After shifting to a DR, how do memories within that reality feel or recall to the awareness?
In your DR, youâll remember your CR as a whole, and how it feels will depend on how different your DR and CR are, whether you used a method or LOA and whether itâs your first time shifting or if youâre more experienced.
First, if youâre in your DR, youâll always remember your CR as a whole. Youâll recall a few details, but not much more than that.
Remembering your CR might feel strange (especially if you used a method, where youâd expect to be "teleported," while with LOA, the shift happens unexpectedly). In any case, as soon as youâre in your DR, recalling your CR will feel odd. Since youâre not teleporting your body but your consciousness:
In your DR body, feelings will seem normal. You wonât feel out of placeâjust as if youâve always been in your DR. However, mentally, youâll be fully aware of a divide between two very different realities. Sometimes, it might feel like your CR was just a dream, but youâll realize it was too detailed and long for that.
Right after the "teleportation," if you donât experience symptoms, you wonât immediately notice anything unusual. Seeing your DR room will seem completely normal. But after a few seconds or minutes, youâll realize that just moments ago, you werenât there.
During the first moments in your DR, your mind will still hold onto memories from your CR. Again, this will feel normal, and you wonât specially be surprised. However, some memories from your DR will be present as soon as you arrive, while others will gradually replace or integrate into your mind as you remain in your DR.
The more you progress through the day, interact with people, visit places, and "participate" in your DRâbecause yes, you could also stay locked in your DR room without interacting with anyoneâthe more your DR will become familiar. Sometimes, youâll meet someone in your DR without "recognizing" them at first, but as soon as they speak to you, the memories of them will settle in.
If you have a script or shift into a DR youâve prepared, like a fictional one, then obviously, youâll recognize everything. But if you havenât prepared anything specific, itâll feel more like I described above.
Gradually, your CR memories will fade in your mind and become less detailed, though youâll still remember them. Meanwhile, your DR memories will take over. Donât worry, it doesnât take long, and it really depends on how much time you spend in your DR, interacting with people, leaving your room, etc.
If youâve done a mini-shift before, youâll remember your CR and DR in the same way.
Then, when you return to your CR, youâll recall your DR like a global memory, and since you already know your CR, youâll retrieve your memories more quickly. Whether youâre in your DR or returning to your CR, youâll need time to get your thoughts in order.
Whether you use a method or LOA, you might either realize immediately that youâve shifted, or discover it laterâit depends on how obvious the changes are.
In that case, youâll just have this feeling that "before," things werenât like this or that "some time ago," things were different, with a strong sense of certainty.
If you shift multiple times between different realities in a short span of time, you might feel a bit disoriented or experience depersonalization/derealization. But again, this will pass if you immerse yourself in the reality youâre in.
Finally, if youâve been shifting for several years, realities will just feel like "places" youâve been to. Even if you change families, appearances, etc. in your DR, it wonât really matterâyouâll view your DRs as if they were just travels to another country. The word "reality" will seem less significant, and for you, itâll be just another place that adds to your memories.
VOILA!
Once again, this is just based on my own experience.
acceptance it is not going to hurt.
there are no quests. no moral choices. no divine prophecies. your worthiness is not questioned by your suffering . . . yet, you are still trapped. you are in your own cage.
why are you treating shifting like a quest? as if you are the hero in this greek myth, encountering gods and magical objects, evolving and understanding the world by completing a task who looked bigger than you. and your reward? is going back home.
but, it can be easy. and you are not used to this.
it looks like enemy territory. when people around you seemed to have it simple and you had to put twice of their effort to even accomplish something. it feels like everything you did in life is not worthy; simple tasks required hours of your time, and something as . . . whimsical as shifting, is simple? you are holding on your past experiences because thatâs all you know. at the end you still accomplished those tasks, so with shifting is going to be the same.
but what if itâs the holding that itâs hurting you? accepting to let go is not a cruel joke. the cruelty is staying in a situation that is not helping you . . . and everything you accomplished in your life is not going to disappear because you acknowledged that something can be easy. acceptance doesnât ask you to forget. itâs healing your suffering. it wants to make you understand that your cage is not everything that exists in the world.
accept it. the cage is open. you can walk away.
When I tell people they can simply shift with daydreaming and they hit me with "but I daydream all the time, why haven't I shifted?"
Because you perceive it as a daydream and not a actually reality you are living and experiencing.
If you are daydreaming and you are so focused on the fact you are "not there yet" or the fact you wish to be "actually" experiencing that daydream right now is the reason why you didn't shift through the daydreaming.
Shifting doesn't take much, and telling yourself otherwise is sabotaging yourself. Realise your dr is real and take it in. Immerse yourself in your dr and simply be there and don't overthink it.
some antishifter anon is trying to tell me where to shift now?? mind your own business, honestly . âpick a more interesting place than harry potterâ ?????????????? tf?????????
IT WAS SMALL (LIKE TWO MINUTES) AND I WASNT REALLY DOING ANYTHING I WAS JUST LAYING IN BED AND TRYING TO FALL ASLEEP AND WHEN I WOKE UP I HEARD SOMEONE CALL OUT MY DR NAME AND IT SOUNDED LIKE A GIRL IDK (WHICH MAKES SENSE BASED ON WHERE I WAKE UP AFTRER SHIFTING) SO I WAS LIKE TRYING TO CALM DOWN BUT THEN I LIKE WOKE UP IN MY OR/CR
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"So are you seeing anybody?"
Shifters:
HOUSE OF THE DRAGONÂ (2022â) Season 2, Episode 8, âThe Queen Who Ever Wasâ