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[ariaisshifting]

°❀⋆.ೃ࿔*Aria’s “Nothing” Method (for shifting, void state, astral projection, lucid dreaming)°❀⋆.ೃ࿔*

Hi! As I promised, here’s my method post (the one that also made my friend shift to her DR on her very first try, proud mom mode on). Actually, I was planning to wait until I made it perfect, but it doesn’t seem like that’s gonna happen anytime soon.. (Also even though it did not satisfy me aesthetically, I am sharing it today because the important thing is the content) so if I ever notice something I forgot to add or decide to change later, I’ll just edit the post.

It’s gonna be a long one, so I’ll try to divide it into sections (red ones), you can skip directly to the part you’re interested in! (But please don’t forget to read the “symptoms” section first; it’s important so you don’t freak out.) Still, I’d love for you to hear the whole story before the actual method.

First things first, you need to know that you don’t need any method to shift. Setting an intention is truly enough. This one isn’t exactly a method either, it’s more like something that helps you set your intention more easily (whatever this means) or helps you catch that exact moment between being awake and falling asleep. (There’s no “right” moment, I just say that to describe it better.) It’s kinda like wbtb, but not completely.

About this method / backstory: So, where did this method come from, and why is it called “Nothing”? Well, I actually discovered it by accident. I just realized it worked for me. As someone who used to fall asleep all the time and had wrong information about shifting back then, I was almost ready to give up, until I noticed I was getting symptoms again for the first time in ages. I think that’s when it all started. At that time, I used to fall asleep listening to Alunir’s meditations, and I began experiencing the symptoms I’ll mention soon.

That was back in 2024. After a long break from shifting (you know, I’m that person who tries to shift on and off, then takes long breaks), when I got back into my shifting era, I managed to make this method more effective for myself, and realized it actually helps me experience everything.

Again, you don’t even need a method, finding what works best for you is what matters most. But maybe this could work for someone out there too (hopefully).

As for the name “Nothing”, it’s not because you literally do nothing, but because when I once asked myself, “What should I do to shift?”, the answer I got was simply “Nothing.” So I said, “Fine then, I’ll do nothing.” And that’s how the “Nothing” method was born.

My Journey / Successes: What I’m about to write now, everything from 2024, are things I had noted down back then. I’ll share them exactly as they were. So even if I had already shifted before (and honestly, some of these notes make it look like I did), my first intentional and proper shift (without grounding myself) was in 2025, after I opened my Tumblr account and started journaling here!

October 13, 2024: I dreamt about shifting and started getting symptoms (I’ll talk about these in the next section).

October 31, 2024: I got symptoms again, and the meditation sound in the background suddenly turned into a demonic voice (I’ll also explain why that’s not actually scary in the next part).

November 5, 2024: Experienced the same symptoms again.

November 22, 2024: I shifted inside a dream (it was definitely a dream, but I don’t remember it clearly).

December 8, 2024: I remember my ears ringing with pressure.

December 23, 2024: I had a dream where I thought, “Is this what shifting feels like?” Everything was so vivid and clear. (I even wrote in my notes that I could sense everything with all five senses. So if that’s true, and I remembered it in detail, it was probably a shift, though I can’t be 100% sure because it’s been such a long time.)

April 8, 2025: At night, I remember my mom opening my door and asking, “Did you fall asleep yet?” The next morning during breakfast, I asked her if she had really done that, and she said no, she only peeked in quietly but didn’t even cover me up because she didn’t want to wake me. But I know she asked me that. I saw and heard it clearly, and at that exact moment, I was already feeling the symptoms and even thought, “Mom don’t distract me, I’m trying to shift.” So.. it was probably my first real shift. Because it wasn’t a dream, and I only realized later that it might have been a shift.

From this point on, the rest of my experiences are from when I consciously started trying this method and I also shared them on Tumblr, so I’ll leave the links too.

October 7, 2025: my first astral experience and shift.

October 8, 2025: my first lucid dream experience.

October 25, 2025: my dream to shift to lucid dream experience.

October 26, 2025: my friend’s first shift.

I also experienced the void state a few times (not sure when though, I don’t know why I didn’t note it down, or maybe I did and just forgot where I put it).

PS: If I had known back then that I shouldn’t be scared of the symptoms and shouldn’t focus on them, I’d probably have shifted intentionally a million times by now, maybe even permashifted. That’s why I’m telling you now: don’t focus on symptoms, don’t freak out. You’re safe, and you always will be. There’s nothing to be scared of. I’m saying this because I once wished someone had told me these things.

Possible symptoms and my friend’s shared experiences: The reason I couldn’t shift back in 2024 was because I kept focusing on the symptoms (yes, I experienced all of them). So again: Do NOT focus on symptoms. Do NOT freak out. Easier said than done, I know, but remember, none of these things are actually happening to your physical body.

Possible symptoms include:

Ear ringing or pressure in your ears

Heart beating like crazy

Feeling pressure even in your gums or head

Feeling like your body (or a part of it) is floating, my arm did once, but it wasn’t physical

Hearing demonic voices or changes in the subliminal/melody you’re listening to

Feeling like you can’t breathe

Spiraling (this one’s kinda weird but it’s like.. leaving your body in a spiral motion, though technically, you’re not “leaving” it)

Melting

Not feeling your body at all

All of these are normal. You might not feel any of them, or you might feel totally different ones, and that’s okay too. But if you do feel them, please don’t panic and don’t focus on them. Just say things like: “I’m safe.”, “I’m able to shift / oobe / astral project.”

Personally, repeating “I’m safe” throughout the whole process helps me a lot. It’s what made me have my first oobe and shift. When I felt the symptoms, I didn’t panic, I just told myself “I’m safe, I can do this” and let it happen.

Before doing this method (Recommendations but not necessary to do it): This part has nothing to do with the method itself, but increasing your awareness for a few days or even a week before shifting (or as long as you want) might help. Throughout the day, you can say affirmations like: “I’m pure consciousness.” “I’m pure awareness.” “I’m more than this reality.” “I’m more than this body.” “I’m in control.” “I can shift anytime I want.”

You can also fall asleep while watching the “Dream Machine” visual (I’ll leave the link here, you don’t have to do anything, just play the video, close your eyes, and keep watching the lights behind your eyelids).

Becoming aware of what you’re doing throughout the day can also help raise your awareness. Notice that you’re brushing your teeth when you’re brushing your teeth. Notice that you’re breathing when you’re breathing. Notice that you’re blinking when you blink. Do things consciously, not automatically.

You can also repeat affirmations like: “With every conscious or unconscious blink, I’m shifting to my chosen reality.” “With every conscious or unconscious breath, I’m becoming a master shifter.” (Which is true, because you already are a master shifter!) Of course, you can change the affirmations to whatever makes you feel more comfortable. The most important thing is to do what feels right for you!

These exercises will help you realize that you are pure consciousness and that you are the one in control. But again, you don’t have to follow every single step. The point is to adapt this method to what feels comfortable and natural for you. Doing these steps or not doing them is completely up to you! They might help, or they might not, what truly matters is how they make you feel. You’re free to skip them if you don’t want to!

Method: Okay, about the method. Before you sleep (I recommend doing it before your night sleep, but it’s not necessary, whatever makes you feel comfortable is all that matters!), set your intention like: “I’m choosing to shift tonight, and I’m sure about it.” It doesn’t have to be perfect. Don’t overthink whether it’ll work or not, just say it and let it go!

And the position doesn’t matter at all! You can literally sleep standing on your head if you want to.  Do whatever makes you feel comfortable. But if you want to avoid focusing too much on your body, you can try lying on your back. (Personally, I just pick whatever position feels most comfortable at the moment.)

Then, before sleeping, we’re gonna play our list! (Which list, Aria?)

First of all, I want you to prepare a playlist on Youtube (or anywhere you prefer). It doesn’t have to be super long actually, your shift will probably take around 3 hours max (honestly, not even that long, trust me), but something around 8–10 hours might be better.

So, what should this playlist include? Whatever you want! You can add songs, movies, or even random videos like “everything you need to know about dinosaurs.” This part is completely personal, the key is that it should keep you slightly aware.

But honestly, I prefer subliminals. You’re going to sleep with subliminals playing, and we’ll also add some silent videos in between. The silence should last just long enough to let you drift into sleep, but not long enough to make you fully fall asleep, it keeps you right in that sweet spot between sleep and wakefulness.

But before that, don’t fall asleep right away! You need to fall asleep without realizing it.

Now, there are two versions of this method: with headphones or without headphones.

You can start reading whichever version you want to try, they’re almost the same except for a few small details.

Without Headphones Version: What I want you to do here is open your playlist and let it play softly in the background. Yes, without headphones. (For this, I really recommend Alunir! You can play one of Alunir’s audios since they also include affirmations, but honestly, it doesn’t matter what you choose! Just make sure there’s a bit of silence in between the sounds, enough to let you fall asleep but not too long. If you’re using Alunir’s meditations, you don’t need to add extra silent parts.)

Once you’re lying down and the subliminals are playing in the background, relax your body completely. Don’t focus on the subliminal itself. The important thing here is not to fall asleep right away (you’ll do that later, but not yet). Just watch the darkness behind your eyelids, literally watch that darkness. And while you do that, you can think or affirm things like: “I’m shifting.” “I’m already in my desired reality.” “I’m pure consciousness.”

You can also say things like: “I’m freeing myself from ego, fear, and doubt.” “I accept and release them, and I allow myself to shift.”

Or anything else that feels comfortable for you. You can change the affirmations depending on your goal, whether it’s lucid dreaming, astral projection, the void, or shifting. But please make sure to say: “I’m pure consciousness.” and “I’m pure awareness.”

For shifting specifically: if possible, try to imagine where you’ll wake up, sense the room, the atmosphere, how it feels, what’s around you. Think about what you’ll do when you wake up, what’s your plan for tomorrow, etc.

If you’re not good at visualization, that’s totally fine. Just try to stay awake for a bit, because the goal here is for your body to fall asleep while your awareness stays awake. You can remind yourself: “I’m pure consciousness.”

When you feel your current bedsheet, ask your mind: “How do you even know this is real?”

Play little tricks on your brain, because your brain doesn’t actually know what’s real. If you say “I’m there right now,” it’ll believe you. Say “I’m more than this body.” If you hear sounds or voices from your current reality, say: “It’s from my desired reality.” Or “How do I even know it’s real?”

Trick your mind!

You can also count to 100 if you want, and if you start mixing up the numbers, that’s fine! Just keep counting from a random number. You’ll probably notice yourself mixing up words or numbers while saying affirmations. When that happens, don’t overthink it, don’t try to remember where you left off, just continue from any random number or word.

You can move a little too, like turning to your side, that’s totally okay. Just don’t make yourself fully awake again.

At some point, your body will naturally fall asleep no matter how much you resist it. But please, don’t say “ugh, I can’t sleep” and turn off the subliminals, just let things be. Even if you get frustrated or feel like you can’t fall asleep, keep the subliminals on. (As I said, it doesn’t even have to be a subliminal, around one hour of audio is usually enough for your body to drift off.)

Because even when you think you’re not asleep, you actually are, your body will fall asleep, and your consciousness will remain aware.

At one point, you’ll have that dozed-off moment. If the subliminals wake you up, every time that happens (and make sure you set this intention before sleeping), remind yourself:

“I’m shifting right now.” or “I choose to shift.”

Don’t open your eyes, don’t stop the music, just go back to sleep.

At some point, your body will fall asleep completely, that’s basically the whole method. Whether you have a lucid dream, astral project, enter the void, or wake up directly in your DR, I don’t know, so just go with whatever feels right for you.

And if you get any symptoms I mentioned earlier, please don’t panic! Just tell yourself: “I’m safe. Shifting is safe for me, and I allow it.”

Don’t focus on the symptoms! Feeling like you’re flying, floating, or swaying is totally normal, there’s no earthquake. Just fall asleep again.

You can also set the intention to wake up directly there.

With Headphones Version: What I want you to do here is put on your headphones and start your playlist. (Make sure your headphones are comfortable and won’t bother you while lying down!) I recommend using 40–60 minute subliminals for this, but again, it really doesn’t matter what you choose! Just make sure there’s a bit of silence in between, long enough to help you fall asleep.

Once you’re lying down and the subliminals are playing, completely relax your body. Do not focus on subliminals! The important thing here is not to fall asleep right away (you will later, but not yet).

Just watch the darkness behind your eyelids, literally watch that darkness. While doing that, you can think or affirm things like: “I’m shifting.” “I’m already in my desired reality.” “I’m pure consciousness.” Say things like: “I’m freeing myself from ego, fear, and doubt.” “I accept and release them, and I allow myself to shift.”

Or anything else that feels comfortable for you. You can change the affirmations depending on your goal, lucid dream, astral projection, void, etc. But please make sure to say: “I’m pure consciousness.” and  “I’m pure awareness.”

For shifting: if possible, try to imagine where you’ll wake up, sense the room, how it feels, what’s around you, and what you’re going to do when you wake up. If you’re not great at visualization, that’s totally fine, just try to stay aware for a while. The goal is for your body to fall asleep while you remain conscious.

I want you to feel like you have an important exam tomorrow, and it’s already 3 a.m., and you only have a short time left to sleep, that exact kind of feeling. Like when you’re half asleep but still alert enough to hear your alarm. That light, sensitive sleep where you’re aware of everything, that’s exactly what I want.

You can remind yourself: “I’m pure consciousness.” When you feel your bedsheet, ask your brain: “How do you even know this is real?” Play little tricks on your mind, your brain doesn’t actually know what’s real. If you say “I’m there right now,” it’ll believe you. Say: “I’m more than this body.” If you hear voices or sounds from your current reality, say: “It’s from my desired reality.” or “How do you even know this is real?”

Trick your mind!

You can count to 100 if you want, and if you start mixing up the numbers, that’s totally fine. Just keep counting from any random number. You’ll probably notice that while saying affirmations, you start mixing up words or numbers, that’s completely okay. Don’t think about where you left off or what comes next, just continue from anywhere.

You can move a little, like turning to your side, that’s totally fine too. Just don’t make yourself fully awake again.

At some point, your body will naturally fall asleep, no matter how much you try to resist it. But please, don’t say “ugh, I can’t sleep” and turn off the subliminals, just let it be. Even if you get frustrated or feel like you can’t fall asleep, keep them playing. (As I said, it doesn’t even have to be a subliminal, around 1 hour of sound is usually enough to make your body fall asleep.)

Because even when you think you’re not asleep, you actually are, your body will fall asleep while your consciousness stays awake.

At one point, you’ll have that dozed-off moment. If the subliminals wake you up, and make sure you set this intention before sleeping, remind yourself: “I’m shifting right now.” or “I choose to shift.”

Don’t open your eyes, don’t stop the music, just go back to sleep.

Eventually, your body will fall asleep completely, that’s basically the method. Whether you end up lucid dreaming, astral projecting, entering the void, or waking up directly in your dr, I don’t know, so go with whatever feels right to you.

If you get any of the symptoms I mentioned earlier, please don’t panic! Just tell yourself: “I’m safe. Shifting is safe for me, and I allow it.”

Don’t focus on the symptoms! Feeling like you’re flying, floating, or swaying is totally normal, there’s no earthquake. Just fall back asleep.

You can also set the intention to wake up directly there.

Oh, and when the silent subliminal or video starts playing, don’t say “wait, did my playlist stop playing?” and check it. (Yes, that’s from personal experience)

Also, if you shift to a version of your drself who’s already awake and standing, it’s actually easier to tell that you’ve shifted, you’ll clearly notice the difference between a dream, lucid dream, astral projection, and a full shift. So don’t worry about that!

This method can also work even if you don’t do it exactly this way. If you’re super tired, just sleep without thinking anything. (Seriously, if you’re about to fall asleep in a second, do NOT think about anything, just sleep.)

It also works when you wake up during the night! For example, I usually go to bed around 8–9 pm, and when I naturally wake up around 3–4 am,and go back to sleep while thinking “I’m shifting” with my playlist still on, it works perfectly.

What should I do if I lucid dream: If it turns into a lucid dream, people usually say to make a portal, but for me, just thinking about my dr was enough. Just tell yourself you’re shifting, and you’ll be there. The melting or spiraling feeling is totally normal, do not panic! (Also, to get out of the lucid state, you can shift to a random place first and then move from there to your dr, that was easier for me.)

What should I do if I astral/oobe: If it turns into astral projection, don’t panic, especially if you feel ear ringing, pressure, or your heart beating fast. Those are all normal. Keep telling yourself you’re safe! Spiraling sensations are also normal. If your goal is to shift to your dr, just think about it, you’ll get there. And believe me, you’ll have plenty of time to think, so stay calm. DO NOT PANIC. You’re not actually feeling those symptoms in your physical body. And even if it is astral, if you say “I want to shift to my dr” you will.

What should I do if I get into the void: If you see light or lights, focus on one of them and follow it, it’ll keep growing, and you’ll find yourself in the void. From there on, do whatever you want! I’ve never shifted from the void, but probably just thinking about your dr will be enough. (And don’t forget to remind yourself that you’re safe and calm!)

I successfully shifted but my vision is blurry: If your vision is blurry (like you’re looking through frosted glass) when you shift or if you can’t feel all five senses, don’t freak out, stay calm and don’t think about going back. Focus on your breathing, touch something hot or cold, or gently pinch yourself (not hard enough to hurt) that’ll help you ground yourself there. (I still haven’t shifted to my dr, I did shift once, but I freaked out, didn’t ground myself, and ended up in a random reality before realizing I was in my dr. That’s why I don’t ground myself to random realities, but people say it helps, so if you shift, and you probably will, you can try it!)

If you ever feel panic like “it’s too real, how do I come back?”, don’t say you want to return. Just remind yourself: “I’m safe, I can return whenever I want.” Also, be open to random shifts if you want! Just to prove to yourself that it’s real (it’s honestly funny, you should give it a try).

Ps 1: If I forget to mention something, I’ll edit this post later, no point in making you wait longer! And if you have any questions, please use the ask box since I sometimes miss the comments.

Ps 2: I worked really hard on this post, so I really hope you’ll shift, otherwise, I’ll haunt you and make you shift. (I want everyone to experience shifting! Even if we have the same s/o, everyone deserves to feel it! And technically, we are shifting at any moment unintentionally, so shift intentionallt this time!) Especially try it on 11.11, please! And if it doesn’t work on your first try (which it probably will), please give this method a few more chances. Try again after some time, because methods don’t make you shift, they just help.

This one, though, isn’t really a method, it’s more like a tool that helps you catch that thin line between sleep and wakefulness more easily.

Try it in different states: when you’re super tired, fully awake, or somewhere in between, adjust it to what feels best for you!

Thank you so much for reading and waiting for this post! And I truly appreciate you for trusting me.

Happy shifting!

-Aria

[julietteefferrars]

manifest the impossible.

we've all established that anything is possible right? sps, money, friendships, desired face and body, all of that. yet that's all we think is possible.

law of assumption/manifestation are not limited to those things. there's a bad habit of thinking the law only works for sps and money but not for waking up with naturally purple hair the next morning? why the fuck not?!!! even with sps we think it's only going to work if they are someone we know personally and definitely not some super famous untouchable celebrity. why do we put limits on ourselves when the reality is that anything is possible and it's only your own beliefs and what you know to be true that you are experiencing? you've deeply accepted that michael jackson is dead and you can never experience him on stage ever again, so you're just experiencing that. you've deeply accepted that shifting is not real because it "didn't work", so you just experience that. you've deeply accepted that eye color change isn't possible without surgery or contacts, so you experience that. if that's a universal truth then why are there countless stories of people waking up with a brand new face and body without any cosmetic procedures or dieting and revising family members with cancer no longer having it? why are there countless stories of people revising deaths of loved ones and pets? why are there a multitude of stories from people regarding their DRs? how can it be possible that a whole community of people is just "delusional" and "schizophrenic", yet when we accept negativity and limitations as truth nobody questions that, accepting that you're ugly and that life is hard is just "realistic"?

again let me tell you: ANYTHING IS FUCKING POSSIBLE. you are capable of experiencing ANYTHING beyond your wildest imagination. that's why when you ask "is xyz possible to manifest?" we always tell you yes. yes, yes, yes and YES. there is no such thing as "impossible", only what you accept for yourself. there are no truths other than what the subconscious mind accepts as true.

you can revise deaths. you can revise life-threatning illnesses. you can revise global conflicts (like i did while having missile threats over my head). you can become a mermaid, a fairy, royalty overnight. you can speak any language you want without studying it for years. you can start speaking to animals. you can experience ANY FUCKING THING. all you have to do is decide, accept is as true, and that's it. you can do your little techniques if you want, but the 3d world started moving the second you stated what you accept as true.

"but juliette, how would you revise mj being alive omg that's not possible he passed away in 2009!!!" i decide i am in the reality where he is alive. because if there are infinite realities where things happened differently, all simultaneously existing now, then there's a reality where he's still alive - happy, healthy, safe, iconic as ever, and still making his own music, still doing concerts and tours. when i script he's alive, i'm not summoning his corpse to rise from his grave. i'm not digging up his ashes. i'm not performing some crazy voodoo magic. NO, i am simply SHIFTING MY AWARENESS to the reality where he's alive. people hear about death revision and start clutching their pearls thinking we're selling our souls to the devil or some shit. NO, IT IS ALL AN INTERNAL FUCKING SHIFT. YOU DO NOT INTERFERE WITH ANYTHING PHYSICALLY. you just make a decision, accept it as true, ignore your circumstances, and THAT'S IT. get that through your skull - revision, shifting, manifesting ALL HAVE THE SAME FORMULA. i've written it countless times in this post but i'll say it again: make a decision, accept it as true and ignore your circumstances. and PERSIST. you don't want to experience something badly enough if you don't persist, imo. the 3d is your projection, your shadow and it has no other choice but to follow your truth.

you have been shifting all your damn life. you accepted negative shit as true so you shifted to realities where that negative shit was true. you accepted your sp likes someone else so you shifted to the reality where your sp liked someone else. you accepted that life and jobs and money is hard so you shift to the reality where you experience that. why? again: because your awareness was on it and you accepted it as true. manifesting is shifting. shifting is manifesting.

shifting is the same exact thing like i said. decide you're in your DR and do not accept anything that does not imply you're not there. you wake up in the same room? idgaf you shifted. your surroundings aren't changing? idgaf you shifted. it's not working? idgaf, YOU. SHIFTED. you shifted the SECOND you had the intention, the second you started daydreaming, thinking, visualizing, scripting, making your pinterest board or spotify playlist. your awareness was already there. you simply gave up and accepted whatever bullshit your physical senses were showing you and said "ahh i didn't shift it didn't work" well congratufuckinglations, you didn't shift then.

again: decide, accept as true, ignore circumstances and don't contradict. you are already that version of you that you desire to be. you already have what you want. you already are in that reality you desire. you already are with your sp or dr s/o. you already are living your desired life no matter what reality you desire to be in. YOU HAVE IT ALL. YOU ARE EXPERIENCING IT ALL RIGHT NOW. the second you have decided, done a robotic affirming session, visualized, did your sats, listened to your subliminals, scripted, you are IN THAT REALITY RIGHT NOW. there's nothing left to do. it's left up to YOU to accept it or not. it's left up to you to accept if manifesting the impossible is possible or not.

(by the way, i have a fame DR where i'm with bad/thriller era mj! let me know if you want some storytimes <3)

signed, juliette ferrars of sector 45 / the mother of realities.

[fesfesstuff]

shifting science/physics/roots/proof/everything you need to know a must read

hi i made this after researching for months it helped me alot and i really hope help those who are like me (autistic) who must have proof to believe something .this going to be alot so strap in.

also my english is not my first language i made sure to not make any mistake but if i did please point it out

If you spend any time in shifting communities online, you've heard it. The same accusation, over and over, from skeptics who have never tried, never meditated, never sat in silence long enough to feel their own body disappear

"The void state isn't real. Shifting is just lucid dreaming. Everyone who claims they've shifted is either lying or delusional." 

 It sounds confident. It soundes scientific .it sounds like the final word from someone who knows.

Except for one problem. 

The same "void state" that shifters describe today  pure awareness, no body, no thoughts, just consciousness floating in infinite stillness  has been documented, practiced, and perfected for over five thousand years. By monks who never used TikTok. By sages who never scrolled through Reddit. By mystics in India, China, Egypt, Tibet, and the Middle East who had no way to communicate with each other, and yet came to the exact same conclusion.

Either every single one of them was lying too... or the void state is one of the most real, most verified, most consistently reported phenomena in human history.

Part One: What Even Is the Void State??

Before we go back in time , let’s get clear on what we’re talking about today.

In modern shifting terminology, the void state is a deep meditative state where:

You remain fully conscious, but lose all awareness of your phisical body 

Your eyes are closed, relaxed, with no urge to open them

A floating sensation

Feeling of being pure consciousness without a form 

Visualization becomes effortless

When shifters reach the void state, they report being able to set intentions for their Desired Reality (DR) with incredible ease. Some shift directly from the void. Others use it to manifest specific changes in their Current Reality (CR).

The void state is not sleep. It's not a dream. It's not unconsciousness. It's what remains when everything else falls away ; when the body goes numb, the inner monologue goes silent, and all that's left is awareness itself.

Now. let me show you where else this exact state appears.

Part Two: The Upanishads ;The Original Void Shifters (800-200 BCE)

The Upanishads are ancient Indian philosophical texts. Written in Sanskrit roughly 2,500 years ago, they represent some of the oldest and deepest explorations of human consciousness ever recorded. 

There are about 108 Upanishads total, with 10-13 considered major. But their core message is simple enough to fit in one sentence, even if its implications take lifetimes to understand:

Your individual consciousness is not separate from universal consciousness .

The book's central question is deceptively simple , what is consciousness and what are its states? From this question it builds one of the most radical and precise maps of human awareness ever written.

It begins by identifying four states of consciousness that every human being moves through. The first is ordinary waking life the external world experienced through the five senses. In shifting language this is the CR, the current reality. The second is the dream state where consciousness turns inward and generates its own complete reality from within. This is where most shifting attempts begin, in that threshold between waking and sleep where the transition sensations arise. The third is deep dreamless sleep where all individual experience dissolves into formless rest.

The fourth state is where the Mandukya becomes extraordinary. Called Turiya, meaning simply the fourth, it is described as the background awareness that underlies and contains all three other states. It has no inside or outside. No boundary between self and everything else. It cannot be described in words because language itself belongs to the other three states.

What makes this directly relevant to shifting is what the Mandukya says about the relationship between waking and dreaming reality. It argues that the CR and the DR are fundamentally equal in nature. Both are experiences arising within the same consciousness. Neither is more ultimately real than the other. The world you experience as solid and external is at its deepest level as constructed by consciousness as any dream. This is not a metaphor or a comfort it is the central philosophical argument of the entire text.

The book also maps the four states onto the sacred sound AUM. The A corresponds to waking, the U to dreaming, the M to deep sleep, and the silence after the sound to Turiya. By following AUM inward through its three phases and resting in the silence that remains, the practitioner moves through the states of consciousness deliberately from CR awareness through the dream threshold and into something deeper. Shifters who use AUM as part of their practice before scripting and visualization are doing something the Mandukya described thousands of years ago.

The A sound anchors you in waking awareness ; where you are right now

The U sound carries you into the dream state ; the internal world of sleep

The M sound dissolves into deep formlessness ; dreamless , unconscious rest

Then you rest in the silence after  that silence is Turiya ; the beyond waking, beyond dreaming, beyond deep sleep 

Sounds familiar ??

And the most famous line from the Upanishads? Tat tvam asi. "You are that." Your consciousness an universal consciousness are the same thing. Which means every reality you could ever want to shift to? Already within you. Always has been.

 Perhaps the most important insight for anyone who shifts is the Mandukya's insistence that Turiya is not somewhere you travel to. It is the background awareness already present beneath every experience. The CR and the DR both arise within it. This means the access point between realities is not far away or difficult to reach  it is the ground of awareness itself, always already available, requiring not effort but recognition.

Part Three: The Yoga Vasishtha — Parallel Realities, Confirmed (750 BCE approx.)

If the Upanishads describe the state, the Yoga Vasishtha describes the cosmology that makes shifting possible.

One passage from this ancient text has stuck with me since I first read it. I'm going to quote it at length, because it deserves to be seen in full:

"O Rama, in the past there have been millions of Brahmas, Sivas, Indras, and Narayanas. However, even the creations of these gods were but the jugglery of Maya... In some universes Brahma is the supreme deity, in others it is the Sun, Indra, Narayana, or Shiva. In some universes the earth is filled with trees, in others with people or with mountains. Somewhere the earth is of mud or clay, elsewhere it is rocky or golden or coppery. One may count the rays of the sun; but it is impossible to count the number of universes that exist."

Let me translate that into shifting terminology.

Universes with different supreme deities : realities with diffrent fundamental rules

Earth made of gold or copper : level 4 universes (diffrent physics, different materials , different laws)

Impossible to count the number of universes : infinite drs .every possible reality exists.

The text goes even further, describing what sounds exactly like a shifting experience :

   "I decided to enter into samadhi again. I silenced the mind and the senses. I merged in the infinite consciousness. I saw reflected in that consciousness the image of countless universes. I was able to go anywhere and to see everything... Some were coming into being, others were perishing... There were different elements in each; they were inhabited by different types of beings... some had other universes within them; in some there were creatures you would not believe possible to exist."

 Samadhi is the practice of merging with consciousness itself — the void state. And from that state, the observer witnesses infinite realities. Sound like shifting? That's because it is shifting. Just with ancient Sanskrit vocabulary. 

Part Four: The Bhagavad Gita — Detach From the Ego

The Bhagavad Gita (part of the larger Mahabharata epic, dated around 500-200 BCE) is often read as a spiritual conversation between Prince Arjuna and the god Krishna. But underneath the divine dialogue is a practical manual for consciousness shifting. 

The Gita teaches : 

Detachment from identity : you are not the “self” you think you are .

Detachment from outcomes : act without clinging to results .

The ego is not real : what you call “I” is temporary and constructed .

Why is this relevant to shifting? Because shifting requires letting go of your CR identity. If you believe you are only your CR self  your body, your history, your problems then leaving that reality feels impossible. But when you understand, as the Gita teaches, that your ego is just a temporary costume, suddenly moving to a DR becomes not only possible but natural.

Part Five: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali — When the Mind Stops

The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (compiled around 400 CE) is a collection of 196 aphorisms that systematically map the terrain of human consciousness.

The most famous line is the second sutra:

   Yoga chitta vritti nirodha : "Yoga is the cessation of the fluctuations of the mind."

When the fluctuations stop, when the endless chattering inner monologue finally quiets down, what remains? According to Patanjali: pure awareness without disturbance.

Thats it thats the void state.described in two thousand year old sanskrit in four words.

The Yoga Sutras go on to describe the stages of meditative absorption (samadhi), where the meditator loses awareness of their body, then loses awareness of their thoughts, then loses awareness of the distinction between "self" and "object of meditation," until only pure consciousness remains.

Every shifting method that involves meditation? Every guided void state track on YouTube? Every technique that tells you to "let go of your body and focus only on your intention"? You can trace its lineage directly back to texts like the Yoga Sutras.

Part Six: Tibetan Buddhism  The Clear Light and the Book of the Dead

Tibetan Buddhism offers perhaps the most detailed map of the void state, particularly in the Tibetan Book of the Dead (Bardo Thodol).

According to this text, immediately after death, every being enters a state called the Clear Light (Ösel). In this state:

There is no body 

No thoughts

No physical world,infinite

Just awareness ,empty, yet aware

Sounds familiar ?

The Tibetan Book of the Dead explains that if you recognize this state, stay calm, and do not react with fear, you achieve liberation. You see reality as it truly is. But if you panic which most people do, because ego dissolution is terrifying when you're not prepared you fall back into form, identity, and illusion. Back into the physical world. 

Shifters describe this exact dynamic. How many times have you read: "I felt myself detaching from my body, my thoughts went silent, the world dissolved, and then I got scared and snapped back"? That's the Tibetan Clear Light meeting an unprepared consciousness.

The Tibetan tradition doesn't just describe the state — it teaches how to enter it consciously, through advanced meditation practices. And the instruction that appears again and again is this: Do not fear it. Do not react. The moment you do, you lose it.

Part seven : The CIA Gateway Report ; Consciousness as Hologram

Now we jump forward to 1983. A United States Army Lieutenant Colonel named Wayne M. McDonnell submits a classified report to his commanders at Fort Meade. His task: analyze the "Gateway Experience"  a training program developed by the Monroe Institute designed to induce out-of-body states through brain hemisphere synchronization (Hemi-Sync).

McDonnell spent months researching quantum mechanics, biomedical engineering, and theoretical physics. His conclusion?

Human consciousness is not confined to the brain. It is a holographic field that can transcend time, space, and physical reality.

The report, declassified in 2003, describes:

The universe as an “ extraordinarily complex system of energy fields”

Matter as an illusion ; solid objects are actually oscillating energy grids 

Human consciousness as a function of energy interaction 

The brain as a hologram that attunes to the universal hologram of reality 

Out of body states as achievable through focused coherance of brainwave output 

One of the most striking sections describes what happens when the body enters profound relaxation: the heartbeat creates a standing resonance wave at approximately 7-7.5 cycles per second. This resonance propagates into the earth's ionospheric cavity, effectively turning the human body into a coherent oscillator vibrating in harmony with the planet's electromagnetic field.

In that state, the report says, "the seat of consciousness" can move outside the physical body. The boundaries between self and environment dissolve.

Thats the void state 

Part eight: The Holographic Universe — Pribram and Bohm

The Gateway report draws heavily on two scientists: Karl Pribram, a neuroscientist at Stanford University, and David Bohm, a physicist at the University of London.

Their theories, working together, form a complete model of how shifting could be scientifically possible.

Bohm's physics: The universe is not made of separate particles. It is a single, undivided whole  an "implicate order"  where everything is connected and everything contains everything else. What we see as separate objects (including separate realities) are just projections from this deeper, unified field.

Pribram's neuroscience: The brain does not store memories in specific locations. Instead, it processes information holographically  meaning every piece of memory is distributed across the whole brain. A small fragment of brain tissue contains the pattern of the whole memory, just like a small piece of holographic film contains the whole image.

Put together: The brain is a hologram. The universe is a hologram. And the two attune to each other through energy exchange. Consciousness is not produced by the brain the brain receives consciousness like a radio receives signals.

When shifters say "I'm not shifting my body, I'm shifting my awareness," they are describing Pribram and Bohm's model in colloquial language.

Part Thirteen: Neville Goddard ; Facts Overflow the World

In the mid-20th century, a mystic named Neville Goddard (1905-1972) taught a simple, radical idea: Imagination creates reality.

Not metaphorically .literally .

Neville taught that the world you experience is an outpicturing of your inner assumptions. Change your assumptions really change them, not just intellectually but at the level of felt sensation and your reality must change to match.

In one of his lectures, "Facts Overflow the World," Neville describes his own shifting experiences. He talks about being in a parallel world that felt as real and tangible as this one. He describes visiting a reality where he could meet people who were dead in his main reality. He even talks about a world where he could stop time.

These are not metaphors for Neville. These are direct reports of shifting.                                                           

Neville's method is almost identical to the void state: relax into a drowsy, meditative state (he called it "state akin to sleep" or SATS), lose awareness of your physical body, then visualize your desired scene with sensory vividness. Fall asleep in that feeling.

Every shifter today using SATS? You're practicing Neville's method. And Neville was drawing from the same ancient well as the Upanishads, Taoism, and Tibetan Buddhism.

Part Fourteen: The Scientific Evidence Is Catching Up

Now we have scientific papers on : 

The holographic principle ; the universe might be a two dimensional information structure projected as 3d reality .

Non local consciousness; studies on remote viewing, telepathy, and near-death experiences suggest awareness is not bound to the brain .

Meditation induced altered states; fMRI studies show experienced meditators can voluntarily shut down the default mode network (the brain's "self" center), producing ego dissolution and non-dual awareness.

That default mode network shutdown? That's the neurological correlate of the void state. When your brain stops generating the "me" narrative, what's left is pure awareness no body, no thoughts, no identity. Just consciousness.

The science is not there yet to fully explain shifting. But the direction of evidence is unmistakable: consciousness is not what we thought it was.

Part Fifteen: Skeptics Will Say...

I know what the skeptics are thinking. I used to think it too.

"It's just lucid dreaming." Then why are the physiological markers different? Lucid dreaming occurs during REM sleep. The void state occurs while the body is awake but deeply relaxed.

"It's just dissociation." Dissociation is a trauma response, often distressing. The void state is chosen, calm, and often blissful.

"There's no scientific evidence." There's no scientific disproof either. And the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, especially when thousands of years of documentation exist.

"It's mass delusion." Delusions don't replicate across 5,000 years, across 12 different cultures with no contact, across languages that never borrowed from each other.

The simplest explanation is also the most radical: the void state is real. Shifting is real. And every mystical tradition on Earth has been telling us this since before writing was invented.

Part Sixteen: Why This Matters for Your Shifting Practice

If you've read this far, you're not here for philosophy. You want to shift.

Here's what all this ancient and modern knowledge means for your actual practice:

1. The void state is not something you create. It's something you uncover. You don't build emptiness. You remove everything that's in the way — thoughts, tension, identity, effort. What's left is already there.

2. You don't need a "method." The Upanishads didn't have shifting methods. The Taoists didn't have guided meditations on YouTube. They had intention, relaxation, and letting go. That's still all you need.

3. Fear is the only real obstacle. The Tibetan Book of the Dead says it. The Gateway report implies it. The shifters confirm it. The moment you panic at the feeling of ego dissolution, you snap back. Learn to stay calm in the void. Trust the process.

4. Your DR is not "out there." The Yoga Vasishtha says all universes exist within consciousness. Neville says imagination creates reality. Bohm says the universe is an undivided whole. Your DR is not a separate place you have to travel to. It's a frequency you tune into.

Conclusion: The Oldest Truth in the World

Here's what I've learned from months of research, across ancient texts and modern documents, across quantum physics and CIA reports, across shifting communities and mystical traditions:

The void state is not new. Shifting is not new. The understanding that consciousness creates reality is not new.

What's new is the language. We say "CR" instead of "Maya." We say "DR" instead of "loka" or "realm." We say "void state" instead of "Turiya" or "Clear Light" or "Fana" or "Nun" or "the Cloud of Unknowing."

But the experience is identical. And it has been reported, practiced, and perfected by human beings for over five thousand years.

So when a skeptic tells you shifting isn't real, you can smile and thank them for their concern. And then you can get back to practice  because you know something they don't.

Not because you're special. Not because you're delusional. But because you've done the research. You've read the texts. You've sat in the silence.

And you know, in the same way the Upanishadic sages knew, the same way the Taoist masters knew, the same way the Tibetan Buddhists knew, the same way Neville Goddard knew, the same way the CIA analysts concluded:

You are not your body. You are not your thoughts. You are not your CR identity. You are pure awareness, infinite and formless, capable of experiencing any reality you can imagine.

The void has always been there. It will always be there. It is your natural state. Your original face before you were born. The kingdom of God within you.

All you have to do is stop. Breathe. Let go.

And remember.

Tat tvam asi.

You are that.

Credits

Primary research sources 

Ancient hindu Texts :

The Upanishads (circa 800-200 BCE) – specifically the Mandukya Upanishad, Chandogya Upanishad, and Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

The Yoga Vasishtha (circa 750 BCE - 500 CE) – Sthiti Prakaranam (Section 4), Utpatti Prakaranam (Section 3), Nirvana Prakaranam (Section 6)

The Bhagavad Gita (circa 500-200 BCE) – part of the Mahabharata

The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (circa 400 CE)

The Bhagavata Purana (circa 800-1000 CE) – specifically verses 10.87.41 and 6.16.37

Taoist Texts : 

Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu (circa 4th century BCE)

Zhuangzi by Zhuang Zhou (circa 4th-3rd century BCE)

Buddhist Texts : 

The Tibetan Book of the Dead (Bardo Thodol) – traditionally attributed to Padmasambhava (circa 8th century CE)

The Heart Sutra (Prajñāpāramitā Hṛdaya)

The Diamond Sutra (Vajracchedikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra)

The Lankavatara Sutra

The Platform Sutra by Huineng (8th century CE)

The Gateless Gate (Wumenguan) by Wumen Huikai (1228 CE)

Modern sources  : 

Neville Goddard (1905-1972) : 

Lecture: "Facts Overflow the World"

The State Akin to Sleep (SATS) technique

Various lectures on imagination and consciousness

The CIA Gateway Report (1983):

Title: "Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process"

Author: Lieutenant Colonel Wayne M. McDonnell

Declassified: 2003

Document Number: CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5

Shifting community sources : 

Terminology and Frameworks : 

Amino (shifting communities)

TikTok (shifting content creators)

Tumblr (shifting blogs)

Quora (shifting discussions)

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HOW I ENTER A PURE AWARENESS STATE IN LESS THAN 20 MINUTES

HELLOOOOOOOOO AGAIN!!! been a couple days since my last post . . . i've been chilling lately, just trying to let my brain reset a bit after my last shift. I shifted from a lucid dream but when i woke up i had the most insane, debilitating headache for some reason. It like really turned me off from shifting again for like a week. Anyway, I'm back shifting again !!

I've been trying more and more with my method, letting myself enjoy the moment and have patience with my body during meditations. It works every time, what can i say? I always have a good experience when i just sit back and relax.

Because of this i think that i'm just done with all the other methods i like to do lol. They work okay i guess but this method is the easiest and most relaxing for me (which is why its called the super duper easy method LMAO). I used to not be able to meditate or even shift using intention. It took me 5 years to get here, and honestly I'm not mad about it ! I learned some lessons here and there. I'm saying all this to tell you that even if you think you're failing or incapable of a certain method, it's not necessarily true. You can't fail to shift. You can shift but not end up in a place you like, sure, but you can't fail. You can only teach yourself / your Awareness to wake up in a place you like, using any method. Remember: patience is always key.

JUST SO YOU KNOW: Awareness is everything and doesn’t need any mental conditions or physical yada yada to be awareness. You don't need to meditate, but if it makes your thoughts quieten and create less resistance from your EGO, then its highly recommended. :) This post is for those who like to meditate and end up in altered states of consciousness.

. ⋆ 𖥔 ݁ ˖₊‧.⭒.‧₊˖ ݁𖥔 ݁˖ .

For a percentage of shifters, altered states are the key to everything. States tend to help for those of us who have racing thoughts and doubts that hinder our journey when we feed into them. When you get into an altered state, you're less connected to your brain and therefore your ego, which only exists in your brain. From an altered state it's very easy to shift. It may take some a while your first time around but that shouldn't matter because time doesn't even exist and you shouldn't care anyway. I sure don't. Just make sure you pick a time when you're "free" and can just chill for a while.

Getting into an altered state may feel like a total fail at first. You get into your comfy position, start meditating and are immediately hit with doubts. This an amazing post that explains it very well. The person who wrote that is literally a f*cking god. I recommend you read that before you read this because that is the post that truly opened my eyes to how easy awake shifting is.

Anyhoo, at this point you should know all about the encounter stage and how to get past it. I'm not here to explain that because you hopefully read the post. What I will tell you is what to do after that, and what typically happens for me.

After about 18 minutes and 9 seconds (yes, i've counted), my mind gets extremely fuzzy and i immediately start heading in tons of different OBE directions. Just now before I made this post, I randomly got the idea to Astral Project despite never doing it before. I imagined myself out of my body, doing astral things i guess and then i literally felt my Spirit(?) begin to JUMP out of my body. It felt very weird but i didnt do it fully because my heart isn't in it all that much. Then, I started shifting. This happens very quickly for me but can either go right or wrong because I always shift with one or two senses before the rest, so it sucks because i can still feel my ego while simultaneously feeling a whole different person in another reality. This won't happen to everyone. I feel like it only happens to me because I may have an attachment to my CR.. idk.

You'll know when you get to the Point of No Return (sounds scary but its not trust me lol). Your doubts will be quiet and the only thing that will prevail is your affirmations and your want to shift. It'll feel like your shifting voice is much much louder than your doubting voice, which is good because you're right there on the edge!!! At this point all you have to do is keep up with assuming whatever it is you want to do. Typically, I affirm "I am pure awareness" until i start rolling around in a pit of darkness. I just end up completely detached from my body and surroundings and just exist within the Void. Or, I end up doing 5 senses until i start blinking through my DR self... and then yea! Thats all!!!

If you don't shift to your DR this time, that's fine. You can stop at any time. As long as you know that you will improve at this and keep consistency, then you'll awake shift in no time ! i literally taught myself this after 5 years of hoping and begging for results. I had no clue what i was doing. If i can do it, you can do it way faster.

go shift!!!!!

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I shifted I shifted I shifted I shifted I was there I was there I was there I was there I was fucking thwre oh my god:

Woke up to my alarm before my rem cycle around at 5:35am and, after a while, laid down trying to monitor my thoughts as I drifted back to sleep. This helped me keep a notch of awareness in my dream so it was easier to become lucid. After a while in the dream I realized and immediately got to business. I remember recalling my plan of action out loud(become lucid, wake up in SP, dont engage in anything, detach from cr, use smell touch sound to feel dr, drink water asap to ground) because I tend to lose the plot when in hypnopompia. I said out loud “don’t let me down!” Before intending to wake up in sleep paralysis by falling backwards which always works

Once I woke up my whole body was buzzing per usual. Ive been practicing astral projection earlier this month so when in this state I realize my astral body always slowly slides out of my physical to the right on its own I literally wasnt even trying to do that. I was face down on the side of my bed and stayed still while trying to be calm as I repeated “I’m not a body, I’m not an identity. I am I am I am” etc to get into my void (or detach from my cr identity so it’d be easier to anchor in my dr.)

I’m not sure how long it went on for or if I reached it or not. I remember I didn’t facilitate any type of sensation like smell, touch, sound but I did randomly start asking myself “why am I (dr name)?” (default why affirming) like OVER AND OVER. Then all of a sudden my body was buzzing again. I didn’t physically feel any type of switch or morphing but I strangely just wasn’t face down anymore. I was just THERE I DON’T KNOW HOW TO EXPLAIN THIS I WAS JUST LAYING ON MY SIDE AND I COULD FEEL MY S/OS HAND AROUND MY WAIST AND HIS YK AGAINST MY BACK I WAS BARELY CONSCIOUS I DIDNT OPEN MY EYES I COULD BARELY PROCESS ANYTHING IN THE MOMENT BUT THERE WAS WARMTH. THERE WAS SOLIDITY. THERE WAS A DIFFERENCE. IT DID NOT LAST LONG AT ALL AND I FELL ASLEEP BUT IT WAS REAL ITS ONE OF THOSE THINGS WHERE YOU JUST KNOW.

(I had a random dream about being an actress in a random sapphic age gap movie I only recall this because I remember saying that i’m in an age gap lesbian film to someone else in the dream.) When I woke up I didn’t remember any of this for a second then I went “HOLD ON” & it all came back to me. I am literally doing this exact process play by play every single day by day until I’m able to fully anchor I don’t care how long it takes I finally know what works for me

(me adding a random pic trying to make this aesthetic despite the messiness & lack of correct grammar throughout the entire post. I don’t care I’m so happy)