you see other people experiencing. So when you try to shift, that same pattern logic is still running. It’s scanning for familiar cause/effect sequences to decide what’s “possible” and what isn’t.

But here’s where it gets interesting. The continuity laws that we were taught are stupid. Because it’s one giant loophole.

Continuity fails to account for the fact that action and outcome are always tied, even outside its little rulebook.

It thinks it’s in charge, running its neat sequence of “if this, then that” but like, if you start observing a different reality, it automatically hands you the outcome of that instead. That’s the loophole. You can shift purely because you noticed something else.

So the second you start observing “I’m a master shifter,” continuity bends itself backwards to match. Suddenly methods you thought were useless click, symptoms pop up, you get dreams, déjà vu, perfect timing— not because you “broke” continuity, but because it turned traitor and started building the new pattern for you. It basically lets you escape it by obeying you.

Which ultimately means continuity is faulty. It’s not some sacred law, it’s just a pattern in reality. Anything that’s not fixed is subject to change, and anything subject to change can be rewritten the second you stop treating it as permanent.

And that’s shifting. The “rules” you think you’re bound by are just patterns your CR has been looping. The moment you stop taking them as the final truth, they start to unravel. Things like the sudden method that works, the symptom that shows up out of nowhere, etc are just proof the whole structure is movable. You don’t need to fight continuity; you just need to notice it’s complete fake garbage if it’s showing you the opposite of what you intend. And it will move with you.

Continuity is just action → outcome dressed up in a fancier coat. Same shit everywhere: you do something, something happens. You already know that. But continuity is like the overachiever that insists on filling in all the in between steps like backstory, set design, costume changes— all to make it feel consistent. That’s why in your CR “work hard → get rich” feels inevitable, or “book a ticket → get on a plane” feels like the only way to travel.

The thing is, action → outcome isn’t bound to those filler steps, because it’s not bound to any specific reality or state of consciousness. Those are optional to the laws of whatever reality you’re observing. Strip continuity naked and all that’s left is intent and effect slammed together.

That’s why you can sit there intending/observing “I’m a master shifter/manifester” and watch symptoms pop up, methods suddenly work, and continuity trips over itself trying to keep the new story straight, and in doing so, it drags you exactly where you intended to be. It can’t help but bend backwards, because the only constant in the system is your awareness of any system.

Or you can just say “I’m in my DR” and let continuity glitch so hard it can’t keep up. It’ll either peel back completely, like action → outcome forcing you to just wake up there with no bridge in between, or it’ll kill itself trying to reconcile the contradiction. That’s when it pulls one last Hail Mary and shoves you into a new set of rules, like successfully dropping you into the void, chucking you into an altered state, or giving you a launchpad moment, like a lucid dream —stuff that are consistent with this reality.

It’s not that those experiences were necessary to get you there, it’s that continuity, to maintain its own illusion of uniform cause and effect, used them as a way to “make sense” of the fact that you just skipped the line. The irony is it’s working against itself and still handing you exactly what you wanted.

All of this is exactly why I think shifting and manifesting are logical. You don’t need logic, but when people think “logic” they mean the laws of continuity we’re used to.

It’s logical because at their core, they’re just action → outcome. Proof isn’t the outcome; proof is the action that made the outcome inevitable. But continuity has trained us to worship the finished plate and forget the chef.

We point at the meal like “See? That’s real” but without the chef, there’s nothing to eat. The proof isn’t that the food exists, it’s that someone stood there, chopped the vegetables, lit the stove, and turned something into a dish.

Shifting/manifesting works the same way. You don’t need the outcome in your hands to prove it’s done. The fact that the action (your intent) happened at all means the result is already baked in. The meal doesn’t spawn out of nowhere, but the moment the chef starts cooking, the ending is guaranteed.

[cloverapple]

Hi, Clover! What advice would you give someone who has done everything, read every post, and now just feels lost, doesn't know what to do, or what the thing is that works for them? In my case, it's been 5 years, and even though I haven't outright said it in a while, nothing has worked for me. Guided meditations, robotic affirmations, shifting through a lucid dream, astral projection, regular methods (raven, julia, etc.) the phase/OBE, falling asleep with the intention of waking up there, pure consciousness - nothing has worked. Yes, I know that this is an assumption in itself but I gotta say it at this point. 😭

Simply deciding and forgetting about it works for other things, but somehow not for shifting, and I'm kindaaa getting desperate.

My point is, every time I read a post (which isn't as often anymore) about LOA and shifting, I feel like I've been the same point over and over again: I read something, go "oh, that's right. I AM in my reality! This time will be different" and before I know it, so much time (I know time isn't real, there is only the present, but still) has passed and nothing has changed. Every time I spiral, I go back to the mindset of having what I want, but still nothing.

I just feel lost and don't really know where to go from here. I love your posts, especially the one about no attempt being a failed attempt, but unfortunately I haven't had that "OHHHHH!" moment. I understand the concept on an intellectual level, but applying it is not as easy for me, I don't know why. It's like nothing, and I mean nothing, actually sticks to my brain, if that makes sense. Everyone says to "just decide!" but what do I actually do if that hasn't worked for me? If I've been deciding over and over, and even took action just to wake up to the same reality? Where do I go from here? Shifting is personal and everyone has what works for them, but how do you know what works for you if nothing has worked so far? I also feel like this mindset of even those underlying assumptions you may have dictating your reality makes me even more confused because I never know if I'm truly in the state of a master shifter, or if there is something I subconsciously assume through some of my thought processes that assumes a reality where I don't shift. It's like... if I'm the god of my reality and everything, and yi mean EVERYTHING comes from me, why is it then that deciding I'll wake up in my waiting room, for example, hasn't worked so far, even though I keep trying to remind myself that I am the source of everything there is? The "3d" (there is no objective outer reality, only I AM 🙂‍↕️) doesn't have a timelag or anything, so if I'm not where I want to be right now, that means I'm not in the state of being that person, right? In that case, what now? I wish someone could just look into my head and tell me what to do and how to do it in a way that works for me

Sorry, I didn't plan for this to become super long but my brain just kept putting out more and more stuff I've been thinking of. I'd really like to hear your thoughts on this, because at this point, I don't know what to do and I'm genuinely scared I'll never be able to experience my MHA dr with my senses 🥹💔

You know what? I’m going to be honest. I get a lot of asks like yours—people telling me about their journey, what they’re going through, everything that’s weighing them down. And I sympathize. A lot, because I see myself in everyone.

Maybe you’re the lucky one who made me snap. Or this is a sign specifically for you. I have no idea. And I’m not saying this to sound cold, but I’m not really qualified to answer these kinds of questions. Not in the traditional way.

Not because I don’t care—but because my advice for this isn’t polished or gentle. My advice comes from having been there. I was the one crashing out, crying, spiraling. “My life sucks.” “My brain doesn’t work.” “ADHD is ruining everything.” “Nothing lets me shift.” “The law of assumption doesn’t work.” “Manifesting doesn’t work.” “Affirming doesn’t work.” Nothing. Worked.

Until I said: fuck it.

I gave up. Fully. Not in some “take a break and meditate” way. Nope. I lost it. I said:

This 👏 doesn’t 👏 fucking 👏 make 👏 sense.

If shifting is something my awareness already knows how to do, and I’ve intended to be in my DR, to be a master shifter or whatever—to hell and back— “there is no reason that I should not be able to shift tonight.”

And that’s when the incoherence snapped. The whole thing crumbled. I crashed out. Mentally, emotionally, spiritually. I hit the bottom and said: It literally does not make sense for this not to work. That was the key.

That was MY key. I have no idea what yours is. I don’t know what makes you snap, but guarantee that whatever it is— there’s your answer.

That insanity, zero-point of surrender, not in sadness, but with a “fuck it, screw this” mentality made the illusion collapse. Reality had no choice but to follow me.

And listen. I’m not telling you to hurt yourself. I’m not telling you to damage your mental health, or chase collapse just to prove a point. But if you’re asking me what to do when NOTHING is working, my answer will always be this:

Let it eat you alive.

Horrible advice, I’m aware. And I say that as someone who is not mentally strong in the slightest and can be persuaded to [redacted] at the snap of a finger.

Let the doubt, the fear, the grief, the failure devour you. Let it bite and maul and tear and gnaw at you. And then? Let it spit you out.

And yeah, that’s why I say I’m not really qualified to answer these asks the “right” way. Because it’s always going to sound something like:

“I can’t focus.” Okay, then stop trying to focus.

“I fall asleep when I shift.” Good—then sleep.

“I can’t fall asleep.” Cool—then stay awake.

“I feel like giving up.” Then give up.

Let your awareness pull you in the direction it wants to go. Because it’s already leading you to your DR.

You intended. That’s it. So whatever your mind, your heart, your energy does next—follow it. Even if it looks chaotic. Even if it looks like quitting, even if it looks like you’re losing your mind.

You want to take away from this: “I guess I’m giving up on shifting”?

Fine. Go ahead. Give up.

But what if giving up is the exact thing that finally lets it click? What if giving up feels so intensely wrong and incoherent that you circle right back because “hang on, I’m supposed to shift.”

That’s the part no one wants to say, but I will.

And look, I could sit here and tell you that the reason you're not shifting is because of your assumptions, or because you didn’t meditate, or you breathed wrong in the void, or you blinked wrong in the hypnagogic state, or whatever the fuck state you're in. But let’s be real, there’s only so many times a person can be told they’re doing something wrong before they start to feel insane.

And you’re not insane. You’re not broken. You’re not crazy for feeling like nothing works. You're not wrong for feeling stuck. You're human, and it fucking. hurts.

But at some point that pain eats itself, and the contradiction gets so loud that it collapses under its own weight—because it doesn’t make sense. It does not make sense to try and try and try, for months or years, and not shift. It defies logic. It’s insane. And that insanity is where the truth shows itself.

Because if you’ve been on this journey this long, that alone is proof it’s already done. The moment you intended it, it was yours. The problem is that you think there’s a problem. So you questioned it. You handed your awareness over to others; asking people, asking blogs, asking strangers, why haven’t I shifted?

But why the fuck would I know? Me??

What the fuck does anyone know about your journey? What could I possibly say that overrides your awareness? Your intention?

Nothing.

I have no say.

No outer source has a say over you, and that includes your circumstances.

No person, no method, no voice outside of you holds the authority.

I know it sounds backwards and counterintuitive and stupid to say “Ohh you’re not doing anything wrong” when you feel so wrong. But that’s the very contradiction you need to let eat you alive. Dwell in it! Let it rip you up and spit you out!

Because when you crash—really crash—you finally see:

It’s literally impossible to do something and not have the outcome of it. And anything that says otherwise is illusion trying to keep its grip on you, so BEAT IT 👏 WITH 👏 A CHAIR

[cloverapple]

How to not fall asleep when shifting

A list of ways that have helped me before in the past. Mix and match accordingly. Asks responding to:

1. Position Yourself Incorrectly

You know the position that makes you fall asleep the fastest? Yeah don’t use it. If curling up on your side knocks you out in five minutes, lie flat on your back like a sleep-paralyzed corpse. If lying on your back knocks you out cold, flip over like you’re a baby and try your stomach. You’re trying to disconnect from muscle memory. Trick your brain into knowing this is not your regular “fall asleep” routine.

2. Focus on the black behind your eyelids. I Mean Really Focus.

The void/shifting method I posted is gold for people who slip into sleep too easily. You’re not imagining anything, not visualizing, not affirming, just becoming intimately aware of your eyelids. Pretend it’s a doorway. Pretend it’s a wall you could fall through. Pretend it’s your s/o staring at you. Treat it like it is the holy grail. And when your focus slips, snap back to it.

3. Chastise yourself out loud.

This works insanely well. Have an internal conversation with yourself like you’re yelling at a toddler or scolding your dog. For example, I do:

“Clover, NO. Stay awake. Look at the black. Not today, sleep demon. Clover, stay the hell awake or I swear to god—”

If you’re busy nagging yourself, it keeps you from passively slipping into dreamland. The brain can’t run intrusive thoughts and stage a self-directed intervention at the same time. Use that to your advantage.

Alternate version: Channel the fuck-it mentality and start trash-talking your entire journey because you are o.v.e.r it.

“Fuck it. I’m shifting. I don’t care. I’m doing it, fuck it.”

4. Micro-control your eye movement.

Even with your eyes shut, you know when they start drifting off. You feel them go slack, like they’re ready to roll back into sleep. So keep snapping your attention back by:

Shifting your gaze side to side slowly, like you’re scanning the black.

Widening your "closed" eyes just slightly (you’ll know what this means once you try it,, and if you don’t, read this).

Again, re-centering your gaze like you’re trying to look straight through your eyelids.

5. Move. Jitter. Adjust. Ignore the “stillness rule.”

So many people panic if they twitch or adjust themselves because they think they’ve broken the "mind awake, body asleep" balance. Spoiler: you haven't. Your body will still fall asleep anyway. You are allowed to:

Shift your legs

Re-adjust your pillow

Scrunch your face and stretch your neck

Scratch an itch or roll onto a new pressure point

Play the kazoo

Your brain doesn’t reset the sleep cycle every time you move. The sleep process is smarter than that. I’ve hit hypnagogia while still adjusting my shirt. The body goes when it’s ready. Movement won’t ruin it, but panic might.

6. Music won’t ruin anything. Use it.

Yes, even loud, distracting music. Even music with lyrics. Even music that would have your parents appalled that you listen to it. Sound won’t stop hypnagogia. In fact, familiar music can anchor your awareness. You’re not falling asleep, you’re just. Drifting deeper while still anchored. You might even use it as a countdown:

“I’m still awake by the chorus, I’m still awake by verse two, I’m still awake at the bridge…”

And if you dissociate a little in the process? PERFECT.

7. “Oh but I keep zoning out”

Hello ADHD shifter. Hi person who tries to meditate bit keeps zoning out. Go back to #1 because that method keeps you from zoning out, since you’re focusing on the black behind your eyelids. Pair it with #3. Trust me. If your pattern is: try to meditate -> zone out -> snap out of it -> roll over and go to sleep, defeated—then do this. Pair a visual anchor with dialogue to keep yourself engaged.

8. The alarm trick (AKA weaponizing your own paranoia)

Set alarms every 90 minutes. Not to shift, but to sabotage your sleep in a way that helps you win. Here’s the psychology: Your brain knows you’ll be woken up, so it stays on edge. You might think that’s bad—but it’s actually perfect. The goal here is to stay just awake enough that you don’t plunge straight into unconsciousness. That anticipation—the ugh I’m gonna get woken up soon tension? Use it!

You’re not aiming to nap. You’re aiming to drift just low enough that your body knocks out and your mind gets sneaky. That place where everything starts slipping sideways.

And if you do fall asleep? Great! The alarm yanks you back. You get another shot. This trick breaks the mental block of “I was just laying there for hours and nothing happened.” Because let’s be real—sometimes what actually happens is this:

You think you’re just laying there, irritated, defeated. And then your thoughts get... floaty. And you start to sink. And your hearing warps. And you’re like wait, what the fuck is happening??

That’s hypnagogia. That’s the threshold. Sometimes you even do shift or start to AP. The alarm method keeps the cycle running. Try-fall asleep—wake up—try again—drift—wake up—drift deeper—fall through. Eventually, your body’s like: “Okay fine, sleep.” But your mind is already plunging into an altered state.

9. “But I did all of this and still fell asleep”

THEN SLEEP. SLEEP. FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS GOOD AND PURE, GO THE FUCK TO SLEEP (i am crashing out, i’m so sorry).

My point is, you set the intention to shift, right? So now, please trust your awareness, because it knows where it’s leading you. It knows the path you hopped onto. If it’s directing you down the perceived “wrong way,” just go with it, okay?? Do you know how many times my dumbass, when in shifting limbo, tried an awake method, gave up, fell asleep, then woke up there? Several. All that matters is that you intended to shift, the rest is in fate’s hands.

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Awareness, observation, intention, and why reality happens accordingly (delayed, instantly, etc).

Thing I’m pasting here because I don’t want it in the FAQ(ing hell) that I’m working on. Something I should have made clearer a while ago, but I forget to clarify sdfghjklkjhghjk. This is how I see it:

Everyone’s observing a different version of reality. Some observe it through religion, others observe it through the law of assumption, others through the law of attraction, others through an amalgamation of their personal experiences. So on and so forth.

Whatever the lens, it’s shaped by what they observe, the framework they’re observing. That observation becomes their reality. And within that reality, they hold intentions.

Someone might say: “I want a new job,” and choose to pray for it—intention within a religious observation. Someone else might say: “I want a new phone,” and assume it’s already theirs—intention within the law of assumption. The point is, each person’s intention sits inside their chosen observation of reality.

Now, intention and observation aren’t separate. They’re the same movement. For example, if you’re a hard-core logic-based person and you decide to try the law of assumption, you’re making a shift in how you observe. You begin to say: “Everything I assume is automatically true.” So, you assume: “I already have the new phone.”

Then the contradictions start appearing—delays, doubts, lack, logic. But those are just remnants of your old observation: the one that said things take time, effort, struggle. Now that you’re observing differently, all those contradictions become illusions—remnants from a version of reality you're no longer feeding! Because it’s no longer your observation.

Because here’s the thing: once you observe through, say, assumption, everything not aligned with that assumption is unreal to you. It's wrong, irrelevant, background noise from a discarded lens. It’s now illusion. And within that observation, your intention must be fulfilled. Why? Because intention and observation are one act. Action -> outcome.

You can’t observe without intending, and you can’t intend without the observation already shifting to meet you. Just like if you take action -> it needs an outcome.

But here’s what most people fail to grasp: everything—law of assumption, law of attraction, dare I say religion—is observed by awareness. Awareness is the witness of it all. Pull back far enough, and you’ll see: it’s not the method, not the system, not the assumption—it’s awareness itself that makes it so. This is why awareness is all.

Whatever you intend in awareness already is. It doesn’t matter if you're a Christian who says “God will decide,” or someone who lives by assumption and says “I already have it”—if that intention exists within awareness, it is already done.

But because of your observation—your lens, your worldview—it will appear to unfold according to the rules of that belief. So yes, maybe there’s a delay. Maybe there are conditions. Maybe there’s waiting. But that’s just the shape your observation gives it. The truth beneath it, is that it’s already yours.

So let’s say you’re someone completely lost—no interest in the law of assumption, attraction, religion, none of it. You don’t want to subscribe to any framework. You just want your desire. Fine. So whatever you intend, is. That’s it. That’s the observation that cuts through all of it. No matter the system, no matter the dogma—it always comes back to that. Observe, intend, it is.

So you observe: I’m already in my desired reality/I’m shifting tonight. It’s done. And everything else (assume this, attract that, pray here, affirm or else) it’s noise. Collapse it by naming it when you see it. Time? Illusion. Delay? Illusion. Resistance? Illusion. Call it out. Obliterate it. Stay fixed in the awareness that what you intend is, and reality has no choice but to yield.

It’s like this: delay, doubt, the feeling of “not yet”—those aren’t real barriers. They’re just the remnants of your old observation, the remnants of a paradigm you were immersed in for so long it became second nature. That paradigm said things like: it takes time, you’re not there yet, you have to work for it, you have to earn it, you have to wait. That’s the script you’ve been following unconsciously. Even if you now intend otherwise, that old script can still play out because you are observing it. Not because it's true—but because you're still watching its rerun, still mistaking the illusion for reality.

So why doesn’t it drop instantly? Because illusions have momentum. Your awareness was soaked in that previous structure, reinforced again and again by feeling, belief, and the world reflecting it back to you. So even after you’ve made the shift, your senses might still scream “See? It hasn’t changed!” And you agree with it. You don’t agree with frustration, or doubt, because wavering doesn’t matter. But with intention.

You go on, and you say “look, the illusion didn’t drop, so I’m going to try out this new method and technique—” uh uh. Excuse me?

You took the trash out of your house, walked back in, and are now shitting all over the floor. And then you complain about it, as if you didn’t shit all over the floor.

You don’t have to ignore the lack, or pretend it isn’t happening, not kill your own doubts or pretend your CR isn’t affecting you—just call it what it is: illusion. And die on that hill. Refuse to do anything else.

But here’s the trap—if you call out the illusion and it doesn’t instantly collapse, your first instinct is to bow to it again. “See?” you say. “It’s still not here. I still don’t have it.” And just like that, you're kneeling before the very thing you seek to dismantle.

Your current reality does not define you. Because for it to define you, it means you are bound to only one observation. But you are awareness. And you are infinite. Do you get that?

Every framework—assumption, attraction, prayer—still loops back to awareness as the observer. And if awareness intends I have it, then the only thing ever keeping you from seeing that is what you keep defining as truth. Stop granting power to anything that tells you otherwise. Stop identifying the noise as truth.

Whatever you intend—is. End of story. Whatever you want, is yours. Whatever you observe, you see. Whatever you do, becomes.

In sum/TLDR:

Awareness observes all systems; the law of assumption, the law of attraction, even religion—all of them are just lenses awareness peers through. And whatever awareness observes, it becomes.

So— If I observe that “things take time,” then that’s the law I live under. My desire will not come right away, not because it's not mine, but because I intended so by observing a reality where delay exists. The awareness must obey my observation, because I am awareness.

But if within that, I intend to have something instantly, then it has to happen instantly because it’s no longer a part of that observation; therefore I’m no longer observing that it takes time. I’m observing that it’s instant!

That’s why: whatever you intend, is. And whatever contradicts what you intend, is illusion. Illusion isn’t “the laptop I’m typing on isn’t real.”

It’s “I’m not typing on a laptop right now, I’m writing on a typewriter. So if I see myself typing on a laptop—the laptop is illusion.” It’s what contradicts what you intend.

The point of me saying all of this is: it doesn’t matter what religion you are, what your traumas are, what your circumstances are, what framework you identify with, it doesn’t matter. If you intend to have something, then it’s already yours.

And you need to dry your tears, and know that everything that contradicts what you intend is not real to you unless you say it is. (because intention moves with observation, and observation moves with intention, because they’re the same, same movement).

And then. And then you reach the end of this. And you ask. AND YOU ASK. “If I intend to be in my DR right now, (i’m trembling as i’m writing this), “then whyyyy. Why. Do I still see my CR, and it didn’t collapse immediately. Even after I observe that it’s instant. What more. Do I need to do? How do I collapse the illusion. Why is there a delay? What else do I need to do to collapse it?”

You are.

(I am going to throw my phone across the room)

You are using. ILLUSION LOGIC. TO QUESTION WHY YOU’RE STILL SEEING THE ILLUSION. You are using. ILLUSION LOGIC. to point out that your desire is delayed.

“Oh, all of this isn’t real because it’s not what I intend,,, so I wonder what more I need to do to make it collapse, you know, because I still see it :)”

Are you kidding me.

“but what do I do—” Illusion logic. To question why it’s not yours yet.

“Oh but my CR environment is killing me, and my mental health—” I know. I know. I’m not telling you to ignore it, or act like it doesn’t affect you.

You can cry and sob and scream and doubt ALLLL while twerking in the face of the illusion.

When I start tweaking while writing these posts, that’s how I know it’s time to end them :(

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Sue me, but I think you’ll make more progress in five minutes of spiraling than in five years of trying to shift.

Hear me out:

Ever heard binaural beats? Put 528 Hz in one ear, 520 Hz in the other. You don’t actually hear either one directly. Your brain locks onto the difference: 8 Hz. Your awareness detects contradiction because it effectively responds to dissonance.

Reality works exactly like that. When you're fully holding:

“I already have it” AND “But I don’t see it right now,” you're living in a frequency clash.

The system hates that. Awareness can’t remain in pure contradiction. So it starts syncing to the resolution. It starts looking for that “8 Hz” that makes sense of the noise.

And when you crash out—when you’re crying, screaming, losing your mind over how the logic literally does not add up, because you KNOW, in every fiber of you, that this thing is yours but it’s not appearing—that moment is not a failure.

It’s not you wavering, it’s your awareness detecting a mismatch and equalizing.

The illusion is that you need to “believe better” or “assume more correctly” or “stay calm” for things to shift. Noooo. Realizing the bullshit is the gateway and crashing out is the recalibration. You're slamming two contradictory states together so hard that awareness is forced to adjust the observable reality to match your strongest signal— which, in that moment, is: “I KNOW I HAVE IT, BECAUSE I CAN’T INTEND TO HAVE SOMETHING AND NOT HAVE IT, SO IT MUST BE RIGHT HERE. I KNOW IT’S HERE, THE LACK IS FAKE!”

That creates movement. Five minutes of looking around at your CR like “I know I already have it, so what the fuck is this??” hits your awareness like a seismic wave.

Don’t fear the contradiction because you think wavering and checking the 3d kills your intention. Because the frequency of that dissonance is the only sound awareness can’t unhear.

“Wait, but won’t I then be observing a reality where I have it, but don’t see it?”

Well, is that what you intend? I know you’re smart. You intend to have your desire already. To shift. Now let go of this awful idea that they implanted in your mind, that if you check for proof, automatically you’re done for.

Check for proof, because if you don’t see it in front of your eyes right this second while intending to have it, then what you’re seeing simply isn’t real. Remember that the proof that you have your desire, is not seeing your desire itself, but the action (intention) you took to have that outcome.

I know you feel crazy. I know you’re practically tearing your hair out and wondering what the hell you’re doing wrong, why you’re not shifting.

But your logic is fine. Your sanity’s intact. What you’re feeling is the pressure of suppressed knowing. Like trying to sit calm in a burning building because someone told you you had to “trust.”

No. Scream. Bust the fucking door down. Delete Tumblr. Tell these bloggers (myself included) to shove their advice. You don’t need all of this, because you already know what’s yours. That’s why you can’t quit or let this go.

When you’re crashing out in tears, you’re not “blocking your manifestation,” you’re sweating it out like a fever breaking.

Stop thinking the dissonance means you’re wrong. It means you’re too right to ignore.

Caveat: the way I shifted after two years (more like a decade tbh, I’ve known about quantum jumping since I was ≈10) was by questioning the glitch, crashing out, and calling out the bullshit.

Even now, the way I continue to expand my consciousness, simplify my way of shifting/manifesting, and learn (realize) new things always comes back to:

“if I know w, have x, and can do y, THEN LOGICALLY I HAVE Z”

That’s why—to me—calling out the flaw in the illusion always works no matter what.

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Cloverrr what's the fastest way to manifest something instantly?

quickest damn way to manifest (aka how to glitch reality using basic logic)

step 1: Want the thing. Let’s say you want X.

step 2: observe that X is either a) already yours, or b) on it’s way. Doesn’t matter, it’s the same thing. It’s just that some people do a lil better with “it’s coming”, while some prefer “I already have it.” Either way, you’re automatically observing the reality where it’s yours.

step 3: understand that you cannot perform an action without it generating the outcome of that action.

You intended to have it -> so you have it.

You’re observing that reality -> so you’re in that reality.

if you flipped a light switch and the light didn’t turn on, you wouldn’t say “maybe I didn't really flip it...” — you'd say “huh?? something’s off.”

because cause and effect are non-negotiable.

you did the action (intention) → the effect must follow. or else the whole structure of logic collapses.

It’s no different from:

You kick a ball → the ball moves.

You put a cup on the table → it’s on the table.

You blink → your eyes close.

step 4: everything between you intending to have it -> and you having it— is noise. So wavering is meaningless. Waver all you want so long as you shut it down.

“what if i don’t get it?”

“what if it’s not working?”

you shut that shit down immediately:

“lmao wtf. that’s not even possible. nope. illusion. fake. doesn’t compute. irrelevant. not real. next”

step 5: watch as reality delivers your desire on a silver platter, because you observed a reality where it’s yours one way or another.

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Wait wait let me throw this in here since I’m summing it up:

Why you literally can’t fail (unless you choose to fail):

Failure doesn’t happen to you because you didn’t intend to fail. Failing is a new action, a choice, a separate intent.

You can’t accidentally fail at manifesting. That’s like saying:

“I accidentally decided not to kick the ball after kicking it.”

“I accidentally meant to miss the goal while I was scoring.”

Failure is only generated if you intentionally say:

“Oh, I don’t have it.”

“Eh, this didn’t work.”

“Let me try again from scratch.”

That’s you hitting reset, get it? That’s you choosing not to score.

But doubts, contradicting thoughts, negative assumptions, etc ≠ failure.

It’s background noise (illusion, as I like to say, because they don’t exist :]

The moment you say,

“Wait, that’s fake. That’s just fear.”

“I already kicked the damn ball.”

“I have it.”

Then the doubt doesn’t matter. You didn’t change the action. You didn’t cancel the outcome. Doubt all you want. Especially if suppressing doubt makes you stressed.

You stayed with your core intent. Which means the outcome has to exist. It already exists.

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How I entered the void in less than 5 minutes last night (If someone doesn’t shift with this, I’ll scream)

I wouldn’t be sharing this and putting myself at risk of sounding like a lunatic who posted one method, and is now posting yet another version of it, if I didn’t have a reason for it. Idk, gut feelings are hard to explain (I’m aware I sound insane right now)

But I’ve never been more excited to share something in my life, sooo that might attest to something.

This will work for everyone in some way. And I’ve never been more certain of anything ever. (Except for the time I pspspsps’d at a black kitty on the sidealk at night, which ended up being a trash bag, and I found out I had horrible eyesight—but that’s not the point here).

This isn’t anything brand new. It’s like my method people have been seeing results with, but stripped down to its bones. Simplified to the core, which I’ve learned actually makes it more effective.

(unless you’re someone who prefers something detailed and objective, then yeah, stick to my main method and ignore this)

This doesn’t care about your beliefs. Doesn’t care about your identity, your self-concept, your doubts, your contradictions. It doesn’t matter if you’re into non-duality, law of assumption, law of attraction, or don’t even have a belief system. This method does not give a single shit. And I say that with confidence, because when this worked for me last night, I was crying. Genuinely, majorly depressed. Everything I usually cling to, all my beliefs about shifting and consciousness and the nature of reality—I wasn’t mulling over any of it. I was flat out over existence itself, and it still worked.

The set-up:

• First, understand something: The screen of space you’re looking at right now—even if your eyes are closed—is the same screen where your DR, CR, the void, your dreams… all of it… will appear. That’s your canvas. Always.

• This works best with WBTB (wake back to bed), so set an alarm for about 3 hours after you fall asleep. You want to wake up just tired enough that going back to sleep is easy, but you’ll still have some control. (You can also do this as you’re going to bed, but it was 3 AM for me after I had woken up,,, so do with that info what you want).

• Now, get this into your head: You’re not entering the void or shifting from a place of calm or confidence. You’re doing it from pure exhaustion. You’re doing it from “fuck this shit, I’m doing it anyway.”

You can doubt. You can feel like shit. But the attitude that follows is “fuck it.” You’re tired of trying, and tired of being on this journey. So you’re just gonna do it. Fuck it.

What to do:

• Lie on your back. (I personally like my back, but I’ve done it on my side too, and it still works. Doesn’t matter. Don’t overthink it. This doesn’t matter)

• You can move. Just don’t care that you moved. After the next step, you won’t even be paying attention to your body anyway, and it’ll go numb naturally,, so the idea here is “fuck it, this doesn’t matter.”

• Now: Notice the black behind your eyes. Just that. The blackness. Don’t try to notice your awareness yet. Just focus on the black. Look at it. Really look at it. LOOK. Keep choosing to look at it again and again. Widen your eyes over and over again, and keep refocusing on it. This will keep you alert, but you’re not forcing yourself to stay alert, got it? It happens naturally, because you’re reeeeally looking at the black behind your eyes.

• Your body’s gonna want to fall asleep. Don’t fight it, don’t care about it, because the fact that you’re looking at the black behind your eyes will naturally keep you from falling asleep.

• You keep your mind locked on that black space, almost like you’re watching a movie screen, but nothing’s playing yet. What happens? You’ll keep wanting to fall asleep—but widening your eyes and choosing to watch the black will keep waking you up. You’ll be in this liminal place going: “Fuck it. Fuck it. Fuck it. I’m doing this. Fuck it. Don’t care.”

(What I mean by “widening your eyes” even though they’re closed is: when your eyes are closed, don’t let them go slack like they do when you're falling asleep. Keep them wide and alert, like you're trying to watch something in the dark. You're not tensing them, just holding that sense of openness, like you're staring through your eyelids).

• What happens next: Suddenly you’ll feel your awareness. You’re just awareness now. Naturally. You didn’t right off the bat try to pay attention to your awareness,, you just realized that you are it. Why? Because when you feel confined to that black space behind your eyelids like a coffin, with nothing else around you, there’s nowhere else to run to other than your awareness. Your body will be numb, and your surroundings distant, irrelevant. And you’ll think: “Wait… I’m just my awareness.”

• And then your brain might do what it always does: “Oh no. What if I’m overthinking? What if I’m messing it up?” And you remind yourself: “I’m literally awareness. I can overthink if I want. I’m awareness goddamnit. Fuck it.”

• You’ll start switching—back and forth—between two things (because there’s nowhere to run to):

1. Looking at the black behind your eyelids

2. Noticing your awareness itself

Keep flipping between the two like you’re flickering the lights on and off in a room, but don’t force this. You’ll look at the fact that you simply are, and you'll look at the black,, and you’ll think: “damn?? I’m just my awareness.”

• Then you’ll start to sink. You’ll feel the pull as hypnagogia grabs your hand and says “so where are we going, bestie?” From here, you can either:

A) Keep going as you feel yourself sink, and you’ll fall straight into the void state effortlessly.

B) As you feel yourself sink, you can choose to lucid dream, astral project, or just plain shift from here. To shift: affirm, assume, observe, do whatever you want. The way I shared that I like to do this is by observing my awareness in my DR, observing the fact that I’m aware there (just pretend you’re there, no need to try too hard).

The point is: whatever happens next, if it happens very very quickly, don’t panic.

Just to note:

If this somehow doesn’t work for you—though I genuinely believe it will work for someone—just know the reason I share so many things is because I deeply believe everyone needs different things. The core of shifting stays the same to me:

You are only awareness, and you observe your desired reality until all other options collapse.

But how you get into that is wildly personal. What works for me might not click for you, just like what works for you might not click for me, and that’s fine.

That’s why I keep offering options—not to confuse you, not to invalidate anything I’ve said before, but to give you more pathways of realizing how powerful you already are. If one method feels off, try another. My main method is still my go-to: observe my awareness in my DR, exist there, decide I’m there because where else would I be??—but I love giving variety because maybe this next one might be the one that opens it all up for you.

Edit: (this just came to mind) don’t place a time expectation on any method. This one worked in less than 5 minutes for me, but the next time I try it, it could happen in 10, maybe 20. I don’t know. So if you try this, and it doesn’t immediately work in the way you expect it to, take a deep breath and keep trying, because eventually something has to happen. Trust me.

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How to observe your awareness in your DR (put SUPER simply) + Why “pretending” to be in your DR doesn’t exist.

Because I still see people who don’t understand (which is fine!!) so we’re going to put it in basicccc terms :)

1) Lay down, sit down, get comfortable, close your eyes, yada yada yada. You can listen to music, frequencies, sit/lay in silence, in a noisy environment, none of it matters.

I like do this right before bed/ in the middle of the night/ or in the morning because of hypnagogia/WBTB/hypnopompia— but we don’t place restrictions on this blog. Nope. Do whatever you want. If you’re shifting to be a fish in the ocean, and feel comfortable flopping around on the floor, do that.

2) Now ask yourself, what the heck are you being aware of right now? Is it your CR all around you? “Oh, it’s my CR!”

3) Okay, cool. Now pretend you’re already in your DR. Go: “Ooh, I’m already in my DR. I can sense my DR around me.”

4) That’s it.

Congratulations. If you did that, you’re already aware of your awareness in your DR. The difference between “becoming aware of your awareness in your DR” and “pretending to be in your DR” is this:

You’re not pretending.

You. Are not. Pretending.

Pretending is what little kids do when they dress up like a doctor and poke their friend with a stick because they’re performing tree branch surgery at recess. No. You are not a child. (Well… you might be a child, I don’t know.) But you’re shifting realities.

So you’re going to “pretend” you’re in your DR—but NOT from the mentality of someone who’s pretending. You’re doing it because you’re already there.

Even if you feel like you’re pretending, you’re not. That feeling is just your brain playing catch up.

It’s like when you first learn to ride a bike without training wheels. You might feel like you're "pretending" to balance, wobbling and confused, but you’re actually doing it. You’re riding the bike. Your muscles already know. Your body already gets it. It’s just your mind lagging behind, saying: “Hang on, are we really doing this?? Damn”

Same with shifting. You’re not ““pretending”” to be in your DR. You’re just getting used to how simple and real it already is.

If you become aware of your awareness in your DR from the perspective of someone already there (“PRETENDING”)…you’re in your DR.

Even if you open your eyes and see your CR, that’s an illusion, okay? It’s that simple. Just “pretend” you’re already in your DR. But again, it’s not pretending. Keep that in mind.

“Pretending” to be in your DR doesn’t exist!!

There’s no such thing as pretending to be in your DR. Like, seriously, what would that even mean??

If you’re “pretending” to be in your DR, then you’re literally imagining yourself there, right? You're thinking of what it's like, what you'd be doing, where you'd be, all in the POV of the you who’s already there—and that is you becoming aware of your DR.

You don’t pretend to be aware. You don’t “fake” being aware. If you're doing it, you're doing it. That’s like saying: “Hehe I’m pretending to notice the color red.” No, you’re noticing red. Done.

“Pretending” implies you’re separate from it, but the second you’re mentally engaging with your DR as real, you're tuning your awareness to it. You’re not faking anything. You’re already there. Your awareness doesn’t care what label you slap on it.

So yeah, pretending to be in your DR is just... observing your awareness in your DR. I tell you to focus on your awareness there, because your awareness is all that you are.

There’s nothing more to do. You’re done. There’s nothing to fix, chase, unlock, prove, beg. You’ve already arrived. The idea that you’re not there yet is illusion.

It’s

*grabs a chair— hang on lemme get a gif for this

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How to shift in seconds (no bs version)

The short version of this post in case the length gave you an aneurysm.

1) Get comfortable in bed at night (or don't, lay on the floor, stand up like a horse, sleep in the cupboard under the stairs like Harry Pottah I don't care).

2) Become pure awareness. Drop thoughts, drop your “body,” drop the environment. You are only your awareness. Focus only on your awareness. All else is ✨ illusion✨

3) Decide you’re in your DR right now.

3) Now that you’re in your DR (because you said so?? Tf) observe your awareness in your DR. No visuals, no forcing. Just “oh look, I’m observing the fact that I have an awareness in my DR. Right now.”

Ye olde “pretend you’re already in your DR”

4) Let your brain glitch out: “Wait, if I’m aware of my DR, and I’m aware of it from the vantage point of it being around me right now...doesn’t that mean I’m in my DR?”

5) Exactly. Let it sink in, and hold it. That’s it.

• Because you can’t observe something and not see it. You can’t intend to shift and not shift. The vantage point you observe from is your location. So if you’re observing your awareness in your DR, you’re there. It’s not pretend. It’s just how it works.

• Why would you still be in your CR if you’re observing your DR? Better yet—why would you still be in your CR if you decided to be in your DR, and you’re aware of it from the vantage point of the person who’s already there?? It literally makes no sense. Let your mind freak out. Let the reality crack. Then keep standing there.

You shifted. Don’t overthink it.

Edit: please stop asking me to elaborate. This post was made as a parody of the main post linked above ;-; go read it