Can't focus on visualization

[Kiahdaj]

Being a poor visualizer myself, I know where you're coming from, and trust me on this: the best way to improve your visualization is to practice. There may be small factors that help you, such as music, tones, or doing it open-eyed, but in the end, the main thing that will help you improve is to simply keep doing it. Before I started making a tulpa, I could barely imagine anything with much detail, and my intrusive thoughts were out of control; I could hardly keep anything still. However, after 2 months of visualizing, not even as much as I should have been, I got a LOT better. No longer does my imagination distort constantly, and I can see things a lot clearer, and with more color.

So my advice is: find what factors do help you out, and then just stick to it. Lots of people start out, hardly able to see a thing, but it gets better after a while, trust me.

Also, if you haven't already, check out Bluesleeve's (I'm pretty sure it's his) guide for visualization. Hell, just read all of them, if you have the time.

 

Also, I feel the need to point this out, because someone made a comment earlier that I need to rebut.

If you do open-eye visualization, you should not be trying to impose them. You should not focus on what you're actually seeing with your eyes.

You may eventually want to impose your tulpa, but you should definitely get very good at visualizing them in your mind, before you try to do that. You should have every inch of their body perfectly memorized, to where there is no difference, no matter how many times you picture them.

 

One last thing: as for seeing with your mind's eye, the best thing to do is not think about it. Don't try to see with your mind's eye, just let it happen. The way it usually works with me, is I try visualizing, and after a while, when I'm not really thinking about what I'm doing (still focused, though), I realize that I've been seeing it with my mind's eye. And that realization usually snaps me out of it, and I have to get back into it.

 

So yeah. Good luck, and stuff.

[Thisisausername]

Being a poor visualizer myself, I know where you're coming from, and trust me on this: the best way to improve your visualization is to practice. There may be small factors that help you, such as music, tones, or doing it open-eyed, but in the end, the main thing that will help you improve is to simply keep doing it. Before I started making a tulpa, I could barely imagine anything with much detail, and my intrusive thoughts were out of control; I could hardly keep anything still. However, after 2 months of visualizing, not even as much as I should have been, I got a LOT better. No longer does my imagination distort constantly, and I can see things a lot clearer, and with more color.

So my advice is: find what factors do help you out, and then just stick to it. Lots of people start out, hardly able to see a thing, but it gets better after a while, trust me.

Also, if you haven't already, check out Bluesleeve's (I'm pretty sure it's his) guide for visualization. Hell, just read all of them, if you have the time.

 

Also, I feel the need to point this out, because someone made a comment earlier that I need to rebut.

If you do open-eye visualization, you should not be trying to impose them. You should not focus on what you're actually seeing with your eyes.

You may eventually want to impose your tulpa, but you should definitely get very good at visualizing them in your mind, before you try to do that. You should have every inch of their body perfectly memorized, to where there is no difference, no matter how many times you picture them.

 

One last thing: as for seeing with your mind's eye, the best thing to do is not think about it. Don't try to see with your mind's eye, just let it happen. The way it usually works with me, is I try visualizing, and after a while, when I'm not really thinking about what I'm doing (still focused, though), I realize that I've been seeing it with my mind's eye. And that realization usually snaps me out of it, and I have to get back into it.

 

So yeah. Good luck, and stuff.

Thanks, been trying with tones and jazz music for the past few days in between narration sessions and such. I already am improving and I can sort of focus on simple shapes. Again thanks for the suggestions.