Autosuggestion and Tulpamancy - a technique all tulpamancers should use

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To sum it up, autosuggestion is a personal mantra that positively reinforces your subconscious to work in your favor. It’s a little hack to improve your mindset and even expedite your goals, in some cases. It’s been a recent trend for lucid dreamers because of how effective it is in improving dream recall and the stability of a lucid dream.
 

To autosuggest, you’ll first have to create a very specific phrase that’s in tune with your goals and what you want to achieve, but not directly reinforcing that you WILL achieve them. In addition, you must make sure not to give it a specific date. For example, if you wanted to be able to hear your tulpa more vividly, you wouldn’t say, “My tulpa will sound real to me!” or, “I will hear my tulpa today!” Instead, treat it almost like a lullaby- something like, “Day by day, [tulpa] broadens my mind. I wake, and we are in tune once more.” Do not force this mantra. Do not give it effort. Do not overly focus on it throughout the day. Autosuggestion is mental oobleck. Effort is a conscious process, so any serious focus on it will make it grating and insincere. Treat it lightly and casually in order for your subconscious to properly latch onto it.

You will want to suggest first thing in the morning, and right before you go to sleep. If you meditate, great! Repeat it right after you finish. Clear states of mind are blank slates. Your mind is fresh, and you have no immediate recollection of anything prior. Recite the mantra slowly and deeply. Again, imagine it’s a lullaby. That’s it. It’s not a big deal if you miss a day, or a week, or a month. Be easy on yourself, and just return to suggesting like nothing happened.

 

This technique makes your subconscious work to help achieve your goals. I’ve been personally using it with imposition for a week, and within that week, I’ve just been fighting with myself less about good or shit my session is. I just know it’ll all work out in the end. I think every tulpamancer should look into this technique, it really just works.

[FiveFiction]

I personally use present-tense ‘mantras’ (affirmations), because of how the subconscious picks up on present tense positive statements better than anything else (like future-tense ‘I will’ statements or negatives like “I do/will NOT xyz”). The subconscious is retarded and will slowly start to believe anything you tell it if you repeat it enough.
 

Future-tense stuff still works but I’ve found much better results from literally dumb-lying to your own brain with present tense affirmations. Examples being “I can hear my tulpa clearly” or “their form is vivid and opaque” stuff like that. Obviously it feels and sounds goofy because it’s not future-tense but I still recommend it over future or negative statements - the brain does not care and will work with it. Just my 2 cents. 

Edited April 26 by FiveFiction
Case vs Tense wordage, idk I failed English lit

[Flandre]

Not a recent lucid dreaming trend since it was plenty popular when we learned it in 2012 :P

 

But yeah, creating a mantra/affirmation/etc. that is believable to you is important, which is why it usually needs to be either ongoing or future tense. I would recommend really immersing yourself in it rather than just repeating words that sound good, in fact having a specific repeated phrase isn't even necessary if you can consistently think it in other ways on a whim, though you'd need to designate the practice itself as something (autosuggestion works) in order to commit to doing it over time (vs say "I'm gonna think more positively!" leaving you no clear initiative markers over time)

 

Some examples off the top of my head (feel free to modify):
(Visualization) "The more I continue to use it the clearer my visualization gets, I can see more details than before and things are feeling more vibrant every day"

(Early development) "{My tulpa} is developing more every day, growing a stronger presence in the mind and communicating more easily"

(Dreams, before bed) "Every morning I recall my dreams with enthusiasm, thankful for the adventures and stories I experience every night"

(Self-help) "I have the power to choose my emotions{or thoughts}, by remembering to focus I can feel how I truly want to feel {positive/happy/optimistic, productive/focused, calm/strong, or so on}"

 

Some of these don't even require whole phrases (/eventually), you may be able to channel a state for example with shorthand like a word or short phrase associated with the thoughts and feelings that's meaningful to you, but regardless of what you do all that really matters is you're immersing your mind in it

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21 hours ago, Flandre said:

Not a recent lucid dreaming trend since it was plenty popular when we learned it in 2012 :P

Wow
 

21 hours ago, Flandre said:

regardless of what you do all that really matters is you're immersing your mind in it

It’s more akin to teaching your mind how to run when you aren’t thinking about it as introspectively. The whole idea of autosuggestion reminds me of that Psychocybernetics book if you’ve ever heard of it. Also getting ties to the law of attraction, but that’s a more retarded example

 

Maltz brings up a really memorable example in the book where he compares the human brain to a guided missile. The system guides every single component of the missile to its target much like the subconscious guides the conscious part of the brain toward an implied goal

 

These techniques are all bastardizations of each other, but they all feel like they have the same area in mind

 

21 hours ago, Flandre said:

having a specific repeated phrase isn't even necessary if you can consistently think it in other ways on a whim

I’m picturing people putting a certain image on their lock screen

 

On 4/26/2026 at 5:10 PM, FiveFiction said:

present-tense

Yeah, the subconscious likes to take things way too literally. If I tell myself I “will” do something it implies that I haven’t at least gotten partially there, as if it were black and white, and the “will” is x arbitrary amount of time until you achieve it, so it always ends up being a “someday”

 

Making mantras is art