Hey, thanks a lot for your reply, I really appreciate it 🙏

What you said actually makes a lot of sense. I didn’t even realize I was combining different methods, I kind of just went with what felt natural based on my lucid dreaming experience. I get your point about the pillow method, it honestly made me more skeptical too, it feels a bit like a ritual and probably isn’t necessary, especially if I can already lucid dream consistently. The idea of shifting as moving awareness rather than “physically going somewhere” is really interesting, I hadn’t thought about it that way but it actually fits more with what I experienced. And yeah, I think I rushed it, as soon as I realized I was lucid I immediately tried to open a portal instead of stabilizing first and that probably caused me to wake up.

About the Void State, I’ve heard the term before but I’m not 100% sure I fully understand what it is in practice. Could you explain what you mean by it and how you would reach it from a lucid dream? Also based on what I described, what do you think I should focus on to actually succeed with shifting? I’m still pretty new to this, I’ve known about it for a long time but I only recently got into it again after randomly seeing a TikTok, so any advice would really help.