It's obvious to me that reality is changing, because my reality is changing. Life talks to me in a much more direct way and I'm listening and humbled.
I find this to be the case with me as well, I am flowing with life much more freely and listening to my intuition and I find I'm usually right about things. However I know why this is, it's because I removed the impediments weighing me down and involved myself heavily in things that inspire me and bring me joy and passion. I'm surrounded by love and support and beautiful things. So it's only natural that I would become re-connected with the state we are all capable of and most of us experience as children, before we get all corrupted by the world. I have made a conscious decision to live this way, but it's not magic, it's willpower and opportunity. I am lucky enough to live in a world where my survival needs are all but given, and where I am able to pursue my passions and have a tribe of other humans in which we lift each other up and support each other as we truly are, and I see the value and beauty in choosing to live life "in the flow", so I am embracing this opportunity to do so.
The reason I don't believe that this is also due to some sort of universal or planetary shift happening on some higher plane with higher beings is because I know just as many people who are not feeling this way at all, just as I always have known people living this way and not living this way. Just because I'm feeling it and others I know are does not mean it's something special (aside from the fact that being able to live life as an open human is a pretty fucking special thing in itself).
Incidentally I DO believe there is a shift happening; there is always a shift happening of some sort. Culturally in my country, young people (all kinds of people but especially young people) are finding it easier and easier to pursue the life that brings them joy, because there are fewer rigid societal expectations of what one should be, and what is acceptable. We are increasingly free to be who we are, rather than feeling like we need to be pigeon-holed into some narrow definition of "successful human". The result of this, naturally, is that more people would end up living fulfilling lives, and people who are fulfilled and happy and free of societal dogma are more likely to be connected to the unmolested nature of humanity and themselves. I choose to believe that as people of the younger generation come more into dominance over those who are currently dominant and have been for a long time, the world (at least much of the world) will improve, as people who are more tuned in to the critical problems we face, and more caring of the greater good, and more connected to others, come into power. I don't know whether this will happen for sure, but I am in control of my own perspective and believing this gives me hope (and I see evidence for it), and therefore increases my quality of life and reduces my negative baggage that used to drag me down.
The power to be what we want to be rests in us and us alone. It's a nice idea to think that there are angels and higher-dimensional beings that are lovingly guiding us towards a golden age, but I think it's just wishful thinking at best, and at worst it removes responsibility for our own future from us, which is what got us into a lot of these messes in the first place.
Of course I could be wrong, maybe Archangel Michael is trying to talk to me right now. But my explanation rings a lot more true to me, so that's what I'm going with.