Narrate all day every day.

No, the feels are good.

Well for visualisation what I'd do is try to remember something I'd seen before. Like a place, or even easier, a scene from a film or a picture or something, or maybe just stare at your hand, then close your eyes and recall what you just saw.

It's still visualisation, but you don't have to construct or conjure or hold anything, only remember. It's essentially the same as using reference images, which are stupendously helpful.

As an example of how you'd use this, what you'd do to get brushing your tulpa's hair or mane or whatever is find a close approximation of that that you can use as a reference. So maybe it's a gif of some pone getting that brushing action, be it a blue one or some other pastel colour. So you recall that with your eyes closed - or open, if you want - and then substitute your own relevant stuff on top of what's happening. Hell, if your visualisation is shite then this is easy: if you can't make out the details in the first place then all you need to do is make like it's your tupper. And there you go, you're brushing your tulpa's hair in a sort of cheating but still legit sense.


Again, I don't know what Sands and others have given you already for this. But my top points for visualisation are always
- open-eye
- references
- move around
so I guess if any of that is new then there's that.


I don't know you well enough to suggest things that you'll find fun. Go crazy and play monopoly with your tulpa. I don't know, really, but there's probably something out there that you'll enjoy. It doesn't have to 'count as forcing' or whatever, it doesn't have to be an 'exercise' or an 'activity', just something that you both enjoy doing.

Don't underestimate how your imagination can fill in the blanks. Even if you can't draw a complete walk cycle frame by frame, you still know how it looks like when a person or thing walks if you've seen it before. Of course you might break the illusion if you look at it too closely, but you don't have to do that. And early on, it doesn't even matter if you can't see what happens too well. If it's some shape that is your tupper and it's moving then hey, guess what. You're visualizing and practicing, you might not see everything perfectly ight off the bat.

Open or closed eyes, which one is easier for someone depends on the person, but I think it's a good idea to practice using both methods. And I'm definitely the kind of a person who enjoys touching things with my hands so feeling the tupper has always helped me. As did reference images, it's much easier to remember something you saw than to create an entirely new one. I made a quick sketch of the tupper's form early on from as many sides as I wanted and every time I felt like I was losing it, I could just remember one of those. I could look at him from many different angles and even though at first it was pretty choppy, it got much better as I practiced.

Oh and because we're talking of movement, maybe you should try moving yourself as well. A bit difficult to look at the tupper that way, but you might learn to see what is around you as you run through the landscape. That helps me immerse myself well at least and it's visualization in the end. You might learn something.

Also I noticed how you said something along the lines of ignoring your own doubts and such. If you remember my absence of disbelief tl;dr I wrote way back, I did say that outright ignoring things is stupid. Mostly when it comes to responses you think might be from a tupper, but it also goes both ways. Don't ignore your own doubts. They're caused by something and ignoring them won't make the reason go away. So think about the causes and see what would ease your doubts. Of course, if you think that the only way for your doubts to go away actually first requires you to deal with your doubts to get there, you've createn an impossible situation. So think how much you really need instead of asking for the impossible.

I've seen plenty of people who say they will do all kinds of cool stuff when their tupper is imposed, but until then they think they can't do anything. I don't know why that is, seeing how there's a lot of tulpas people spend time with that aren't imposed. You might only be seeing your goal when the journey there is also pretty important and it can be fun, of course. And should be. You don't need to see a person to have fun with them, nor do you have to actually talk to a person to have fun with them. Of course it's usually more or less only one of those you can do at a time, but well. Those who are deaf and blind still manage to have fun with others somehow.

If you only like a few things and you think you can't share those hobbies with someone else (the tupper in this case), then how about getting new hobbies. Oh sure, "but I don't care about anything else!/I can't do something else!". Once you start doing only one thing and being lazy, it starts to look really hard to actually do something new. Feels impossible. Often happens to people who have been unemployed for a while and basically do nothing but sleep and eat all day. It becomes very hard for them to actually motivate themselves to do something, but once they try, they might see it actually wasn't so bad and it's fun. A person who never tries to do new stuff or never wants to change will stagnate and grow stubborn in a bad way. It's not a pretty sight, believe me.

An emotional response could be anything and feel like anything. Even the definition is a bit different with some, some meaning you know, nothing but actual emotions and some including headpressure and such in there as well. I know that I was the kind of a person who never really felt the emotions because I just didn't notice them or brushed them off.

Play tic tac toe with tupper.

Oh man but my tupper never told me to burn things. Must have a faulty tupper, can I return it?

Tic tac toe is the best tupper game.

You got what you thought was a response and then you tried it over and over again until you could mimic it perfectly? Or it has always felt the same as now, something you can replicate 100%? Because no shit, if you practice then you can make everything seem the same. The thing is, has it always felt like it has been the same. If you had to practice to make it seem identical then what made it different in the first place? Why did you have to put all that effort in to learn to replicate something that happened naturally a moment ago?

I did timers myself as well, that way I couldn't just do it until I felt it was enough and then find out I had done it for just a few minutes when I wanted to get a longer session done. With an alarm ready, you don't have to worry about the time at all as you will know when it's over. And after that, you can continue if you think you can or should.

Only way to get to it is to just do it.