Yeah that's why social media and pornography are the two worst factors that play a role in all this. Social media you only ever upload the positive things about your life, well I thought that until people are now apparently flaunting their ailments and afflictions. And pornography is a way to tap into any and every little sexual fantasy you may or may have had. So easily and readily available that it's become something to discuss with groups of people instead of something you do in private and keep to yourself. I guess that's why we have a whole generation focused entirely on sexuality.

I used to daydream a whole lot, i still day dream quite a bit, its not an escapism thing for me, i just have an over active imagination so when im bored I imagine a little tv show in my head with characters i created when i was like 8

Are we creating "social schizophrenia"? 🥴🥴

I agree. Daydreaming has values most art and fictional stories begin with daydreaming. CS Lewis was a notorious daydreamer. Pretty sure all the Inklings were. Pretty sure Van Gogh and Monet were. My favorite contemporary author has admitted that his stories manifested out of these two characters that “showed up” in his head one day and have been constantly ribbing or arguing with each other for decades. But these artists were constructive with these daydreams. They were self-aware that their imaginations were separate from reality and instead controlled those fantasies to create great stories and works of art to share. It’s weird to think that if my favorite author were a teen today, social media would be convincing him that those characters in his head are alters. I suffer Tru maladaptive daydreaming and work to control it. My outlet is turning them into fanfics to explore ideas. Now I can either dismiss the daydream if it supports the story, or jot the idea down to return to when my tasks are done.

These people need to watch The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, one of my favorite films- about a guy who lives a very boring life that he spices up through daydreams-- but then he starts actually doing things, and the frequency of those daydreams diminishes dramatically until they cease altogether because at the end of the film he doesn't have TIME to daydream- he's too busy LIVING HIS DREAMS.

Caffeine is part of my self care . It keeps me from wanting to nap all day

@@woobiefuntimecaffeine is part of my self care it helps keep my brain calm and get good sleep.

@@woobiefuntime Same... I've started having problems with feeling tired all the time (normal sleep schedule) then found that caffeine helps.

@@woobiefuntime Well true but to be fair they did say lessening caffeine not quitting it 😂 Some people do drink too much and that can have health issues.

I think your impressions now make you a 1930s German, so yeah things have gotten extremely bizarre.

Same, some people just daydream more than others, or are more creative than others. Roleplaying and daydreaming isn’t necessarily a bad thing, as long as you can still live in real life and know your imagination is not reality. That’s where it gets dangerous.

100% agree its normal to daydream i do it too since i was little but not like this trend. Everything is at 1,000 today no middle ground

@@outlawsyl What do you mean exactly?

Same, I daydream everyday and it just makes me happy. And even though I know when to stop sometimes it's difficult to concentrate when I'm in class. For me personally daydreaming is just so good and most of the time I wish to live in my created world cause it's just so much better than reality.

@@TheGlory16 Uh, my mate, I hope that was sarcastic cause that’s exactly the problem we were talking about

Same here. I really thought seeing my fellow millennials dying off in droves from ODs, including my childhood best friend and my older brother, would be the rock bottom and wake up call for a lot of people.

I've been saying this! It's crazy when a drug PANDEMIC may not be the worst problem facing a community. Not a drug PROBLEM, but a F*****G PANDEMIC! Just using that word means it's too late really...you guys get what I'm saying tho

Right? lol!

You’re chronically online if you think this “shifting” trend is a bigger threat to society than the opioid epidemic

@@madalyn_2091 this, many people dont even use/get influenced by tiktok, its just people on tiktok too much who get this stuff on the algorithm, if people went outside and talked to young people theyd realise its a very small portion of people who fake illnesses.

Wooow... that was strangely deep and wise

Self-reflection has never been easy even before the advent of social media. It is something humans have had to struggle with as long as there has been, society, other groups of people that are not our family.

The sad thing is that the culture reinforces people's drive to identify as damaged, rather than deal with his/her problems. This can and will lead to an actually damaged, disrupted life. You spend 5 of your teen years doing this rather than socializing and cultivating hobbies, and you're going to fall behind. You keep going past graduation, you're fked. Wake up at 25 and it's awful.

thats actually so true, and I see this with myself and others, I have a lot of issues that I am trying to figure out with professionals but in the meantime I am trying to entertain myself away from social media. when I am not going to school or doing work for school, I am at the ice rink, or I am resting my body (also have physical issues) but learning a language or doing art or journaling. I know I am pretty damaged and when I am waiting for answers (trying to find a doctor currently) I am trying to do something to better other aspects of my life rather than just sit around in fantasy land. and honestly these kids would do better pouring their struggles into some form of expression (for me I journal) but maybe they could write a story or paint a painting to express themselves rather than just bottle it all up waiting for the explosion.

@@BartdeBoisblanc ''pride is the greatest sin for a reason'

I like basements though. Nice and dark and far cooler in the humidity of summer

My basement is literally the only properly air conditioned area in my house, can we keep those

This is called adulting and actually going outside for more than 5 minutes without your phone.

@@mrmacguff1n Basements are great, fantastic places for thinking (about real, productive things)

Okay idk how helpful this is going to be but little nerdy 8 year old me was really stressed so as a coping mechanism I got into maladaptive day dreaming. In essence it was: scientists are celebrities and education is celebrated. A person is a celebrity for their efforts in furthering knowledge. Let me just tell you once I managed to speak to people I got really disappointed 😂

I'm 42 and continue to live with it, though I'm not depressed right now so it isn't takingniver my life like it did in my 20s. I think I may have been born with social phobias because I was terrified of people since toddlerhood. And the trauma of being molested didn't help. But yes, I agree about the loneliness we feel as children. Best wishes❤

Hi! I commented this on another comment thread but because maladaptive daydreaming affected me a lot I have to try and cope with it which is ironic. Anyway so I realized I used it as a coping mechanism because I’m a creative so I used it to propel my creativity forward. Still not gone but I might as well use it to benefit me right? Anyway have the greatest of days!

No idea what may help you but for me it got better after I moved to a safer school, then it got better when I moved away from my abusive family and it went away completely when I moved to a safer country. It's all about fixing the core issue.

lol same

I'm in your same shoes Be the person you fantasize yourself as Your daydreams are likely a gold pot of energy Use them to motivate to learn 1 new thing every day: New fighting technique, recipe, computer skill, whatever Just don't completely give in to the day dreams Endless fantasy is a slow poison It's good you accepted it Now it's time to make it work for you P.S. you know a lot of writers had this issue, right?

Oh my Lord, the rage! Yes. This is where my toxic relationship with food and my boy-- my existence-- really shone through! I used to get so enraged with my body whenever I felt hunger. As in, I have better things to do like be in my daydream than eat, ffs!

I have never heard of “maladaptive daydreaming,” but I am intrigued. The symptoms sound like me but I’ve never heard the term. I’ll have to do a little research.

I have maladaptive daydreaming, (not diagnosed though), for me it is most certainly a coping mechanism from the toxicity of my family. At times it is problematic like when im trying to get school and other stuff done. However it is not an anti-social behavior for me. I am a huge extrovert, anyone who knows me would say so. I definitely have a much healthier version of it, but it's not normal and -probably- shouldn't be. (I say that because I do also use it as a way to write stories, it really helps me with that. ^-^)

I have maladaptive daydreaming (undiagnosed) and certain types of music can trigger it especially whenever I use headphones.

I have maladaptive daydreaming undiagnosed and I think it started back when i was very small. I had some traumatic experiences that led me to become almost addicted to daydreaming because as a child, without proper emotional and mental guidance you really left to figure it out and I did… in a way that am now trying to remedy as an adult because maladaptive daydreaming is not truly living. Like anything, too much of something can become harmful. I wish everyone who suffers from it the best so that we can all live life as its meant to be. Fully. We can do it!

I am 45 but just because of some things some days I feel like I am 6000 yo

!'m 42, and I've found that there are a lot of people who are 40 going on 14. I can only control my own hands, and try to just worry about that.

Myocardial infarction much!?

Same here older millennial and never heard of this before, it's sounds scary

It's literally just lucid dreaming but people misunderstand it and think they're "going to another world"

@billybobal-hashim7884 Observing from personal experience I can assure you it's a lot more common than that. So many times I had people vehemently fight me and try to make me concede on being wrong only for then some time later say "oh yeah my doctor said the same advice on x you said" or nodding along without second thought to what a teacher said, whilst completely having forgotten they were fighting me in class when I tried to explain the exact same thing about that topic to them a few weeks prior (it was a different teacher in the first instance)

​@Billy Bob Al-Hashim Idiocracy is becoming a reality... help us all.

@Billy Bob Al-Hashim Also something that's frighteningly top close to reality, yeah. Just replace headphones with TikTok here in the west.

Same here. Also Gen Z.

@@xleepy221 I still find it weird. What’s the point of lucid dreaming? If you’re feeling the need to do that, you’re probably trying to avoid something irl that needs taken care of, which is worrying. I say this because I truly don’t know anybody who does any lucid dreaming at all. So maybe I’m coming from a biased perspective but in my circle this isn’t normal.

Tik Tok is rotting people's (predominately Gen Z and younger) brains. I wouldn't be surprised if China programmed the algorithms to confuse and divide us for their gain. I tried to give Tik Tok a fair try, but got bored of it and thought most of the content was brain dead stuff of little substance.

Idk, the last year I was feeling great daydreaming for hours. I've wrote a fanfic that warms my heart. I'm not a great writer, still I know my hyperfixation helped me to improve my skills, to study lots of interesting stuff and to find new friends among my readers. Of course, there are people that suffer badly from the maladaptive daydreaming, but I'm not sure if your argument about books is valid. Most recently, people get these daydreams from books or from creating their own content.

@@Ray-xc5im Obviously what I’m talking about is using books as a form of escapism in the way it was intended. I wasn’t talking about misusing books in order to daydream. Fanfic writing is also okay. If you’re saying you “daydreamed” to create a fanfic, that’s called brainstorming. I’m talking about daydreaming in the sense that you’ll basically stop living in the real world for hours, which is what the people on the TikToks seem to be doing. That doesn’t seem healthy to me. There’s a very big difference between reflecting on your life for a moment and spending hours pretending you’re in a made up world while doing nothing else. We’re right here in the now.

This does seem like an accurate way to describe it. Natural but not natural because it’s delayed developmental stage

Exactly why parents need to be enforcing regular down time from any screens and making them go outside, reading, socializing and getting into some sort of physical activity.

But why is this only happening now? Haven't kids been regularly "watching screens" since the 1950s? My parents are '50s kids and they watch TV a lot, but they aren't divorced from reality.

@@SeasideDetective2 I highly doubt that toddlers were handed iPads during the 1950s. There is a whole generation of parents who either couldn’t be bothered or just did not have the time (cause of work) to actually play and interact with their kids, so they handed their toddlers iPads to distract them. Those devices practically raised some kids. Of course they have no imagination. I also think that’s why so many kids are so rowdy and disruptive nowadays. I look at the younger grades in my high school and they’re actually feral. They start fights every week, their attention spans are shot. It’s all probably repressed energy from their childhoods that they were never able to express as toddlers, so they’re letting it all out as teens

@@kawansiesquad6659 It's hard for me to be very alarmed, though. The "TV-rots-your-brains" argument has been around for several decades now, and I also remember the panics over video games and Internet porn. It's been pointed out, though, that before television and video games came along, society was actually MORE violent. The nineteenth century was nowhere near as civilized as it's often portrayed.

I think you have every right to be! It's just mimicry...like their mocking and don't realize it. I don't think it's malicious, just misguided

The video or what she's talking abt?

​@@alxssia_ytshe is talking about people who glorify their mental illnesses or make up one, getting headpats and acceptance. Meanwhile, she was probably bullied instead of getting help.

Same here

​@@Strawberry_Moo reality shifting? That's a weird way to spell psychosis.

This is exactly it. The internet turned every mental illness into a globally communicable disease

And many fringe opinions were kept fringe. But now, formerly fringe opinions can gain traction very fast and normalized and celebrated.

We were also locked out of the house all summer long, or at the very least expected to interact with the neighborhood kids, even the jerks. Introvert me hated it. By forcing us to expand past our usual comfort zones, we learned how to be comfortable with being uncomfortable.

If it didn’t last hours and it didn’t disrupt your daily life, then it wasn’t maladaptive daydreaming. It’s just daydreaming. People need to stop moving the goal post on conditions and syndromes. It’s like saying “I endorse narcolepsy it has helped me a lot! I feel rested after, I just don’t do it during the day or inappropriate times!” In other words, you’re just endorsing regular sleep.

A glitch

I've had a handful of dreams similar to yours I think, it's okay, normal I think :) I never really knew why though

Yeah I’ve fallen in love a few times in dreams. It’s very sad when you wake up and realize it was all a dream (I used to read word up magazine…), there’s a feeling of loss and heartbreak for someone that never existed.

This is really important. I've self-diagnosed as daydreaming addict because I'm actually afraid of not finding a safe and healthy therapist. And it's not as if I can afford it, either, which means I might end up with a skeezy woke one that the govt provides😬

then I will start with “women are only ‘adult human females’ and if you try to convince me otherwise, this is not a good fit and this will go nowhere” so they know I am serious. I am serious about getting better, but I will not trust someone who doesn’t believe biological reality. If they don’t believe biological reality there is no way I would let them prescribe pills that work with human biology.

I once googled “mental help for the issues caused by cancel-culture in society,” because I felt traumatized by it (I think all are), and the first result was a Woke Therapist who gave an article on that topic, with sjw’s/wokes/me-too’s/trigger tribe as her target audience. She literally wrote, “I know getting out there, protesting, rioting, making a difference in the world is draining. But you need to take time for yourself once in a while. Relax. Take a bath.” Or some horseshit like that. My jaw dropped. I didn’t realize kids felt that they had to be constantly protesting (ANYTHING) in order to love and accept themselves, and be worthy of rest and peace. I checked the therapists’s bio. She proclaimed proudly that she was, and was a therapist for, wokies. I have screenshots somewhere. It made me furious they would give me that article first. What a load of targeted gaslighting and fantasyland manure.

@@Ruby_Villain this "Therapist" is what we would call a subverter, they are the marxist leaders who are usung this wokes as her cultists. Basically, she's a cult leader. This is what these kids all are affected by: "Woke /wōk/ noun The colloquial term for intersectional ideology. Intersectional ideology is characterized as an ideology routed in Marxist, socialist propaganda integrated into a number of different western social movements based in class, race, sexual preference, identity, religious and political preferences most pronounced in Critical Race Theory, Intersectional feminism and the LGBTQ+ (Not to be confused with the early 2000s LGBT movement) and DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion). The goals and actions of the woke movement can be characterized by a belief that all people belong to either a victim or an oppressor class. There is a hierarchy that assigns virtue or privilege based on perceived group identity and members of the woke movements will form angry mobs to attack others inside or out of the group to destabilize systems, reroute resources to perceived oppressed groups and attack outgroups. Victim status will be used to pressure and control it's believers and outside groups into submission under the guise of being tolerant and empathetic. Activists will use it as a shield to defend against any form of retaliation. The woke activists will lie, manipulate, bully and propagandize others by claiming any opposition is a form of hatred or bigotry. The woke ideology do not recognize any form of objective truths and only aspire to power and 'their truths.' Synonyms: Intersectionality, Social Justice. Marxism. Communism." Because Marxists designed the ideology to control them I understant if it's too complicated, but to put it simply, these kids are mentally indoctrinated to believe the world is against them, and they give them identities to feel comradeship with others, making them easier to control.

They really are. I had the same therapist for many years and she was super woke. She got really excited when I told her I was so lonely that I was considering dating women (I’m a straight woman). When I look back at it now it’s obvious she hated that I was straight and tried so hard to discourage me every time I was interested in a guy. She eventually convinced me I was trans when I clearly just had trauma. I was on hormones for years and I had surgeries scheduled and everything. But I detransitioned rapidly after I met the perfect guy and fell in love with him. When I told my therapist about him she told me I shouldn’t bother with him because he wasn’t going to like me back. So I stopped seeing her and now I’m so much happier with my boyfriend. Woke therapists are cancer.

Another commenter described it very well like a delayed childhood stage they never got due to growing up with screens

dangerous coping mechanism

Self diagnosis is valid if properly done it can often lead to official diagnosis Like i was self diagnosed autistic between 14-15 and at 16 i got professionally dx. If it wasn’t for self diagnosis i would’ve not discovered it

I was diagnosed in 2008, but I've worked hard to over come it and 15 years later you wouldn't even know. Many of these kids are nobodies that want to be somebody. They want to be special and need validation for it. And the thing is they can be someone special if they actually worked for it but that's too hard for them and so the cycle repeats.

I totally agree with you I was diagnosed with Autism in 2005 at age 2 and these self-diagnosing people who claim they have it infuriate me. They're mocking actual autistics as a form of bullying that degrades the seriousness of the disability. The only positive I see is with Autism getting so much attention a lot more people are educated so I am able to act a bit more freely autistic at my college without judgement for example I have trouble completely suppressing arm flapping and now people call it quirky instead of coming up with names for me.

@@maria_s3731 No it's not ok. I suspected I had ADHD since 2018 and even back in 2011 a teacher told my parents to get me evaluated but I didn't self-diagnose if you think you have something you go to the dr. Now I do have ADHD it turns out but when people are wrong and the diagnosis turns out to be something else it's degrading to the community as they've now made a mockery of an actual disability. It's ok to have suspicion and seek help but not to go around saying you have something prior to confirmation.

@@セラフィナ getting it done by a professional is no longer self-diagnosis it's what you're supposed to do.

I have it too. It can be a nightmare. I wish there was better awareness about what OCD actually is

Same here, it’s very difficult. And no one else’s responsibility to cope with but our own

I agree.

True

Well said, respect to you 😊

@@kevincurr4641 thank you ♥️

I feel similarly as someone with a few officially diagnosed mental disorders. I don't celebrate them. I don't make it my identity. I try not to wallow in them or use them as an excuse for sh!tty behaviors. I just do all I can to overcome it, use it to my advantage whenever possible, and adapt as best as I can. I'm not special. I don't need pity or a high five.

afgan and chechnya were 5 years apart

@@jzen1455 you said that perfectly!!!

Your ex friends: "Heterophibia isn't real!" Also your ex friends:"hates straight people"

@@IaconDawnshire Lmao yeah. They would always blame white, straight and cisgender people for everything that has gone wrong on this earth. They literally said that homophobia didn't exist before colonialism

welcome to the world of free thought.

Thank you! So glad to hear that.❤️

@@realmishapetrov you're making the world a better place Misha. Keep doing what you do!

Hey Katt yes I have quite often had very lucid dreams, that seamed so real it takes time to orientate back to your actual situation. The one that has stuck with me for decades was when I was apparently in hospital and about to die of something, I remember being in tears with my mother telling her I didn’t want to die there and then , not long after I woke up and it felt so real it affected me for quite a while , I actually thought it was a premonition , but my mother passed back in 2017 so clearly it’s not ! However that was the most vivid dream, I do have vivid ones quite often and are more used to them so distinguish them apart a lot better.

I would say, you are lucky, 🙂 I try to learn lucid dreaming very long time.

this. i’ve been roleplaying/collaborative writing on and off for more than a decade now and i watched how the tumblr rpc (roleplay community) seemed to have boomed during covid. it’s way too easy to retreat into a comfort world, especially considering the state of the world as it is right now. i don’t blame anyone for wanting to mentally space out.

To clarify, playing video games doesn’t automatically mean you are fantasizing that you ARE the character you’re playing. But if you are unable to differentiate between game and real life, it’s time to stop playing video games

me too sometimes i disconnect my self from reality put my headphones and i create stories in my head and it get so complicated like i feel emotionally invested in them and when something sad happen to my character in my head i'll cry in real life and actually feel hurt which is kinda crazy since i do this to myself i created this story which i realized last year that it was a problem since i'm socially awkward and have barely any friends i used daydreaming to escape my boring reality but it really is coping mechanism and it really is easy to loose yourself and it even until this day i have to control my daydreaming and have trouble staying focus even when it's important

Fun fact: I'm writing a master dissertation about the paradoxes of the actor and theatre representation, so I'm investigating these topics. It's really intriguing. (Cause I studied both acting and philosophy btw)

I've been role-playing for just under two decades. I've seen it change from simple escapism(everyone admitted it being that when I first got into it) but fun, to nowadays some people being so into it, that it's dangerous mentally. I've gotten attached to a character I've had since I began, and often put my actual traits and self into him in some ways, but at the end of the day he isn't me. It's, to me, also partially why D&D is becoming so bad. True creativity is being lost by people who, instead of having to think, simply want to be able to tell you why X character is different from the others of their race from birth, instead of having to actually find ways during their adventure to get around their racial weaknesses.

And we KNEW it was make-believe! And it didn’t last way into the teenage and adult years! 🙈 I am a 90‘s kid and honestly those were better times. This world now scares me. There were always crazy things happening, but it was an EXCEPTION!! Now the MAJORITY seems to live in a phantasy world…

I also have bipolar disorder and i can agree that its absolutely awful and NOT something to be romanticized. I hate it that so many people in my generation think mental illness is "cool" and "trendy." Its total bs.

Glad the both of you see the truth and are actively working on improving yourself. Social media really is going to be the downfall of society, mixed with this push to make hurting someone's feelings basically a literal crime.

@@CommanderRedEXE I knew his was coming in 2010. But it's worse than I expected.

@@ArgentWolf95 That makes two of us. I mever thought it would get this bad.

@@CommanderRedEXE I have been trying to find out why, ever since I lost control of my Worldbuilding project to cancel culture.

It's actually regular dreams. It's too much to explain here but to put it simply it's dream incubation, choosing what to dream about before going to sleep. The difference is during a lucid dream you know you're dreaming. It is possible to lose lucidity however and that's what the so called "lucid dream method" is and it's literall just going through a portal in your dream. That's literally all that technique is and they really believe it somehow takes them to a real place

For a more in depth explanation I highly recommend researching these topics: time dilation in dreams, persistent realms, vivid dreams, euneirophrenia

The problem is that the progressive left has gotten so progressive that they are actually regressing. The problem is that progressives view progress as a constant upward linear motion, the reality however is that progress is more like a hill, and if you go too far you end up falling off the other side into the abyss.

The same thing happened to me during Obama's first run in 2008. I saw the media literally taking John McCain videos and cutting them up and lying about what he said. I couldn't believe what i was seeing. My reality was shattered. And I thank God it was.

I'm a liberal too and feel politically homeless. I'm not a fan of the democratic party having been infected with the co-dependent people-pleasing woke disease. However, I'm not a fan of the religious right (that make up a large chunk of the republican party) who believe in legislating with the bible and oppressing people.

Well, I am not from the US but before I used to associate myself with democratic and liberal agendas, but the ideas called now with these words have drifted somewhere so left that I am now a centrist or even conservative on the present day political spectrum. Jusrt like you, I guess.

Definitely feel this!!

Grow up. Face your fears.

Daydreaming addict, here! Omg, the novel we all have in ourselves-- I used writing as a way to cope out of the daydreaming. I think it sort of worked. I recall the first time I forced myself to write the daydream down-- it took ages to get anything on paper and what a mental workout when I finally achieved something. So for me, I think the draw to daydreaming is mental laziness, lol Good luck!

I play D&D and can confirm that it's fun. Especially, if I had a bad day at work. Shenanigans with friends just makes you feel better. 🙂

I also have acquaintances who project their mental issues onto me. Just the other day my-corker said "that's because you have OCD" after I relabled something instead of just crossing the word out and rewriting it. I also know people whose identifies are tied into their mental disorders, and it often holds them back from overcoming their issues, as they use their disorders as crutches for sh!tty behaviors.

Same here! And I still do those things, sure I love a good daydream while listening to music but this generation is insane, Honestly embarrassing to say “Yeah I’m Gen Z.”

The reason people actually believe in such things is because they don't understand how dreams work. I think dreaming/oneirology should be taught in schools

@@shadw4701 shifting is a culture practice? beffore you go hating on others you should prob do some research. There was a whole document talking about the differences of shifting and its not us trying to be unique.

@sofielynASMR There's a huge difference between debunking myths and hating someone. Shifting isn't part of any cultures or religions, it's actually less then a decade old. Before tiktok Shifting basically meant law of attraction or manifestation. And yes, I've done the research. Almost everything related to shifting is something that's already known in the lucid dreaming community. For example, symptoms you get are just your body fallout asleep. And yes I've read the document, the gateway process is about astral projection, not shifting and there's zero scientific data in it

Lucid dreaming and dream incubation offer the same exact thing (feels like real life, getting better at things, visiting fictional worlds, euphoria ect.) Without all the negative mental health effects

I know someone like this unfortunately.

There’s a big difference between actual DID caused by trauma and repressed trauma, and then there’s kids who do it for attention or inclusion😭😭😔 There are undoubtedly some kids in that community who genuinely have DID, because abuse in families is rampant now, so that’s bound to cause trauma in many young teens. But there are also definitely some fakers who are doing it for validation and attention. I do believe that many of the kids on tiktok may have some complicated home lives, which is why they use tiktok as a form of escapism. It’s still very sad tho

Lucid dreaming is all about being in reality, it's in the name *lucid* . Shifting is pretty much regular nonlucid dreams. It's pretty much just choosing what you dream about before going to sleep aka dream incubation. Both lucid dreaming and dream incubation are very healthy on their own but if you trick yourself into believing you're going to real places it leads to dissociative disorders. When I discovered dream incubation I thought dreams were alternate universes, I would hangout in teen titans and adventure time. My belief system back then was still much different than Shifting though and now that I actually know how dreams work I no longer buy into all that stuff. If shifting was around when I was doing that stuff I would have probably ended uo much worse mentally

This whole 'Shifting' thing actually sounds like what Kanye's superpower must actually be... there is just no way that man went from selling knock-off Jordans, to J(Yeez)sus, only then to go full anti-Semite.

language does evolve but this is just changing language to fit a certain agenda. its not evolution, it's literal 1984 Also ChatGPT seems to be biased, you can ask it to make a joke about Jesus but not Muhammad

@@myspleenisbursting4825 😅 Right? As I already stated, just the opposite of progressive. Like I can stand a trans-man who wants to be labeled 'him,' but I won't call someone a f*cking tree. Though I'm interested in poetry-inclusion is one thing; delusion is another. That bit about religion jokes is intriguing by the way.

@@PepperPlay5 It certainly is. I'm Muslim though and we recognise Jesus also so I wouldn't want someone making jokes about both but if you're going to be offensive don't pick sides smh

I can say that chatGPT is not a good source for info, it's programmed with biases towards the politics of it's creators, which happens to be marxism, which this whole identity stuff is a part of. Neo-pronouns and Xenopronouns are not natural evolutions or adaptations of the English language, these are marxist subversions of the English language, as this explains. It's really called Demoralization: “What it basically means is: to change the perception of reality of every American to such an extent that despite of the abundance of information no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves, their families, their community, and their country.” "“They are programmed to think and react to certain stimuli in a certain pattern [alluding to Pavlov]. You can not change their mind even if you expose them to authentic information. Even if you prove that white is white and black is black, you still can not change the basic perception and the logic of behavior.” "“As I mentioned before, exposure to true information does not matter anymore,” said Bezmenov. “A person who was demoralized is unable to assess true information. The facts tell nothing to him. Even if I shower him with information, with authentic proof, with documents, with pictures; even if I take him by force to the Soviet Union and show him [a] concentration camp, he will refuse to believe it, until he [receives] a kick in his fat-bottom. When a military boot crashes his balls then he will understand. But not before that. That’s the [tragedy] of the situation of demoralization.” - Yuri Bezmenov. "“[T]he useful idiots...when they get disillusioned, they become the worst enemies...obviously they get offended-they think that they will come to power. That will never happen, of course. They will be lined up against the wall and shot.” - Yuri Bezmenov. Yuri Bezmenov was a Soviet KGB propaganda officer in 1983 who defwcted to the west. It revolves around this concept of identity and Marxists (Socialist, so far left)change language to create identity groups so they can control people.

You are right. Not every change is progress. Koalas became dumb to save energy from their scarce food sources (eucalyptus). By evolution. Idk if it is a progress :)

Exactly!

Your youth sounds idyllic, when in fact it was just healthy! Victimhood is what all the cool kids are doing today🤷‍♀️

Amen.

If you call out fake disorders, you're demonized as a ______ist or ______-phobe. We're just enabling a culture of cringe sad behaviors that will eventually lead to people being worse off, single, and childless. But hey they'll have fur babies whom they'll claim are better than humans to comfort them.

I feel like this was Tumblr getting revenge on the rest of us, because I've been around since the early days of Tumblr and this trash used to be contained to there. Suddenly Tumblr banned s*xual content and the flood gates opened. Stuff I'd only ever seen on Tumblr (your whispers being one of them) were all over everywhere that allowed image posting. Twitter, multiple art hosting sites, Pinterest, Instagram, Snapchat, the list goes on and on.

the "syndrome" you just described doesnt exist. you just had an overactive imagination with no outlet for it. "reality shifting" is the result.

Is he the guy who works in the fish factory. That was a very poignant game. I don't think I'll ever forget it.

I feel you, but people today knows no commitment, beside being egocentric and selfish.

Because we're slaves to social media algorithms that have led to the hive mind to believe that women like Misha are sexist, mysogynisitic, hateful, ableist, transphobic, homophobic, etc.

If you haven't already I highly suggest dream incubation or lucid dreaming, all the positive promises of shifting (aside from actually traveling the multiverse in real life) without any of the negative mental health effects. Plus there's more benefits and it still feels exactly like real life, sometimes even more real