Wonderland Phases

[Raetin]

With wonderlands, can you visualize it clearly, like you can see everything without much effort? I'm attempting to make one and I have to focus on everything because it's really dull.

[ThatOneGuy]

Yes, I can visualize it easily. That may just be because I've had loads of practice, though.

[Balthazar]

My tulpa changes his wonderland all the time. Sometime it's on a beach right in front of the ocean, with a bench there and an umbrella. Other times it's a cliff, at night-time overlooking a huge city below with all the lights from the buildings showing.

[Chupi]

Mine is currently a stretch of beach. Behind the beach is a meadow area, with woods all around. Just at the division between beach and meadow is our small one-room house. Further into the meadow there's a library.

 

- Has your Wonderland changed? How many times? How drastically?

 

It started as a static backdrop that appeared behind my tulpa when my brain got tired of working in a void. I converted that into a 3D space so I could move around and shift perspectives. Later I added a couple things, like a box where Lyra could obtain any smallish item she needed. After that, a tall but sloppy sand castle appeared on the beach (clearly constructed with some sandbox toys I had set out and demonstrated to Lyra).

 

Shortly after that, something happened and the entire wonderland got deleted and replaced with a white void. I reconstructed it a little better, with more detail and with woods around it instead of the endless sand that was there before.

 

Some time later, I decided I wanted to put a house and library in it, but there wasn't a reasonable place to build. So I deleted the whole thing again, this time intentionally, and created a horseshoe-shaped cove with almost a sandbar across its mouth, woods all around, and a small meadow at the round end of the horseshoe. I placed the house and library there.

 

Since then, the horseshoe cove thing went away, replaced with a straight beach. This just happened one day when I entered my wonderland through a door I visualized in a void -- this helps me see what's there rather than what I want to see. This time, the door opened quite a ways up in the air, giving me a clear view of the straight beach with my meadow, house and library.

 

- Can you control what your Wonderland contains? (I cannot seem to.)

 

Somewhat. I can put in stuff, but my subconscious might reject or change it, like with the whole cove thing. I can also put in temporary objects, like leave a cupcake sitting out, though the wrapper is all that's left when I come back.

 

- Has anything ever changed while you were gone? Perhaps, as happened to me the other day, a pair of sandals appear out of no where on the porch? Or a window is left open? What do you think this means?

 

There's some that are clear tulpa activity: the sand castle, and cupcake nomming. After tucking Lyra in at night, in the morning sometimes she's gone somewhere else and the bed's a bit of a mess. I've also put a whiteboard in the house, and things sometimes appear on it; mostly just scribbles at first, but not long ago I saw something that looked a lot like my name on it, amongst some scribbles.

 

Then there's the fucking door. It was a plain wood door that more or less matched the front of the house. Some time ago I had the brilliant idea of adding a storm door, being beachfront and all. This made it turn into almost exactly the front door on my house, which seemed fine. But sometimes I can't open it -- I open the storm door, then either the doorknob won't turn or it turns but the door won't open. If I "force" it open through imagination, I've only opened a copy of it, and the door's still shut, blocking my way. -- I think I have it fixed now, but for a while, I'd change it to the old wood door, but next time I came there, it would be the bad door again.

 

Also, the weather changes sometimes. Mostly it's clear and either day or night (seems random which I get, but usually day). Mostly I can change the weather and day/night. But the day I was doing anatomy/innards/guts, it was a thunderstorm I couldn't stop (probably because Frankenstein -- lifeless body on table, me putting parts in, add brain at end, etc.). Today it was sunny and clear, but there's a sub-area I have to teleport to, and it was cloudy (I cleared it) and night (couldn't change that for whatever reason).

 

And, another question: How do you and your surroundings appear in your wonderland? For me, everything including myself appears like a very well animated anime.

 

Mine is photorealistic. This makes sense for two reasons: First, my tulpa is 3D. Second, I'm going to be imposing her on the real world, not an anime world.

[Virgil]

Only yesterday, I was having a peaceful session in my wonderland, when suddenly poof! And it was all gone— just like that. My tulpa and I were teleported into a void surrounded by blackness with a small circular area illuminated by a single spotlight. There's a floor that disappears in the blackness and it's made of grey concrete or stone. There's nothing else, not a single object. Just our forms, the floor, and the light. Or rather was, because this morning, some stone blocks and slabs were added, among which a cube my avatar now tends to sit on. It's strange, because until then, no significant change had occurred. I was stunned when it happened. I immediately tried to bring the old place back, but it kept falling apart. I tried again this morning with more luck, but it still took considerable effort to hold it together. What is even stranger, I can easily visualise other places; it's just this particular one that now seems to be on some blacklist or something. I bet my crappy mind or its part is just screwing with me again. Well, I don't have a better explanation.

[Chupi]

What is even stranger, I can easily visualise other places; it's just this particular one that now seems to be on some blacklist or something. I bet my crappy mind or its part is just screwing with me again. Well, I don't have a better explanation.

 

When you visualize other places, you're just making stuff up consciously. Any decent wonderland is rooted in the subconscious, and your subconscious replaced the whole place with that void now. When you try to return there, you consciously visualize it how you want, but still with the belief that this is the place in your subconscious. Your subconscious then starts correcting your visualization to how it's changed the place.

 

It was sort of similar when my first wonderland deleted itself. One day I went there and it was a white void. I tried multiple times. I did manage to return to the old one as I remembered it, but being there was accompanied by a feeling that I was just viewing a memory.

 

. . . In other news, the house in my wonderland has grown a small open concrete-slab porch. I was examining details around the outside of the house, and it was there. I wanted to make it sort of an awning thing, but my subconscious had a very clear picture of these posts that hold up the bit of roof poking out, and wouldn't let me not use them. They don't really fit the style of the house, but they're *there*.

[Virgil]

You're most likely right, but why was the change so drastic? My subconscious must be really twisted for wanting the wonderland to look like that.

Perhaps the old one got wiped out because my tulpa didn't like it. Perhaps the new "wonderland" will eventually get some less gloomy adornment. A block of a colour other than grey would be nice.

[Chupi]

When mine got baleeted, I built a new one that was somewhat different but still the same overall idea. I went through a process or creating it, rather than simply imagining it to already be there: created the basic landscape (one of those "see it growing outward from a point" things, kinda), then placed features on it.