Review of How to Refocus on Your Wonderland

How to Refocus on Your Wonderland

Guide link for reference: https://community.tulpa.info/topic/16772-how-to-refocus-on-your-wonderland/

Note: This guide was submitted for review on Plural Librarium, thus I will try to be more detailed in my review as if I was reviewing something for the Dragonheart Resource List.

Cons:

"I thought I was just bad at visualizing until I realized an image came in more clearly when I took the time to illustrate it bit by bit," that just sounds like the scanning visualization method and is nothing new in the community.

"You start with visualizing a simple object and illustrate one new detail at a time," I know for a fact that I have a method *just* like this for mindscape immersion for sight in my guide and this is my first time reading this guide. Coincidence? Either way, yet again, this is essentially scanning. *Checks guide.* Mm-hm, yeah, this heavily reminds me of the "Mental Loading" and "Describing Beforehand" method in my guide where you start with basic shapes that are gradually "load[ed]" in the details or you describe an object and setting up the expectation of what it should feel like before touching it. Maybe the differences will shine through further in the guide.

"For a very complex object such as a tree or your tulpa’s form, you may want to break the object into smaller parts and then visualize the object as a whole," again, that's a form of scanning without you actually mentioning it as scanning.

"How do the leaves and branches move in the wind?"." That period should not be at the end of that quotation since the question mark already finishes it. This also applies to questions like, "What shape is the leaf?", a comma does not need to go there because the question mark already serves that purpose.

Pros:

The formatting is very organized, breaking down everything into easily digestible bits that you won't be easily lost in.

I like how the guide doesn't even require you to have a mindscape or a tulpa.

Points for referencing other guides, but also adding a brief summary so people don't need to read two whole other guides to understand yours.

The guide provides multiple extra resources for things like breathing techniques and other guides for further reading, which I appreciate.

Upon further reading, it seems like this guide is more focused on singular objects at a time rather than "loading" in the whole scene gradually by painting in details like layers, so that's good.

Good that you provide multiple ways to do the technique.

The advice is practial, but also very solid.

I really appreciate that you include a set of suggestions/tips for people to use and I like how it's a bullet list.

Guide uses they pronouns for tulpas, always a plus for me.

Neutral, but Worth Mentioning/Suggestions:

"Start with taking a simple object such as a sphere or a cube..." this methodology is found in other guides, but I will give points for explaining in higher detail and with other objects that aren't spheres. However, I will say that you can add more to it to make it more flexible, and if I were you, I'd mention people with Aphantasia when you say things like, "...Keep in mind your visualization quality *will* get better."

One thing you could add is telling people to write down the properties of things to commit them to memory better instead of just thinking about them.

"Alternatively, you can do a mixture of both the original approach and a piecemeal approach by starting with very broad questions and then asking very specific questions for complex and multiple objects..." there should not be bare commas between the quotations in this paragraph. You could instead write it as, "How tall is it?" "Could you climb it if you wanted to?" etc because again, the question marks also can function as commas here. That, or you could just instead provide a bullet list of these questions.

“Is this sphere heavy enough to dent the floor of my wonderland?”. Again, don't need a period there.

Verdict: Most of my issues are either grammar mistakes (I'm only mentioning these because I know the author is seeking feedback) or the fact that these methods aren't really new/found elsewhere. It's got good detail, though, which is a step up versus one of the guides the author referenced, so there's that, so I do think this guide definitely has it's own merits that other guides don't fully have, even my guide with the focus on individual objects than loading things all gradually.

Honestly, this guide serves as a reminder to me that even though I included how to immerse oneself in a mindscape in *extensive* detail and how to get said detail, I forgot how to add how to actually *build* one. Maybe because mindscapes are ridiculously subjective and most people can probably figure it out on their own, but I do think I should add an exercise on how to build a mindscape as an example.

Overall, I can see this guide being a method on how to get visual detail out of many other methods, but the detail and organization makes it a better read than most methods on .info. It's certainly not a bad guide, but I wouldn't say it's a mindscape guide, either. So if I had to pick a place to put this, it would go in #visualization-guides, and I suggest changing what category you want it submitted to as a visualization guide instead along with an appropriate title change.

I hope I didn't come off as too negative or brash in this review, but I wanted to give my honest opinion since I know you're still looking for feedback.