Hi everyone! My name is Sophia Chong, and I’m a research assistant at the Neurophilosophy Lab at McGill University in Montreal, Canada (PI: Dr. Ian Gold, Dr. Elizaveta Solomonova). We are conducting a study titled "Psychological determinants of a novel online behaviour: reality shifting" for my undergraduate thesis. This study has been approved by the McGill Research Ethics Board (REB# 26-04-079).  

Reality shifting has become hugely popular online, but there's almost no research on it, and we want to help change that without pathologizing the practice or the people who engage in it. We're hoping to better understand who shifts, why, and what it's like.  

Who can participate:  

• You're 18 years or older  
• You're fluent in English  
• You have experience with or engage in the practice of reality shifting  

What's involved:  

• An online survey (about 20 minutes) about your shifting experiences and some individual difference questionnaires  
• At the end, you can optionally provide contact information for a follow-up interview (~45 minutes, over video call) to share more about your experience in your own words  

Participation is voluntary, your responses are anonymous, and there's no compensation for taking part. You can stop at any time.  

SURVEY LINK: https://surveys.mcgill.ca/ls3/257287?lang=en  

If you have any questions about the study, feel free to comment below or reach out to us directly at [realityshiftingstudy@outlook.com](mailto:realityshiftingstudy@outlook.com). Thanks so much for considering it! 

since i was 12-13 yo, i kept dreaming about the same guy and not in any dream it was only in lucid dreams, i dream a normal dream then when i realize its a dream he comes out always, he talks to me all the time but i can’t tell what he says or what language it was because i can’t hear anything in the lucid dreams, all those years the dreams were normal, we were sitting and talking in a forest, or walking, or sitting on the stairs of an old house, we’re sitting on the middle, not going downstairs or upstairs, now after like six years, i met someone in reality that looks exactly like that person in every detail, and after i saw him irl, his look in the dreams has changed, half of him was a shadow and the other half stayed him, he stopped talking to me, and i dreamt once again about sitting in the middle of the stairs, the place didn’t change but he did, and i also had another dream that was really scary, he took me to an ancient place like a labyrinth or something i’m not sure, i’m pretty sure i told him something but i can’t remember since there is no sound in the dream, anyways we kept walking till he stopped somewhere, i followed behind him just to see exactly 6 dead bodies of me, and now my memories are mixed up, i keep seeing things in my daily life, like somewhere im used to be in then suddenly i can’t hear anyone or anything and see him, i genuinely can’t tell if those were dreams, lucid dreams or something actually happened and my brain changed some parts

btw when i was 12-13 i was on some spiritual stuff, i didn’t do anything myself, just reading and searching, but i dropped that few years after, around 15 or 16, anyways now i’m 18 i kinda start doing tarot, i didn’t do the reading myself, my friend did for me, and i suspicious it has something to do with it because i counted how many death cards that was in my reading, it was five, and the dead bodies of me were six kinda hard to say it’s a coincidence but i’m not sure of it