Physical Shifting; possible or impossible?

[RedFeather]

Sherlawk, there are no rules against posting with no introduction. It's merely a suggestion. Do not be rude. An intro would be good, though.

I don't think that P-shifting is possible in the sense that I don't think there are secretly lots of people who can change into a full wolf, or give themselves a beak instead of a mouth, etc. Perhaps one day it will be scientifically possible to induce change on someone, but I don't think that's anyday soon. Besides, that would cause inconceivable amounts of pain, I would think.

I think sometimes our bodies do reflect what we are, though. For instance, the eye-changing thing. I have experienced it. My husband has noticed that in times of intense relaxation, my eyes sort of have a brown cast to them. They do not completely turn brown - they are blue/hazel. I do have a little bit of a yellowish brown coloring around the pupils that shows only when I am in bright sunlight, but that's just my natural eye-coloring. When very relaxed, my eyes will almost look like the dark brown of a hawk's.

Now, before you get all mad and assume I'm claiming my eyes are changing completely to hawk's eyes, I'm not. I just think that perhaps somewhere there is brown in my eyes that I'm not aware of, and that that brown shows only when I'm very, very relaxed. Coincidentally, though, when I'm more relaxed is when I feel more hawkish. Perhaps feeling more hawkish sort of makes my eyes appear a certain way? Maybe it causes a certain coloring to show that is not normally seen, but is there. Maybe the degree of relaxation being expressed in my eyes causes light to reflect off of them a certain way. I don't know. But I think little things like that are definitely possible. I think that that is more of an actual trait you possess (but don't necessarily always show), than something that completely changes from one form to another, though.

[wilfnelson]

Ok even if the human body can be programmed so that certain times it whole DNA or a whole new set of DNA can be put forward creating new organs or just hugely modified ones.

the amount of strain that would put on the human body would cause the heart to have a myocardial infarction at least three times so there would need to be CPR to resussitate the heart. then the liver and brain would have been destroyed due to the amount of endorphins that would need to be used to keep the mind from going into shock and shutting down. then PTSD would be a huge problem after that much pain and any doctor will agree that bones breaking at rate is almost impossible unless you like limping.

and of course the size issue since my research was for werewolves, i dont even know if it is possible for smoething the size of the human to become a bird or lizard...where would all the sheer mass go?

although the brain issue, humans have a severely overdevolped brain causing us to be able to do all the stuff we like doing, but smaller animals arent being frank. and saying the vocal cords of similar size animals are pretty much the same if you have just out your brain into said animal does that mean it can now talk?

and then there is the last issue of if the person is to die, say your therian is a hedgehog, do you stay as a hedgehog or shift back to a human which brings back the size issue, the thing of breaking bones etc and the fact that you would have to be having massive metabolic occurances when you are dying...normally the most common time that it slows.

so personally from a scientific point of view it seems impossible but this does have massive paranormal connections so that would could go on forever.

[Nightschafer]

I belive in small p-shifts like changing eyecolor and stuff like that. I don't belive in full transformations because that's just not possible.

[kurokitsune11]

Physical shifting is possible! where I came from we could do it instantly, I think it has something to do with the fact that magic was a normal thing and capable of being used easily unlike this world where people don't believe or understand in it and the barrier prevents people from feeling or being as capable of using it.
I've seen Youtube videos of real shifters hidden in plain sight that people would think are wolves but are not and are people. It's a good thing that people don't know the difference between a wolf shifter an an actual wolf or people who shifted would be in great trouble.