A Brief Imposition Guide

:::How to impose all five senses: A simple guide by Mal:::

You process things from two perspectives as a human: mentally and environmentally. Applied to tulpas, mentally speaking, you’re aiming for a sentient independent cohesion of thoughts mimicking your own internal thought process. Environmentally speaking, you’re tricking yourself to perceive your tulpa as part of your environment. Here’s how to do the latter in a general, broad sense:

1)	Your perception of your environment is based on real things (because, you know, it’s your environment). Study those real things. If your tulpa is human, feel your skin to see how it feels. If they smell like a perfume you like, buy that shit and analyze its aroma. Do this for all senses.

2)	Memorize your sensations (your five senses) concerning what you would like to impose. Practice bringing up the memory of how your own skin feels to your fingers, or that perfume. You should work towards being able to bring up the memory of these sensations at will.

3)	Impose! This is the tricky part, but essentially instead of remembering things, you need to relive them. There are many ways you can go about this. One good way is to use symbolism. Ever seen a tv show where people get thrown back into time? Try symbolically throwing yourself into the memory, as if you were that after school special protagonist. Use all the analyzing from step one to give your experience as much detail as possible, and use your memory recalling from step two to help immerse yourself.

These steps are all the basic, broad concept behind how I impose. They aren’t meant to be comprehensive. There are subpoints to each of them, and they change for each sense. There are also tricks and alternate ways of doing things that I haven’t described. This, however, is a good framework to use when experimenting for yourself, because after all it doesn’t matter what works for me. What matters is if it works for you. Have fun, kids.