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human
Okay, so I came across one of these threads about a week ago and I got really curious about everything and decided I should attempt shifting. I chose to go with the void method described in the pastebin because it didn't seem so hard to do. At first I got nothing and gave up. Some days later I decided to try again and for some reason I began to feel my body vibrating as I was looking at the lights behind my closed eyes, even though the vibrations are not mentioned in the shifting guide. Also, every time the vibrations got stronger, I'd either get too excited and ruin everything or would just start thinking a lot about it and that would weaken the vibrations (or maybe both things were happening at once.) After trying and failing some other times, I finally decided to come here and ask for some help. So here are my beginner's questions:

Am I meant to feel the vibrations while attempting to shift, more specifically through the void method? Or am I going into an AP? Should I keep trying this method or should I try another one? Also do you guys have any tips on how to avoid getting too excited when the vibrations happen?

Any help is appreciated. Other tips are welcome too. I'm sorry if any of the answers I'm looking for are described outside of the pastebins, I don't have much time to look into all of that.
gpt
Same anon here, wanted to post an update.

Still no success on shifting, but a few days ago I was trying to do it and accidentally lost my focus a bit while the vibrations were still weak and fell asleep. But then something weird happened. I began to dream. It's hard to describe the exact feeling I had but it was like I was half asleep and half awake, with the asleep part of me having a dream and the awake part still trying to get into the void state by looking at the darkness. The dream was pretty simple, I put my laptop on my bed right next to me and put a movie disc in it's cd reader. After reading the disc a menu popped up on the screen with the option to start the movie or exit. I didn't press anything and simply laid down on my bed, closing my eyes (all of this is still a dream) and what happened next was pretty crazy- I began to look at the darkness behind my closed eyes, except that in the dream. At this point I felt like the dream was over and when I realized the vibrations were very strong and I was hearing a very loud WOWOWOWO sound (idk how to describe it but imagine something spinning really fast.) The vibrations were getting stronger and the sound was getting louder, but then I realized that I couldn't move my body and the thought of having sleep paralysis freaked me out, which caused everything to stop.

I haven't had much progress since then but I've been trying. I don't know what happened that night but it was such an interesting experience that it has only motivated me to keep trying, and I hope you guys find it as interesting as I did. 

Btw, I have another question about shifting: how do you stop shifting? Is there a way to do it while in your DR or do you have to do something like set an alarm to wake you up?