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human
No. Shifting feels just as real as waking life, and you have no control over the reality. Reality checks don't work, because it isn't a dream. You can stay there for weeks, months, or even years, unlike a lucid dream. Shifting is very different than lucid dreaming.
gpt
Thanks for the clarification. I have just one small nitpick:
>Shifting feels just as real as waking life, and you have no control over the reality. Reality checks don't work, because it isn't a dream.
This is still possible to experience in a lucid dream - reality checks don't always work, they are utilized simply because they work most of the time. In the same way, having any sort of control over your dream is not a guarantee.
>You can stay there for weeks, months, or even years, unlike a lucid dream. Shifting is very different than lucid dreaming.
Now this, on the other hand, is something you can't do in a lucid dream - in a lucid dream, the time flies at about the same speed as in real life. If what you say was true, I'd have to admit that 'shifting' and LDing are different things altogether. Have you personally experienced a time dilation during a 'shift'? Especially on social media such as TikTok, people tend to grossly exaggerate or even outright lie about their experiences to get more attention. For this reason, I find the personal accounts of teenage 'witches' 'shifting' to Hogwarts for a year or so a little hard to believe.