I never had problems with mental shifts simply because I never tried to control them.

I carefully plan and ritualize my shifts at this point in my life.
when I was younger, they would come unknowingly sometimes, but I learned what triggers them and how to create them on my own schedule.


Ritual Magic is a useful "control" tool.

For me i have the normal once a month full moon shift. and i have dream shifts pretty much everynight before and after that. I also have some phantom shifts here and there too.

Chaos Wyldrider wrote:

as on the subject of mental shiifts... has anyone got to the point where they can control mental shifts?

As far as physical changes?  I know I've felt my skin ripple a few times... I had to hide my hands a few times.  Most of my physical changes happen out of anger or thrill.

I've only had a few dream shifts, but I dont really remember them.

As far as controlling mental shifts, I've learned over time to supress them when need be. I regularly have sense shifts, most of my group of friends (who have no idea I'm therian) call it my "spidey-sense". They love to joke about how I can't really be surprised, I know when a friend of ours is going to walk into the bar, etc. What it actually is though, is I can smell them and hear them from way off.

Dream shifts are really common with me as well. Most dreams I have are in animal form.

The only problem I seem to have is when I get angry (like, reeeeally angry). I tend to lose control at that point. Luckily, I haven't seriously injured anyone yet, and it never happens when someone does something to me directly. I have no problem maintaining control at that point. It only seems to come out if someone attacks someone that I consider blood. My friends have told me that my eyes, right before the moment I lose it, change color.Tthat's not a physical shift, though. My eyes change color naturally. They're sometimes green, sometimes blue. I guess when I get really upset they turn gold, which makes sense, as they already have a gold sunburst around the pupil.

Those moments are more like extreme mental shifts. I lose all control to the kitty in me. Thankfully they're very rare.

Bio-shifting (grr, where did that term come from?!?), as you describe it, I've run into quite a lot as a symptom of people trying to repress their therianside.

yes, 80% of the time i control my shifts, but when i am in extreme pain or get to excited, angry or even to tired, when it gets to the point i cant take it. ill shift and its beyond my control. the part that worry's me about it is when i phantom shift my body starts to try to shift also... i'm a little afraid, if one time i'm successful, i dont want to end up on a table getting disemboweled as doctors try to figure out what i am. i have a friend that shifted in one of her past lives.. into a harpie, and that's what those sick humans did to her

Ok, so I tried to Pshift just some minuts ago and it felt really weird. I focused on my bodyparts becoming wolf, and all of suddenly I'm in some sort of trance and my limbs get really heavy and when I felt that I freaked out.

I know I should embrace the whole feeling but since it was my first try it freaked me out a bit.

is that a mental shift? i  mean, i growl at people all the time, and yip, totally without thinking about it. likea reaction. but i do that all the time, it not a frame of mind, its just me

Growling isn't the same as or a sign of shifting, and lots of non-therians growl, some of them very realistically. While non-therians don't necessarily have the desire to growl, many of them still have the ability, and this is nothing special.

Feelings of wanting to bite and scratch are also perfectly normal non-therian symptoms, and are more the sign of pent-up aggression, for which people should either 1) obtain a punchbag or 2) see a counsellor. But don't chalk it up to your animal side. Lots of people, particularly teenagers already experiencing bodily and mood changes, make this error.