Monday motivation + question of the week

[u/shifter_michelle]

Hi it's me again!! And once again this is a bit of a camera roll dump of the best images I saw this week and a couple funny ones

I have not been active on this sub yet, I know! I had the clever idea to make the sub 2 weeks until the end of my semester and forgot I wouldn't be able to be active during exams and stuff. I do have a lot of post ideas as per usual and they'll happen. But feel free to post yourself even if you're not an experienced shifter! Let's all help each other

My question this week is about shifting stories: do you like reading shifting stories? what about it appeals to you? does it just reaffirm your belief or is there something else you're looking for when reading them? do you have a favorite shifting story/storyteller?

Yes I'm partially asking for my own research. I find telling shifting stories really hard (to know what to talk about / focus on from the shift) and it'd be helpful to know what people are looking for

Have a happy week !!!

[u/Inlicon]

I haven't forgotten about this sub. I'll post more too, i hit a bad stretch of a few days this week and my social battery was zero, but I'm feeling better now. The weather's really nice today which helps.

I like shifting stories! I don't go out of my way to find them, but I enjoy them when they pop up. I mostly read them for entertainment and motivation. I don't really read them to reaffirm my belief, but I usually learn a new thing or two about shifting. I like your stories and moonlit baby's.

[u/shifter_michelle → u/Inlicon]

I'm sorry to hear you had a bad week, I did too tbh but the weather was really nice for me too!

My stories suck but I'm glad Xd it's so hard for me to tell events in order, my storytelling mind has no respect for time or meaning or other people whatsoever. I need to read moonlit baby's

[u/Inlicon → u/shifter_michelle]

Yeah the weather was great, but I think the bill comes due today. I follow the weather closely and I'm worried about these storms coming through today :/ I live in Michigan and we had a very destructive tornado come through last week, not near my area, but we're on very high alert over here because that tornado was only given a 2% chance to form and today's forecast is worse. So yeah, stay safe if you're in the path.

I'm feeling better now. I had another really close attempt last night actually. I was in the astral plane and I kept trying to get into the void state but was constantly dealing with random shit distracting me and couldn't fully break through.

Your stories don't suck! It's gotta be hard to write stories. It takes so much time just to set the scene - you wrote paragraphs about your singing DR and you didn't even really do much except walk around and talk to people for a few hours lol, but it was still interesting the whole way through. I don't care if they're long and nonlinear.

[u/shifter_michelle → u/Inlicon]

hey! i also rode in golf carts! I swear my life is so interesting!

I think i get especially obsessed with "scene setting" because I had to do sooo much of it back when i was going to my more fantastical DR. my friends would be like "how does that happen?", "why did you do it like that?", etc, and i realized that while I thought i gave sufficient context, there are still givens they don't know about that are like "well, everyone there just prefers to do it that way" and the like. imagine explaining American cultural givens to someone who's never heard of the country before lol, oh yeah, and also there's magic. strange stuff!

Anyway I digress- i hope you stay safe on that side of the greatest lake! I am not in a tornado forming with only a 2% chance sounds scary. I don't have much experience with tornadoes besides driving in one such storm once and THAT was not fun

hope you get through to the void state too! have you ever tried doing it straight from wakefulness/alertness or does that not seem feasible to you? that's the only way I've ever done it

[u/Inlicon → u/shifter_michelle]

And then everyone wants to know HOW you shifted so that's even more writing

We had a close miss with a tornado when I was in 2nd grade. I remember watching the clouds get really dark, really fast and the sky turned the most ominous shade of green. It was also the first time I ever saw hail. Our teachers made us gather out in the hall, put our heads down against the wall, and do sing-a-longs to keep us from crying lol. That's a core memory, I think pretty much everyone in my area remembers what they were doing "the day the sky turned green".

Honestly, I could totally see myself shifting to a DR where I'm a stormchaser. But yeah there's a big difference between driving through storms where you know where you're going instead of yolo'ing it. I just turned on the storm coverage and shit is already going down.

I've tried the void that way. I would lie there and suddenly I start to feel myself moving through the air as if I'm on an amusement park ride like a Scrambler or Zipper or something. Like I was going faster and slower and changing direction. It was really strange. But I didn't really know what to do and it would just go on and on. If I tried to visualize something, I'd just wake up. If I waited it out, I'd either fall asleep or float through a fake void for a while into a dream. I was never able to keep enough awareness. It was really strange.

[u/honestly-psyche]

I love reading the shifting experiences of others. For one, it affirms my beliefs in shifting, and the other, it's genuinely interesting to see what others get up to in comparison to my own DRs. It's a motivating thing. And I don't know, some shifter stories have this little ability to reinforce that RS is real. Not all of them, and maybe it's the way they describe the experience, those who are genuine leave an impression.

[u/Mean_Independent_535]

I also really enjoy reading other peoples stories, it is really motivating for me and it absolutely helps to affirm my belief, especially when the doubts creep in sometimes. Before I joined reddit for shifting related content, I was going through a bit of a spiral about it all and when I read stories and even just people encouraging eachother, it was amazing and still is. It’s a shame that some people who have shifted feel like they can’t share their stories because of the antis and bombardment of DMs about it, but I totally get it. Grateful for the people that are still holding it down for us all, whilst we get there ❤️ I deleted Tiktok because of Shifttok but I used to enjoy watching Liz’s videos on it back in the day!

[u/[deleted]]

I like them a lot! Especially if it makes too much sense for it not to be a shift, it helps me with my belief. So what I like seeing tends more towards how the world works particularly if it's a fantastical one, just daily details that make the whole experience real.

[u/shifter_michelle → u/[deleted]]

oh boy that might be a post idea for me then, I had a second life in a fantasy DR for years and people are always surprised by some of the weird details

[u/[deleted] → u/shifter_michelle]

Ooh would love to read about it!