Yall I Shifted Again But This Time Without A Subliminal Or Method, Just Got Comfortable, Closed My Eyes

Spoilers for look outside under the cut, just some ramblings about Lyle’s form teehee. Also might not be coherent because I’m banging this out before my sleep meds get my ass

Anyways, I think Lyle can pull something real close to Leigh’s grinning beast thing, because there’s NO WAY he’s hiding all this under that robe.

(Ignore shitty screenshots please lmao)

In his average sprite, it looks like he has two eyes, and a (mostly) normally sized mouth, plus he’s a little smaller than the form he takes if Sam chooses to open his eyes after kissing him.

I’m actually pretty sure he’s only able to do this partially (his overworld sprite is kinda long, and he constantly covers himself, so maybe he’s only able to squash himself down a bit?). And it probably breaks if he gets startled, hence the sight Sam sees if you have him peek… That, or he’s kissing Sam in his monstrous form. Gay rights I guess

not an ask but a question: what is shifting?

Lmao sorry for the late answer, tumblr is eating my asks

Shifting is the act of becoming aware of your body in another reality and moving (shifting) your consciousness into it. You’ve always been there, you just gotta become aware of it. I’m no good at explaining it, but there’s plenty of explanations on tumblr and TikTok that are fairly easy to find (:

Stop bc how am I supposed to make shifting friends if my ass is to scared to text people bc like if I've never talked to them at all and I just one day text someone there gonna be like "okay weird" or maybe I'm just overthinking but it's scary 😭😭😭 SO PEOPLES LISTEN UP YOU GOTTA TEXT FIRST PLS AND THANK YOU 🙏

“Ouhhh aegislash are dangerous you can only have one if you’re an experienced Pokémon trainer 🥺”

SHUT UP. SHUT UP!! LOOK AT HIM

This is Archimedes, he’s a stupid MEAN idiot who I’ve had since he was a honedge. He forgets he’s a big fucking sword sometimes and tries to get into bed with me. He picks me up bridal style then forgets he’s carrying me and gets surprised to see me in his arms. He flips people off. I am not at all qualified to own him and I’m pretty sure it’s illegal for me to have him in my house. But we stay silly

The hypnagogic state : how to reach it.

The hypnagogic state is a state where we naturally go into before sleeping, a sweet spot moment before sleeping and still being awake, a state where it is so powerful to be able to shift, get in the void, or basically do anything.

Now it requires NOTHING, it only requires one small thing that might sound tricky.

Staying awake long enough for it to come by on it's own, and actually on average it takes 10-5 mins from each person to enter it aware.

The steps:

Lay flat on your back (not needed, but many results come from laying on the back)

Do. Not. Care, just go with what you usually do to fall asleep, but one thing? You're not falling asleep, you're watching your body fall asleep, that sweet spot where your body is about to fall asleep? That's hypnagogia

Actually don't move, it may give your mind signs you're still not sleeping, now just lay there and try not to sleep while focusing on the blackness behind your eyelids.

You will start seeing flashing images or swirly things or even just flashing lights and imagery, this is the hypnagogia and you managed to reach it in just 10 mins of pretending to be asleep (acc it takes me 4)

Bam, that's the sweet spot, now affirm slowly for the void, or just sense your surroundings for shifting or maybe you can try your shifting method here! This state cannot argue back, you'll be immediately shifting in no time, and slipping in the void is so easy from it.

So really the whole steps is just "lay down, don't move, watch your eyelids, color seen? Hypnagogia reached, method or void procedure done, bam."

I managed to find a post on Reddit on how to keep your body awake, you can try 2 or 3 of them to keep yourself entertained, FULL CREDITS TO THE ONE WHO POSTED IT ON REDDIT (calaie_iscoolio):

"1. Looking in the darkness behind your eyelids

Basically what it says, when you close your eyes, just focus on the darkness until hypnagogic imagery begins to happen i.e. colors, shapes, literally anything that will show. When images begin to show up, do not interact or acknowledge what you are seeing, you can look at it, but don't try to control it and just let the images flow until you feel that the state is induced enough to where it won't disappear because you are "too" awake/aware.

2. "Forearm Up" Method

Another technique that basically helps with people who tend to fall asleep to quickly, basically lay down on your back like usual, lift your hand up in the air where your elbow is resting on your mattress, keep it there and as it slowly falls down that's where you'll begin to fall asleep, it'll drop and basically awake you back up.

I had also seen a shifter mention that they prefer to lay on their stomach and lifting their foot up in the air and basically do the same thing. This technique basically just wakes you back up.

3. Thomas Edison Method

Very similar to the "Forearm Up" Method, basically what Edison had done was he had held a steel ball in his hand, and when he began to fall asleep, the ball will drop and alert Edison awake, another technique to help with people to struggle to stay awake.

4. Imagine Constant Motion

Basically imagining something whether that be an animal or an object constantly moving like a horse galloping, a dogs tail wagging side to side, etc. (Pretty simple, for people who find it much easier to visualize).

5. Tire your body through out the day

During the day, you could do any tasks that would just tire your body out that leads up to your attempt to induce the state, it'll make it much easier for you to get into the state and induce it since your body is already tired enough to relax.

6. Repeating "hypnagogia"

This will mean you have you just repeat the words "hypnagogia" to yourself till you get tired enough and then hypnagogic imagery will eventually appear.

7. Counting

Basically just like regular shifting methods, you could focus on counting up to how much you want to until you begin to get the hypnagogic hallucinations, to keep yourself from falling asleep you could give yourself simple math questions just so it's enough to focus to answer it.

8. Imagining Randomness

Imagine literally anything that isn't related at all, i.e. horse, roof, apple, pen, desk, etc. Visualize and filter through random objects or animals that have no correlation and that will induce the hypnagogic imagery, randomness is key.

9. Focus on breathing

Similar to any shifting method, basically focusing on your breaths is another technique to induce the state. Literally just anything to keep your awareness occupied rather than letting your mind just shut down to go to sleep.

10. Sounds

Listening to anything in your environment, whether that be things happening outside, if it's raining listen to the rain, or if you've got headphones on listen to the music and focus that, keep your focus on the music so you don't fall asleep.

11. "Playing" a song in your head

Not necessarily listening to the song, but imagining the song playing in your head, whether that be your favorite song, if you know how it sounds like, imagine it playing and once you've entered the state, it will naturally play and you'll end up actually hearing the song.

12. Heartbeat

Basically just focus on your heartbeat. Listen to the amount of beats.

These are all the various of techniques you could use, you don't have to stick to one and can basicaally try them out, see which one you feel like works for you and go from there. A tip is also you could pick like 4 or 5 out of these 12 and just filter through the techniques if you can't just stick to one since you get uninterested quickly. (I get bored easily, do I normally do 8, 9, 7 and 4 just so I don't lose interest.)"

Good luck y'all!

OUGHHHHH

PHILLIPPE

when i finally get to see how fine my s/o is in person but we're only 2 minutes into the 1 year slow burn I scripted

edit : (idgaf how long ur slow burn is don't compare it to mine as if u didn't script it urself)

Ignore this if you only meant to keep it in the replies, but about that drawing request post I am on all four knees BEGGING you to draw Sam and Lyle kissing. That or Lyle interacting with Sam’s kids

i warned you it was gonna be bad

I SHIFTED IN 2 MINUTES ??

okay listen up. So basically yesterday i didn't do shit during my shifting journey i ain't gonna lie. And recently my parents took my phone away so i stopped listening to subs while shifting. And like i was feeling tired around 22:30 so i went to bed and just put on earplugs or idk how its called cuz i hate noises while sleeping. Then i was feeling sleepy so i thought "why not shift?" but like i didn't wanted to do any methods or stuff cuz im a lazy bitch ain't gna lie and it doesn't stop me from shifting lol ! I just layed down and started making myself feel as if im in my dr not like visualizing the room just feeling like i was there and i was like "oh shit i have a live stream to do tomorrow what will i talk abt to entertain people" and i started planning my day for when i wake up in my DR and didn't thought much of it but like i really felt numb and i was so connected to my DR and then i heard a "fwip !" like you know the sound of the air when you throw something really quickly? But like really loud and i was like "i have earplugs dafuq?" and i opened my eyes and saw a red frisbee getting thrown at me and once i saw it,it stopped itself and fell right in front of me?? (dafuq) and like afterwards i looked around i was on the grass in a sort of playground it was really sunny and i heard a laughter but my heart was pouding so much because of the frisbee attack that i decided to return.

Anyways took me 2mins and NO efforts. You will shift just like you shifted more than 20 times to similar realities while reading this lol.