Helot! (my way of saying hello XD) I am a gray wolf therian. I love my life. Cool collar, family who accepts me, everything like that. But the shifts. Ive had dream shifts before. Oh yea. But i dont know if ive had a phantom shift. Sometimes ive felt a tail but it comes and goes by the second. i feel fur a lot. (it keeps me warm for some reason cuz thats what fur do) but my tail is kinda weird. I feel it but i also dont. Its kinda annoying to know wether or not im having a shift. Please help :)
I would say feeling fur is a phantom shift, as you don’t physically have fur, it’s phantom fur. But onto your tail, it might be possible, if you believe you’re spiritually a therian, that perhaps when you were a wolf, you once had a normal tail, but it got cut off somehow, so when you have a tail shift, you’re both feeling the tail once being there, and the absence of it later. It may also be possible that you just think you should be having a tail shift, so you’re forcing a shift onto yourself which shouldn’t happen, because maybe you didn’t have a tail or something like that, so it’s just an illusion of a shift, and not an actual shift. Of course, it could be something completly different as well! Perhaps my followers have any ideas?
But it’s also absolutely okay if you don’t get phantom shifts, or a tail phantom shift! Everyone is unique, and just because you experience something that not everyone experiences, doesn’t make it any less valid. But I wish you luck in figuring this out!