ephemeral dream

random thoughts, love coffee and cute things, 19, shifter ♠️

[trapnestmf]

⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ 𓂃 you’re trying to feel your dr with your cr senses

⠀a lengthy shifting guide

why is it so hard to shift from your cr to your dr but not so much vice versa? you’ve spent the first large chunk of your life believing this reality to be the full extent and foundation of existence. even if you now logically understand this not to be the case, the years spent curating and deepening a mental, emotional, and physical anchor to this reality has warped your perception of reality and instilled in to you the subconscious idea that your cr is the default. and in treating it as the default, the end all be all, and in compromising with it, you reinforce the idea that you are attached or stuck here—that it is even a place to get stuck in in the first place. not only do you trap yourself in this reality and grant it power over you that it does not actually have, you start viewing your cr as the “starting point” too, and shifting as some form of transportation from point A to point B. accompanying this belief is an imagined distance created between your current reality and desired reality. you might’ve already recognised this in yourself; the feeling that your dr is somehow faraway, a place that needs to be travelled to.

it’s important to make and internalise the distinction between a shift in realities as an act of metaphysical travel, and a shift in realities as a shift in focus. imo the former is a much better descriptor for what shifting actually is in essence. i will go into more depth later, but a byproduct of being raised the way you were, growing up knowing nothing but your cr and rooting & centring yourself wholly (confined) within it, is the over identification you end up developing with your cr self. you are not living reality, you are watching it. but after years of the constant unbroken immersion, the two become almost impossible to distinguish. you define yourself by and take on as if they were your own the thoughts and identity and feelings of the “vessel” you are observing, and let them dictate how you experience reality. the lines begin to blur between you; your cr self, and you; your awareness/the observer.

feel your hand. don’t touch it, but notice it’s weight and temperature, or the air around it. now feel the feeler. can you feel yourself? or your body, maybe? now go a step further and feel the one feeling. you probably aren’t fully able to, but this is the observer. “the observer”, or the state of being after breaking the immersion, is you in your natural or purest state. it has also been described as pure awareness, the void state, ego death, sakshi, the self, anatta, and interpreted in different ways across a multitude of different religions and branches of spirituality & philosophy, all used as a means to an end for different things. fyi—i’m not saying you have to completely forsake your cr identity or start ignoring/dismissing your senses or thoughts to shift, just understand that those things don’t define you or your reality. the means to the end here is just getting a point across and hopefully helping improve with the approach you take to shifting. all of this to say, you’re not travelling from point A to point B. point A and B are not places you can (technically) even travel to or exist in, because you’re just watching/observing/being aware of. shifting is not the transportation of a self from one location to another. shifting is simply changing what is focused on/experienced; from one stream of experience to another. a shift in focus.

to summarise, you as in your ego, the you in this cr as you know it, your body, your brain, your thoughts, your identity, don’t actually go or shift anywhere. you, your awareness, in favour of perceiving you, your cr self, the one sat at your computer or phone or whatever reading this right now, starts perceiving a different you/ego/self—one that could have the exact same personality, memories, and thoughts, just in another realty, or one that is a different person entirely. there is only a change or “shift” for the observer, not the cr self or ego. so stop trying to feel your dr with your cr senses. you’re not going to. you’re so immersed in your cr and cr self that you automatically rely on this reality’s bodies’ senses to gauge your success when you try to shift, waiting for your cr self to get a cue that it’s never going to get. the surroundings your cr self feels aren’t going to go anywhere. nor are your senses going to shut off. your cr body will continue to receive sensory information, because that’s what bodies do. so don’t lie there expecting your bedsheets to disappear or magically warp into your dr surroundings or something and feel like you’ve failed when they don’t. shifting is not about somehow willing your surroundings to change or lying in your room forcefully convincing yourself that your senses are feeling something else, it’s about acknowledging what’s beyond those senses. feeling and connecting to what your dr self feels.

if you can still feel your cr, it’s not you feeling it, it’s your cr self. and you are not your cr self.

you can apply this to your thoughts too. your thoughts are no less your cr self’s than your senses are. if you start getting doubts mid attempt or can’t let go of the thought or feeling that you’re not in your dr, remind yourself that you are not your feelings or thoughts or doubts. you are simply observing them. of course your cr self will think that they’re still in their cr, they are. just ignore them and shift your attention elsewhere. your focus and awareness are what dictate what you experience, if you relinquish your focus from your cr and direct it to your dr instead, that’s where you’ll “be”.

obviously there’s no one set way to shift, so if you want you can stop reading here and apply this information to your shifting journey in whatever way suits you. if you’re interested in my method though, here’s the compilation of all this info into practical steps you can actually take to shift.

get comfortable somewhere you won’t be disturbed. close your eyes and focus on what you can see. the light behind your eyelids, shapes, colours, whatever. but instead of automatically interpreting these sensations as belonging to your cr, allow them to become sensory input from your dr. light? that’s coming from the lamp by the xyz in your dr bedroom. or maybe your in a field if that’s a fitting setting for your dr, and it’s the sun shining down on you. shapes? that’s because you’ve been lying down with your eyes closed for a while now, you’re tired after your classes or job or whatever you do in your dr. even if it’s nothing at all, let it be your drs nothing. just feel it. do this for about a minute.

then move onto your body. whether it’s sinking, lightness, tingling, focus on it. and do the exact same as you did for the previous step, interpret it as input coming from your dr. don’t worry if you can still feel your body lying in your bed, because your surroundings aren’t going to change—at least not physically. again, those sensations belong to your cr self, and they don’t prevent awareness from directing itself elsewhere. the goal here is to shift your focus away from them and onto something else, so hyperfocusing on your cr and worrying about your surroundings is counterintuitive. just gently guide your attention back to your dr, really try feel your dr surroundings and what your dr body is currently feeling. if you can’t fully avert your focus away from your cr, that’s fine, at the very least just try receive/tap into the input coming from your dr alongside your cr.

finally focus on what you can hear. if you’ve already managed to make a connection with your dr through your sight and physical senses just build up on what you’ve already got. feel grass tickling your skin? deepen the connection there by focusing on the sound now too, the wind blowing through it. see light behind your eyes? focus on the hum of the lights.

repeat these exercises over and over, deepening the connection with each cycle. if you don’t manage to get anything the first cycle just keep going until you do. it might take some practice. like i mentioned before, after spending so much time here and being in constant attunement with your cr self, the sense that your cr is the default starts to take root and it can be difficult to shake the feeling that you’re just indefinitely “here”. it’s normal for it to take some time to learn how to question this feeling and push past it. since you've never (technically?) been aware of anything outside of this reality, learning how to do so can be a bit like learning how to use a muscle you've never used before.

this method operates on the idea that reality is something that is tuned into through focus & narrowed awareness and not something metaphysically travelled across, so for the most success with it, i’d recommend starting to make a conscious effort to see your dr less like a place and more like a wavelength or channel, a perspective already existing beyond your current focus. shifting to your dr then becomes an effort to notice and receive input from this channel/wavelength, input that already exists out there and that simply needs to be acknowledged. you’re just picking up on what’s already there, feeling something that a version of you already feels.

persist in the belief that reality is observed and flexible. you’re not "stuck" anywhere unless you believe you are.

[curlygrrlll]

“i wish i could live in that tv show/movie!!”

do you consider yourself open minded..?

[vanillebirkin]

the ''most solid'' void state advice i can give.

it's the perception.

Guys void state is easy. Most people do it accidentally. Just don't obsess over it and see it as something "minor" cause it is. Don't overcomplicate it for yourself. It's basically just focusing on your breathing and affirming that you're in a void, physically nowhere and everywhere at the same time, rejecting the physicality. Affirming that you're pure awareness (cause yeah that's absolute truth) Focus on your breath, while you're slightly drowsy, think of the things you desire (you might use a manifestation list it's a good "method") you'll get into the mediative state in no time. And then the void will follow it. It's the purest form of consciousness. You can always manifest anything and everything without using the void too. You don't have to be desperate. It's super easy I promise lol. (So is shifting, cause once you're in void shifting will occur with just a millisecond of your affirmation).

I beg you to quit perceiving The void state or manifesting, or shifting as "the big thing". They're not the purpose they're the tool. You don't need to be obsessed, desperate, fixated on it. The only reason that you "can't " get into the void state is cause you don't let yourself BE. you're making it harder for yourself. It's literally just perceiving it as something simple, the way it is, IS SIMPLE. it's a natural thing. Let it happen. Let it go.

I think this is the "most solid" advice I can give to y'all. The way void state, shifting, manifesting happens as naturally and effortlessly as the every night dreams happen. Try to see it that way.

let. that. shit. happen.

[coffeemylove]

Hi, how are you? <3 I saw that in a comment you said, "Don't pay attention to them/don't be hyper-aware of your surroundings, forget it. I know it sounds like 'don't think about a pink elephant' 😭 but even if it's just for a little while, relax (for real) and pretend to meditate to relax. Emptiness is your natural state, so you don't have to remind yourself that you're in emptiness, you just have to know that YOU ARE emptiness, not your ego (person)."

I don't understand what you meant by pretending to meditate? And why is emptiness our natural state? Have you entered it? How do you do it?

(English isn't my native language so, I'm sorry for my errors in advance)

Hello(⁠ㆁ⁠ω⁠ㆁ⁠) I'm fine, I hope you're doing well too. For questions, I meant like you'll probably feel pressure because your goal is to enter the void and if you make your goal meditation this may be more familiar for you and feel not as much pressured to succeed. Void is when you detached from your body and surroundings so even if your goal is not specifically going to the void(for example meditation or daydreaming) you will be able to get to the void.

I entered the void state 3 times and every time i did, I didn't think about void at all. When I first enter(2 or 3 years ago), I was trying to astral project, I woke up in the night and was trying to keep my mind awake while my body asleep, I can't remember what I did but at some point the sound of clock ticking and cars passing by had disappeared, I didn't know what was void then so I was really confused. When Ive learned about the void I tried to do it nearly every day but couldn't do it. Felt like I was just waiting for something to happen and waste my time.

Then I saw the distraction method on here so I gave it a try and let me tell you I wasn't expecting anything but it worked. The lights were on, I was sitting and imagining things and trying to distract myself from the external world. Then some time later I figured that it was dark for like 4 seconds, like I mentioned the lights were on, so I was like "yeyy finally I did it" but as soon as I got excited I got back.

And for the last one i was in a lucid dream and after a while I remembered some people entered the void from dreams so I said "I'm in the void state " and before I finished the sentence I was in complete darkness and felt like I was spinning really fast I got scared and woke myself up(I'ma pussy ik ಠ⁠﹏⁠ಠ).And I realized 'if all you have to do is to relax then it's not hard and I could do it anytime' and I kinda forgot about the void and focused on lucid dreaming more. Of course this is my experience and it isn't much so yours may be different idk. And for emptiness being our natural state, I believe non-duality and everything is actually nothing and how you're not your thoughts because you can perceive them but it's just my belief and it would be better if you research it yourself I suck at explaining this (⁠~⁠_⁠~⁠;⁠) if you're confused feel free to ask anything.

[alpinecherub]

you'll shift when you...

stop looking for advices, methods, new information, new "how it clicked for me" posts... (im not saying they're not helpful but thats not the point...)

and when you ACTUALLY take your time... sit with yourself... look into your inner world... calm your mind... swim like you're in the sea... forget about your surroundings... surrender.

you always treated shifting like a labor, like some obstacle you had to overcome to achieve your happy ever after (you remember the 10 of cups?) ...

Zen is often described as a finger pointing at the moon, it warns you not to get so caught up in the teachings (the finger) that you miss the actual experience of life (the moon)...

[angelranger7]

me because i am pure consciousness

[jazuzzle]

in another reality you are someone's comfort character. people say you are fake/fictional, but someone argues that you are real. they want nothing more than to shift so they could meet you. a hug from you would be soul healing. when times are tough and they don't have anybody to hug, you are the person they imagine.

you are the reason someone survived going through the depths of hell and back, just purely from the hope they get when thinking about you/ knowing that one day they can meet you. you are the reason someone keeps going. the reason someone decides not to give up.

somebody kins you. when they see you, they are reminded that they are not alone, and that someone out there understands what they are going through. someone understands what YOU are going through.

[vanillebirkin]

About Void State and LOA (yes, again.) Important.

❤️‍🩹🪷Now, ive been seeing so so so many confusions about these matters and the 95% of the asks ive been getting is about either void state or something highly related to law of assumption. So imma try to answer some of the specific situations so ya'll can read before spamming the same questions to every shifting/loa creator.

Situation: ''Oooh but ive entered thr void state but i FAILED! nothing happened, i didnt shift/ manifest (something specific).''

Analysis: Nope. shifting and manifestation are quite literally the same things. And you cannot ''fail'' them. They never stop working. If you think youve been in void state but ''did not'' manifest anything/ shift, youre hella wrong. Scenario one: Since you CANT not manifest in void, you have manifested a version of you who did not shift. By saying ''ughhh why dont i shift yet?? ive been affirming, cmon, when will it happen!!'' youre just affirming youre ''still waiting to shift, havent shifted yet''. Congrats. you have manifested a version of you who did not shift. By saying ''ughhh why dont i shift yet??'' you are LITERALLY affirming lack. Scenario two: youve been too hasty, and distracted yourself, so the void state dissolved. Or youve never even been in void!!!! Void = pure awareness. Detaching from the physical world COMPLETELY. No five senses. Only your awareness. What you manifest- instantly happens. What you dream of, you hear, feel, and only it. NO outer world touch. Void state dissolved cause youve been too excited, yes possible. Youve been in hypnagogia and you thought it was still void state.

Situation: ''ugh, ive been TRYING to manifest/shift but it STILL didnt happen! why won't it happen?? ive TRIED everything!!''

Analysis: Again. Why are you going back to the old story again and again and again. why? When will you actually understand what law of assumption is. The only thing you need to do in order to manifest that ''oohh super big thing'' is to stay PERSEVERE. Ignore the physical world if it tries to show you something against your new decision. It literally just reflects what you assume. You can change it anytime. No you dont have to be in a perfect fvcking mindset to manifest. No void. Just decide new story, and repeat it. Dont look back. Youve already shifted. You already had that something. Why are you so insistent that youve somehow ''failed'' but you actually got the real and new decision? Be the one who HAS that, who BECAME that. Not the one who ''STILL TRIES, HASNT SUCCEEDED YET''.

Situation: ''I NEED VOID!! ASAP! ASAP! NOW OR NEVER! UNTIL THAT DATE, I CANT MANIFEST IF I CANT ENTER THE VOID!! IM DESPERATE, NOW! AAAA!!''

Analysis: Nope. Might be one of the biggest misunderstandings ever. You DO NOOOOT need to get into the void state in order to shift/ manifest something. You well can do the same thing by using loa alone. Your relentless desperation just adds more mental resistance and self sabotage. Stop stressing yourself with physical world deadlines. I understand some of yall can genuienly be in hard situations. Maybe even worse. But i beg thee, QUIT self sabotaging yourselves. Just assume. Be aware of the powrr of your mind and assumptions. Let it happen naturally. Dont stress it. Time is non existent and no you're not running out of it. It's not something lineer. Like I always say 😮‍💨🫩

Situation: ''Pleaseee enter the void for me! Manifest that i'll shift/ enter the void within seconds, alter my own reality for me!!!''

Analysis: Nope. nope nope nope. Consciousness is non transferable. Void state, spiritual practices, or shifting are NOOOT console games where you can just ''log into'' someone else's account and "pass a level" for them. Void is literally the disconnection of someones self awareness (aka pure awareness) from their own physical reality. When i enter the void, with MY OWN mind, MY OWN consciousness, im left alone with ONLY MY OWN being. i cannot connect a cable to the synapses in your brain, your nervous system, nor the level of awareness within u and "throw" you there. Everyone is the sole ruler of their own consciousness!!!!! No matter how much someone else affirms you by saying "theyre in void rn" if youre still in a "helpless, incapable, waiting" assumption internally, you will lock your own reality with THAT dominant belief. Its quite literally IMPOSSIBLE! I cannot affect your awareness nor your reality! Ur consciousness is copy righted to YOU!!!!! Even if the whole world manifests for you, if you sit there in desperation thinking ''ugh jesus christ, i cant do it, i need help!!'' your dominant energy is LAAACK. And as we know, the law always mirrors your own state, not mine!

Waiting for an outside savior to alter your reality is the exact opposite of LOA. You are the operant power. Own it, stop looking for ''cheat codes'' from other bloggers, and do the inner work!

i'll update this post as i get more specific situations like these over and over again cause i know this wont end so..yeah. PLS read all of them before asking me if ur question is related to one of these things. Ciao.

[awakenphobia]

shifting method for lazy and loud minds.

this method is very simple. it's for people who don't feel like organizing a whole method or putting in a lot of effort(because you don't need to), and people who have very messy brains that are always thinking and never shut up. it's all about affirming and optionally visualizing. step 1 : get comfy. lay down, go to bed, do it awake, eyes opened, idc. whatever position works best for you. step 2 : start affirming. "holy shit i'm in my DR!! this is crazy i actually shifted, oh my goody goodness this is for real!!!" exactly like that, i'm not kidding literally just go crazy with it. step 3 : Now as your affirm, start to throw in what is currently happening in your DR, you can visualise as well, but you don't have to! if your shifting to an mha DR for example "holy moly i'm recieving my first tailored hero suit!!! holy moly i'm getting ready for training!! blah blah whatever you want" and now just do that till you shift or whatever, you can also do this for reaching the void state or any other state you want if you so please! this method helps me a lot as someone who has a LOT of thoughts, my own thoughts overlap sometimes and doubts, getting sidetracked, etc can be a big problem for me. this method helps a lot, if you're thoughts are loud, you just have to be louder, yknow. so yeah. have fun shifting!

[verydeertome]

How I feel referring to shifting as awareness changing

[l-ove-r-ain]

[orasdiarie]

@4thdimensionfarrah on TikTok

That bitch Farrah said "you're not spiraling because those thoughts are not yours. you're just the awareness"??????? WRITE THAT DOWN TF

i loveeeeee running into people who don't believe we're the human ego. finding other creators who know we aren't stuck and set in stone as the ego is like finding a diamond among rhinestones

The title is: "DOING to get is the ego trap - it is already DONE." I whole heartedly agree. Posted April 2nd.

[rkoolgirl]

i seriously don’t know why there are so many labels on the loa community. shifting and manifestation are literally THE. SAME. THING!!!! the difference between attracting a pepperoni pizza and a ride on the hogwarts express is equal to 0!!! plss don’t put any of these things in some imaginary hierarchy bc they all obey to YOUR consciousness. YOU are on that pedestal.

it’s:

1️⃣ your consciousness

2️⃣ ANY manifestation you’d want

[saturnmortis]

(:3 っ)∋ <- seal

[aries-of-spades]

Does anyone else ever have a thought while scrolling, forget it, and have to scroll backwards to remember it like walking back into a room?

[stxrryluv]

how it feels when you realize that you're pure consciousness and literally can be everything, everywhere, and everyone, when other people talk about "having only one life", "ofc I am my body", "wish I could be there/them/with them"

[saveyourhelplessspite]

look im not saying aromanticism makes characters more interesting automatically but yeah no thats exactly what im saying