⋆˚꩜｡ i first (potentially) shifted when I was 4 years old! Short Story Time!! ⓘ
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I’ve always had an unusually vivid memory. My earliest recollection goes back to when I was about two years old - floating in a garden pool, held up by a bright orange Nemo Swim Ring.
But there’s one childhood memory that never felt like a dream. It felt like something… off.
Like a glitch in time.
One night, I got into bed and, for no real reason, lay down differently than usual, across the mattress, my head resting on my mother’s hip, my legs pressed up against the wall. I never did that before. I closed my eyes, squeezed them shut for just a second, and thought:
“ I want it to be morning already. ”
When I opened them again, sunlight was pouring through the window.
It was morning.
There had been no feeling of falling asleep. no sense of time passing. No transition at all. All I felt, was the minimal change in light under the eyelids in a fraction of a second. I was still in the exact same position, completely unmoved.
And the strangest part? I felt nothing.
No stiffness, no soreness - none of the pain that should’ve come from sleeping like that, especially with how sensitive I was to discomfort as a child.
Back then, I didn’t have words for things like shifting or maladaptive daydreaming. I just knew - instinctively - that this wasn’t normal “ falling asleep fast. ” It unsettled me.
Now, though, I see it differently. Not as something frightening, but like a quiet reminder that even then, I could reach for any reality - and somehow, did it with no effort put.
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