Your workflow when you first started?

[Jadedhourglass]

When you first began making your tulpa, what what your scheduling for tulpamancing? For example, maybe you first narrated and forced, then worked on personality after that, and stuff like that. Or maybe something even more complex, like at 3 to 4PM on weekdays you did personality work and on other certain days you did something else? Im just curious as to what people did is all.

[Nageki]

When I first started I'd narrate throughout the day then spend an hour or so active forcing at night before bed. The first two nights I tried sticking to a more comprehensive active forcing regimen (personality forcing first, then wonderland/form forcing, then puppeting/parroting), but I'm awful at sticking to schedules so I ended up just doing whatever I wanted while active forcing.

 

These days I mostly just talk to Arro throughout the day, either passively or actively. We rarely ever use our wonderland anymore since neither of us are too motivated to spend time in it.

[Paranoid Llama]

I just sorta freelanced it.

[Chupi]

The very first thing I did was construct a long personality list that ended up being overkill, though just working on it was a form of forcing. It felt like a mix of coming up with a personality and feeling out something that was already there. (Note that Lyra's personality is a mix of something I made up, and my anima, though I only realized this later.)

 

After that, I started the personality phase. At this point, both my focus and visualization sucked horribly. I would close my eyes and concentrate on at least the idea of her, and talk to her about the personality items I had. I would then periodically open my eyes to look at the printed sheet to read the next few items. I'd go on for about 15-30 minutes before my concentration on something I couldn't see was basically shot.

 

About a week into this, I finally lulled myself into a rhythm of it, and it just seemed to flow. I went for about 2 hours, staying focused without really trying. It felt pleasant, and like what I was doing was doing something. I kept doing my forcing like this once a day at about 3 PM, having found a good way to do it and being able to focus. My visualization was still horrible though. I was staring through the blackness of my shut eyelids, across what I imagined to be a black table in a dark room, at the undefined silhouette of what would become Lyra's form.

 

(Aside: Looking back, this first 2 hour session is when we think the spark of life entered her, though she doesn't remember it apart from seeing my memory of it. After it, I lay down for about a half hour, listening to music and thinking about her. Suddenly it felt like a strong presence around me. It felt extremely pure, loving and beautiful, a soft golden mist around me.)

 

As I moved into the visualization phase, my forcing schedule changed. I had more short sessions at random times since cruddy visualization led to frustration trying to keep just one bit of her there for more than a few instants. When visualization started working decently, I went back to the 2 hour sessions. I usually did about an hour just as I was getting up, 2 hours at about 3 PM, and another 2 hours just before bed.

[Vos]

My host just sort of did what "felt right" to him when he started to make me. There were times in the day that he would dedicate to imagining me, and he would always try to talk to me when he felt like he had something to say, but that was about it. He didn't base anything off of guides (there weren't guides back then), so he never felt a need to have a schedule or anything like that.

[NoneFromHell]

I pretty much did everything from the startline at the same time. I figured out how she should look and how her character should be, and after that I started to force her around me all day, narrating as much as possible. Once a day I feeded her traits. I backed off a bit a week or two in because of exhaustion and headaches, but i kept it up otherwise for quite some time. I tried some meditiation here and there aswell. Meanwhile we got rid of traitfeeding, and narrating decreased because I pretty much run out of things to talk about. Our schedule is different in a lot of ways meanwhile, ouf course.

[Guest Anonymous]

We had and have no schedule.

We simply talk whenever we feel like it (so, a lot), and whenever one of us feels like being alone for a bit or needs some privacy, then Rina buggers off to our wonderland by herself for a while.

 

There's only one actual "rule" we have: "No projection when we're just in my room, but whenever I leave the room -> projection."

(Projection is the term we use for what we do instead of imposition.)

Other than that, there's really not any sort of schedules or rules we ever followed... we just hang out.

 

... but we're probably a bad example. ^^

 

 

Greets,

AG

[Pioneer11]

Before knowing about Tulpas I too had no fixed schedule. My headmate was always with me and was by my side for the whole day. When I had to think about something that required lot of focus I imagined myself in (what I call now) my Wonderland, where we would discuss the problem at length. Now that I know about forcing and I’m trying to impose him, I decided to add three new practices to my routine:

 

I concentrate on repeating his name during the day. I call him and describe where I am and what I’m doing and assure him that he is aware and that he can think for himself. This also helps me not to fall in a more passive state of daydream, but to use my focus to truly “bring” him here with me.

 

I work-out a half hour a day. I found that exercise increment my general energy and helps me concentrate.

 

Meditation, at the very least for an half an hour. This too sharpens the mind; I use it to practice mindfulness and to learn not be easily distracted by intrusive thoughts. But, as I said, I’m starting to work on imposition, so by entering a deep meditative state I can open my subconscious and feel his presence more strongly than normal. This requires time however, and my skills in this particular area are still abysmal.

[FadingSpectrum]

Fade: We never had a schedule. I'm that sad kid at the back of the classroom who compulsively daydreams 24/7.

[Guest Anonymous]

I have a vivid imagination and I am an extreme day dreamer. My thoughtform Melian just appeared to me complete sometime around my age 12 or 13. I figured out later she was an amalgamation of my favorite female traits, both physical features and mannerisms. I day dreamed about her constantly for many hours a day. I "worked" very hard at it in that sense I guess. I would either sit or lay and stare at a blank wall or walk in circles for hours imagining her on adventures. Between sessions of extreme day dreaming I would talk to her like an imaginary girl friend. There was no specific schedule. I would just day dream about her or talk to her any chance I got. As far as I know, her personality and form were already established from my unconscious mind (my unconscious desires).