This is a topic I've seen on TikTok a LOT recently, I still don't particularly think it's real but frankly, I trust the people here more than I trust the people on TikTok, so if any of you have heard of it or even tried it before; what do you think? I'd like to have a conversation about it, maybe learn something.

I find the idea of it pretty interesting, but the vast majority is people talking about shifting to the Harry Potter universe, which is a made-up fictional universe so that obviously raises concern. Is it more like lucid dreaming? I've heard people talking about having a sense of touch, I've never lucid dreamt before so I don't know if that is something that happens in lucid dreams so I can't exactly take a side on the subject just yet. Some TikTok's are mentioning being there for weeks or even months at a time, one of them saying they were in their DR (Desired reality) for 4 years, meanwhile, their last post was way more recent than that.

If you don't know what it is, I can explain what I've gathered from watching the videos.


Hopefully, someone replies to this, otherwise, I'll feel like an idiot lol.

I don't want to seem judgmental but this definitely seems entirely made-up and I wouldn't expect anything less from Tiktok. I'd take all of this with a grain of salt.
This seems more possibly in the realm of active daydreaming or lucid dreaming. (Possibly even maladaptive daydreaming, where daydreaming becomes so frequent and vivid it starts affecting someone's ability to remain present in reality?)
I'd had lucid dreams though where I had a sense of touch functioning and it's definitely an interesting experience if you're able to train yourself to lucid dream regularly and maintain a lucid state while you're asleep.

That's what I thought, some of the comment sections on the videos were talking about spells and whatnot which seem way too far-fetched. The people making the videos keep mentioning papers posted publicly by the CIA around 2003, which was the main reason why I wasn't entirely against the entire thing but theres also the huge possibility of it being a sham since all the videos say that the government is trying to take them down, which if the papers are real and are being taken down then its probably for good reason, most likely being that the papers are incorrect.

Definitely sounds like a bunch of conspiracy theorists to me, really doesn't sound reputable in the slightest.

Agreed, I think the idea of it is pretty neat, but I'm sure it's just some kind of hyper-realistic lucid dreaming if anything at all. I find the TikToks interesting regardless though, some of them spend large portions of their days preparing to 'reality shift' and documenting it while other videos are explaining how you can 'shift' in under 15 minutes, it's all really confusing and doesn't really match up aside from most talking about scripting their 'realities' which definitely sounds like lucid dreaming.

If the whole paper thing is real, then it's more than likely that lucid dreaming was the intended meaning instead of reality shifting.

The idea is definitely something I'd like to read in a book though, it would give an interesting plot. I'm meaning this in the sense of shifting to a reality that isn't an anime or TV series as that would just be almost every fanfiction out there which isn't as interesting as you'd think.

To me it's very much fake. To some impressionable 13-year-olds? Probably not. . .

Honestly, I'm pretty sure all these kiddos are just realizing that if they focus on something specific as they drift to sleep, they dream about it. It's not magic, it's not reality-bending, it's just. . .sleeping. REM? Forget it, ~ reality shifting ~

I watched one video and now my entire FYP is full of it, annnnnd most are indeed not much older than 13. I think lucid dreaming is cool regardless, but these kids are taking it way too seriously.

Personal opinion: It's not actual reality shifting in the sense of, well, shifting realities, but I think it's something more than a lucid dream? Or something less?

One website I visited called it a "translimital experience" although I have found that term literally nowhere else. The way the kids are describing it, though, makes it sound not-lucid in a sense? In a lucid dream, one of the defining feelings is "This is not real. It's a dream." while shifting has the defining feeling of, "This is real and I'm not dreaming." which makes it sound more like a regular dream to me, a regular dream that doesn't allow you to fail reality checks, if that makes sense.

TL;DR: Not real in the strict sense of shifting realities, is probably another phenomenon.

(PS: As for the "I've been gone for four years part but I had a way recent post," perhaps they believed they had been gone for four years? Dreams make it seem like years have passed when mere minutes have, so it's plausible that they're experiencing that?)

I've done way too much research oops.