Shifting With Hypnagogia: My Tips! ✨🪲

In my previous post I mentioned that I mainly shift through hypnagogia or by sliding into a lucid dream. Here’s how I do it (I'll explain hypnagogia today, I'll share my lucid dream method in a different post), feel free to adjust it to your own style! There are just a few core elements worth keeping in mind:

1. Find your position

Pick a position that’s slightly uncomfortable so you don’t fall asleep instantly. But if you’re someone who gets restless in off-positions (hi ADHD pookies), that’s okay! You can also lie in your comfy position, we’ll just use a different anchor to stay aware.

All you need is something that keeps you awake for a bit.

2. Pick an anchor

Your anchor keeps your awareness just above the sleep line.

Possible anchors:

🪲Counting: count slowly and affirm every few numbers:

“I’m in my DR. I’m a master shifter. I’m drifting into my reality.”

🪲Random objects: gently imagine small objects so hypnagogia hits faster (don’t focus too hard).

🪲A simple math problem: just enough to keep awareness floating.

🪲A sound in the background: fan noise, rain, etc.

🪲Raising one hand slightly: a light “body awareness” trick.

Remember: the anchor stays in the background. If you focus too hard, it wakes you up.

3. When hypnagogia starts: DON’T pounce yet!

You’ll hear random sounds, see flashes, shapes, scenes, feel floaty — PERFECT.

But don’t interact immediately.

Think of hypnagogia like a shy stray cat: If you chase it, it runs. If you chill, it comes closer.

🌸Just watch. Let it bloom on its own.

4. Gentle intention

When the imagery becomes more stable, you can start interacting lightly:

• imagine the taste of something

• imagine a texture

• imagine wind, warmth, cloth, grass

Then let it go again.

Don’t force your DR too soon: the goal right now is stability.

5. Bringing in your DR

When it stops slipping away? When you can't fully feel your body anymore and the images are more... vivid and touchable.

Now you can gently bring in your DR:

• “Show me my DR.”

• Imagine one tiny detail (Sitting on the sofa, turning pages etc.)

• Let the scene form naturally rather than building it brick by brick.

Then slowly start interacting again until it draws you in fully.

6. Grounding

Once you’re in:

• touch something

• walk around

• feel textures

• do a reality check

• affirm that DR rules apply

If it’s a lucid dream first, you can shift from it.

Just stabilize > affirm > let it transform.

7. If it doesn’t work right away? Totally normal.

Hypnagogia is a skill, not a lottery.

You train it like a muscle, and once you get the sweet spot consistently, it becomes a cheat code into shifting.

Keep practicing.

You’re closer than you think. ✨