Cameos, flickers and experience taking
Jul. 6th, 2024 12:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nimdreamsCameo shifts, is the term in our community when you shift into something you do not identify as. When you get a new phantom shift of wings, or a sudden urge to howl like a wolf, but you know you do not identify as something with wings or a wolf, this is a cameo shift. Journaling can help, to see if such shifts keep reoccurring and if perhaps you do identify as something that seemed a cameo shift at first. If you get a shift that doesn't feel like an existing identity of yours, consider the possibility that it is a cameo shift.
Identity flickers are similar to cameo shifts, but you do identify as it briefly. These flickers can often be reoccurring. This means that when you get a shift and it isn't of your 'type, it still doesn't necessarily mean it is a new undiscovered 'type, but possibly an identity that you feel temporarily.
Experience taking is when you consume media of something and it makes you have cameos or identity flickers. For me, I am normally a fantasy creature, but when I consume sci-fi media I will strongly feel like I am a cyborg or ai, often as a cyborg kitsune. This identity is an identity flicker, brought on by experience taking.
I often see people having a shift once and asking for help to find out what 'type it is. I hope this will remind people that not everything has to be a 'type, and that introspection and time will help tell if it is, but having cameo shifts, identity flickers or to experience take are all valid explanations.
Identity flickers are similar to cameo shifts, but you do identify as it briefly. These flickers can often be reoccurring. This means that when you get a shift and it isn't of your 'type, it still doesn't necessarily mean it is a new undiscovered 'type, but possibly an identity that you feel temporarily.
Experience taking is when you consume media of something and it makes you have cameos or identity flickers. For me, I am normally a fantasy creature, but when I consume sci-fi media I will strongly feel like I am a cyborg or ai, often as a cyborg kitsune. This identity is an identity flicker, brought on by experience taking.
I often see people having a shift once and asking for help to find out what 'type it is. I hope this will remind people that not everything has to be a 'type, and that introspection and time will help tell if it is, but having cameo shifts, identity flickers or to experience take are all valid explanations.
