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DON'T HESITATE TO MAKE SUPER SELF-INDULGENT DR'S!! WHERE YOU'RE OBVIOUSLY MARY SUE!!! GO FOR IT!! BE THE MAIN CHARACTER!! THE CHOSEN ONE!! BE THE ONE THAT GETS THE MAIN LOVE INTEREST!! BE THE ONE TO SAVE THE WORLD! BE OVERPOWERED! BE SEXY! BE CUTE! BE THE ONE THAT SLAYS! MAKE A PERFECT DR FOR YOURSELF IN WHICH YOU'RE HAPPPYY!!
Why did no one tell me how insanely scary shifting through lucid dreaming can be.
I had this weird sleep state last night where I was drifting in and out of dreaming, at like the 5th dream I finally realised that I was in fact dreaming, and I was not running barefoot through the hollywood arts school in search of a bathroom and now sitting in a small classroom with all my childhood bullies. I looked at the wall and thought ‘this is a dream’ suddenly I felt like I was floating. Like genuinely floating out of my seat and everyone’s eyes were on me, the girl in front of me turn around and said ‘if you don’t want to see us just wake up’ I thought about shifting to my waiting room but the whole scene was so terrifying I got anxious and just woke up.
Now I did shift before and I can tell you all that shifting and lucid dreaming are two very separate things that also feel very different.
𝓽hings 𝓲 wish i knew before 𝓲 𝓼hifted (as a girl who shifts on command)
as a girl who’s shifted so many times she learned how to do it on command, i can say with confidence that there’s many things i wish i was told beforehand that neither shifttok or shiftblr talk about (warning, it’s a lot).
CUTE DISCLAIMER : these are things I wish I was told . If you do not agree, THATS FINE . this is just what i wish i was exposed too before my first shift that i think will help others like me . When i use “you” “you’re” pronouns, im talking to my pre-shift self in second person. i just feel like this can support others .
001. i would never look at life the same again .
imagine how it feels bringing your subconscious to another place for the first time and realizing you are infinite . everything everyone said was true . it was never just an ongoing tiktok joke, it was real . shit was hard to come to terms with . very hard .
of course, shifting for the first time was awesome, but coming back was… interesting . i looked at everything differently . i feel like shifters talk about what shifting for the first time was like and forget to include the “coming back confusion”
002. after getting used to it, the “spark” kinda goes away .
now i know what the rest of shiftblr is gonna say . “shifting is real!!! don’t romanticize it!!!!” and i completely agree, for this reason . before i shifted for the first time, ngl, i did lowk think in the back of my mind it was gonna be sunshine and rainbows . obviously, i was wrong .
it’s just like any other life on any other day on any other planet . unless you’re shifting to mars or some shit .
It’ll get boring . it’ll get sad . It’ll get irritating . and trust, shit will get real . but that’s just how life is . after i realized thats how life is, i kinda got like . huh .
it’s kinda like how it felt when you realized Santa wasn’t real . if that makes sense .
003. the real world is harsh .
as a girl who was never an actress, singer, dancer, model, guitarist, and songwriter in this reality, imagine my surprise when i saw that people would hate my acting/singing there ??? i scripted i was literally awesome ???? my discography is heavenly????? what ???? they aren’t even nice about it either .
be nice to celebrities!!!!!
004. you’re gonna start wanting to shift to a lot more “niche” drs after that .
soooo, you know how you’re shifting to be a student in hogwarts rn? well, you’re still gonna do that, but you might wanna be a lawyer in another dr now too . or maybe an alien from Saturn . or maybe a scientist who knows the secrets of the universe . or something .
after realizing you can explore every single reality out there, you start to want to experience new things in a more uncommon way . a way that other people probably won’t also be shifting there .
i mean . . . unless you have niche drs already . then like, fuck it, we ball .
005. you will have so many different relationships and dynamics and vibes with people you won’t know what to do .
after shifting, literally everything will remind you of either your cr, or your dr . you’ll remember an inside joke from your dr friend from a few years ago, and then in the same day cry about something your cr friend said while you’re in your dr .
it’s slightly almost kinda sorta maybe a little overwhelming at first, but you begin to get the hang of it as your dr is already something you’ve always known .
it’s fun, too . sometimes I’ll be out and see cute keychains and I’ll be like,”oh, (dr best friend) would’ve loved that.” you get a little homesick no matter where you are, but it’s almost comfortable, it that makes sense . because you know you’re gonna see them again, you already are .
shifting is as complicated as you make it. thats it. literally as someone who’s been crying my ass off for years since 2019, shifting is as complicated as we, shifters, make it seem. i shifted back to back to my twilight dr because it finally clicked to me that shifting is easy, and I was the one making it this untouchable thing. like girl stfu!?
maybe you're not built wrong. maybe you're built perfect. maybe you should take those little quirks, those that you think are stopping you from shifting and think about it from a different perspective. maybe being yourself is all you ever need to shift. maybe not caring, not obsessing is the key. maybe you are the 'key'. maybe you should just be and put that heavy exhaustion of "failure" aside. maybe you should just be.
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