15 Waiting Room Ideas to Inspire You to Shift

Here are 15 shifting waiting room ideas, each with a picture, from a couch floating on water to a cosmic library and a magical garden door. Below them, we share what shifters like to put inside and answer some common questions. A waiting room (WR) is a place you script as a stop between your current reality (CR) and your desired reality (DR). If you have not picked a DR yet, see our ideas for where to shift after your waiting room.

Waiting rooms may look like bedrooms, sitting rooms, or even outdoor environments like gardens or courtyards. To learn why shifters use one and how to shift from it, read our guide to waiting room shifting.

Many shifters enjoy spaces that merge elements of indoors and outdoors, or include whimsical features that you would never encounter in your CR.

What Goes Into a Well-Designed Waiting Room?

You can look at your waiting room as your home away from home. It should be a place where you feel relaxed, focused, safe, and happy. It should also uplift you and help you believe fully in the infinite possibilities of reality shifting.

How you structure your waiting room depends in part on how you plan to use it.

Some people pass quickly through their waiting rooms, while others may spend significant time in them meditating, studying, resting, or even scripting or chatting with friends.

There are not a lot of hard rules on waiting room design. All that really matters is that your waiting room expresses your personality and delights and empowers you.

Waiting Room Ideas and Inspirations

Now that we have gone over some waiting room basics, let’s take a look at some beautiful and unique WR ideas.

1. Lounge in the Water

Imagine yourself kicking back on this couch, sipping a cool, refreshing beverage, and listening to the gentle lap of the water. This calming environment would be the perfect spot to relax on your way to your DR.

2. Comfy Bed in the Trees

Lounging on this couch and listening to the breeze rustling in the leaves and the sounds of birds and insects, you would feel right at home. The soft glow from the orb of light illuminates anything you want to work on while further enhancing the ambiance. It’d be hard to ever want to leave.

3. Swimming Pool in the Sky

Relax by the poolside or take a swim where water meets clouds in this stunning WR. You could even script it so that by dunking your head underwater, you shift to your DR.

4. Garden Bed

Lie down in a comfy bed surrounded by colorful flowers and foliage, breathing in their sweet fragrances. Each time you visit your WR, you can add new plants to your garden, seeing how they grow and flourish between your visits. When you are ready, proceed to your DR.

5. Mid Century Modern Airport Terminal

Here is a fun idea for a WR: an airport terminal featuring a Mid Century Modern look, but in soft, dreamy pastel hues. Hang out in this terminal room for as long as you want, then board your plane for your otherworldly destination.

6. Bench Among the Overgrown Ruins

Enter into a world that is outside of time, and relax on this bench among ruins overgrown by purple flowers and softly embraced by ethereal mist. To get to your DR, you can just pass through one of the archways.

7. Cosmic Library

If you love to lose yourself in the pages of a book, this stunning library and bookshop WR design might be for you. The walls and ceiling are painted with stars, giving the room a magical feel. You could even set up a special bookshelf that contains volumes that transport you to different DRs.

8. Desert WR

Here is another soothing dreamscape designed by Joe Mortell that offers amazing inspiration. The tiers of comfortable seating blend right into the desert landscape, and would be perfect for a group shifting WR.

9. Neon Penthouse

Looking for something with a more urban vibe? This penthouse gives you amazing views through the glass windows of the vibrant lights of the surrounding city. Colorful neon brings even more atmosphere to the WR.

10. Earthy Conversation Pit

This conversation pit is another great choice for a group WR, but it would also be suitable for an individual WR. The earthy colors make this space warm and inviting, and the textures and hues combine to make it feel like you are seated in a cave.

You could simply ascend the stairs to your DR when you are ready.

11. Organic Stained Glass WR

If you cannot decide whether you prefer a waiting room that is indoors or outdoors, why not merge them into one design? Stained glass that looks like it was grown from trees encloses you in a tranquil room with river rocks for a floor.

12. Sitting Room in the Clouds

This could easily be another room in the same home as the “Swimming Pool in the Sky” we featured earlier. This sitting room is open to the sky, with the clouds flowing in around the seats.

The colors of sunset make them look as sweet as cotton candy. And here is the wonderful thing about it being your WR: you can have it be sunset all the time if you want. And if you wish it, the clouds can be cotton candy. To get there, try Cloud Method #2, which flies you through a cloud and straight into your waiting room.

13. Private Spa

With its bubbling hot tub and its ornate chandelier and makeup table, this waiting room feels like a luxurious private spa. Sliding doors lead out to a balcony offering expansive views of the sea.

Consider using the mirror with the mirror method of reality shifting.

14. Luminous Rainbow Tunnel

Don’t want to hang around in your WR too much, but just want a beautiful, familiar environment you can pass through time and again on your way to your DR? Follow a pathway of flowers through a series of translucent, luminous, rainbow archways forming a tunnel to your DR.

15. Garden Door

Not only is this garden an enchanting place on its own, but the door calls with a mysterious power. Its mystical design practically begs you to open it and see where it leads. If you make a place like this your WR, you can script that magical door to open wherever you choose.

More Shifting Waiting Room Ideas: What to Put Inside

The 15 rooms above are mostly about the look. When shifters describe their own rooms, they talk just as much about what is inside. These come up most:

• A way out. A door, an archway, a book you step into, or a hallway of portals, one for each DR.
• Somewhere to script. A desk, a laptop or a LIFA app (an app shifters script into their WR that changes things as they type).
• A library or cinema. Every book, show and game, including stories from your own DRs.
• A memory keeper. A scrapbook or a “pensieve” for moments from your DRs.
• Company. A pet, a guide who answers your questions, or nobody at all.
• Control. Weather, time of day and a view that change when you want.
• Room for friends. Seats for everyone if you will meet there, like ideas 8 and 10.

Some shifters copy a room from a game they love or from their VR headset’s home space, because they already know every corner. If you cannot picture things at all, our guide to shifting methods without visualization has routines that use words and feelings instead.

To turn a favorite into a script, write down what it looks like, who is there, the light, sounds and smells, one object you love, how you leave for your DR, and your time ratio.

Questions About Waiting Room Ideas