Title:           Imagination Guide
Author:          TraitorBagel
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First Edit:      Tuesday 24th of September 2013 02:20:16 PM CDT
Last Edit:       Tuesday 24th of September 2013 02:20:16 PM CDT

>How to go on vivd adventures in your head, be able to walk around environments, talk to characters with their own voices and personalities etc.
 
Step 1: Read a fuckload of books, read read read.
 
Are you at the point where everything phases out, where you are not even aware of the world around you, not even the fact you are staring at words. Is it all flowing instantly into your brain as images and sounds? Can you see the environments, hear the characters instantly in your head?
 
If you can move onto step 2, if not, repeat step 1.
 
Step 2: So the visualisation in your head should be pretty good after all those books, now lets try creative writing/making stories.
What would you do if you were in Equestria? Where would you go? Who would you talk to? Think of various different scenarios, events, anything from romance, to violence. Write them down if need be, making short stories out of them. Think up loads of different possibilities and adventures in your head.
 
Can you do that easily? Can you think of random stories quickly and pursue them, set goals etc?
If you can, proceed to step 3, if not, repeat step 2, remember to keep reading books though! You don't want to forget how to visualise or lose your ability to.
 
Step 3: Every night, and I mean every night, it doesn't matter where the hell you are. Set aside an hour, in bed, with the lights off and eyes closed. In that hour pursue a pre-planned adventure. Set out a path for your 'story' and stick to that path.
Visualise whatever you want, whoever you want. Interact with the environment, with the characters. Hear the sounds, smell the smells, feel the feels.
You will be aware of your brain conjuring this all up, you will be aware of the gap between you thinking of what X would say and them saying it. But the more you practice the smaller this gap will become.
 
Do this every single fucking night, following your pre-planned adventures/scenarios, they should be clear within your head, just like when you read a book.
 
Can you do this? Can you pursue your adventures accurately, see, hear and smell everything within them?
If you can, proceed to step 4, if not repeat step 3. Keep reading books! Keep making up stories in your head!
 
Step 4: Right now you can visualise, and follow a story. Now it's time to improvise on your story and 'loosen' it up a bit.
 
Set a very vague storyline, or starting point to your story. For example, arriving in Equestria.
Now what? What will you do now? You didn't pre plan this, you are just immediately there.
Now is where you improvise, have an urge to go see Applejack? Then go and see her! All the time visualising everything as you did with step 3.
See where your adventures take you, by now the gap between being aware of you thinking what will happen and it happening will be smaller and smaller.
You will become so lost within the improvised adventure, where you can go wherever you want and do whatever you want, that you will start to not even realise it's all your imagination's work.
Keep practising this, but yourself in random situations, and think on the spot what will happen next.
 
Are you comfortable with improv imagination now? Can you wander around Equestria aimlessly, chatting to ponies and doing whatever you want? Is the 'think gap' small now, where you barely notice it?
 
If so, then proceed to Step 5, if not repeat step 3. Keep reading! Keep thinking of adventures! Keep going on those adventures! Keep improvising!
 
Step 5: Congratulations, you can now do whatever you want vividly inside your own head.
 
There are no rules, now laws, no constraints, just the infiniteness of the mind.
 
Keep practising and you will become better and better at it. Keep reading, story making, visualising and improvising, otherwise you will lose the ability.
 
 
I hope this quick guide may help you guys, it's certainly easier than tulpas and lucid dreaming.
 
After all, this is just a guide to 'daydreaming' and it's from my personal experience and practice ever since I was a child.
 
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” - Albert Einstein