Guess I could post a little update. We've been progressing when it comes to switching. Yuki has been playing Minecraft, and my host can get pretty detached from the body during that, and hang out with me. He still can't fully ignore his senses, but we're getting there. During more intense things for the body, like me playing my Counter-Strike, he has more trouble not paying attention at the moment. Lots of flashing lights, loud noises and all that probably don't help with trying to keep your attention elsewhere.

We've been doing a couple different things that might be interesting for other people who are in a similar boat as we are. Our main problems at this time are maintaining long term focus during forcing sessions, and getting my host to leave the body. For the first of those issues, we've been using something recommended to us by Sock. The person in the body will write down key information about the stuff we're doing on the computer. We've found this helps my host stay focused for way longer periods of time when hanging out with us. It kind of sucks when our fingers start hurting from typing so much, but it's a decent solution for us at the moment. One other thing is that it'll leave us tangible memories of spending time together. Good for future nostalgia, I guess.

As far as immersion for my host goes, and getting him to stop feeling his senses, we've been doing something rather simple. Yuki or I would take control of the body, and try to mentally push Dutch out of the head, to put it simply. This basic symbolism, putting things in terms of "front and back" of the mind, has helped a bit with immersion. Dutch starts feeling disconnected more easily, and just has to focus on the wonderland things to be very immersed. This can be combined with the above writing stuff down technique quite easily.

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Sonta what.

I am somewhere between this and this.

Sen's face looks similar to these two, including freckles, but with the white hair and blue eyes combo.

pls tp be no shitpost

I wonder if there's a story of someone else failing while on adderall. That's how tuppering tends to go, helps one but fucks it up for someone else.

Remember to clink clink. Can you hallucinate that sound yet?

It's a full spectrum of shit, so I can listen to endless shit in my ears without outside things really getting through. Guess I do get ear cancer after a while, so maybe I should change it up, see what I like more.

Let me just find a waterfall in the flattest country on the planet..... Maybe if I find a public pool with one I'll be able to hear kids' voices.

Seriously though, I guess I'll experiment more with different setups for noise. I have pretty tight fitting, closed headphones, maybe it'd work better with more comfortable open headphones, or IEMs. I'll be hanging out with Yuki today on totally not a date blushblush and will be going for pink noise this time. I attempted white noise on speakers once, but it sounded like a very uncomfortable earthquake in my room.

Will report back. Meanwhile, the voices of my tulpas have become extremely distinct from one another. When I hear a thought, I am instantly able to pin it on either of them, and not just by focusing on ~~essence~~ or something like that. Purely tone of voice, volume and accent. That seems like a good development to me.