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The Kamehameha technique


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Yes it's exactly what you're thinking! This is the way I started to get a hold on visual imposition, by using this technique given to us by Master Roshi.
The point of this exercise is to learn how it feels to visually impose, I'm by no means an expert but I can do small impositions already. I hope this can be a jump start to you as well.

First you will need to put your hands together like you're holding an invisible ball.

You will need to have something black on the background, I use a black sheet I have.

Hold your hands in a way so that you see only your hands and the black background, not too close to the face but not too far either.

Now this is how it starts:

Try to see what's in the empty space between your hands, not the background, pay attention to the visual noise that is there while focusing on trying to start a spark, nothing fancy, just a spark. Create the expectation to see a small ball of light grow out like it's coming from another dimension. For me it's easy with blue but for you it may be some other color.

Focus on the visual noise in a very small area, how it feels to see the visual noise and eventually you should see some of the dots become brighter, focus on those dots and some even brighter will show up, when they do focus on those, like you're climbing a ladder, when you get to that point you need to remember to hold the feeling of seeing the sparks, don't get too excited or you will have to start all over.

If you keep that up for some time get ready to see some crazy stuff afterwards, I just did that and I keep seeing rainbows and floating shapes everywhere without trying. I think they call this CEV level 4. I hope this can be a shortcut to you.

 

Once you got a good grasp on how it feels to visually impose, you can try with more complex shapes.

Hope this was helpful.

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Overall, I think this tip stands out. It’s simple, you stayed on topic, it was clear what you were explaining, relatively good organization, and I think it may be useful to the potential reader.

 

I have two main nitpicks.

 

The first is to revise the title to something like “Imposition - The Kamehameha Technique”. This way the reader knows what you’re targeting before they go in.

 

The second is just to change the “got” in “Once you got a good grasp...” to “have”.

 

After these changes are made, I will approve for tips and tricks.

 

-Hector

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Overall, this trick is straightforward, simple, and it seems to work after I tested it. The main things holding this back from my approval are several grammar issues, uncertain language, and a couple other problems.

 

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On 4/5/2020 at 3:40 PM, neo said:

I'm by no means an expert but I can do small impositions already. I hope this can be a jump start to you as well.

 

This conflicts with the assumption you are the expert on your topic when you write a submission. Instead of saying "I'm by no means an expert", you can say "This method will help you get a jump start on imposition". You are an expert on this specific beginner technique, and ultimately you are not required to be an expert on imposition or else this would be a guide and not a trick.

 

On 4/5/2020 at 3:40 PM, neo said:

visual noise

 

It would help to briefly elaborate what visual noise is or offer a link to a resource that explains it in more depth. I know that visual noise is the hallucinations you have when staring at something dark due to the absence of light, but a beginner, your target audience, may not know that.

 

On 4/5/2020 at 3:40 PM, neo said:

I think they call this CEV level 4. I hope this can be a shortcut to you.

 

Again, it is assumed you are the expert and this contradicts that assumption. In this case, it's okay to double check what the definition for CEV level 4 is by looking it up on Google so you don't have to report your uncertainty in your submission.

CEVs state that your eyes are closed while this method implies your eyes are open (hence you being able to see your hands and focusing on a dark surface). Calling the hallucinations you experience using this method CEV level 4 is probably inaccurate.

 

It may be best to leave those sentences out all together because this only seems partially related to your method.

 

Grammar:

 

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On 4/5/2020 at 3:40 PM, neo said:

Try to see what's in the empty space between your hands, not the background, pay attention to the visual noise that is there while focusing on trying to start a spark, nothing fancy, just a spark.

 

This run-off sentence needs to be broken up. Here's one way you can do it-

 

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Try to see what's in the empty space between your hands, not the background. Pay attention to the visual noise that is there while focusing on trying to start a spark. Nothing fancy, just a spark.

 


 

On 4/5/2020 at 3:40 PM, neo said:

Create the expectation [...]

 

Replace with "Expect"

 

On 4/5/2020 at 3:40 PM, neo said:

For me it's easy with blue [...]

 

"with blue" is not the best wording. Here's one possible fix:

 

"For me it's easier to see by imagining blue light, [...]"

 

On 4/5/2020 at 3:40 PM, neo said:

Focus on the visual noise in a very small area, how it feels to see the visual noise and eventually you should see some of the dots become brighter, focus on those dots and some even brighter will show up, when they do focus on those, like you're climbing a ladder, when you get to that point you need to remember to hold the feeling of seeing the sparks, don't get too excited or you will have to start all over.

 

This run-off sentence also needs to be broken up and re-drafted. The part from "[...] focus on those dots...focus on those," [...] seems redundant, so that part can be removed. I tried to add in commas, periods, and conjunctions to make the sentences more clear, but I found myself attempting to reword things all together.

 

On 4/5/2020 at 3:40 PM, neo said:

If you keep that up for some time get ready to see some crazy stuff afterwards, I just did that and I keep seeing rainbows and floating shapes everywhere without trying.

 

Multiple things-

 

1) Add a comma after "time".

2) A period after "afterwards".

3) Replace "keep that up" with "keep this up".

4) Remove "just".

5) Replace "keep seeing" with "saw".

 

It would look like this after the changes are made-

 

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If you keep this up for some time, get ready to see some crazy stuff afterwards. I did that and I saw rainbows and floating shapes everywhere without trying.

 


 

On 4/5/2020 at 3:40 PM, neo said:

Once you got a good grasp [...]

 

Replace "got" with "have".

 

On 4/5/2020 at 3:40 PM, neo said:

[...] you can try with more complex shapes. 

 

Add "this" after "try".

 

I will approve this for Tips and Tricks after these changes are made.

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I like this, it's clear and concise and it works.

 

I have no other nitpicks that haven't been highlighted by Hector and Ranger, once their concerns have been fixed I'll approve for tips and tricks

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On 4/5/2020 at 2:40 PM, neo said:

Hold your hands in a way so that you see only your hands and the black background, not too close to the face but not too far either.

it is unclear what would be too close or too far; please specify

 

On 4/5/2020 at 2:40 PM, neo said:

I think they call this CEV level 4.

this is not CEV level anything because it is an open eye hallucination, so this sentence should be removed, unless you got this when your eyes were closed, in which case you should specify that you got it when your eyes were closed

 

the method of paying attention to visual noise has not worked well for me when I was learning imposition, however enough other people have attested to that sort of thing working, so clearly it is a good method for at least some people. once you fix those two things that I pointed out, I will approve for tips and tricks

 

 

I would also like to point out a few things that my fellow reviewers have asked for which I do not think would improve the guide, or which I think would make the guide worse:

On 4/18/2020 at 1:53 PM, Osaka said:

The first is to revise the title to something like “Imposition - The Kamehameha Technique”. This way the reader knows what you’re targeting before they go in.

I am not certain if it was this way when you reviewed this guide, but right now at least, this guide has the imposition tag, so it is already fairly obvious that it is about imposition.

 

On 4/18/2020 at 1:53 PM, Osaka said:

The second is just to change the “got” in “Once you got a good grasp...” to “have”.

 

On 4/21/2020 at 2:38 PM, Ranger said:

Replace "got" with "have".

saying "got" in that sentence is perfectly ordinary in some dialects of english, and quite easily understandable in those that it is not typical in

 

On 4/21/2020 at 2:38 PM, Ranger said:

Replace with "Expect" [in reference to the phrase "create the expectation"]

in my opinion it is easier to read and makes more sense how it was originally

 

On 4/21/2020 at 2:38 PM, Ranger said:

"with blue" is not the best wording. Here's one possible fix:

 

"For me it's easier to see by imagining blue light, [...]" [in reference to the clause "for me, it's easy with blue"]

again, this "fix" makes it more difficult to read. saying "with blue" sounds perfectly fine to me. in fact, if anything seems off to me about this sentence it is that it says "easy" when it seems like it would make more sense to say "easier" or "easiest"

 

On 4/21/2020 at 2:38 PM, Ranger said:

3) Replace "keep that up" with "keep this up".

4) Remove "just".

5) Replace "keep seeing" with "saw". [in reference to the sentence "If you keep that up for some time get ready to see some crazy stuff afterwards, I just did that and I keep seeing rainbows and floating shapes everywhere without trying."]

none of these changes make it any easier to read, and they also slightly change the meaning of the sentence.

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I tried this and so far saw a red(ish) spot and the color of my hands' skin in between my palms. Can't seem to get any sparks or balls of light...

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This guide may be particularly useful when incorporating presence imposition. A practice I engaged in long before discovering tulpamancy, which this guide reminded me of, was imagining a ball of energy between my hands. Since it's energy, it naturally possesses its own electromagnetic field. As I visualized the formation of this energy ball—whether with my eyes closed, open, or closed and then opened, maintaining the image of the ball in the space—I could feel a tangible resistance when attempting to expand or compress it. This resistance is akin to the sensation experienced when aligning two magnets with the same poles. The larger the ball of energy, the greater its "magnetic" force, and the more difficult it became to compress, with resistance intensifying accordingly.

 

As I am still in the early stages of working with tulpas, I haven't yet fully mastered imposition, particularly in terms of achieving vivid clarity in my mental imagery. However, I believe that the concept of presence imposition centers on this very feeling: the sense that your tulpa is physically present and the awareness of their proximity relative to your own, much like our natural, intuitive awareness of objects in our surroundings and our spatial relationship to them.

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12 hours ago, KusaNyan said:

I could feel a tangible resistance when attempting to expand or compress it. This resistance is akin to the sensation experienced when aligning two magnets with the same poles. The larger the ball of energy, the greater its "magnetic" force, and the more difficult it became to compress, with resistance intensifying accordingly.

I feel like it's difficult for people to impose when they say certain things are harder to visualize. Imposition is mainly belief-driven, and if you really believe that it’s harder to make objects bigger, your brain will take you down that route no problem. But this is only one side to the double-edged sword of imposition's self-fulfilling prophecy; if you keep your imagination free from limits (*rainbow sparkle*), it’ll be easier to impose the things you previously thought were hard to. It’s like talking - if you think it’s difficult for you to socialize, you’ll barely be able to get a word out, but if you just go with the flow, you’ll be striking up conversations left and right. Sure, you may not understand certain social cues in the moment, but open-mindedness is what allows you to pick them up later down the line. In the case of imposition, remaining open-minded about the process rewards you with more insight into how best to go about it. Just keep imposing, and keep your brain open. Nothing is off-limits in imposition.


On that note, imposing big and intricate things just requires more attention to detail. If you’re having trouble, just describe the complexion of the object to yourself. You can use literal words (narration), or you can visualize its size and its features, and admire its intricacies. All of this is to get you used to visualizing at this scale so that it’s easier for you in the future. 


Getting better at imposition doesn’t mean getting to paint more, it’s more so becoming more aware of the canvas you’re painting on. That’s why imposition works best in dark areas starting out, there’s less distraction, ergo it becomes easier to work with. That's tip #2.

 

12 hours ago, KusaNyan said:

As I am still in the early stages of working with tulpas, I haven't yet fully mastered imposition, particularly in terms of achieving vivid clarity in my mental imagery.

Interesting, it's usually tulpas before imposition. Where'd you hear it from?

 

12 hours ago, KusaNyan said:

However, I believe that the concept of presence imposition centers on this very feeling: the sense that your tulpa is physically present and the awareness of their proximity relative to your own, much like our natural, intuitive awareness of objects in our surroundings and our spatial relationship to them.

Right on.

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11 hours ago, ringgggg said:

I feel like it's difficult for people to impose when they say certain things are harder to visualize. Imposition is mainly belief-driven, and if you really believe that it’s harder to make objects bigger, your brain will take you down that route no problem. But this is only one side to the double-edged sword of imposition's self-fulfilling prophecy; if you keep your imagination free from limits (*rainbow sparkle*), it’ll be easier to impose the things you previously thought were hard to. It’s like talking - if you think it’s difficult for you to socialize, you’ll barely be able to get a word out, but if you just go with the flow, you’ll be striking up conversations left and right. Sure, you may not understand certain social cues in the moment, but open-mindedness is what allows you to pick them up later down the line. In the case of imposition, remaining open-minded about the process rewards you with more insight into how best to go about it. Just keep imposing, and keep your brain open. Nothing is off-limits in imposition.


On that note, imposing big and intricate things just requires more attention to detail. If you’re having trouble, just describe the complexion of the object to yourself. You can use literal words (narration), or you can visualize its size and its features, and admire its intricacies. All of this is to get you used to visualizing at this scale so that it’s easier for you in the future. 


Getting better at imposition doesn’t mean getting to paint more, it’s more so becoming more aware of the canvas you’re painting on. That’s why imposition works best in dark areas starting out, there’s less distraction, ergo it becomes easier to work with. That's tip #2.

 

Interesting, it's usually tulpas before imposition. Where'd you hear it from?

It seems that my tulpa has already reached a certain level of "development," as I am working from a basis. At this stage, my primary challenge lies in achieving mental clarity and ensuring the sentience of the tulpa. At the risk of possibly parroting, I try to visualize my tulpa in the real world to aid in this process, simultaneously working on imposition and improving visual clarity. However, I hesitate to say I'm truly imposing, as much of the work is still done while meditating at home and visualizing objects in my mind, and of course, I'm not sure if my tupla is even sentient at this rate, so it may not even be imposition so much as just overlaying visualizations on top of my eyes, hence the worry about parroting.

 

I don't encounter any significant issues with the complexity you mentioned, such as sights, sounds, tastes, or colors. I can render them with as much detail and complexity as needed. The problem is that they often appear "faint," much like the description in JD's Guide to Visualization where "the form is visible but seems dark or transparent." I'm unsure how to overcome this aside from brute-forcing it through continued practice.

 

There may have been some misunderstanding in my previous response. I don't find it more difficult to visualize larger or more complex objects. This may cause my reply to diverge from the original thread, which is primarily focused on visual imposition. I was merely trying to convey that, when visualizing something like a ball of light or energy, one can experience an "imagined resistance," similar to the sensation of trying to push two magnets together at the same pole, or an "imagined attraction" when the poles are reversed. I believe this could be connected to a sense of presence, or possibly even touch.

 

I had considered posting a thread in the Beginner's Questions section to discuss my challenges with tulpa development and visualization, but I have yet to take that step.

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