Blindfold Trick

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So I ordered one of these recently, and I've found it helps greatly with visualization. Basically it produces the same Ganzfeld Effect that putting ping-pong balls over your eyes does.

 

 

Heres what you need to do once you have acquired one of these masks or something of the sort:

 

1. First, make sure the eye cover allows no external stimuli into your eyes. That means you should be able to look around and see no light. Preferable conditions would be inside of an already dark room (I.e: Your bedroom at night time.)

 

2. Earplugs or earbuds are recommended as it will eliminate any distractions from noise.

 

3. Try to visualize your tulpa, or your wonderland. You will notice this gets easier gradually.

 

4. If you start seeing little "colors" or floaty things, try and morph those into an image of your tulpa or make out your tulpa's form inside of these things.

 

 

(You also may get the illusion that there is light coming through the mask. I have found this to be very common.)

 

5. After maybe about 20 minutes or so, hallucination will be much easier, and the images you see will be more detailed.

 

A good time for this exercise is any where from 20 minutes to 3 hours. Make sure you have patience though, because vivid visuals will not come until you are some time into the session.

 

Possible side effects I have noticed:

 

• Headaches (More so after 15 minutes)
  
• Nausea after Extended Periods
  
• Head pressure (to be expected)
  

 

The usual orange juice/cold showers remedy should clear these up. The headache after 20 minutes of the exercise lasted for 5-10 minutes, so longer headaches can be expected from longer sessions.

 

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EDIT: Please read this article if you would like to learn more about closed-eye hallucination itself.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed-eye_hallucination

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You need something to completely block sensory input to your eyes.

[Chris-One]

And another thing, even with ear plugs I can still hear a little bit.

[sushi]

Ideally, you'd be in a sensory deprivation tank, which is a tank about half-filled with water that you can float in. When your ears are below the water line, it blocks out sound really well.

 

At home, you can do this in the bath tub. You could also try it in a private pool, or maybe other bodies of water. It's best if you have some shade, as you should be able to spend some time without getting sun burnt.

 

If you'd rather not go the partially submerged in water way, download some white noise, or use simplynoise.com and put on some headphones. Binaural beats also work well at blocking out sound. Try Fede's tulpatone.

[Linkzelda]

And another thing, even with ear plugs I can still hear a little bit.

 

I use gun ear muffs, and as long as I have some earphones underneath that listening to some music, binaural, or isochoronic beats, outside noise is blocked out for me. And with a blindfold that has one strap ripped, and the other strap in an awkward position for me to use, it makes for wonderful image streaming sessions.

[arcon]

I'm not sure if anyone has said this in the average 20 minutes it takes to take full advantage of this you could do meditative breathing for concentration i think its a nice combo

[ThunderClap]

Yeah it is best to perform this technique for as long as possible to reap the best results, obviously.