Ehh.
This is kinda the first time anything like that has happened to me, though.
I mean, I've noticed that when I walk around outside, sometimes I'll feel like there is a tail, but I just thought to myself "eh, imagination running wild" and that's all.

Also, sometimes I would feel like my mouth was turning into a snout, but again, I just passed it off as my imagination.

I've never really felt like my whole body had "shifted".  And the weird thing is, I opened my eyes for a sec just to look at myself and I looked normal - but I didn't feel normal.

I still feel crazy, btw.

I don't know at the momet.
I feel pretty uncomfortable about it but at the same time think it's kinda neat.
This isn't the way I want to feel happening in public, at all, though.

Also, my ears tend to twitch at the slightest sounds now, which is also kinda freaking me out.

Hey Totalimmortal, I saw your post on your forum and decided to check out this thread. I haven't really spent a lot of time in here just because I didn't think I had an animal side (just me being weird, lol) but after reading some of the posts there's a lot that I find to be similar with me.

I've had the same kind of shifts you're having Totalimmortal. Sometimes when I'm lying in bed (but not about to fall asleep) I feel like I have a snout or wolf arms and legs. When I'm wandering around sometimes I feel like wolf ears or fangs. I wasn't aware these phantom parts were a type of shift.

I've seen a few posts about asymmetricality, and I seems pretty symmetrically built except on my right had my index finger is a teeny-tiny bit longer than my ring finger while the ring finger on the left hand is a teeny-tiny bit longer than the index finger, lol. However, one of my eyes is more prone to being bloodshot and any nosebleeds I get occur mostly in one nostral over the other.

I don't really have anything spectacular with animals except that ones that don't freak out usually do around me. For example, a friend has a dog that only barks at guys. Just guys. Any time I'm near the dog, it barks at me ~_^ But I'm a chick... so yeah, that led to a few jokes ("Something you wanted to tell me?" "Well, you see... I had this, uh, operation a while back...." ) And then there was this dog at the trailer park where me and some other friends get together to play Halo 2. My friend said he's never seen that dog bark at anybody when they drove by... except me.... Though that's probably my truck's fault

I've gotten snapped at a few times by dogs, but never really got bit. It's been my fault though as I work at a vet clinic and approached the dog wrong (but I'm going to vet school so I'll learn all that stuff! Yayness!). I've had some cats lay into me, but that was only to be expected (ex. -- kitty has an abscess and I'm only holding the cat down with my hands while a vet tech is trying to drain the abscess, and the cat wriggles around until it manages to clamp its teeth into something, that something being me, lol).

I don't get sick a lot. Whenever something's going around town, I don't come down with it. All my friends will get sick, but I won't. I usually seem to only get sick if I eat or drink certain things. Like pancakes make me feel nauseous for some reason As do waffles. It blows. What really sucks though is SoBe makes me sick after a while and I freaking loved SoBe So, without any of that in my usual diet, I rarely feel ill. I only get headaches, but I'm told it's because of my eyes and reading too much or being on the computer too much. I had an astigmatisim when I was little, but it's since gone away (which really freaked out my eye doctor, lol).

The only animal-like things I really do is I tend to bare my teeth when I'm angry at something and I howl for various reasons when I can %D If I did well in something, if I'm just happy for some reason, or if I just plain feel like it

This one's probably just me being weird (lol) but I always fancy that my eyes are an animal-like shade of brown. Like, you know brown-eyed dogs tend to have a certain color of brown? Their eyes remind me of mine and when I look at my eyes, I see something animalistic in them even though they don't seem to change colors. A lady that worked with my mom told her was looking at a picture of me with an old tiger that was a cross between a Siberian tiger and a Bengal tiger and said my eyes looked like his. Then she went off on some thing that Native Americans would do to shapeshift (the way my mom said it, it sounded like "Stick-shanking" or something ~_^ I'm probably way off on that one).

So, there's probably little (if any of that) that's relevant to Therianism, but I just felt like sharing, lol. There were some posts that reminded me of... me

But you're not alone with your shifts Totalimmortal, because I've had them for a while now too and until now I wrote if off as my mind being weird.

His "Wolfen Soul" poem is sooo good! It really rang something inside me.

Speaking of phantom shifts, I had two today.
And I was in public.
Thank god they're easy to hide.
I just acted like nothing was happening.

Hmmmnn......

They are annoying in public because (with me) my legs feel light and like I HAVE to run!Your guys posts were really awesome,and I also have some of those similitaries.

WTF you do to deserve to get called that dude?

I get the urge to howl when I'm out and about sometimes. It's like one of those teeth-gritting sort of things where you reeeeaally want to but can't. I do it when I'm in my truck though, lol. And I do it quietyly when I'm outside at night (so my parents don't hear )

wait... the poem's good, or it's good that you had another shift today, or it's good that the poem triggered it? 'cause if you think about it, with the way you worded your post, it could be any of these choices.

That was a good poem he wrote! I really liked it.

Maybe it was the poem that triggered it. I don't really see why something externally couldn't trigger a phantom shift

yes, those poems must have that power on some!!!!!

Wow,so today was a MAJORLY wolfy day,the strongest I have EVER had.I woke up IN a phantom shift,I was laying on my stomach and curled up like a wolf,and I just FELT like I had a wolf body for a whole 10 minutes.Then I was grabbing stuff and it felt as if I had paws and claws,I actually broke a glass because of it.But it does not end with that!I kept getting the urge to nuzzle my animals and family members,and I brushed againist my sister and it felt as if I was in wolf form when I did so,as in I felt my fur,muscles and down to the bone the sensation that I was a wolf.All day I was in a energetic mood and kept getting the urge to go down on all fours,growl,howl and just run.It was an odd day,but I enjoyed it!

That must have been an awesome experience!