Imposed Tulpas And Vision Correction

[NeonKnights]

I'm not quite there in regards to imposition, though this thought has occurred to me several times, especially since reading JD1215's new guide detailing how to augment an imposed tulpa so that she looks proper in the host's environment.

 

My vision is a bit fuzzy (20/35, I think), boosted to 20/20 with contact lenses. Basically, while I know exactly what clear vision is like, I don't experience it all the time. To anyone who has an imposed tulpa and wears glasses or contacts, I'm curious, does the state of your vision affect how your imposed tulpa looks? I know that the imposed tulpa is mental imagery overlaid on your physical vision, but it seems like it'd be a bit too surreal to see a crystal-clear tulpa amid somewhat blurry surroundings. My worry is that trying to impose a sharp, 20/20-esque tulpa over 20/35 vision would be much harder to believe/achieve since it wouldn't exactly mesh with reality.

 

Do you find yourself consciously making the tulpa look sharper or fuzzier in order to match your physical vision's clarity? Does it happen unconsciously? Or is it something you even notice at all?

[Shui]

I don't have an answer to you, but I'd like to add a question for the same people:

 

What happens if you impose glasses? I mean I don't expect it would help you to read the bottom line of the eye chart accurately -- but can you see things clearly if you knew what they should look like clearly?

[Yori]

I haven't imposed yet, but I'm near-sighted too and didn't plan on purposely imposing my tulpa as fuzzier if she were a distance away from me (I'm not so near-sighted that if she were right in front of me I wouldn't see her clearly with my vision). I don't think it would be unrealistic. I didn't even know I was near-sighted until an eye appointment. Things weren't blurs to me (although digital clocks sure looked blurry from a distance away), generally. They were just less sharp. Then when I put my glasses on I realized just how sharp things were supposed to be. xD I don't usually wear glasses.

[TulpaCouple]

I don't wear glasses or contacts, but if I am not actively looking at my tulpa, or if there is an object in front of them that I am focusing on, they tend to blur like my vision would naturally for whatever is in my peripherals/not in focus.

 

Now we have had moments of distractingly unrealistic imposition issues, at least before I really started working on shading and realism. For instance, I could if I chose, see my tulpa clearly in 100% darkness. This is because I am technically visualizing him, so the actual light doesn't have to touch him. It looks horrible though and it's honestly hard to keep it up for me and it's easy to 'break' the hallucination. I can imagine you could have that happen with blurry vision as well.

 

But I don't think it would be hard to impose your tulpa so that when your glasses are off they look like the rest of the world does. It's all about expectation really.

 

Try it--take off your glasses/contacts and look over at a chair or something. Imagine what your tulpa would look like with the same amount of distortion as the world around it. Think about what other people look like in the same scenario, etc. etc.

 

I think if you built up the expectation of your tulpa to appear blurry in not so clear vision as well as built up the visualization of what it would look like it could be able to work. Tough to say though--Like i said, I don't wear glasses or contacts so this is all just a bit of a guess based on my own imposition experiences.

[Nobillis]

What happens if you impose glasses? I mean I don't expect it would help you to read the bottom line of the eye chart accurately -- but can you see things clearly if you knew what they should look like clearly?

The Watchdogs do this when driving. Their vision is about 20% better then Kevin's. Nothing unusual about this - Kevin's vision is blurry due to allergy effects (affects the focusing muscles). With concentration Kevin can "normalize" his vision. The Watchdogs just counter this [blurring] with imposition (in actual fact, tightening the eye focusing muscles, but the imposition "id" (sic.) the "symbol" to subconsciously control the muscles).

[NeonKnights]

Thanks for the helpful answers. I suppose it makes sense that my expectations would for the most part be in control of such things as imposition clarity. Now to get to the stage of actually imposing...

 

Also, if Isis is up to the challenge I think I'll have her help me experiment with patented tulpa-assisted vision augmentation (or "TAVA", for laymen) at some point. I'm not sure how much my vision is blurred due to straining muscles and how much is just due to bad corneas, though. I guess once we get to that point, I'll find out exactly how much can be done with that.