Reality Shifting on TikTok

I first heard about the booming TikTok reality shifting trend in early 2020, when my daughter told me that realityshifting–my life’s work–was taking the world by storm on TikTok!   Investigating further, I saw how TikTok realityshifting videos were primarily focused on lucid dreaming and astral traveling their way into focused imaginal realms.  These can be good skills to hone, as part of an integrated approach of developing one’s character and spirituality. My take on goals of focusing on lucid dreaming as a way to experience imaginal realms via this TikTok version of reality shifting is that can potentially veer into escapism. If utilized as a kind of lucid dreaming skill practice on a spiritual path within imaginal realms, there may be some value in becoming proficient with these skill-sets.

TikTok Reality Shifting Techniques

Some TikTok channels invite viewers to practice entering into lucid dream states via various techniques that encourage relaxation of the physical body while maintaining lucidity of the conscious mind.  One such technique being popularized now is called “star fish,” with the main idea of this lucid dreaming position being to keep one’s arms and legs stretched out and not touching, a bit like impersonating a star fish, with the five points represented by:  head, two arms, and two legs.

Many TikTok reality shifters work with scripts that keep their lucid dreaming reality shifting focused.  Often, such a focus is held in imagination while keeping the rational, analytical mind occupied with some activity such as counting backwards from 100.  The so-called “Raven method” starts with adopting the starfish position, and then counting down from 100 while keeping mentally focused on shifting into one’s desired reality.

These TikTok techniques help realityshifters access levels of identity that are more foundational–more true–than seeing ourselves as existing purely within a paradigm of physicalist material realism.  Just as people can learn to astral travel and gain a sense of self identity beyond egoic physicalism through meditation, or going to a facility such as provided at the Monroe Institute, practicing putting one’s body in a position so that arms and legs are not touching while feeling tired can help facilitate moving into a state of higher level conscious agency.

Reality Shifting key ideas

We are all reality shifters, occasionally noticing things seem to move without anyone having moved them.  We may have noticed socks missing after we do the laundry, or keys or coat not being where we know we put them. We also sometimes notice we have different experiences and memories of experiences than those of other people who were also there.

We, as conscious agents and observers, are the ones who shift or change, and we witness different physical realities.  We can ascribe reality shifts and Mandela Effects to our ability to move between levels of observer identity and causal agency.  If seeking some ‘mechanism’ behind these shifts, we can note the possibility that the many worlds of quantum physics and the cosmological multiverse may be one and the same–providing us with occasional quantum superpowers such as:  bilocation, tunneling, superposition of states, coherence, and entanglement.

Reality Shifts: When Consciousness Changes the Physical World

Our experiences with reality shifts are natural, and can be appreciated as an experience of consciousness. I suggest remaining reverent toward all aspects of the reality shift phenomena, with respect for encountering and aligning with ever-higher levels of self. reality shifting truly invites us to ‘bring our A game’ to life, in terms of becoming ever more aware of who we are, as intentional beings and conscious agents.

I’ve been documenting and curating first-hand reality shift reports for over twenty years, investigating what people were thinking and feeling prior to witnessing reality shifts–and the archives of Your Stories on the realityshifters web site is now hundreds of pages long, containing first-hand reports from people in dozens of nations and on continents all around the world.

For those starting out writing scripts for their desired reality, or creating affirmations and vision boards, all these focusing tools can be good starting points for overcoming social conditioning that has gas-lighted “magickal thinking,” as I mention in my book, Reality Shifts. Our assumptions and beliefs play such a huge role in creating our perceptual framework that playing with these initial focusing tools and methods can help people realize the true power of consciousness to literally create seeming miracles in physical events in spacetime.

If you have concerns regarding safety with trying reality shifting, I suggest adopting a practice of setting energetic protection that incorporates the focus of intention on maintaining sovereignty of your conscious agency, free from negative interference.  Such a practice can simply consist of several simple Qi Gong (energy work) exercises that combine intention with breath and movement to help ensure you feel your best, and that what you experience in your reality shifting exercises feels enjoyable and positive.

Reality Shifting is part of the Great Awakening

With the recent reality shifting TikTok trend, I see resonance with this time of Great Awakening. To put it another way, through ‘writing scripts’ for desired reality shifts, people can witness positive results, and thus begin to override a lifetime of socially conditioned restrictive thinking regarding the chicken-and-egg Zen koan between consciousness and the physical world. We may wonder which came first–the chicken or the egg? And similarly, some scientists are designing experiments to ascertain whether consciousness or neurons and brains arrived first.

Thanks to first-hand experimentation with reality shifting, people have a chance to witness how when we change our consciousness, we see changes in the physical world.

I see some beauty in the encouragement from some TikTokers to those feeling frustrated and discouraged with lack of perceived progress in lucid dreaming and reality shifting–and I sense a similarity here between reality shifting and the Kundalini experience. Both of these are guided by levels of higher conscious agency–by higher levels of self–and this is why both journeys are so individual and unique.

My first impression of this trend when I first saw it a few years ago was a mix of joy to see people interested in the topic, combined with a concern that people may fixate on escapism–the way some people fixate on “manifesting” as a be-all, end-all. Any such short-sighted approaches will eventually lead to disappointing results, though it’s likely that many people need to go down every detour and dead-end first, just to make sure they’re not missing out on something. I have faith that just as with other types of “psychonauts,” there is divine spirit guiding all of us, and ultimately, people will discover that this reality shifting journey is best appreciated and enjoyed as a spiritual journey.

And I hope you will join me in asking, “How good can it get?” in any and all circumstances, no matter may seem to be happening, so we may each individually and all collectively experience what is truly best for all.

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REFERENCES:

Larson, Cynthia Sue, and Ruth-Inge Heinze. “Retrocausal Reality Shifting: Adventures in the Fine Art of Changing the Past.” (2006).

Larson, Cynthia Sue. Reality Shifts: When Consciousness Changes the Physical World. RealityShifters, 2012.

Larson, Cynthia Sue. “Evidence of macroscopic quantum phenomena and conscious reality selection.” Dualism, Platonism and Voluntarism: Explorations at the Quantum, Microscopic, Mesoscopic and Symbolic Neural Levels (2016): 179.

You can watch the companion video to this blog here:

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Cynthia Sue Larson is the best-selling author of six books, including Quantum Jumps.  Cynthia has a degree in physics from UC Berkeley, an MBA degree, a Doctor of Divinity, and a second degree black belt in Kuk Sool Won. Cynthia is the founder of RealityShifters, and first President of the International Mandela Effect Conference. Cynthia hosts “Living the Quantum Dream” on the DreamVisions7 radio network, and has been featured in numerous shows including Gaia, the History Channel, Coast to Coast AM, One World with Deepak Chopra, and BBC. Cynthia reminds us to ask in every situation, “How good can it get?” Subscribe to her free monthly ezine at:

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CERN, and Mandela Effect science

Have you wondered if there is any way to prove the Mandela Effect is real, and not simply mis-remembering?  If so, you’re in luck, since scientists have just made significant progress in this area, in the same month that CERN fired up their Large Hadron Collider, sparking great interest in what effect, if any, this may have on Mandela Effect activity.

I’m grateful to have been contacted by Jason Koebler, a reporter for VICE Motherboard, who wrote an excellent article, Is CERN Causing Collective Mass Delusion by Creating Portals to Alternate Dimensions? An Investigation.

The ever-increasing interest in the topic of the Mandela Effect seems to have come to quite a peak this July 2022, with the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) firing back up on July 5th.  I have been watching to see whether we might witness an increase in new Mandela Effects being reported this month.  So far, I’ve not yet heard of people noticing remarkably new Mandela Effects, though I am witnessing a steady increase of interest in this topic.

Apparently, some physicists at CERN, including Clara Nellist, expressed concern regarding the surge of people’s concerns that CERN might somehow be contributing to the Mandela Effect.  While Nellist calls the Mandela Effect “mis-remembering,” this article’s author, Jason Koebler, recognizes that the Mandela Effect phenomenon is verifiably real.  Koebler references recent research studies conducted at the University of Chicago that describe an emperically observable phenomenon that persisted across many people with no clear explanation.

University of Chicago Mandela Effect Research

Researchers found that “there are certain images that elicit a specific false memory, despite high familiarity and confidence.” Their research study demonstrated that “seven familiar images from popular iconography have low memory accuracy, with a specific incorrect version consistently remembered across people.” These findings indicate that there is something about these logos that are being misremembered by large numbers of people for unknown reasons.  The pre-print of the University of Chicago paper is entitled, The Visual Mandela Effect as evidence for shared and specific false memories across people.

In their research paper, psychologists Wilma Bainbridge and Deepasri Prasad describe how they asked volunteers to identify famous logos or characters based on their memories, working with research volunteers through Amazon Turk. Prasad and Bainbridge showed study participants the actual logos and characters in lineups of slightly manipulated images, and then asked the participants to rate how much confidence they had in whether their specific memory of that logo or character was correct.  

What’s most fascinating about this research study is that the study participants proved that indeed, random research volunteers share a collective false memory of popular brands, logos, and characters–choosing the exact same ‘wrong’ images as the one that they remembered as being correct.  These ‘wrong’ renditions were selected and drawn even when people reported that they had a “high familiarity” with the image in question.

Not only did people pick out the same ‘wrong’ images from line-ups, but they also independently drew similarly ‘wrong’ images from memory, with the same ‘wrong’ characteristics.  While the researchers do not yet propose a mechanism by which this Mandela Effect phenomenon occurs, they suggest that “there might not be a universal explanation for why the Visual Mandela Effect occurs.”

When contemplating CERN and the Mandela Effect, as when considering just about anything, I recommend asking at every opportunity, “How good can it get?”

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REFERENCES:

Koebler, Jason. “Is CERN Causing Collective Mass Delusion by Creating Portals to Alternate Dimensions? An Investigation.”  VICE Motherboard.  20 Jul 2022.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/88qg5v/is-cern-causing-mandela-effect-by-creating-portals-to-alternate-dimensions-an-investigation

Prasad, Deepasri and Bainbridge, Wilma.  “The Visual Mandela Effect as evidence for shared and specific false memories across people.”  Psychological Science.  2022.
https://psyarxiv.com/nzh3s/

You can watch the companion video to this blog here:

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Cynthia Sue Larson is the best-selling author of six books, including Quantum Jumps.  Cynthia has a degree in physics from UC Berkeley, an MBA degree, a Doctor of Divinity, and a second degree black belt in Kuk Sool Won. Cynthia is the founder of RealityShifters, and first President of the International Mandela Effect Conference. Cynthia hosts “Living the Quantum Dream” on the DreamVisions7 radio network, and has been featured in numerous shows including Gaia, the History Channel, Coast to Coast AM, One World with Deepak Chopra, and BBC. Cynthia reminds us to ask in every situation, “How good can it get?” Subscribe to her free monthly ezine at:

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My Mandela Effect affected books

This past month, it came to my attention that a passage from one of my books that I’d received the most emails about is now–and apparently always has been–missing.  By missing, I mean I can find no trace of it anywhere.  And it seems likely to me that it’s gone missing for many years.

You might well wonder why I would say such thing, let alone wonder how such a thing could be possible.  I’ll start by describing how this matter first came to my attention this past week.  I’d received a couple of emails from two different authors, and both email conversations prompted me to mention a certain memorable section from my book, Aura Advantage.  This was a very unique and unusual section of the book, where I describe how one day, I heard my salad telepathically communicate with me.  I used to get emails each year, up until maybe seven years ago or so, from people who were disturbed by the idea that salad might be sentient.  Typically, these readers had explained to me that they were vegetarians or vegans, and also that they were first startled and then somewhat horrified at the thought of anyone conversing with vegetables before eating them.  People are not writing to me anymore regarding this concern, and they haven’t written emails to me about this for many years now.  It seems the reason might be that my books no longer have anything like this in any of them.  That now-missing passage had been part of my book from when the first edition was published in 2003, up until possibly 2015–and I only noticed it’s missing this past month.

I next wondered if perhaps I might have been confused by thinking the missing passage was part of another book I’d written, so I carefully searched the original text files for all my books, including Reality Shifts and Quantum Jumps, and found no such passage anywhere.  When all logical possibilities were exhausted, the remaining leading explanation for what occurred is that my book has experienced a reality shift, such that now I just have memories that there once was a paragraph describing how my salad ‘spoke’ to me telepathically, and how reading this one paragraph used to be upsetting to some people to the point that they would write to me.

I’d love to hear from you if you remember reading such a passage in my book, so we can gain a sense of what people remember this missing passage used to say, and what you remember about it.  By sharing what you recall, if anything, we can gain further insights regarding how these kinds of reality shifts and Mandela Effects occur.

Quantum Jumps book changed

This isn’t the first time I’ve noticed that something I wrote has changed, such that all I had was my memory of what I’d originally written and that was published in the book.  The first time I noticed that this had happened was when I was preparing to give my talk for the 2019 International Mandela Effect Conference in Idaho.  While preparing to give my talk, I wanted to include the short explanatory passage I’d included in Quantum Jumps where I provided insights to what is illustrated on the cover of the book–including a link between the very small world of quantum physics, and the physics of the very large cosmological galaxies, stars, and planets.  I was amazed that this passage was completely missing when I prepared my talk, and grateful that I’d be talking about the very phenomenon that could help explain it, to an open-minded audience who was genuinely interested in the Mandela Effect and reality shifts such as this:  The Science and History of Reality Shifts and Mandela Effects.

The change to Quantum Jumps would have happened between the time it was first published in 2013 and 2019 when I noticed it missing.  I’ve not (yet) seen it return to the book, but that is a distinct possibility, and something I’ll be happy to see if and when it ever happens. What I remember this passage stating is something like this:

As physicists Leonard Susskind and Raphael Bousso have suggested, the many-worlds interpretation of quantum physics and the cosmological multiverse are one and the same thing. 

The omission of a paragraph connecting the quantum and relativistic physics is a strikingly obvious change to the book for me.  It’s something so noteworthy that it’s hard for me not to notice.  If you remember that there used to be such an explanatory statement in Quantum Jumps, please contact me and let me know, since through such individual subjective observations with whatever details you remember, there is much we can learn about reality shifts and the Mandela Effect.

When contemplating how the Mandela Effect may be affecting books, as when doing pretty much anything, I recommend asking at every opportunity, “How good can it get?”

You can watch the companion video to this blog here:

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REFERENCES:

Koebler, Jason. “Is CERN Causing Collective Mass Delusion by Creating Portals to Alternate Dimensions? An Investigation.”  VICE Motherboard.  20 Jul 2022.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/88qg5v/is-cern-causing-mandela-effect-by-creating-portals-to-alternate-dimensions-an-investigation

Larson, Cynthia Sue.  Aura Advantage:  How the Colors in Your Aura Can Help You Attain Your Desires and Attract Success.  Lightworker Publishing.  2006.

Larson, Cynthia Sue. Quantum Jumps: An Extraordinary Science of Happiness and Prosperity.  RealityShifters.  2013.

Larson, Cynthia Sue. Reality Shifts: When Consciousness Changes the Physical World. RealityShifters, 2012.

Prasad, Deepasri and Bainbridge, Wilma.  “The Visual Mandela Effect as evidence for shared and specific false memories across people.”  Psychological Science.  2022.
https://psyarxiv.com/nzh3s/

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Cynthia Sue Larson is the best-selling author of six books, including Quantum Jumps.  Cynthia has a degree in physics from UC Berkeley, an MBA degree, a Doctor of Divinity, and a second degree black belt in Kuk Sool Won. Cynthia is the founder of RealityShifters, and first President of the International Mandela Effect Conference. Cynthia hosts “Living the Quantum Dream” on the DreamVisions7 radio network, and has been featured in numerous shows including Gaia, the History Channel, Coast to Coast AM, One World with Deepak Chopra, and BBC. Cynthia reminds us to ask in every situation, “How good can it get?” Subscribe to her free monthly ezine at:

http://www.RealityShifters.com

®RealityShifters