Alex Maule, Contributing Writer
Dimension jumping promotes the idea that by focusing on manifesting on an “alternate you” in a different future with different prospects, and by repeating strange ritualistic practices like focusing on yourself in the mirror, it’s possible to discontinuously “jump” between different timelines. In a nutshell, it’s Neville Goddard’s principle of “Law of attraction” taken to the absolute extreme, where the trajectory of your life can be altered in strange ways by externalizing oneself.
The dimension jumping (or DJing) community has existed since at least 2014, although the original subreddit, home to about 84K Redditors, has since been purged of most content and now serves as an informational archive. It’s still being maintained, but most users have hopped ship to a newer subreddit under a similar title. There are numerous discussions online of users claiming they identified a dimension jump, waking up or emerging from a deep sleep to a radically different life, sometimes in a new house with a wife and family they don’t remember. User /u/Death-Blooms6 claimed after several DJing exercises they had either entered psychosis or a timeline jump after buying the wrong brand of mint flavored tea from Walmart. Another anonymous user, in a comment on the pinned F.A.Q. page, asks whether dimension jumping can be used to subvert a future pregnancy or as a form of reliable birth control.
One [deleted] user, in a post asking to what extent dimension jumping requires manifesting through actions and belief after the ritual procedure, quotes Jim Carry, saying “you can’t visualize change and then just eat a sandwich.” They also apologize for “not being able to solve the crisis in Ukraine” (forgiven), but say the process of living life as if the jump was successful has allowed them to become more goal oriented and set healthy boundaries with others, becoming less insecure about personal flaws and more at ease with the immovability of the universe, accepting that some things are simply out of our humanly control. Although this approach to self help seems questionable, if the end result is a holistic positive mindset that allows me to grow on an emotional and spiritual level, and leads to substantially better outcomes, then I’d have no reason to completely write it off as an elaborate fad. I knew I had to try dimension jumping for myself.
The first step behind jumping is very similar to meditation or self-talk practices recommended by psychiatrists. It involves dissociation with yourself and transcending the confines of your physical body by envisioning the colloquially named “Hall of Records,” a plane of existence where “all possible moments are simultaneously realized and available” and you are free to move between points in time and space without restraint.
The Owls Of Eternity method (explained by DJ veteran /u/TriumphantGeorge) is the most straightforward in execution. To manifest your desired future, imagine life as a television channel in the first person. There are an infinite number of other channels revolving around your life, all playing at once, while you sit and observe passively. If you’re able to stop focusing on maintaining the current channel and start envisioning a new channel with your current desires, you can “toggle,” or switch, into that channel. It’s important to note your previous self doesn’t move channels or get deleted as one might assume, nor is it time travel. The observer simply shifts their focus to another channel while retaining all other channels in perfect synchronicity, and retains memories of previous shifts.
For instance, if you want to see more owls within your daily life (for some reason) regardless of the constraints of time and space, using a TV channel metaphorical model of a Hall of Records, picture the amalgamation of realities through the shadow of an owl “overlay” applied onto the TV screen in blue sharpie. For most of the viewing experiences changes won’t be visible, but as colored sections adjust, you’ll begin to experience more owl encounters until your manifestation is merged with the program completely. Signs of this method working are when you start noticing owls within your standard view, such as: owl nests and owls flying around at night, owl memorabilia and owl themed objects mysteriously appearing in your room, bushy eyebrows that remind you of owl features, owl related sounds or calls or h(owls) over yonder.
The two glasses method is essentially the same in principle, except the movement from reality A to B is materialized in two glasses, one labeled with your current situation and the other with a plausible desired outcome, and intently focusing on sensation as you pour from one glass to another, jumpstarting a dimensional shift in the universe. The same procedure works with mirrors and reflective surfaces.
In more radical interpretations of dimension jumping as outlined on the wizardforums (a community hub for the “Magick, Occult, and Esoteric”) by user S4v4g3g0d, jumps can be triggered by “finding a source of quantum randomness,” which can take the the form of random number generators (by literally going to random.org), or indecision like deciding whether to complete homework. The user also makes allusions to Niels Bohr’s famous dual-slit experiment, wherein light photons would change their behavior from wave patterns to a traditional mechanical Nuetonian particle trajectory when under observation, establishing the Copenhagen uncertainty principle. In other words, it’s impossible to know certain dual characteristics of matter such as momentum and position at the same time even with a perfect measuring apparatus because of our inherently limited perspective within the universe. This aspect is intriguing because philosophers and cognitive scientists such as David Chalmers and Kelvin McQueen, in their paper “Consciousness and the Collapse of the Wave Function,” have theorized that reality is created through a wave collapse. I don’t pretend to fully understand how it works, but there may be a kernel of truth to the idea that the mind is quantum entangled.
Now, if I was being a vibe-destroying potential draining fun killer, I’d say hyperfocusing on tangentially related owl traits through observation is a self-fulfilling prophecy where the mind tricks itself through applied tunnel vision, similar to how those afflicted with OCD sometimes believe they possess magical thinking abilities through coincidental events, like connecting tripping over a step to the assanation of Shinzo Abe.
So, I decided I want to see more goblins within my life. Granted, goblins aren’t real, or at least that’s what the government would have us believe, so I thought setting the bar of validity high would be a good litmus test for determining how effective dimension jumping is. I did the two glasses test along with meditative contemplation about owls. For added measure, I asked my friends and those closest around me to report any goblin sightings, in the flesh world or in media and popular fiction, directly to me.
The response was immense. I’ve received numerous sightings from all around campus. The findings include handheld videos, 480p uncaptioned hastily shot pictures with red circles drawn around smudges, Magic the Gathering card listings, and distorted recordings of purported goblin laughter. Goblins from every corner of the internet and fantasy roleplaying games. It’s not (all) paranoia: from these watershed discoveries, I’ve been able to determine that goblins are lurking around every stairwell, crook and cranny, especially in the lower Wright art hall beginning around 1 p.m. With this treasure trove of very empirically ironclad data and crowdsourced reporting, I believe I can confidently say that goblins are in fact real, and that dimension jumping does work.
I’ve also created a hotline for new goblin reports. Please text or leave a voicemail at (608) 466-2930 concerning information about sightings. Reports can include video and audio. If anything interesting comes up I may be inclined to write a followup article. If I receive spam, harassment, or unkind thoughts, I will dedicate my remaining life force towards manifesting a private platoon of elite goblin supersoldiers to covet your belongings in the dead of night and toss them into the Aldrich field fire pit.
Leave a Reply