Kudo's Aphantasic Dive into Tulpamancy

[Kudo]

Hello all, Kudo here.

I'm new to the forums, having tried before to make tulpas on and off over the past couple of years, but this time I'm putting my foot down and giving it an honest go.

As the keen eyed of you might have read in the title, I have aphantasia. And not in a "I have trouble visualizing" way, as in I cannot mental image at all. This, understandably, puts me at a bit of a disadvantage when trying to create a tulpa, especially when most guides rely heavily on visualization techniques. So, along with creating a tulpa, I want to eventually create techniques and methods that require no visualization at all. In that vein, I have already made a bit of progress. Here are my revelations thus far:

Firstly, as a result of not being able to physically "look" at my tulpa in my mind's eye, I have started to experiment with workarounds. So far, I have come up with two, which I continue to trial and error:

 

The "out of sight" method relies on directing mental attention, and instantiating your tulpa right outside your "range of sight" (i.e. put it to the side or behind you, such that you would not be able to see it with your eyes open). This method depends on 'tricking' yourself into the tulpa being there -- right behind you. This removes the necessity of having an actual subject on which to focus your attention, as you can send your mentality to a predetermined spot outside of your perception, and not run into the conflict of nothing being there. After all, there is something there, it's right behind you!

 

This next one is a little more abstract, but relies on the same core principle. The "subconscious space" method is much simpler, but perhaps less effective: simply designating a "place in the void" that the tulpa resides in, and forcing in that general direction. This has a lot more in common with more traditional techniques in my opinion, but is not without it's flaws. Mainly, it seems to restrict the range of motion for both yourself and the developing tulpa. By defining a discrete location as "where the tulpa is," and not being able to visually affirm its location, you leave yourself open to miscommunication. To my knowledge, developing tulpas regularly change form, voice, and position in your mindscape. By only letting a set "path" be the communication channels between you and your tulpa, it's possible you can miss when your tulpa talks to you.

 

I'm sure I'm not the first person who has thought of these, so if anyone knows of other tulpamancers that have cracked the aphantasia code, lmk. Anyone with thoughts or advice, please make them known. I'm kinda treading through uncharted territory here, and any perspective helps. As of now, I've been mixing these techniques, adding the basics like parroting, and have had some minor success, but I need more time to see if the development of my tulpa is as stable as one created via visualization techniques. The lack of being able to see my tulpa's form is, imo, crippling to its development. Until I can find a reliable forcing method that does not require visualization, I will be forced to use stunted methods, which is not ideal.