-ˋˏ My Hobbit 'Mini-shift' ˎˊ
*Mini-shifts are successful shifts. I use the term as it is commonly acknowledged to mean I shifted for a short period of time.*
This happened in 2022 before I took a hiatus from shifting. I was pretty decent with becoming lucid in dreams, but until that point, I had never been able to make portals for shifting. Either the dreams turned scary, I woke up, or nothing happened.
The night of this shift, I became lucid and ended up running into myself, who was drawing graffiti on a brick wall. But I asked her/me "how do I shift" and she drew a door. So I tried to make a portal again, but when I walked through it, I ended up in a hallway.
One wall was slanted and towards the bottom were all these little 'ponds' that would lead me to any of my scripted DRs. But they weren't labeled and I could tell I was about to wake up in my OR, so I was hurrying. I had no DR in mind, but I ended up jumping into the 'pond'/portal that took me to my Hobbit DR. I was pretty antsy prior to doing it. I didn't think it would work, as it hadn't in the past, and I was, essentially, running around in my dream like a headless chicken.
The wake-up scene I had scripted was in Mirkwood during DoS right before Legolas (my mans) showed up. I was meant to be passed out on the forest floor, and Kili would wake me up. And for a second after jumping through the portal, I thought I was in my OR bedroom, that nothing had happened. But when I opened my eyes, he was grinning down at me, looking so excited and relieved that I was awake. He had been clapping above my head to wake me up, too (which I've heard before numerous times prior to actually shifting).
My first reaction was to get up and hug him. It felt natural to do so, as we're really close in that reality, and we were both pretty thrilled to, you know, be alive (and for me to be shifted). When I hugged him, I kind of petted his hair. The feeling of the strands (surprisingly soft) sliding through my fingers only solidified what had happened, that I had shifted.
But then I began looking around for the others and I shifted back to my OR. So that part sucked, but I got to hug one of my best friend's and it just reminded me why all the effort is worth it.