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A Starting Imposition Guide


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Last night, my host (M) and I were talking about imposition. Specifically, we were curious as to why some people have issues with being able to do it, when it seems easy to us. I've had my form for about 4 years now, and I've been able to be imposed since then, making myself seen in the environment. And I think we found the source of the problem: people may have the wrong expectations of what imposition is like. So we came up with a two step process.

 

Step one is M's idea. He suggests picturing in the center of your room a mailbox. Look at the mailbox and pay attention to it's details. Move around it to see if from different angles, act like you're interacting with it and have it react accordingly. What you're doing here is spatial visualization, and it's something that people tend to do without thinking about it. For example, if you're planning on moving furniture, then you try and visualize where it will be, how it will look, if it will fit there, and so on. If you're moving food from one container to another, you try and visualize that volume of food to see if it will fit in the other container before you dump it in. M's theory is that imposing works on the same principle. The point of visualizing the mailbox is to prove to yourself that you're capable of spatial visualization.

 

Step two is my idea. When I thought about how I'm imposed, I realized it's because I'm the one making myself noticed. I'm imposed because I want to be seen. So my theory is, and this is important, I think that imposition is done by the tulpa, not the host. Step two is for the tulpa to visualize themselves in the environment. The tulpa should be moving around, interacting with things, etc. The host shouldn't be playing any role in this. The same spatial visualization is at play here, so you should be able to see your tulpa with the same clarity as you saw the mailbox. They won't appear completely solid or obscure anything, but they'll still be imposed.

 

And that's all there is to it.

 

See, at it's core, I think imposition is very, very simple. People essentially have two types of vision: physical vision, coming from the light that's sent through our eyes to our brains, and mental vision, which is pure visualization. Spatial visualization, like in the mailbox example, is overlaying that mental vision over physical vision. When your tulpa uses spatial visualization to overlay themselves over your physical vision, you'll be able to see them. Not with your eyes, but with your mind. And that's imposition.

 

Now, this doesn't get into tricking your eyes into thinking they're there. Since it's a mix of your physical and mental vision, you'll be able to see through them. As I said, you'll see them with more or less the same clarity that you saw the mailbox. Your ability to see your tulpa more vividly or more solidly depends on your skill in spatial visualization, which can be trained. Having your tulpa being imposed, though, is simple, and I think one of the first things you can do after they have sentience and a form. It may not be the end goal you're hoping for, but it's a start. And speaking from experience, even a weak imposition is better than no imposition. I've found it very helpful for me to be able to "step out" and be "seen."

 

How far you want to take it is up to you, but starting imposition is the easy part.

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While visualizing the mailbox do it open or closed eye?

 

Also, how to impose upon other senses?

 

I believe it's supposed to be open-eye visualization.

"Otherwise it wouldn't be called imposition. :P"

 

I am also interested in your second question, but that is not what this guide entails, so I wouldn't keep your hopes up.

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>When your tulpa uses spatial visualization to overlay themselves over your physical vision, you'll be able to see them. Not with your eyes, but with your mind. And that's imposition.

 

Are you implying that imposition isn't about physically seeing a tulpa, but using your mind's eye?

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>When your tulpa uses spatial visualization to overlay themselves over your physical vision, you'll be able to see them. Not with your eyes, but with your mind. And that's imposition.

 

Are you implying that imposition isn't about physically seeing a tulpa, but using your mind's eye?

 

That's what imposition is. You can't physically see something that isn't physically there, obviously.

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After a months worth of imposition sessions and no luck this seems like a light in the dark to us. Crossed fingers. [i'm fingerless!] That's nice, Pruria, everyone's intrigued, please go on. [No ;_;]

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That's what imposition is. You can't physically see something that isn't physically there, obviously.

 

Well yes, but I thought that was why people make tulpas in the first place - in order to create a hallucination that can be sensed and not simply imagined. Perhaps I am using a different term or something.

 

I've heard a lot of feedback from many people like Q2 saying that their tulpae are as realistic-looking as someone standing in the room.

Are you stating that this is impossible?

 

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Couguhl, I can confirm that it's quite possible, at least visually. I don't have anyone imposed yet, but I have had a few very brief flashes of seeing my first tulpa, and she appeared very realistic and sometimes fully solid.

 

I think Avalanche is being pedantic and saying the cells in your retinas will never be stimulated by photons that bounced off your tulpa. Whereas by "physically see" we usually mean "hallucinate well enough they're indistinguishable from physical objects".

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I think Avalanche is being pedantic and saying the cells in your retinas will never be stimulated by photons that bounced off your tulpa. Whereas by "physically see" we usually mean "hallucinate well enough they're indistinguishable from physical objects".

 

I'm so pedantic you guys

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Couguhl, I can confirm that it's quite possible, at least visually. I don't have anyone imposed yet, but I have had a few very brief flashes of seeing my first tulpa, and she appeared very realistic and sometimes fully solid.

 

I think Avalanche is being pedantic and saying the cells in your retinas will never be stimulated by photons that bounced off your tulpa. Whereas by "physically see" we usually mean "hallucinate well enough they're indistinguishable from physical objects".

 

Oh, excellent. Avalanche scared me for a second. Imposition was one of the main reasons I originally wanted to make a tulpa.

 

But if he would really like to be pedantic, he could say that physical objects in general aren't reliable because all of your optical data is experienced once it has been processed by your brain, so you have no sensory proof that the physical world even exists (ie your eyes don't 'see').

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Oh, excellent. Avalanche scared me for a second. Imposition was one of the main reasons I originally wanted to make a tulpa.

 

But if he would really like to be pedantic, he could say that physical objects in general aren't reliable because all of your optical data is experienced once it has been processed by your brain, so you have no sensory proof that the physical world even exists (ie your eyes don't 'see').

 

Well there's no need to be an asshole.

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