Reality Shifts?, Also posted on OF, to examine answers... Options

Recently (being several weeks ago), I've been studying and exploring alternate realities. Thanks to a lot of appreciated advice from my two mentors, I've learned a lot about some of the more threatening realities that are dangerous even to visit (and of course, I don't freaking go there!!! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif) ), and I've visited realities that are magnificent, strange, and mediocre.

However, I've noticed at work that a strange reality "shift" had been occuring. I had left my desk (rather cubicle slave chamber) to go on a break. When I got back, the energy all over the place was going crazy... my desk looked different, everyone looked different, some people weren't at work when they were all there previous to my break. I saw, energetically, a large, boiling puddle scrambling across the ceiling. I didn't feel drained or hurt or anything, just really weird. I couldn't speak correctly the entire time I was at work.

Well, I felt that was all digression... I'm not looking for validity about my experience. What I AM looking for is, why do reality shifts happen, and what causes them? I've heard of reality being tampered with to such a degree in an alternate world that people can actually draw up a reality bubble around a victim, and calcify it to such a degree that the person is trapped in stasis.

This post has been edited by 9-2-2: Jul 1 2005, 08:50 PM

Well, I've learned something useful and unpleasant. Whenever I scry or travel to an alternate reality, I leave a link between that place and myself.
Why is this unpleasant? It's simple.
My alternate selves would love nothing more than to turn me into Half a fried 9;2;2 with a side of Creamed other-half-of-9;2;2. Also, there are some realities that are really messed up, and I don't really like having random doom energy finding its way back via my link. I've had to sever several of my ties last night.
Man, I am such a tard, but I'm learning a whole crapload. n_n
First lesson: Stop visiting psychotic realities unless there's a good reason to! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wacko.gif)