— Sally Owens

Last night I actually managed to induce faint vibrations. And that was AFTER I successfully hypnotised myself on my own with no guided audio in about 30 seconds. (Look up the Betty Erickson technique if you want to try it too. A few popular shifting methods are actually misinterpretations of that hypnosis induction.)

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For some reason I just keep getting better at everything but shifting. Oh well, I'm choosing to look on the positive side - the more skills I learn, the closer I get to shifting regardless.

im so jealous of people who have friends who they can talk abt shifting with

Beginner Mindset

Recently while doing a tarot reading for myself about my shifting journey, I drew a card that said I needed to "embrace a beginner mindset". I've been thinking a lot about what that means, and as a results I've begun the process of starting my shifting journey from scratch. Coincidentally, I’ve also seen a lot of posts from others about going back to that baby shifter feeling, when it's all about being IN your DR not GETTING TO your DR; thinking about the end result, not the way of getting there.

In that vein, today I saw a YouTube video about training your brain to lucid dream after years of failure, and re-capturing the feeling of excitement around it. I’ve decided I'm going to apply the techniques outlined there to shifting.

These were the main points:

List out all the things you're excited to do in a lucid dream and highlight your top three

Think throughout the day, “This is a dream” and then imagine if this was a dream, what you would do to take control and achieve one of your top three things.

Keep lucid dreaming at the forefront of your mind throughout the day

There were other points too, but these are the ones I think are most applicable to shifting. So from now on I'm going to focus on one DR, and start keeping that at the front of my mind and think about all the things I'm excited to do while shifting there.

I’ve already started by writing the list of 20 things and highlighted my top three (let me know if you want to see a follow-up post with my list). From here, throughout the day, rather than tell myself I’m dreaming, I’m going to go, “Oh, I’ve shifted!” and then imagine that instead of being wherever I am, that I’m currently experiencing something from that list. Preferably the top three, but it was very hard to pick just three things so I don’t see why I can’t expand it to more. The idea was to increase my desire to go to/excitement over that DR anyway, and that has definitely happened.

I’ve been thinking for a while that the reason some people might be having more success than me, is that for a very long time now I’ve found it really hard to daydream. I don’t know why, given I used to do it every night to help me sleep, but for years now it’s like I keep stopping myself, like it's silly or something. Being a writer I often get too caught up in what’s realistic or a good plot/scene rather than just enjoying the process, so I can absolutely see how I could get in my own way like that.

My hope is that giving myself these parameters like, “Imagine you’re actually having lunch in [x] right now!” or “Imagine what it would be like to learn [y]!” will help make daydreaming more achievable. Rather than imagining bigger stories, I’m just living through those tiny everyday moments. And from what I’ve heard from some of the bigger experienced shifters, imagining those everyday moments can really help your subconscious start to see your DR as a real place rather than a fantasy.

At the very least I’m going to try and do it every day for a week. Given I find it really hard to build habits, I’m not expecting to remember to do this very often in the first few days, so I’ll definitely be extending the experiment to up to three weeks if necessary.

Anyway, thanks for reading my first post and another Big Brave Step for me into the shifting community after two years of mostly lurking. Please send love and encouragement so I can do more of these. I'd definitely be down to blog how the experiment goes from day to day, or answer asks about my DRs (I have so many 😅).

me: alright let’s shift tonight

also me:

crismus 🎄

Because shifting is my destiny

~*~*~ Paraphrased entry from my diary because I have no-one to talk to about this stuff and I'm really excited ~*~*~

A few weeks ago I remembered a dream I had back in November 2023. It was about someone I'm interested in romantically in one of my DRs, and it ended with him saying the words, "You need to get stronger, little one." In the context of the dream and my shifting journey in general, I took it to mean I wasn't ready to shift and meet him yet, that I had more work to do.

Fast forward a year and I'd kind of forgotten about it. When I did remember it again, I also remembered the things I'd been testing out around that time and realised I'd kind of gotten off track a bit. I also realised I hadn't dreamed about him in a year, even though I used to dream about him a lot, for years and years.

So I decided to try and influence my subconscious with this thought: "When I'm getting close to shifting, I'll dream about him again and in the dream [some specific details relating to past dreams that will happen differently this time]." Well, the dream didn't happen that night as I'd hoped it would. In fact it's been weeks, so long I'd forgotten I'd even set that affirmation. Until last night.

Last night I dreamed about him again, and all the details I specified were there. In fact it was even better than what I'd asked for. So, according to my subconscious: shit's imminent. I can't wait.

Turned out like absolute shit. Back to square one.

Spent 6 hours yesterday gathering and cleaning audio of my s/o to make a voice clone of them and now I'm back at it again today.

Could I do this with only a minute or so of sample data? Yes. Would I be satisfied if it wasn't absolutely perfect? No.

So here I am settling down for several more hours of work, just so I can hear Him say whatever I want in this reality.

If you never hear from me again it's because I finally ran the voice cloner and it turned out shit so I jumped into the sea.

Spent 6 hours yesterday gathering and cleaning audio of my s/o to make a voice clone of them and now I'm back at it again today.

Could I do this with only a minute or so of sample data? Yes. Would I be satisfied if it wasn't absolutely perfect? No.

So here I am settling down for several more hours of work, just so I can hear Him say whatever I want in this reality.

If you never hear from me again it's because I finally ran the voice cloner and it turned out shit so I jumped into the sea.

Another Facebook find shamelessly appropriated to my shifting blog.