i was a tumblr girl in the golden age of 2011-2017 so it's... interesting to be back.
i'm an adult, in my early 30s, so if you're a minor, please follow mindfully.
this blog is mainly about shifting + law of assumption.
i post about my experiences around lucid dreaming, astral projection, and anything weird and wonderful that i encounter on my mission to shifting fully and yes, permanently.
as of September 2024, i have not yet shifted. i only got into this in around March 2024. i did know of the concept of shifting but i always dismissed as lucid dreaming cause honestly.... some people's experiences just sound like straight up lucid dreams lol. yes they are vivid, they are hyper realistic, you feel things like in real life.
but you know what, i've expanded my mind, i've grown as a person, i'm all aboard now, most of the time.
my main DRs are storybrooke, hogwarts university, criminal minds... but i'm mostly focused just on the storybrooke one. i've also scripted a waiting room that's basically its own little pocket reality, a glorious perfect utopian coastal town.
More info about my Storybrooke DR
Storybrooke moodboard
Olivia Swan moodboard
i've been lucid dreaming since i was a child so about 25 years now. i hate all the disinformation and fear mongering i sometimes see floating around so any questions are always welcome.
i've also astral projected here and there over the years, but more consistently and consciously since 2024. i'm not an expert at all, but questions are welcome.
i usually post the asks on my blog, just in case someone else could benefit from seeing the post, but if you'd prefer me to answer you privately, let me know!
you can find ALL of my answered asks and messages here »»
how i lucid dream and astral project:
1. sleep for 5.5h and wake up ideally in the middle of a REM state
2. stay up for 60-90 minutes — you can read, affirm, do something minimal
3. go back to bed with an intention, such as 'next time i wake up i'm gonna get out of my body/lucid dream'
4. i try to keep my mind pretty blank and once i feel myself in the right state (this probably comes with experience so just keep practicing) i either slip straight into a lucid dream or just roll out of my body OR
5. once i wake up again i remain still and keep my eyes closed and just roll out of my body (or you can choose to slip back into a dream and will remain lucid, if lucid dreaming is your goal)
note: you will wake up several times after step 4!!!! do not move or open your eyes, just stay still and let the next wave take you. this way you can have a chain of lucid dreams/astral experiences within the same morning just literally don't fucking move. that's all.
If you're curious, I've rambled more about lucid dreaming in this post
other posts that could be mildly helpful:
astral projecting vs lucid dreaming
mindset stuff, methods, etc
ideas on how to shift through a lucid dream
ALL of my personal posts, ramblings, lucid adventures, experiences
excellent posts by others:
How to shift realities by Vanessa Faron
How to shift realities from someone who regularly does
How I became a master shifter (+ why methods aren't working for you)
this morning i had a couple lucid dreams after trying to get back to sleep FOREVER but they were so short and annoying eventually i was like fuck this, i'm just gonna get out of my body since i haven't done that in months
and.... i did, for a few times, loop de loop
what's interesting is i got out of bed in 'my apartment' and i was like omg how cool, it's exactly like in real life!!! like the floor plan and arrangement and furniture and everything and i was like trying to spot differences there
and that happened a couple of times. oh wow this is JUST like my apartment when i'm awake!!!! how weird!!!
...nope. nothing like my actual apartment or my room or anything like that here, in this reality, in awake world. but i was so fucking sure about that. must be some alternate version of me and her apartment lol.
i also did try to shift.
first with just very firm intention of 'i'm gonna go to mystic falls and wake up there' which resulted in nothing but static and i got back into my sleeping body here, but stayed completely still, and then got out of body and tried again
(side note, i don't necessarily like affirming in the following way cause it's not like we here right now go around going i'm olivia, i live in x city, i'm 30 years old, i like potatoes.... so when i affirm before bed or something i like to instead just think about my day and my life in my dr like tomorrow's my first day of work i'm kinda nervous, ooh jenna and i need to do something extra cool for jeremy's birthday, i have to remember to return that shirt to caroline, etc)
anyway. back to the attempt in the astral:
this time i tried affirming things like
i'm olivia gilbert, i live in mystic falls with jeremy and jenna, i'm 25 years old, blalallalala
and there was this really intense pressure on my third eye and then i was kinda like slammed on the floor and woke up basically on some living room floor with bonnie, caroline.... and elena there staring at me
elena doesn't exist in my mystic falls dr, by the way, cause i take her place... sooooo not my dr
and they all looked so young! little teeny tiny babies. in my dr we are all in our mid-20s. also visually the tone was a bit off it was like idk being inside a photograph or something.
the vibe was very like... we're 14 years old, it's friday night, and we're in someone's living room practicing a super cool dance routine. teeny bopper stuff.
no idea who i was and it's disappointing it was all 'wrong' and definitely not MY dr.... but honestly i'm still going to take this as a win
alsooooo no idea if this was just astral/dream stuff or an actual reality i was in, cause i did not check it, and without properly checking, i'm not fucking announcing anything cause i hate that shit
i've had good experiences with the sense of touch in my lucid adventures — like when i'm in that specific state of trying to slip back to sleep and i imagine i'm touching something, all of a sudden i really am. it like... manifests itself. into a lucid dream.
so i'm trying to play with that when it comes to my DRs!
for example, i, olivia gilbert in my mystic falls DR have a silver ipod. so this morning as i was trying to fall back asleep i just imagined holding it in my hand, really feeling it (which was easy cause i also used to have a silver ipod in the 00s in this reality lol)
and all of a sudden it was there and i pressed play and put one of the headphones into my ear and could hear the music playing and so on. and i also saw a bedroom, which didn't register at the time but like... i was facing a wall here so it's not like it was my room here
i'm not saying it was a shift cause i didn't reality check it, so it was probably a dream. i also can't really remember what it looked like but i don't think it looked like my mystic falls bedroom (which looks like elena's in the tv show)
i'll keep experimenting with this though cause idk, the imagining physically holding something, touching something it just really works for me and i've had some cool experiences with it.
if you're looking for something new to play with, i'd totally recommend it, btw
for clarification, i do this after i've slept for a few hours, wake up and stay up for 30-90min, so basically WBTB, that's my jam.
well. in last night's lucid dream i did the pinch your nose reality check that i've been using for 20 years...
and i could breathe and i was like omg this is not a dream i must have SHIFTED my goodness can't wait to tell everyone i finally did it omg
...no you dumbass, if you can breathe, you are dreaming
i was in some library with a guy and i was even like 'oooh i can't tell him that i'm not really here and that i got here through my dream cause this is REAL LIFE and he'd think i'm so weird!!!'
usually when i get lucid i like to tell EVERYONE that i'm dreaming and this is a dream and that they're just people my brain made and they're not really real
okay i love rewatching the vampire diaries cause it does make me feel all awww about my mystic falls dr, like it is my home and all but i'm nearing the end of season 3 and it's reallly starting to annoy me
real damon isn't an immature self-sabotagey manwhore going ooooh i'm just so baaaad for you wah wah
real damon is dripping with devotion and emotional maturity and all kinds of manly man things
also the fake mystic falls and all the drama and plotlines are just ridiculous cause like... it's not real mystic falls you know. it's fake, it's just a tv show.
anyway i'm back. i mean i've been lurking here all along, but i'd like to get back to practicing all my little lucid astral shifty things now.
it's just that while my life is a bit more stable now i'm still prioritizing rest and recovery and good sleep which... makes the practicing weird things part kind of hard. i've only had a few of lucid dreams in months and try to sleep through the night cause my body and mind really need it. my sleep quality and stress levels in general are quite awful so really trying to heal all that.
also it's really hard to like 'get back into things' again! like how does one even do that! any advice?
how are you guys doing? anything new and fun and exciting in the shifty realm of things?
why is it considered a flex to have a j*b. like NOO i don’t want to work. who fucking loves working, it genuinely baffles me. looks like a bunch of npc slave stuck in a matrix to me
like why do i need to work hard to get what i want. stop that mentality bullshit right now.
i don’t need to “work hard” to get what i want. I WANT AN EASY LIFE SO I’LL GET IT. I DESERVE PANDORA
you hold no obligation to this reality. zero. none. nada. zilch. goose egg. there's nothing you owe to anyone to stay here, nor is there anything keeping you here. hell, the reality you're in right now might not even be the one you were born in in the first place. you don't need anything special to leave this reality because you naturally do so. in the next second, you could literally be in your dr if you want to be. now go, shift.
this morning i was in a nice little ap/lucid loop. i've been sleeping VERY poorly so it's been a while.
the thing is though... whenever i tried to shift, someone would fucking strangle me. hard. and there'd be something on my face to suffocate me. very like... forbidden. not allowed to shift. kind of vibes. and honestly fuck that.
and yeah this has happened before. several times. i just haven't talked about it cause i don't want to scare anyone, i don't do fear mongering, i don't believe in blocks or curses or anything evil literally 'stopping' me, none of that. nope.
and just cause this has happened for me, does not mean you will ever, ever experience anything even remotely similar to this while you astral project or lucid dream. let me make that very clear.
but. if anyone has experienced something similar. if anyone has any insight of advice. i would be most appreciative 🙏🏻.
Clover where are you with manifestation? Do you affirm in the void and manifest or use loa I just got my ALEVEL results and I want to change them
Honestly I don’t really rely on the void or any specific law to get what I want. If I want something to happen or change, I just tell myself “this will happen” and then I don’t contest it. “I don’t care how I feel right now, I don’t care about the circumstances, It’s going to happen one way or another.” Then I just leave the path open.
For example, (and this has happened before) if I have grades I want to change, I tell myself “this doesn’t affect me, it’s going to resolve itself, it’s going to change.” I don’t focus on the specifics, I just leave it open to whatever happens because anything I contradict or obsess over is just illusion. My intention is that it’s already changed, so it doesn’t affect me.
Then usually something shifts naturally: maybe the professor updates the grade, maybe there’s a makeup assignment, maybe the grade ends up not mattering in the way I thought. Something happens that revises the situation, and that’s enough for me. That’s how I see it at least.
I’m not sure if that’s exactly what you were looking for, but that’s just how I do it.
A list of ways that have helped me before in the past. Mix and match accordingly. Asks responding to:
1. Position Yourself Incorrectly
You know the position that makes you fall asleep the fastest? Yeah don’t use it. If curling up on your side knocks you out in five minutes, lie flat on your back like a sleep-paralyzed corpse. If lying on your back knocks you out cold, flip over like you’re a baby and try your stomach. You’re trying to disconnect from muscle memory. Trick your brain into knowing this is not your regular “fall asleep” routine.
2. Focus on the black behind your eyelids. I Mean Really Focus.
The void/shifting method I posted is gold for people who slip into sleep too easily. You’re not imagining anything, not visualizing, not affirming, just becoming intimately aware of your eyelids. Pretend it’s a doorway. Pretend it’s a wall you could fall through. Pretend it’s your s/o staring at you. Treat it like it is the holy grail. And when your focus slips, snap back to it.
3. Chastise yourself out loud.
This works insanely well. Have an internal conversation with yourself like you’re yelling at a toddler or scolding your dog. For example, I do:
“Clover, NO. Stay awake. Look at the black. Not today, sleep demon. Clover, stay the hell awake or I swear to god—”
If you’re busy nagging yourself, it keeps you from passively slipping into dreamland. The brain can’t run intrusive thoughts and stage a self-directed intervention at the same time. Use that to your advantage.
Alternate version: Channel the fuck-it mentality and start trash-talking your entire journey because you are o.v.e.r it.
“Fuck it. I’m shifting. I don’t care. I’m doing it, fuck it.”
4. Micro-control your eye movement.
Even with your eyes shut, you know when they start drifting off. You feel them go slack, like they’re ready to roll back into sleep. So keep snapping your attention back by:
Shifting your gaze side to side slowly, like you’re scanning the black.
Widening your "closed" eyes just slightly (you’ll know what this means once you try it,, and if you don’t, read this).
Again, re-centering your gaze like you’re trying to look straight through your eyelids.
5. Move. Jitter. Adjust. Ignore the “stillness rule.”
So many people panic if they twitch or adjust themselves because they think they’ve broken the "mind awake, body asleep" balance. Spoiler: you haven't. Your body will still fall asleep anyway. You are allowed to:
Shift your legs
Re-adjust your pillow
Scrunch your face and stretch your neck
Scratch an itch or roll onto a new pressure point
Play the kazoo
Your brain doesn’t reset the sleep cycle every time you move. The sleep process is smarter than that. I’ve hit hypnagogia while still adjusting my shirt. The body goes when it’s ready. Movement won’t ruin it, but panic might.
6. Music won’t ruin anything. Use it.
Yes, even loud, distracting music. Even music with lyrics. Even music that would have your parents appalled that you listen to it. Sound won’t stop hypnagogia. In fact, familiar music can anchor your awareness. You’re not falling asleep, you’re just. Drifting deeper while still anchored. You might even use it as a countdown:
“I’m still awake by the chorus, I’m still awake by verse two, I’m still awake at the bridge…”
And if you dissociate a little in the process? PERFECT.
7. “Oh but I keep zoning out”
Hello ADHD shifter. Hi person who tries to meditate bit keeps zoning out. Go back to #1 because that method keeps you from zoning out, since you’re focusing on the black behind your eyelids. Pair it with #3. Trust me. If your pattern is: try to meditate -> zone out -> snap out of it -> roll over and go to sleep, defeated—then do this. Pair a visual anchor with dialogue to keep yourself engaged.
8. The alarm trick (AKA weaponizing your own paranoia)
Set alarms every 90 minutes. Not to shift, but to sabotage your sleep in a way that helps you win. Here’s the psychology: Your brain knows you’ll be woken up, so it stays on edge. You might think that’s bad—but it’s actually perfect. The goal here is to stay just awake enough that you don’t plunge straight into unconsciousness. That anticipation—the ugh I’m gonna get woken up soon tension? Use it!
You’re not aiming to nap. You’re aiming to drift just low enough that your body knocks out and your mind gets sneaky. That place where everything starts slipping sideways.
And if you do fall asleep? Great! The alarm yanks you back. You get another shot. This trick breaks the mental block of “I was just laying there for hours and nothing happened.” Because let’s be real—sometimes what actually happens is this:
You think you’re just laying there, irritated, defeated. And then your thoughts get... floaty. And you start to sink. And your hearing warps.
And you’re like wait, what the fuck is happening??
That’s hypnagogia. That’s the threshold. Sometimes you even do shift or start to AP. The alarm method keeps the cycle running. Try-fall asleep—wake up—try again—drift—wake up—drift deeper—fall through. Eventually, your body’s like: “Okay fine, sleep.”
But your mind is already plunging into an altered state.
9. “But I did all of this and still fell asleep”
THEN SLEEP. SLEEP. FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS GOOD AND PURE, GO THE FUCK TO SLEEP (i am crashing out, i’m so sorry).
My point is, you set the intention to shift, right? So now, please trust your awareness, because it knows where it’s leading you. It knows the path you hopped onto. If it’s directing you down the perceived “wrong way,” just go with it, okay?? Do you know how many times my dumbass, when in shifting limbo, tried an awake method, gave up, fell asleep, then woke up there? Several. All that matters is that you intended to shift, the rest is in fate’s hands.
Random tip that has been working crazily for me! Every night before you go to bed, just close your eyes and ask the universe/subconscious /higher self/god (whatever you believe in or prefer) to show you how good it gets a few times!
I’ve been doing this, for a few days just bc why not and oh my god my manifestations have been instant :)! Especially for those who have been struggling with their self concept or haven’t seen progress this will really show you, everything you desire is waiting to be handed it to you, you just have to ask and want it, that’s all. Methods or not it starts with you
hi I've been following your account for a while nd have been attempting to lucid dream using the method you gave. i noticed that i have this one dream sign that is damn near in every single dream i have (its basically being in a Minecraft world or seeing mobs from Minecraft), but for some reason it never triggers me to become lucid😭😭
how did you train to have so many lucid dreams easily?💞 because i have had 2 and they were very "fragile" and i would forget to ground myself to make it more stable.
Hi!
So it's completely fine if you can't get lucid in a dream. Honestly that rarely happens for me and I've been doing this for 25 years now. 🤷🏼♀️
However, if you have such a distinct dream sign, you can totally utilize that and practice setting an intention before bed, like 'when i dream of X, i'll know i'm dreaming' or something like that. So really calm your mind and affirm that for yourself for a bit, decide that that's how it's going to be. But you need to be consistent, not just try it once or twice and then be upset that it didn't work. It's OKAY if things take a little bit of practice and patience! Brains can be stubborn, but you're more powerful. So who cares if it takes a few tries.
I never really trained, I just played around and noticed what worked for me. It is really individual. 2 lucid dreams, no matter how fragile they might be, is amazing!!! It proves you have the capability and that you know you can do it. So when you get an inkling of what might work for you, keep at it. Keep playing. Figure it out.
For me it's always been the easiest to do the WBTB method and it rarely fails UNLESS... I've been sleeping poorly, have been really stressed, have had alcohol or certain foods before bed, etc. Things like that affect lucidity as well, at least for me. If I've had at least a couple of night of good quality, stress free, restful sleep (I track mine with a Garmin)... then I'm more likely to have a successful time lucid dreaming. So don't forget to prioritize your overall health and wellbeing as well. 💗
There’s nothing special about this method. N o t h i n g. I think the only reason this method even works for me is because this is my natural way of thinking—meaning that if you read that, automatically you’ll see how any method works for you + you don’t even need a method to shift. You don’t need anything anymore.
This is just a little technique I’ve done since I was a little kid to dissiciate (for fun), and now I’ve learned how to translate it into shifting, so that I shift in seconds. Like an over-explained “just decide to be in your DR and live in the end.”
Having said that, I have no idea if this works for other people. It’s how I shift in seconds, and can enter the void state, but it might be because of my collective beliefs that are at this point, deeply ingrained in my being.
Maybe it’ll work for you, maybe you’ll learn to do it for fun to freak yourself out, maybe it won’t click and that’s okay. Just let go of this idea that you’re not in control. Stop hanfing over your power to meditations, methods, the void, and shifting “tips,” hoping for that one line that will “fix” you, waiting for a new method to tell you why you’re “not shifting,” handing over your power to external crap you claim you want to control.
1) Do this when your awareness is most malleable: At night before bed (hypnagogia), middle of the night (WBTB), in the morning (hypnopompia), or anytime during the day when you’re calm. It’s completely up to you, but I feel that inducing an altered state of consciousness while you’re already in an altered state is better.
2) Get comfortable in whatever position you prefer, close your eyes or don’t, play brown noise or music if you want, but it doesn’t matter.
3) Observe your awareness. If you’re familiar with the concept of natural awareness, it’s exactly that. Become aware of awareness itself, identifying only with your awareness, letting everything else drop away. This is your true self, your vantage point. The way you do this is entirely specific to you. Some people just think about their awareness, some know how to pin-point it naturally, others just focus on the fact that they’re aware and dissociate with that.
*If I just focus on this step and don’t go further, I end up in the void. That’s because if I’m just observing my awareness, I automatically know that all else is illusion inside my awareness, so my environment melts away and I “enter” the void. There is nothing complicated about this process, so please don’t think it’s some grand thing. It’s literally just:
Me, observing my awareness: “Oh look, my true self :)”
Narrator: Clover got sucked into the void through a silly straw and will have an existential crisis about this tomorrow.
4) Observe your DR from the vantage point of the awareness that’s already inside it. Not visualizing, not forcing—simply letting your awareness be there, observing your DR environment the way it naturally would.
(I’m talking in circles to prove a point, so if I’m repeating myself, that’s why).
For example, right now you’re awareness itself. You know you’re in your CR because your senses—sight, sound, touch, taste, smell—are giving you signals inside your awareness. You look around, hear noises, feel the air, etc.
But when you’re lying in bed at night with your eyes closed, sight is gone. The only things left telling you you’re in your CR are sound, touch, taste, and smell. If you’re wearing earbuds, the sounds you hear don’t confirm your CR because you could hear them in any reality. Silence or soft sounds could be your DR too. The taste in your mouth would be the same in your DR. The feeling of your bed could match waking up in your DR.
The point is: If you strip away all your senses, the only thing confirming where you are is your awareness itself. The feeling of simply existing here. The knowing that you’re “here.” This doesn’t require visualization, only awareness.
Now that you’ve located that awareness, you can shift it to your DR. Take that exact feeling of simply being aware and place it in your DR. Now senses don’t matter, because you decided to be in your DR through awareness.
For why senses don’t determine location, see this post.
You’re observing your awareness in your DR, and now you’re there. You can strip away all senses, but you can never strip away awareness. Awareness is your true self, and awareness can be moved. If you became aware of your DR, you’re already inside your DR. All that’s left to do is recognize that. Let yourself know: “This is real, this is happening right now,” and really ground yourself in that undeniable fact. It’s not about senses or visualization, or even forced knowing you’re there. It’s about observing the fact that you’re aware in your DR from the vantage point of the awareness that’s there.
5) Pair it with the obvious: You’re aware in your DR. Think about that for a second: if you’re aware in your DR, it means you’re there. Obviously. Why wouldn’t you be in your DR if you’re observing your awareness in it right now? It literally makes no sense to assume otherwise.
You’ve been observing your awareness in your CR your entire life, from the vantage point of your awareness. That’s how you know you’re in your CR—because your awareness is observing itself here. That’s the mechanism that tells you “I’m here.”
Now, when you’re doing this method and flip your vantage point to observe your awareness in your DR—from your awareness—why the hell would you not be in your DR? There’s no logical loophole your brain can pull here. If your vantage point of awareness determines your “location,” and you are now observing your awareness in your DR, then by the very mechanism that has always proven your location to you, you are in your DR.
You’re no longer “here” in your CR. You’re in your DR, because that’s where your awareness is observing itself. It’s not complicated. It’s not wishful thinking or “pretending.” It’s the exact same structure of reality that’s always been running—now applied to your DR.
And yes, your brain will glitch out, scramble, grasp at straws, telling you “but but but” because it’s conditioned to assume your CR vantage point is permanent. It’s not. The vantage point is flexible, and you just proved it by moving your observation to your DR.
So let it sink in. Let it feel too real, like reality cracking open. Let the glitch happen, let the discomfort hit, let the confusion swirl and keep standing your ground:
There’s no logical reason you would still be in your CR right now. You have to be in your DR, because that’s what you’re observing.
Your vantage point has shifted. You’ve done it. Now, hold it.
It’s not done because you’re “faking it.” It’s done because you have the vantage, the evidence, the awareness, and the logic to prove it to yourself in real time. You observe your awareness in your DR. You let it be there. And it is.
The method is just:
1.get comfortable, 2. dissociate by observing your awareness and only identifying with it, 3. observe your awareness in your DR from the vantage point of being in your DR, 4. “If I’m aware in my DR, how the hell can I still be in my CR? Isn’t that the whole point? If I intended to shift, doesn’t that automatically mean I shifted? I can’t perform an action and not get the outcome of that action. It doesn’t make sense for me not to be in my DR. dafuq”
Click this if this was too convoluted to understand
That was the simplified version. But for the people who still feel like they don’t get it, or aren’t sure how to locate their own awareness, read on.
Disclaimer: We will be using dissociation intentionally. If that's something you struggle with, have trauma around, or if it negatively impacts your mental health, be cautious. Don’t do this. No shifting method, technique, or “reality” is worth sacrificing your health for. Ever. Your well-being comes first. Always.
How to Become Aware of Your Own Awareness (and Control What You’re Aware Of)
At first glance, it sounds like a paradox: how can you be aware of being aware? Isn’t awareness just… happening? Isn’t it passive, like a window things pass through? That’s exactly the point. Most of the time, awareness is transparent. You’re so focused on what it’s pointed at—your phone, your thoughts, the itch on your neck—that you don’t notice it. But once you learn to turn awareness back onto itself, it’s like noticing your breath for the first time: you realize you’re the one controlling it.
Let’s break it down with the breathing example. We don’t usually notice our breathing; it’s automatic, subconscious. But the moment you read this and become aware of it, suddenly you’re controlling it (sorry if I made you notice ߹𖥦߹). That “manual” feeling is the moment consciousness turns inward. The invisible becomes visible.
Now let’s apply that same logic to awareness. For this, I’ll give you three techniques. All of them work the same, but you test out each one and see which of them fit you. And I mean really try. Don’t just passively try one and then speed through the list, because that’s how you’ll reach the end feeling disheartened that none of them worked for you. (And they all do) (that’s why I’m giving you three)
What I’m sharing now is a technique to help you identify purely with your awareness throughout your day. We’ll translate them to shifting later. This is a way to become your true self—pure awareness—and to see through the illusion, recognizing how flimsy its construction really is. The crucial point in all these exercises, whichever one you choose, is to focus entirely on YOUR AWARENESS. This focus is essential because the goal here is to learn how to become pure awareness at will.
Some people might have already done this before, especially when they were kids. And if it’s something that you can already do at will regularly, you’ll read this and go “ooohh I know what you’re talking about. That thing.” Yeah, that thing asdfghjk. So if you already know how to do it, just skip to the shifting part.
#1 The Fixed Point Method
Pick any fixed point—your phone, a book, the wall, a banana, a floor tile, a cup, literally anything around you. Stare at it without shifting your gaze. You can blink, that’s fine, just keep your attention anchored there.
As you stare, quietly repeat in your mind: “I am aware right now.” Keep repeating it while letting your awareness settle on being aware as you stare.
Over time, you’ll notice the room around you begins to blur or fade. Your body may start to feel distant or unreal, sounds will become muffled, and you may feel like you’re sinking inward, floating behind your eyes.
This happens because your awareness is locking onto a single point while withdrawing from everything else, similar to how the Troxler effect makes your peripheral vision fade when you fixate on one spot for long enough. Except, unlike the Troxler effect, this isn’t just a visual trick. It’s a shift in awareness itself, pulling your focus away from the environment and into the raw, pure fact that you are aware.
Stay in this state until you feel hyper-real, detached, and clear—like you’re seeing the world from a layer behind your thoughts. Congratulations, you now know what it feels like to be a toddler who’s just gained consciousness :)
#2 The “This Is All Happening Right Now” Method
My personal favorite and the one I use all the time. Sit or lay down comfortably. Focus on the fact that you are alive and aware right now. You. Focus on you. Look at your hands, your feet, your body, and repeat out loud “This is all happening right now. This is really happening right now.” The point is for you to become hyper-aware of the fact that you are alive and experiencing reality right this second.
Each time you say it, feel your aliveness, your awareness, your existence. The glitch will kick in, the present moment will feel dreamlike, everything will feel too real, like reality is cracking open.
Let yourself fall into that glitchy hyper-awareness until the environment feels like a lucid dream.
And that’s the fun part, because it DOES feel like a lucid dream. It’s freaky.
#3 The Reality Check Method
It’s the exact same method from above, except this time you pivot your focus away from your body and existence, to the environment around you. Sit or stand and look around your room.
Observe everything: the walls, objects, lights, shadows.
Say to yourself: “This is really happening right now. This is my reality.”
Let yourself feel how strange it is to exist, to see, to hear. Keep repeating and observing until the environment starts to feel detached from you while you remain aware, like you are observing a simulation. Stay in that dissonance until you slip into full dissociation, where reality starts to feel like a lucid dream.
(*If you tried these, and you realized they all rolled into one single method !! it’s okay !! It happens !! it’s actually better if you tailor it to fit what works for you)
When you become aware of your awareness, your mind pulls back from the movie screen and sees itself projecting. Reality starts feeling hyper-real, sharpened, dreamlike, like colors are popping, air feels thick, and your thoughts get quiet. You feel dissociation, but it’s not emptiness—it’s clarity. It’s like a glitch, because your awareness is detaching from the illusion of continuity you’ve been fed.
You feel like you’re “behind your eyes,” watching yourself watching. The longer you stay here, the more you feel how reality is mediated through you. All sights, sounds, sensations, all of reality—filtered through awareness. It’s eerie to realize that everything is happening inside your consciousness, not outside of it. And that’s because it is.
For the people who want to enter the void with this:
Just take the method that worked for you during the day, and instead of your CR environment or body, replace it with awareness.
1) The fixed point should be your awareness OR the black behind your eyelids.
2) “Oh my god this is happening right now” should be as you observe your awareness instead of your body—freaking out like “I’m just my awareness, this is really happening right now, I’m just my awareness.”
3) And instead of a reality check while looking at your surroundings, you’re going to observe the black behind your eyelids while you say, for example, “This is really happening right now. I’m in the void, this is real.”
And that’s it. The rest of this post is for people looking to shift realities (or manifest tbh), sooo happy diving into the void <3
Applying this to reality shifting
When you say: “I am aware of my DR,” you are observing your DR within awareness. But because awareness is the vantage point, if you are observing your DR within it, then you are already ‘in’ your DR as far as vantage and experience go.
There is no separation between: “being aware of DR” and “being in DR,” because all experience is happening within awareness itself.
In simple terms:
You are always “aware of.”
But because everything you are “aware of” is happening within awareness, you are “in” it from the vantage of experience. The reason “aware of DR” = “aware in DR” is because you can only ever experience your DR inside awareness, and awareness is the vantage point of being “in.” The illusion is thinking your body is the vantage point. It’s not—awareness is.
You’ve trained yourself to identify as your awareness using these methods. Now, to shift, you simply do the exact same methods with your DR as your vantage point.
#1 The Fixed Point Method → Shifting Version
What you did: You stared at a fixed point until everything blurred, letting yourself become only awareness.
How to shift with it: Lie down, close your eyes. Let your awareness itself become the fixed point. Not the wall, not an object; your awareness. Don’t visualize your DR, don’t try to see it. You can if you’d like, and it might boost this, but it’s not necessary at all.
Lock your focus onto your awareness and know: “I am aware of my DR right now.” “My DR is here.” “I am only awareness.” Just like you did before, except now the vantage point is wherever you’re waking up in your DR.
Let your CR blur out as you tunnel your focus onto awareness, with your DR as its location. Let everything else dissolve. That’s it.
#2 “This Is Really Happening Right Now” Method → Shifting Version
What it was: You repeated “This is really happening right now” while focusing on your body, your entire being, becoming hyper-aware that you are alive and here.
How to shift with it: Lie down, close your eyes, get still, yada yada yada.
Now, instead of focusing on your CR body as your vantage point, recognize that your awareness is always inside a body—and you decide which body that vantage point belongs to. Your DR body is this body, right now, because your awareness is what makes it so. Your DR body isn’t somewhere out there in another location. It’s here, now, because you are observing it.
So instead of focusing on your CR body by looking at it, you’re going to focus on your DR body by being aware of it. By shifting your awareness vantage point to the one that’s in your DR body. This could include visualization if you want, but it’s not necessary, because the visuals are not the focus. The awareness is.
*If I tell you to just “be” in your body right now, you just are. You know it, claim it, a firm “yes, I’m in my body right now.” You don’t call it your “CR body”, it’s just “your body.” That’s because you’re in the vantage point of your body always. To shift it to your DR body, it’s the same thing. There’s no rationalizing, just “yes, I’m aware of my body, I’m aware in my body right now” from the vantage point in your DR.
*If that sounds too complicated, it’s just like “pretend you’re existing in your DR body while being in your DR” just stronger.
Start repeating:
“This is really happening right now.”
“I am in my DR right now.”
“I am aware in my DR.”
Don’t say these as if you’re hoping for it to happen; say them while letting your awareness claim the vantage point of your DR as your here-and-now.
With each repetition, let it hit:
– Your vantage point is now your DR vantage point.
– Your awareness is your DR self, right here, right now.
– This is not pretend. This is your perspective now.
Allow that hyper-real, glitchy feeling to bubble up as the illusion of separation collapses. You are not waiting to shift. You are becoming aware that you are already shifted.
That’s your shift. That’s it.
#3 Reality Check Method → Shifting Version
What it was: In your CR, you’d look around and repeat “This is real, this is happening” to become hyper-aware of your surroundings.
How to shift with it: Lie down, close your eyes. Become aware of your awareness itself. Let it locate in your DR vantage point, just like you would in your CR when looking around.
Without visualizing, know your DR is right there, like the room you’re in when you close your eyes. You aren’t trying to see it; you know it is there, and your awareness automatically knows where it is and begins to move within it.
Repeat: “This is real.” “This is my reality.” “I am here right now.” “This is happening right now.”
All while moving your awareness around your DR environment, letting it sink in that you’re here, in your DR, because you’re aware in it. Let yourself notice how strange and obvious it is that your DR is right there, right now. Let yourself feel how your awareness is already aware there, scanning your DR the way it would scan your CR.
This isn’t forcing, and it isn’t visualization. It’s allowing your awareness to take its natural place in your DR vantage point, observing that it’s there, because it is. Let that glitchy, lucid feeling stabilize.
In my opinion, observing your awareness is the root mechanism behind how you manifest things, even unconsciously. When you decide you want something, you automatically begin observing your awareness in the outcome—whether you realize it or not. That act of observing places your vantage point in the reality where it’s yours, and your awareness “renders” the experience.
Examples:
• You decide you want a specific text, and suddenly you find yourself checking your phone, aware of the possibility of it arriving—and it does.
• You decide you want a specific item, and you find yourself daydreaming about having it—and then you stumble across it on sale or someone gifts it to you.
• You decide you want clear skin, and you find yourself observing your reflection as if it’s already clear—and your skin improves rapidly.
You aren’t “forcing” these things to happen; you’re shifting your awareness toward the reality where they already are. That’s the real mechanism behind manifestation: awareness observes, vantage aligns, reality reflects.
I’m not sure I did a good job explaining this, but I don’t even know how to explain this to people. That’s because shifting is not some grand ritual or complicated checklist for me. It’s just something I do, without ceremony, without second-guessing, without spiraling about whether it’s “working.”
I decide I want to shift, so I lie down, let everything go quiet, and simply observe my awareness in my DR. That’s it. It happens.
But it’s not random. It works because it’s the natural culmination of everything I believe:
• I know that awareness is the only real vantage point. I know that “aware of” and “aware in” are the same, so if I observe my DR, I’m already there.
• I know reality is an illusion built on continuity, and I don’t need to “cross over” physically to get somewhere I already am.
• I know action = outcome no matter what, so if I take the action of observing my awareness in my DR, there’s no logical reason why I wouldn’t be in it.
• I know that desires manifest instantly when I observe them as done, because vantage determines experience.
• I know I don’t need to convince myself while doing it, because the proof is already there. Proof of the desired outcome is the decision you already have it.
It’s not something I “try.” It just is for me, because I trust the framework I’ve built. That’s why I don’t overcomplicate it. I don’t wait for a sign, a feeling, or for something to “click.” I don’t spiral over whether it’s “working.”
I just become my awareness, observe that awareness in my DR, and it happens. Because there’s nowhere else I could logically be.
Even if you don’t find this helpful as a shifting method, you can still incorporate pieces of it in whatever works for you. WHY?
I am too lazy to make a challenge but this lady’s method reminds of how I shifted the first time. It was just part one of her method but I recommend following all her videos.
What I would do is take a physical object something simple and visible, like a pillow, water bottle, or book and mentally change one thing about it, usually the color. Let’s say the pillow was blue. In my mind, I’d visualize it vividly as pink. I’d close my eyes, focus on that new version, and fully see it throughout the day. Then I’d set the intention and visualize that when I wake up in the version of reality where the pillow is pink, something else will have shifted too.
You can then attach anything you want to that moment of change. For example:
“When I wake up in the reality where my pillow is pink instead of blue, I will be a Master Shifter.”
“When I wake up in the timeline with the pink pillow, I’ll be able to tap into the void instantly.”
“When I see the pillow in that new color, I’ll win the lottery.”
Etc etc! Here are her videos and feel free to try this method or combine it with whatever technique you’re currently using. It’s very simple :)
last night before bed i was pondering shifting from the mindset of like of course i'm gonna shift, why wouldn't i? like i'm literally god, so of course i'm gonna wake up there. why wouldn't i? and of course i'm gonna get into the void cause i'm god and i decide and i said so, so why wouldn't i?
not really forcing it, just accepting and allowing. like... it just makes sense, you know?
anyway, i either dreamed... or it really happened, not sure, but i astral projected a couple of times and attempted to shift through the feeling and knowing that i'm there. i'm not completely sure it really happened cause it was pretty early in my sleep cycle so it wasn't at the most 'optimal' time but i do have a recollection of it. it definitely could've been a dream though!
then later in the night i got lucid while dreaming and heavvvily tried to force myself in the void but it was just a pretty unpleasant experience
i don't usually dream about shifting or anything similar at all so to me this was noticeable and i thought it was an interesting occurrence. 🤷🏼♀️
(also dreamed that i was in buffy? my version of buffy? something about buffy? so i really need to make a sunnydale dr i guess but just aging everyone up a lot, hmm.)
i'm not super stressed about any of this though cause to me it's just absolutely inevitable that i'll shift one day. don't know when don't know how and at this point don't really care either.
i've always had the ability to shift, i've always had the power to shift, i just forgot, and i'm now ready to remember my own power and i'm not afraid. the end.
