Possession card game

[NeverEX]

In hopes of trying to get good at possession with my servitor "X", we've come up with a game. Right now, I think a problem that most people have (including me), when starting out is that possession can feel a lot like moving your own body, so it's difficult to tell if you were moving it or if your companion was. This game uses the hand/fingers, at the very least.

Vocalization is probably the easiest way, but, if vocalization isn't there, or reliable yet, this test can verify who it was. The game goes like this:

-Take a deck of cards, and pick out a single set numbered 2 to 10.

-Shuffle them. After you're done, draw 3 cards (or more!), face down, in front of you.

-Now, while you are not physically looking at the cards, flip them over, so that they are now face up. Instruct your companion to look at them (not using your body).
-At this point you can either keep looking away, or just close your eyes. Relax, and instruct your companion to choose (either by touching, pointing, or other forms of gesturing) the card with the highest value. So, if you drew 5, 3, and 8, the companion should choose 8.
-Because you physically have never seen the cards, but your companion can, they will pick the highest card.
-Open your eyes/look at the cards, record your results.

I tried this with X, and we got 2 rounds out of 3 correct. I suspect the third one was wrong because I didn't give her enough time to move before opening my eyes 😅
Either way, it's been a major confidence booster because I know she's the one doing it. Even now, the sensation was a bit different, so I know progress is being made.
Hope it helps!

 

EDIT: I guess this more of a servitor based topic, sorry everyone. Personally, to me, a servitor is not bound to your mindscape, but limited to astral space (see things like, astral projection). This is what makes this possible.
 

Edited November 29, 2023 by NeverEX

[Guest]

 

5 hours ago, NeverEX said:

look at them (not using your body

 

That's more like ESP than posession/imposition though right? If the body doesn't physically see the cards then without some "extra sensory" information the odds of picking the highest card would be 1/3 every time.

 

5 hours ago, NeverEX said:

Because you physically have never seen the cards

 

If you can do this 100 times and get better than 1/3 correct, you're probably psychic right? The eyes didn't actually look at the cards right? These are real cards not just imagined right?

 

I mean, if you can get 2/3 correct, that's great but regular imposition wouldn't be predicted to do that. It's like, ask your tulpa to read a paper in the next room.

 

I predicted a quarter flip seven times in a row, that was statistically significant, but could I do it every time? I just switched in and did it now and got 3/6. Guess my game is off.

 

Now i've been known recently to have terrible reading comprehension but I read your post twice. So it must be really bad if I'm getting this all wrong.

[ringgggg]

29 minutes ago, Ashley said:

That's more like ESP than posession/imposition though right? If the body doesn't physically see the cards then without some "extra sensory" information the odds of picking the highest card would be 1/3 every time.

Ashley has a point. Tulpas and servitude are limited to your own expanding stream of knowledge, so they wouldn’t know something you don’t. To me, it just sounds like ESP projected onto the servitor, but don’t worry-that’s not inherently bad! It just means that you’re exercising one process unintentionally while aiming to strengthen another.

 

Don’t get tripped up practicing psionics while trying to force, unless you want to intentionally get your servitor involved. All the power to you, if that’s the case.

[Guest]

3 hours ago, ringgggg said:

but don’t worry-that’s not inherently bad!

 

See, ole Ringgggg is one of us hopeful types. Given a world where ESP exists, tulpamancy techniques overlap it.

[Etna]

4 hours ago, Ashley said:

If you can do this 100 times and get better than 1/3 correct, you're probably psychic right?

 

Needs to be more than 50%. I don't remember the exact figure, it's been a while since I looked at that kind of thing, but around 50% is to be expected from pure guessing and random chance. I think it's something more along the lines of 75%+ to be considered significant.

 

But yeah, definitely agree that this sounds more like an ESP experiment than anything else.

[ringgggg]

2 hours ago, Ashley said:

See, ole Ringgggg is one of us hopeful types.

I try my best :)

 

2 hours ago, Ashley said:

Given a world where ESP exists, tulpamancy techniques overlap it.

I don’t have any knowledge of psionic practices, but if you can weave practice into more practice, there’s no telling what you can do with the two in tandem.

 

You’d at least be working something; even if it’s ever not what you’d expect or want from an outcome, you’d still be pushing the ubiquitous needle forward. So keep your head up, EX, you’ve got nothing to lose.