Imposition.

[Frosty]

I've been working on imposition for a couple of days and I have another question:

 

When will I most likely start to see results?

I can't say as I am not at that point myself, but I would assume it would take quite a while, probably at least a couple months. Creating a realistic visual hallucination like that would probably take a lot of focus and practice.

 

There are tricks to help the process though, like using a certain smell and the one where you have your tulpa put his/her hands on your head and they shake you when you lose focus of them. I'd definitely read up as much as you can about it and devise some sort of strategy.

 

I'm not there yet so I haven't looked into it much.

[Chupi]

You may well see some glimpse before that point. With a nearly fully visualized tulpa, I got my first (tiny) glimpse just a couple weeks into imagining her with me in real life some of the time, though nothing after that for a long while.

 

I had imagined her in a (real) chair next to me while I was eating lunch. I got up to get something and wasn't even consciously thinking about where she was. As I was coming back I caught a very brief glimpse of the back of her head, just a tiny fraction of a second but fully in view. Seeing it grabbed my attention, which of course made it vanish. After this, I half-expected to see something, which ensured that I did not. This is how hallucinations work for me apparently -- I have to be spaced out and/or focused on something else entirely.

 

Much more recently, I've been starting trying q2's touch-based imposition method. (Imagine her in front of me, bring my hands up to where she is, move them around, try to imagine textures while visualizing her.) Just doing it casually for a few minutes, maybe my 4th time doing it at all, I got a brief flash of seeing her. I could see most of her, though she was semi-transparent. It seemed more like bleed-over from a really vivid mind's eye image, but it was there like I was seeing it.