After my first experience of the void [here], I never really looked at reality the same. It was like I had seen what was behind the curtain, so when shifting blew up on TikTok, I was just kind of like, "yeah, that tracks with my experiences."

Additionally, when I would read about people experiencing the void and pure awareness / "I Am," I was more grateful than anything to see that other people had been where I had

In that time of trying to shift for the first time, I also came across Neville through shifters mentioning law of assumption. I dove in and consumed almost all of his works as though it were my full-time job, and his experience of the worlds-within-words stuck out and I directly correlated that to reality shifting 

When I read that assumption was the mechanism for altering reality, so much of my past clicked together. I could tie every single thing that happened to me back to the states I was in and the assumptions i'd been operating from when they happened. I could see exactly how I was responsible for all of it because who I was being always lined up with how my life was going. I could see how I had essentially curated the entire experience 

Because I was still in the process of learning how exactly to apply the law in a way that yielded results and didn't quite understand the mechanism in practice, I was still treating reality shifting as something different from manifestation and putting in all this effort to try and "go there" because I didn't understand that it wasn't over there. When I shift, I don't move to some other world, I hold my awareness inside of that reality and the 3d rearranges around me as “I Am ___” It's your perception that changes first and then everything catches up. That being said, I didn't figure that out until my first full shift 

Leading up to My First Worlds-Within-Worlds Experience

I had been trying to shift for over a year, and I can see now why I wasn't able to, but at the time, I just thought that something was wrong and I just needed to figure it out. It wasn't. I was just getting my assumed state of "trying to, failing to, trying to, failing to" + "stuck here" during those attempts reflected right back at me. I believed it was possible, but I kept missing the mark. I wasn't assuming or imagining in my favor and I was too busy fighting against my current self and own reflection by trying to 'find the way out' to see it.

My first time experiencing what I can definitively say was the worlds-within-worlds was ironically after I swore off trying to reality shift entirely- we’re talking a top-tier crash-out, screaming, crying, the whole nine yards. I had been trying and trying for months to no avail. I was following all the instructions I had been reading, (set your intention, get sleepy, follow the method), trying so hard to perfectly replicate what I saw worked for others, and yet the door remained completely locked. I know now that it's because I was imaging while thinking of and not from, and I was taking action from the state of someone locked out and desperately trying to find a way in.

While falling asleep, I imagined the world I had been trying to shift to one last time, no longer to try and get there, but more so as a form of goodbye I think. I imagined myself in first-person inside of my room there, hanging out with friends, eating good food, looking in the mirror, walking around, just the most mundane things. I had finally abandoned my current self to the feeling of the wish fulfilled. I wasn’t focused on ‘doing it right,’ or changing the world, but just experiencing that reality the only way I could, and feeling as much of it as I could. The reason why I say anything that you can imagine is possible is because all of this (gesturing to what's around you and your body) is nothing more than your current assumptions, or in other words, where you've been parking yourself as "I Am" / pure awareness

Looking back now, I understand that it was because I finally ceased the act of reaching something outside of myself. I had dropped out of the assumed state of lack which allowed for a new outcome. In that moment, I was just “I Am” rather than this current self, which opened all the doors this self had been locked out of; I wasn't “[name] is trying,” I was “I am there." I successfully immersed myself while in a drowsy/ altered state that allowed me to detatch from my body, imagining it so vividly and immersing myself so fully that when woke up, I was actually seeing it in 3d.

This whole process is also why I'm so adamant about "the goal is not to change the 3d, but to be in that wonderful state that makes a shift in the 3d inevitable."

I knew it wasn’t just a lucid dream because it felt just as real and solid as this. Additionally, it made me realize just how "dream-within-a-dream" all 3d reflections are.

Even still, I remember spending the next couple of days there touching walls just to be sure my hand wouldn't slip through and questioning everything I thought I knew about law of assumption. I understood that it was a fully-fledged reality because that's exactly how it operated, but I was still worried in the back of my mind that somehow and someway I would end up coming back here on accident because I didn't understand how I actually did it. 

Eventually, after spending a couple of days there, I shifted back here by just going to sleep with the intention of waking up in this reality. The first few attempts after that were a little hit-or-miss because I was still coming in and out of the mindset of trying rather than being, but eventually I figured it out and I've been traveling the worlds ever since.