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We have a lot of guides on visualization. It can be intimidating for a new person to process all of them, and of course some guides work better for some people than others. I would like to test these guides and see which ones work best for which kind of people.

 

So I'm proposing a study. Everyone who wants to get better at visualization can participate. It doesn't matter if you've achieved imposition, or if you don't even have a tulpa. Time also doesn't matter. You can start minutes after I post this, or years after I'm dead and Pleeb's great-great-great-grandchildren have inherited the site.

 

All you have to do is take this test, do whatever you want for about a month, or five minutes, or whatever length of time you want, and then take the test again. Then I (or whoever takes over after me) will be able to compare your reported ability at the beginning of the month to your reported ability at the end of the period, and compare your growth (or lack thereof) with other people following the same guides, which will give us some idea of which guides work better for which people.

 

I recommend that you spend about five minutes a day working on the techniques in the guide you're working with, but this also works if you want to spend five hours a day on it, or if you want to skip all the guides and watch TV all month (in which case, you're in our control group).

 

If you have a guide you'd like people to experiment with, feel free to post it here. This is the guide I'll be working with this month, but there are also some very nice ones in our guides section.

 

And feel free to spread this around reddit or tumblr or wherever else you want. There's very little tulpa terminology, so you can even drop it on a lucid dreaming site, or a visual arts site, or even one of those magic and ritual sites if you like.

 

You can be anonymous, though I ask that you use a fake name, so I can match your start of the month to your end of the month.

 


 

Originally there was a timed section to this, with some questions about rotating or folding shapes, and about visualizing a square of letters. I wanted to see if there was any correlation between these and what people reported on the questionnaire. Well, this is what we found.

 

Letters are magenta, shapes are yellow, and the total of the two is cyan. People's reported ability on the Marks questionnaire is blue. What we should be seeing is the blue lines matching the other lines. What we're actually seeing is no correlation whatsoever. This could be because I was asking people to time themselves, and that led to inaccurate results, or it could be because there's no correlation whatsoever. Either way, I'm dropping that portion of the test. If someone else wants to come up with a better test of these things, feel free.

 


Here are the people who have reported back after a month of doing this. Nowhere near as many people as post at the beginning of the month, but what are you going to do?

 

So the percentage is the amount of improvement or deterioration after a month. It's followed by excerpts of quotes from their comments at the beginning and/or end of month, to explain what they were doing for the month.

 

(If any of these excerpts belong to you, and you would like them edited or removed, just let me know.)

 

Subject 1: +34% "The only visualization I do is imposition - I picture my tulpas walking with me at school, maybe 5 minutes a day, or whenever we feel like it" "Even more sparse imposition practice than I expected, maybe six periods of 20 minutes. Got lazy. Still had mild amounts of normal visualization of my tulpas throughout the month, sometimes working on seeing them more clearly. My imposition is about the same as before due to lack of practice, but my mental visualization skills are somewhat improved, with some progress in seeing and creating details."

Subject 2: -7% "I'm pretty much just gonna go about my business. Narrating and such. Being a control." "I didn't follow any guides."

Subject 3: +33% "I decided that I liked the guide that the OP (sushi) posted and will use that." "I followed the intended guide ... for about a week then totally forgot about it. I spent time working on visualization as I normally do, but not following the guide for the remainder of the month."

Subject 4: +64% "I will follow this guide http://www.mind-development.eu/course1_files/course1-chapter5.html and the 'canvas-number' exercise 1h/day at least 5/7 days" "I didn't spend the time I said at the beginning of the month, but 20-30 minutes were perfect."

Subject 4: -9% "Same guide (http://www.mind-development.eu/course1_files/course1-chapter5.html) plus Rasznir's guide ... also every weekend I drew at least twice"

Subject 5: +72% "I intend to spend the next month listening to tones to help visualizing, as well as looking through this guide: https://community.tulpa.info/thread-visualization-can-t-see-a-dang-thing" "I spent each day practicing my visualization for about 5 minutes a day."

Subject 6: +34% "I followed this guide: https://docs.google.com/document/d/17iiFxZ9PYXXxSqWHdU2YoPsGfJr90w8aIG_evqc1wiY/edit Along with a few smaller pointers that I've forgotten to bookmark. The average time in the day I take to visualize will probably be around 1-2 hours. I don't plan to skip any days." "The past month, I attempted the method of practicing as often as possible without the help of a guide. I simply visualized anything I could think of. A few days were skipped."

Subject 7: -36% "SUPER VISION - MIND DEVELOPMENT COURSE ca. 30min/d + Fede's Alpha or Theta constant 30min/d for closed eye wonderland visualization" "Followed the mind-development course but only steps 1-2 (breathing exercise ca. 20min, turning tension off, 10s per step), once a day ... Fede's constant or ascending alpha 30min once a day "

 

You'll notice that Subject 4 has done two months.

 

More about these results in this post.

 

This is the self-assessment, for anyone interested.

"Some things have to be believed to be seen." - Ralph Hodgson

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This is interesting, can't wait to see the results. I'll be part of the control group because all I do is sit around and talk with Q all day.

[align=center]Even though my username is that of my tulpa, Quilten, my name is Phaneron, the host, who does all of the actual posting.

Tulpas: Quilten, Jira

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Completed the pre-quiz. No guides for me. I've recently started imposing my tulpas occasionally, and I'm interested in seeing the development - and comparison to those who used guides - in a month. I guess I'm a sort of neutral control group for those who practice some visualization with no specific goal or time investment. (I do it for maybe 60 minutes total in a week)

 

 

I may have.. forgotten I was being timed.. while solving the questions. It took me about five minutes, but I spent a little extra time double-checking my answers unnecessarily. Expect a marked improvement in a month..

 

Hi! I'm Lumi, host of Reisen, Tewi, Flandre and Lucilyn.

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Yeah. The recommendation is five minutes of one guide every day, but it's very flexible. If you want to do more guides (or less), or a different amount of time, or skip days, or whatever, it's fine. Just remember what you've done for the month so that the data is accurate.

"Some things have to be believed to be seen." - Ralph Hodgson

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timed part was easy.

Break the rules. Force your own reality. Control of the mind is power. Push your mind to the limits!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Yeah, I'm wondering if I should change that. I didn't want this to be all imposing like an exam or something, but it looks like nobody is having any trouble with it. Though there is a lot of variation in the time it takes to complete it. Some people are completing it in under two minutes, while others take over five. I'm hoping we'll see improvement in those times at the end of the month.

"Some things have to be believed to be seen." - Ralph Hodgson

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I just hope I can remember to come back and retake it in a month. Where are you going to publish the results, if at all?

[align=center]Even though my username is that of my tulpa, Quilten, my name is Phaneron, the host, who does all of the actual posting.

Tulpas: Quilten, Jira

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