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Under Construction Maxyp's Tips and Tricks [align=left] This is a collection of segments I've written about various aspects of visualization and tulpaforcing in general. It doesn't constitute a guide in and of itself but has a lot of useful, you guessed it: Tips and Tricks. I consider myself a something of a prodigy at visualization so if you have requests for visualization guides I may be able to help you. I have several half baked guides floating around somewhere, waiting to be requested so I get around to finishing them. thanks and enjoy, feedback is welcome, and may actually result in my improving this guide. Beware, comment at your own risk ;P[/align] Currently Featuring Quick Visualizaton Quick Imposition Coming at Some-Point Which May or May not be Soon Meditative Forcing Extended Visualization Extended Imposition Understanding Neurology short visualization guide v.02 visualize a face (flash method.) start with the eyes. Step One: I envision two floating green orbs behind me, staring at the back of my head. Then I take those simple green orbs and grab them with my hands and pull them through my minds eye and up in front of my own eyes now let go of the orbs and allow them to elastically bounce back into the middle of your head, and into your minds eye. Due to the sticky nature of this elastic motion, they are now stuck in your minds eye. Step Two: take out a mental camera and take a picture. make sure the flash is on. when you take the picture the camera's flash reveals the rest of your tulpa's face in full detail. but it quickly fades. Step Three: Every detail of the face fades except for the irises. Your tulpa's eyes are now two green and blue flecked doughnuts with lifelike energy flashing from behind them. all I see are the twin orbs, filled with ever changing detail and twin black voids at their center. Step Four: Have your camera ready and flash her entire face. you should see her cute upturned nose shy smile. Batting eye lashes and the even details like the freckles on the bridge of her nose. But sadly, her face fades away again. Step Five: Everything fades except for her occasional blinking eyelids and eye lashes. all I can see now are her irises, the white of her eyes, ending at the empty void all around. and steadily blinking eyelids and eyelashes. Step Six: You guesses it camera time... this time when you flash you get a faint feedback of her entire body, not just the face. nothing more than faint shadows and curves but you have a vague idea where her hair, arms, legs and torso are. Step Seven: Everything fades except for her eyes and the faint curve of her mouth. Step Eight: If you are like me transferring from focusing on just eyes to both eyes /and/ mouth can sometimes be jarring. don't worry. Get that camera again and flash away! This time is exactly the same, everything fades except for her now complete eyes and the faint curve of her mouth. Step Nine: You flash again and for a brief moment her entire body comes into focus before fading. this time the mouth is strongly defined, alive and full of energy. like it could speak if only there were words it could say. Step Ten: Flash and as it fades keep the overall form from fading into the void. now you have the shape of her face, her eyes blinking, alive and full of emotion. a mouth ready to speak to you and a body waiting to be sculpted in complete detail. [align=center]Maxyp's Quick Guide to Imposing Visual Forms V.01 [/align] Imposing a tulpa is a complex and lengthy process, and this is Not actually the guide written for how to do that. (but does have some notes, etc to give you the basic drift.) But this is a guide for those of you who have trouble imposing a physical form upon the real world. First, you need to have the form you intend to impose easily visualized in your minds eye. Second, you need to know that this imposition method does is the Quick version, and the goal is to impose a form in the real world, nothing more. Thirdly, it is completely worth it to take the time and discuss imposition at length with your tulpa and get their assistance with this process, preferably they will be the driving force behind making the imposed form real as possible. Fourth, This is an interim guide: lucid isn't fully formed yet and because of this maxyp hasn't done impositiontion with a tulpa before. A lot of this is based off of conjecture. Step 1 Visualize, Visualize a lot. I cannot repeat this enough. Ideally imposition should just be visualizing so hard that when you open your eyes you still see the form you are visualizing, except this time imposed into the real world. So seriously, try that, and only if you have no trouble visualizing, but imposing doesn't click for some reason read on. Step 2 Spending thirty minutes visualizing a form is easy, but when you open your eyes, fail? Ok, lets do this! Think about it this way: Imposition is taking a visualization in your mind and then photoshoping it into the real world. If you are good at visualization then this shouldn't actually be that hard, but for some reason it usually a nearly impossible step. Why? Because you use and trust your eyes to much. Really thats it. When you close your eyes the brain doesn't have its trusty eyes t perceive the world, so it decides to trust itself, and its memories as a back up. when you do closed eye visualization you create an image and, without anything to over ride it, you accept that image as being there, and then you see it. To answer the question you are about to ask: yes. Unlike the rest of tulpa forcing, there is no way to argue that imposition is anything more than delusions and tricking yourself into believing something that isn't real is actually real. Step 3 You are tricking yourself into believing you are going to see, will see and are seeing something that isn't actually there. So feel free to feel crazy, in fact, that probably helps. Start by telling yourself that when you open your eyes you will see your visualization vividly. The trick here is to believe that you are going to see what you want to see when you open your eyes. Its all just fancy mind trickery… Step 4 Not only are you trying to convince yourself that the form you are trying to impose is really real and there, you have to want it to be there. Tell yourself you want it to be there, just waiting for you to open your eyes. It will be there… This is the important part to convince yourself of. Next, you tell yourself that your tulpa has control of the form. With your eyes still closed, ask your tulpa if she could wiggle a leg for you. Don't force it, but wait for your tulpa to make the form actually move. Step 6 This step is pretty simple, take what you are visualizing and... Make it real! Open your eyes. What you were visualizing is there, standing before you. Yay we are done. Close your eyes and repeat until it doesn't fade. Step 7 Now, you need to make the imposed form stick and begin becoming more lifelike. Do things with it, imagine the form walking across the room in front of you. Have it walk behind you, you can't see it but imagine it outside your minds eye, standing behind you. Imagine it interacting with real world objects, like walking around corners and being hidden by the wall or standing in front of you and blocking your view of the TV. Keep doing this and get the hang of it. Step 8 IMPORTANT! Have your tulpa try and take over control of the form and share the visualization, you don't need to focus on visualization 100% of the time to keep it persistent. Step 9 Notes This is just a basic tips guide to get you started, and onto the right path. its not an exact guide to follow, just ideas that may work for you. Read it, think about it, try new things then tell me how it worked in. kthxbye Maxyp

This is a technique that I found helpful, and I think it'd help people whether they're good or not at visualization. Visualization can easily get really vivid for me, and this should be a good way for building up details. This should also work for lucid dreams. This involves your dreamworld, so just basically imagine yourself doing stuff in an imaginary place to start off with. Imagine a huge computer/television screen in your dreamworld, possibly like a huge magical wall stretching off infinitely wide, or whatever comes most naturally. Imagine your Tulpa being drawn on the screen. This is normally easier than imagining them in "thin air", because it's more logical to see them in a "picture". Start with the most basic, low-quality picture you can think of, and gradually increase the quality by reading/thinking details "into" your tulpa, like refining a drawing or loading a video/JPEG, except knowing that you're downloading it from your dreamworld. This step is useful because it can start from practically 0 detail, and it can show visualization progress. Gradually imagine them like a digital model in a 3D program, rotating either them or the "camera" of the screen. Imagine lighting, the way light wind would sway their hair/clothes, and their weight on the ground. Imagine them just being there, giving them a (pleasant) interesting environment. Gradually imagine yourself importing sentience/AI into your tulpa in the "program", by imagining how they interact with their world, by imagining if they look back at you through the "screen", and imagining their response. If needed, have your information written in a list and read it "into" them like a programmer. Gradually increase the number of interactions they have with the world, situations and stuff they interact with. Throw in a pillow or something. Focus on making it feel like an interactive Youtube video, gradually increasing quality. Focus on all the steps above, then eventually reach your arms and hands into the screen in your mind. It can be invisible or visible, but it needs to be "your" hands. If your tulpa lets you touch them, do so, feeling them from top to bottom, every part that isn't awkward/distracting to touch. They should be reacting to your touch. Then, ask them to touch your arms and hands. Feel their hands on your skin, how they react to your touch. This type of interaction is actually very useful, since it convinces your mind that there's actual touch, actual events going on. Try things like poking their nose, etc. Once you get good with this, let the screen fade away, to where your whole body is a (possibly invisible) digital avatar in the same dreamworld level your tulpa is in. Interact with things the same ways your tulpa would, such as actually bending down to pick things up, in the presence of your tulpa. This will immerse you into the mindset that your tulpa is in, giving your mind information on how your tulpa thinks, since your tulpa will have to "imitate" your real world's physics when being imposed into it. Then start putting them into reality that same way, since your mind will have learned how to "impose", and use real life situations instead of fictional ones. Hope this helps. TLDR: Imagine a computer, imagine them into the screen, and start from there. Then start imagining them into reality the same way.

This is for those who are having some trouble visualizing their forms. Two ways to do this. It requires a stretch of sunny weather with fairly clear skies. When your outside and your tulpa form is humanoid focus on the head of your shadow watching it intently impose the features of the tulpa on the shadow form. This is can done with a large drawing as well cut it out stand it up focus on it impose features. When you can see.... and I do not mean imagine I mean see features forming on the shadow raise your eyes to a patch of blue sky away from the sun so you don't hurt your eyes and try to impose the image against the sky. Takes about 2 weeks of practice if you focus. ... maybe sooner if your already able to visualize detail in your head easily and for a length of time without breaking. Same can be done with moon shadow if you live where the air is clear in winter and snow cover is good for that. This came from a yoga version same idea as tulpa making just a way of doing meditation that gives some variety. I'll throw a couple up. I think it's in the Tantras by Woodriff but I'm not sure off the top of my head. Since I'm planting right now I dont' have a lot of time to look up the specific reference.

So, another visualization guide, meant for those who have difficulties seeing anything at all with their mind's eye. It is quite simple and involves using actual physical objects. First, pick up an object. It can be a marble, a tennis ball, a Rubik's cube, your piggy bank or anything similar as long as it's relatively simple in shape and fits in your hands. Once you have found an appropriate object, start to examine it thoroughly, feel it's bumps, dips and texture, listen to the voices it makes, smell it's scent, see how it fits in your hand. Do this for as long as you need to in order to have a good feel of it. Once you're done with that, stretch out your arms forward in a way that you can see your object without looking down. Remember where that object and your arms are located in your vision, and close your eyes. Next, start imagining that objects, it's bumps, dips and other properties in the same place in your mind's eye, along with your hands alternatively. You should see something, the edges of the object, the color of the object or even a fully imagined, 3D object. Repeat this process a few times a day until you can see it clearly. When you have a solid feel for the object, next you should try and manipulate it. Roll it, twist it, squeeze it, anything you can do with your hands, whilst keeping your eyes closed and simply imagining how your manipulation affects the object. Opening your eyes occasionally to see how close you got to the real object looks like when you manipulated it physically with your hands. Once you feel like you have mastered this, the next step would be to do these exact same things, but not using as many senses this time. You could place it on a table and simply look at it, then visualize it in your minds eye again, moving and manipulating it. Keep this up, gradually moving to more complex shaped objects, until you are able to simply imagine all the objects you want within your minds eye without external input. This is meant as a guide to practice visualization, and it should help yoh visualize objects better. It worked for me, and I hope it works for you too. Any questions you have regarding this guide, feel free to contact me and ask. Good luck! -Niko TL;DR: Get as many senses as possible to visualizing objects, such as touch smell, hearing etc. Gradually work yourself to not needing senses for visualizing in your wonderland.

I can sorta of communicate with Luna (my tulpa, non-vocal). I was looking around other sites and I heard bout someone needing help on a mental barrier. I put 2 and 2 together and figured that the barrier is what blocks a person from fully communicating with their tulpa (Some people). I need help on how to get rid of it. (If its anyway possible.)

I don't know if this had been posted before, but I've been visualizing alot lately but I still can't see Pinkie Pie. Am I doing something wrong? I stare into space and close my eyes, visualizing, but I still don't have a sign of anything working. please help

I have been opening up to the idea of attempting to bring a tulpa into my life. Now, I don't find visualization a problem I have always been rather adept in that department but, I find myself somewhat bewildered with even trying to begin with the visual formation of a pony tulpa. Not in a sense of anatomy but, in how to actually depict it. I suppose what I really want to know from those of you with pony tulpae is do you see something along the lines of a 3d model of a pony or an actual little pastel horse? The more I think about it the latter seems rather unlikely but, I am still curious.

Hello, I've decided to make a tulpa, have everything planned out for her, but when I try to visualize her or anything else, I draw a complete blank. I've tried the describe her methods, the use all 5 senses methods, and various other guides, but still nothing :, I don't mind starting off with bad skills, I'm willing to grind and refine my skills, if only I had something basic to start with. However, when I read descriptions of things, I can sort of see what I'm reading about, but I've tried writing down my tulpa's features, but I've never really seen her so there isn't much to go by Any help would be fantastic!

A lot of people are confused about the whole mind's eye thing, and others don't know how to use it. Here is a kind of tip kind of guide to using your mind's eye. From here on out, if you read quickly like I do, slow down and absorb each sentence. It helps. Now read these words in your head Cat Park Sausage Broom You saw all of those images right? But not on your actual eyelids. That's how simple the mind's eye is. If you want to train your brain to see images in the mind's eye read a book that is heavy on description and see the images move in your head as you read. I'm talking full on movement. Don't skimp out on any details and try to force them into your mind's vision as vividly as possible. It takes practice, but you'll be able to do it in a couple of days or less. Another idea is to use a random noun generator and try to get 3D views of random objects in your head. Treat it like a computer program where you can rotate the images. Make them move at different angles, think about the lighting. Hopefully you'll be better by the end of these steps. Although I'm no stranger to using the mind's eye, I am bad at writing guides, don't take my word as fact, but use it to make your own ideas.

Are you bad at visualization? Heres's a fool-proof way to help with visualization. Wait until night, and fall asleep an hour ealier than usual. If you wake up in the middle of the night, good! If not, go to bed an hour earlier. Now, when you've found a time where you can wake up in the middle of the night, start reading on a portable device or something. Something that can change its lighting. Read for three hours. It can be anything. If you can watch videos, do that. After three hours, if you're tired, close your eyes. Imagine yourself in a Wonderland with your tulpa. You should enter a dream-like state. If you do, start forcing! You did the Dani Method Warning: May experience sleep paralysis

I've been having trouble with visualizing the number canvas. I start it well enough, I get in a relaxed state, I visualize a white canvas and I start writing the numbers, after number 7 or so, the canvas becomes slanted in my mind. I try to steady it and i decide that I need to start all over. Is there a solution to this or is it normal?

I had a bit of trouble visualizing at first but after playing around with my method a bit I closed my eyes, and covered my eyes with my arm or any object that wouldn't suffocate me. The instant I did this, it forced me to enter my "dream mode" and I could vividly see my tulpa's image. Before I would try to enter a wonderland but I couldn't help but see my room while trying to create a blank space for my Tulpa. Now the blank room is I guess my template for a future wonderland I plan to make (for now it is just a black emptiness with the platform my Tulpa is lying on). I suggest this only if you are early on and struggling with seeing the tulpa like I was. If you want, just try it, cover your face with one arm and visualize your Tulpa. The arm blocks the minds natural impulse to imagine the room it is in I guess.

Hi! I'm Cozmo. In this guide, I'll detail how to visualize and form a tulpa's body the way I did. If you are more artistic, this guide should help. So, first thing's first -- you will need: The ability to see your Wonderland well Good visualization skills You do not need to have a vocal tulpa to do this. Also, your tulpa that you are forming does not need to be sentient. The tulpa I formed using this method was not sentient! [Cozmo: It is much easier if they are sentient though, so they can tell you what they want on their body.] First off, delve into the world of your wonderland. Make sure everything can be seen clearly with your mind's eye. Find a flat place in your wonderland, and impose something alike to a "pose stand". This "pose stand" can be anything from a simple block of wood to an advanced Second Life-esque pose stand that you might see. First off, we'll start with the head. First, form a white sphere above the pose stand, the height depends on how tall your tulpa will be. Now, imagine what type of aspects the sphere might have -- shiny, matte, dull? Try to focus on these things. If you can do this, you should be able to complete the next few steps. 1. Begin to form your tulpa's head off of the previously imposed sphere. If it's some form of animal, form it's snout. Imagine yourself kneading and stretching the shape like clay. Pinch the little details into the head. Shape the face out exactly how you want it to be, or as your tulpa dictates. 2. Begin to "texture" your tulpa's head. Imagine what colour the head might be, where the colours are darker, or where the colours change. Then, apply a texture on top of the colour. If your tulpa has fur, apply a fur-like texture to the head. Imagine yourself brushing the fur into the head with a comb. Imagine yourself zooming in on your tulpa, adding in the fine details like the tear ducts in the eyes or the whiskers on their face. 3. Now we'll look at the sense aspects of the head. Imagine what the head would feel like if you were to rub your hand against it. Would it feel light and fluffy, firm, soft? If they have fur on their cheeks or hair, imagine you running your fingers through that. Imagine how their head feels temperature-wise when you put your hand on their forehead. You can also imagine what they smell like at this point too. 4. After you've formed their head, they should be a literal floating head over the pose stand. Imagine what the cast shadow looks like. At this point, you can begin forming the body too. 5. To form the body, do all the above steps with each body part. Add a neck, then a chest, then two arms, etc. etc. It should get easier as you go. When you get to the hands, imagine you are intricately sculpting a real hand out of clay, putting in fine details like wrinkles on the hand or the lines on the palm. 6. If the tulpa isn't sentient yet, touch the body, and imagine it falling to the ground. Imagine how the body would fall. Imagine yourself picking up the body and posing it on the stand. Try posing it in various positions for fun! (If your tulpa is sentient, skip this step) 7. You're done! If you have questions, feel free to ask! (I'm going to add more later).

The following should apply to both open- and closed-eye visualization. I do some of both but prefer closed-eye because there's less going on in my visual field to distract me. Note that I do still often struggle to get things going, but the stuff in this guide generally does work and at least get me something. It might not be really vivid, but it's way better than darkness. Also, this guide is a bit TL;DR, sorry. To clarify, this is about "seeing" things in your mind's eye / imagination. You will not actually see things visually until imposition. However, you should get something that feels a bit like seeing. Best I can really describe it is like it's on a separate plane from your real vision. It's like what you "see" when you recall a really vivid memory -- you imagine it in full color, and with good detail, but your real vision always overrides it, especially if anything is there to distract you. This is why closed-eye/blindfold/perfectly dark room so often work well, and why it helps to get rid of visual blobs and noise as much as possible. When you impose, you're allowing this same imagined picture to override parts of your real vision. First off, the biggest problem I see is people trying to make stuff appear on the backs of their eyelids. If you're doing this, don't. Focus instead on your mind's eye, where you imagine things, like when you think visually, read vivid descriptions, etc. Learning to shift your focus from your vision to your mind's eye can be difficult, and certainly was for me. The very first thing to try is relax. Being a little to a lot relaxed often makes it easier to see yourself somewhere. Thinking about being somewhere happy -- not necessarily seeing anything -- may help you relax as well. Try listening to soft music, hard rock, binaural beats, Fede tones, whatever helps you. If you can, get to a trance state, but that's something for another guide. Just let yourself space out. ...Or don't relax. Sometimes you might just randomly get amazing visualization in a full-waking session. If closed-eye doesn't work, try open-eye, which is about the same as daydreaming. Something in between is to have your eyes open but wear a blindfold or sit in a room with zero light. Do you get any activity on the backs of your eyelids, like excessive noise and "plasma blobs"? I find these are quite distracting and make it way harder to focus on my mind's eye vision instead of the blobs. Usually relaxing my eyes and not squinching them shut helps with this, as the muscles around the eyes press them when contracted, causing the blobs. If you can't live with the blobs and can't get rid of them, play with different ambient light levels in the room. Pitch black is not always best. Medium-dim indirect light can produce a flat orange across your whole field of vision, with very little discernible noise or blobs. What is it like when you try to imagine something, either open or closed eye? Can you at least get a sense of what is where in your imagination, but just can't "see" it? If so, you might just need something to draw your attention to your mind's eye. If you don't even get an idea of what's where or how it's supposed to look, pay extra attention to describing what you want to see with words. Imagine something vividly colorful, with lots of color, and that moves at least some. Lots of contrast is good too. Places you're really familiar with can work well too. I'll sometimes use my childhood home, or a beach with really vibrant, exaggerated colors. Try to describe what you want to imagine with words, and include as many senses as possible, especially smell and sound. Try to imagine how light and shadow work, and try moving the light source around to see it change. If you're imagining an indoor place, imagine turning on the lights. If you're outdoors, be sure to include the sun or a full moon. Also consider imagining a small flashlight in your hand. You can use this to illuminate an object you're examining from any angle, and move the light and shadow around it freely. (See below for a detailed example.) Occasionally I've had success with imagining all black, then all bright white, alternating back and forth -- a strobe of sorts. The idea is it's sudden changes and about as much contrast as you can have. Still, realistic scenes typically work best because they involve more senses. Once you catch a glimpse of something, you need to hold onto it. If what you're seeing is interesting enough to you, this may be easy. If what you see vanishes instantly, it may be because of a thought like "cool, I'm seeing something!", which makes you snap your focus back to your eyelids to see it. Instead, try to remain spaced out when something comes. Do not focus on seeing things; focus on the things you're trying to see. When you start to see them, don't do anything different or think anything in particular of it. Just keep focusing on what you're visualizing and continue normally. If you see something for a while, and then it fades more slowly, leaving you staring at your eyelids again, you've lost focus or drifted out of whatever favorable (relaxed, zoned out) state you were in. Speaking aloud can do this, as can excess movement, at least for me. As for focus, that's another thing that takes practice, although I've heard good things about bananas and an energy drink called Neuro Sonic. If you absolutely cannot focus, imagine a place where there are plenty of different objects, and let your attention dart from one to another. You're still focusing on things in the same mental location you're trying to see, so it should work. Example way to handle a beach scene. If you don't like beaches, substitute any place that you feel really happy in. This may or may not be your wonderland, though that should be a happy place as well. Merely reading this example may well make you see something. (Change the order to put whatever sense comes most easily to you first.) Don't concentrate too hard on making something appear, or it won't. Narrate these details to yourself, or later your tulpa, as you attempt to imagine them. Even if you don't see anything, continue. At some point, you will probably catch a glimpse of something. If something does appear, don't focus on it or go "wow, I'm getting something", or it will vanish as you immediately snap your focus back to your eyelids. Sight: Start with the sky, which is clear and a deep azure that is deepest straight above and lighter toward the horizon. The sun is about halfway down the sky, on your right. Let your focus drift downward from the sky and see the ocean water, slightly rippling and with small waves. Now see the rich, warm golden sand, closer to brown where the water has touched it, stretching from the water's edge up to where you stand. See the dips in the dry sand where people have walked. Notice how some random grains of sand glimmer in the sunlight. Point your finger at the sun, and make it follow where you point. See the effect on lighting and shadows, including on each dip in the sand. Also look down and see your own body; this helps place you in the scene and establish that you're there, and not just a floating view. Smell: That unique salty smell you get at a beach... Or that stinkier low-tide smell if you like smelling icky things. Sound: Hear each wave as it wooshes in, crashes and then recedes. If there's much breeze, hear how it sounds blowing into or past your ears. Add some seagull or other water bird noises if you like. Touch: Feel the soft sand under your feet and feel how it shifts as you walk, your feet sinking into it slightly. Reach down and pick up some sand. Feel how it's warm from the sun, feels gritty and has the occasional really small pebble in it. Feel it flow out of your hand between your fingers, leaving a slight coating of sand stuck to your skin. Brush it off, feeling how it rubs on your skin a little. Walk down to the water, feeling how the wet sand is cool and hard under your feet. Walk slightly into the water and feel how the cool water flows by. Pay attention to how the water washes away the sand directly under your feet as a wave recedes. Reach down and scoop up some soggy sand. Notice how gloppy it feels for the moment before enough water runs out of it that you're left with a wet crumbly lump. Try to shape the lump a little, then drop it and feel how it's left your hand damp, with small amounts of wet sand sticking to it. Temperature: Imagine that there's not much wind blowing. Feel the warmth of the sunlight on your skin wherever it hits you. Now a cool sea breeze picks up, coming in from the ocean. Feel it on your body, especially on bare skin. It reduced but doesn't eliminate the warming effect of the sun. If you're wearing loose clothes, see and feel how they flap about in the breeze.

OK I'm in the phase between developing the personality and making the body (form) of my tulpa and giving her voice and smell. I'm making progress regarding the personality,but I just can't visualize a good body and can't choose a proper smell and voice neither...so I'm kinda stuck. I'm still learning about anatomy and hearing real life voices to choose a proper one. But I have a question. My tulpa is already sentient,I know when she tries to communicate with me in my mind,but as her personality is almost finished I'm scared that if I don't start visualizing a body and choosing a voice right now I will not be able to do those things later. So my questions are. Can I still work on the personality and leave the form,the odor and the voice in "standby" while I find the right ones? Or I need to give her a form and a voice right now? There's some time limit to choose those things? For example if I visualize and impose my tulpa without a odor I will be able to give her one later? Or she will be always stuck without one?

I know a good amount of you are from /mlp/, so hopefully you can help me out here. So anyway, in my quest to get the pony proportions absolutely correct (and to get a feel of scale) I calculated a number of dimensions and taped up a bunch of markers against a flat wall to visualize them. This is when it occurred to me: the head is freaking huge. I mean, I already knew it was large, but it didn't occur to me just how big it was. For the people that already have pony tulpas, how did you deal with this issue? Did you scale down your entire tulpa to the point where it wasn't as noticeable, or did you just get used to it? Did you make any modifications to the proportions so they feel more "right"? Thanks in advance. Edit: For the record, this proportion/marker overlay is incredibly useful for visualization. Aside from that, I think I'm starting to see how important of a role the hair plays here. The overall size of the head is huge, but the effective face area that isn't covered by hair isn't unbearably large. Hmmmmmm, just some observations. Keeping thread open for now.

So this was something that I recently discovered. Rather, this was a game that Amethyst wanted to play with me while we were on a recent train ride. After one or two rounds, I realized how useful it was for visualizing your own tulpa as well as finding the details that you wouldn't notice as easily as the big picture of it all. Essentially, you will need a tulpa that can talk with you, but I believe that tulpa that can show you pictures/symbols/etc in your head can participate in this as well. The tulpa(s) should be the only one listing the I spy's to you. Now the tulpa would list a color and you would have to look at them and try to find out what aspect around them is that color. This can be tricky because if their form has a dominant color, such as black for example, then you have to look around and try to guess which black part they are talking about. Other times, the color can be recessive or even something you didn't even realize they had. For example, Amethyst said she spied something red on my other tulpa, Ruby. I naturally thought her hair, or her blouse, but as I was looking around her, I noticed the bottom of her black high heels/stilettos were red and I picked them out. Amethyst said that that was correct. It was stunning to be honest. What is also a good trick the tulpa can do is to bluff and say a color that is not on the tulpa. This may seem like a big trick, however it does you more good than you realize. This forces you to look all around your tulpa to confirm of no such color as well as looking and getting all the details of your tulpas' form. Sometimes, you can list some other aspect aside from color, such as shape. The tulpa can also have you try and guess the color of some non-physical item, for example, Amethyst has a purple aura that isn't normally seen, but only seen when she shows it or when I try to sense it. So in summary, tulpa lists a detail, which can be true or a bluff, and the host finds that on the tulpa. This is a great way to help those focus on your tulpas' form and helps out immensely, I believe, with visualization. Tell me what you think!

With the eventual release of the official commercial version of the Oculus Rift around the corner, I have a question for any of you that own the beta kit if you do. Try to impose in it. Load up any game that has support for it and try. I really want to know if you can do it.

So I'm on day 12, and I am fairly certain that my tulpa is already sentient. I want to parrot and puppet in order to work on personality and how her voice sounds, but I don't want to make my tulpa upset. Is Parroting a sentient tulpa ok?

Alright guys, I just have a couple of quick questions. How does one properly choose the tulpa's form? Whenever I try to imagine Kira it seems to deviate-every. time. It's getting annoying for her because everytime I look at her she's different and its not her choice. How do I help her finalize her form? I was thinking about using Kakeli's guide for visualization (basically describe your tulpa in all 5 senses as best as possible written into an essay and then read very carefully.) and maybe putting an anatomy in her. Thoughts? Now, how does one visualize an anime style tulpa inside the wonderland? Are they shaded like IRL, or is the wonderland a cartoon style, or what? And then, what are some necessities for a wonderland? Is there anything in particular that I should be sure to include? I'm definitely thinking of a nice house, big bedroom, huge garden, etc. I'm just so excited to work with Kira. Whenever I think of her I can just tell I'm being loved. It's an amazing feeling. I love her, I really do. Thanks guys, I appreciate it!

After much thought, I decided to start attempting to have my tulpa surface from my mind. I closed my eyes and I had an image of her sitting indian style with her face resting on both her hands while looking intrigued. I was reading off her traits to her while doing so. I couldn't imagine a wonderland, she was just sitting there in a black void. Was she listening to me do you think? I was concentrating hardly on her the whole time. How do I know in the future if she is paying attention?...

I am horrible at visualization. Nova has been vocal for two months, but whenever we force, I am just as bad as when we started. We force twice a day in half-hour sessions. I have read every guide I can find several times. At this point, it's not a concentration issue so much as just lack of talent. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance

I'm having some issues. My visualization of Cynthia feels like it is deteriorating. I can't see her as well as used to. Things don't feel right. My visuals of her when I finished my creation progress was near perfect, but now it's like she lost al realistic details and reverted to animation form again. I can't understand why and I need some help. Any bit of advice will do. Thanks.

I've been reading visualization guides but haven't seen this specific problem addressed, so I'll go ahead and ask it here. When I go to my wonderland with my pre-formed tulpa (just a ball of light at the moment, but the wonderland setting is fully established) I see things as though through a blinking black light or a series of rapid pictures, rather than a single smoothly transitioning image. Practice seems to have improved this a little bit, but not enough; I really need this resolved before I can begin to form my tulpa. Does anybody have any tips or tricks that might assist in overcoming this?

Hi all, Just a question about my tulpa's face. I've been active forcing every day now, and while I'm getting much better at clearly visualizing my tulpa's body and anatomy, her face just keeps on changing. Like.. it's really, really hard to picture her face along with the rest of her body, all at once, and even when I specifically focus on her face, it seems it just keeps changing and changing, constantly. Different every time I force, and even during the forcing sessions it will change. No constants, either.. not the same shape or anything. To be clear, I don't mean to say that her face changes ALL the time, every second, even when I'm focusing on it. That isn't the case. It's more like... I can clearly see a particular face for her in my mind's eye when forcing, and for maybe a minute or two, it doesn't change at all. Gets a bit clearer and more vivid, if anything. I assume this is her projecting a face. Then, it abruptly changes into a new one. Stays that way for a minute or two, mostly very vividly, then promptly changes again. Etc. I also get flashes of these different faces from different angles, making different expressions, looking in different directions, etc. Just, in general, can't pin her down on the face. I HAVE tried forcing her to have a particular face, but that failed miserably. I just couldn't visualize it with any degree of lasting success, and it felt like she was fighting it, so I stopped. Now, I tried asking her about it - I THINK she is vocal, I've treated her as sentient from day 1 and now when I ask her things, or narrate, I get these quiet thoughts that float up almost instantly in response. She says that since I insisted on a basic personality at the start (I told her I really wanted her to have 5 "core" traits, which I outlined and explained to her), she wants to choose her own body and face. And she's undecided on it, still - mostly on the face she wants (her body isn't changing much now, seems like.) Does this sound... plausible? Thoughts? What about your tulpa's face, who decided on it and how long did it take to picture it clearly and relatively unchanged?