139 - 3 Ways The Cult Of “Reality Shifting” On TikTok Is Grounded In Science

Are ‘Reality Shifters’ secretly tapping into meditation? Lucid Dreaming? Physics? Or is this just a way for young girls to legitimize their sexy daydreams?

With hundreds of millions of views #realityshifting has started raising alarms in the psychology community. Insider, Washington Post, and Pub Med have been publishing articles about the booming TikTok trend of meditating your way into another reality. Or, as some posters claim, literally leaving this shitshow of a world, mentally, to inhabit the body of another person in another alternate universe. Usually involving cute boys, hot anime characters, or dating Draco Malfoy at Hogwarts.

With Todd’s extensive meditation experience and Joe’s background as a short fiction writer, hopefully we can untangle how much of this internet phenomenon is based on daydreaming, meditation, physics, or old-fashioned wishful thinking. Then we discuss the potential harm of having millions of young girls simultaneously “checking out” on reality, especially when there’s a world full of economic strife and political upheaval demanding our attention. Which, come to think of it, might be a better reason to mentally project ourselves into another universe…

Links:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34744401/

https://www.luciddreamsnews.com/intermediate/lucid-dreaming-vs-shifting

https://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Jumping-Burt-Goldman-ebook/dp/B00CGLWRVG/ref=sr_1_1?camp=1789&creative=9325&keywords=quantum+jumping+burt+goldman&linkCode=ur2&linkId=588093915db68096191d1df39c8029df&qid=1676646943&sr=8-1

https://i-d.vice.com/en/article/y3z8vm/what-is-reality-shifting-and-why-is-it-taking-over-tiktok

https://www.tiktok.com/discover/shifting-draco-malfoy?lang=en