This is going to be a bit long, so I don’t know if you’ll read it all or reply, but if you do, I’d be extremely happy and grateful 🫶🏻
As a non-religious and non-spiritual person, my biggest doubt about shifting has always been: what if it’s not real? I’ve done deep research on shifting, the law of attraction, lucid dreaming, and even consciousness and awareness in general. As someone who always looks for science-based information and scientific proof, my research helped me realize that these topics are not as spiritual or unscientific as they’re often portrayed. Even though they don’t directly prove shifting, I’ve read scientific articles that answered many of my questions and eased a lot of my doubts.
However, despite all of this, there are still some questions and doubts that never leave my mind. Recently, while researching shifting, I decided to use ChatGPT to learn about science-based information or experiments related to shifting.
As a result, I was told the following:
What people call “shifting” is most likely something similar to self-hypnosis. Not being aware of a different universe, but rather being in different states of consciousness and, in a way, tricking the brain. Because of this, shifting would essentially be a form of self-hypnosis and would never feel as real as this reality. People who say shifting felt 100% real are mostly referring to an emotional reality rather than a physical one—meaning the sense of reality isn’t identical to this one.
And honestly, this made a lot of sense to me. Because almost everyone who claims they’ve shifted explains it with uncertain expressions like “I think I shifted.” Like… what do you mean you think you shifted? If people can’t be completely sure, maybe it doesn’t actually feel like real life. I’ve had many lucid dreams and extremely realistic dreams where I used all five senses, but after waking up, I never doubted whether it was a dream or not. No matter how realistic it felt, I was always sure it was a dream once I woke up. I never called those experiences an “ungrounded shift” or said “I think I shifted.”
Also, many people say “I shifted but came back immediately,” and I really don’t understand that either. If you succeeded and had no intention of coming back, why did you return? I’ve never been able to understand this. Everyone who talks about their shifting experiences describes them more like waking up from a dream rather than something they truly lived, and that makes me think people might be mislabeling their experiences.
I don’t want to be one of those people who harass bloggers by saying “Promise me shifting is real,” but thinking that shifting might not be what I believe it is—that it might not be real, or that it’s just deep imagination or self-hypnosis—gives me intense anxiety. I hope you can understand me 😭
As an 18-year-old girl trying to get her life together and figure out her direction, I don’t want to lose my mind or waste my time by placing hope in a belief that might not even be real. As someone dealing with family problems, financial struggles, health issues, anxiety about the future, and a lack of love, shifting could be something very valuable for me—but only if it’s real. Shifting has been a concept in my life since I was 13, but because I can’t fully believe it’s real, it has remained just a concept.
On one hand, imagining the life I could live and the things I could do through shifting, and on the other hand being forced to focus on this reality with the constant doubt of “what if it’s not real?” is honestly extremely overwhelming. I don’t want to talk to my psychiatrist about this, so I only share my other problems, but my main issue is shifting. Because if it is real, I’m afraid of missing the chance to live the life I want—but if it’s not real, I’m afraid of wasting the only life I’ll ever have with wrong choices. I truly don’t know what to do, and if I’m able to cope even a little with the anxiety this gives me, it’s only thanks to the medication I’m taking—otherwise I genuinely feel like I’d be at the point of losing my mind.
So, long story short, my question to you is this:
What if shifting isn’t actually being aware of another reality, but just a deep form of self-hypnosis or something similar? What if there is only one reality—or even if there is a multiverse, what if we can’t move between those realities? What if we’re just entering a deep state of consciousness and kind of tricking our minds, and that’s why, no matter how real it feels, people use expressions like “I wake up from a shift,” as if it were a dream? I don’t think everyone who says they shifted is lying—but could it be that they’re just labeling their experiences incorrectly?
I really don’t want to bother you, but I hope you can understand why I need reassurance and why I have these doubts. If you’ve read this far and decide to reply, thank you so much in advance ❤️
Hello! I read your ask entirely, and in no way are you a bother. This is a safe space for any kinds of questions!
But I do wonder, have you ever scrolled through my account? I don't mean this in a stuck up way at all, but in many of my posts I describe having shifted for decades, centuries, even longer. I don't ''wake up'' from shifts, I come back purposely! I shift between dozens of realities before even remembering this place exists, shift completely awake in 99% of the cases.
Your main argument and fear seems to be, ''People say they wake up from their shifts or accidentally shifted back,'' but that's not what my experience, nor the ones of many others is like. These things are common in people who are learning how to shift, but rarely ever happen to those who are more confident with it.
I get your fear, I really do! But you'd not be able to stay in an altered state of mind for 4000 years with about 2 seconds passing here. With nothing being noticeable on you or changing. I personally don't think that chatgpt is the right place to discuss these worries, because it's always going to validate your fears. And although similarly I'm always going to debunk them, at least on here we're real people who talk based on experience and practice, not based on what we can find online, in a society that's already very against spirituality!
Shifting is real, I promise you that. But you also don't have to throw away your life here for a life in another reality. Shifting will be in your hands even after your death, and you can equally make something out of your time here and enjoy your time in other realities! It's okay for it to take some time, to need to wrap your head around it. It won't change anything, I promise,
I hope that helped you a little💚