On the subject of my shifts, to those who experience them, how long do your shifts tend to be on average? Does it depend on factors such as type of shift?
For me, when I'm clear headed mental shifts tend to be the longest, on a range from hours to days. Even when it's not a very strong shift there's always a low level ambient sense of "being" shifted during these.
The envisage shifts tend to be just as long, with the added wrinkle that they occur even when I'm experiencing a species state of a blank slate/nothingness. When shifted I'll try to call up a picture my physical form and the associated image of whatever I've mentally shifted into will come up, doing an analogue to whatever I'm doing physically at the moment.
During blank slate periods what comes up when I try to picture myself is filled in by whatever the last picture of some cool nonhuman I saw was, such as the tiger poster on my wall. It's another odd way my self-perception is influenced by my environment.
Phantom limbs that I can physically feel, however, are very transient. They usually only occur when I deliberately focus on the sensations in a limb, such as feeling claws and scales when I focus on my feet, and are gone as soon as I quit focusing there. While I was told that this is usually the most easy kind of shift to induce, this is not the case for me (for me that would be envisage shifts). When I try the result is usually quite brief, as well as a bit "odd" to the mental eye.
This has sometimes not been the case, however. During one very stressful day the wings, horns, fangs, and tail of my humanoid demon form were very solid-feeling, and were present for most of the day. I'm still not entirely sure why this was the case and I would very much like to experience it again under happier circumstances.
TL:DR: mental and envisage shifts are my most common type of shift, with phantom limb shifts a very distant second. What about you?
