"Zero's Guide to Afterimage Imposition"
By CelestialBoon (https://pastebin.com/u/CelestialBoon)

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Created on: Friday 12th of July 2013 08:29:31 AM CDT
Retrieved on: Saturday 31 of October 2020 02:39:47 AM UTC


I "discovered" this technique when I was at the barbershop waiting for my turn, and looking at a lamp in 
the ceiling just thinking about stuff. After a few minutes of being lost in thought I snapped back and 
looked away, and, naturally, saw the afterimage of the lamp burnt into my retina appear.

That's when I figured "What if I can maintain this afterimage, even after the burn itself is gone?", which
led me to experimenting with it and gave some pretty satisfying results. Now, some of you may already have 
heard of this technique, some of you may not, but I've certainly found it helpful seeing as how my 
visualization skills are shittier than shit playing with shit in a puddle of shit. This allows for even
those who aren't as adept with their mind's eye, yet would like to start working on imposition. It can be 
considered a form of open-eyed visualization, but it mostly is you creating a hallucination on the spot, aka visually imposing.




WHAT TO DO:
Obviously you'll need a lamp, or something bright to look at. Now I don't want you to go and burn your 
retina by looking at a lamp for hours on end, so it's up to you to decide when you've practiced enough. The 
basic technique is simple: 


STEP 1: 
Look at the lamp for anywhere between 20-60 seconds, then look away, preferably at a white wall or some 
other opaque surface. Then focus on the afterimage that the lamp leaves in your retina. What you want to do 
is maintain this afterimage, long after the burn in your retina is gone. At first you won't really know 
whether it's the afterimage or you mentally forcing the hallucination of it into your field of vision, but 
after a couple of tries you should be able to maintain the image for many minutes after looking at the 
lamp. Your goal should be to go from maintaining it for, say, a minute, to up to 10 minutes.


STEP 2:
Once you've managed to hold the image for a steady amount of time and are pretty sure that if you sat there 
for another hour you'd still be able to see it, make it disappear. Then try to "summon" the afterimage back 
into sight, and try to hold the image again. You'll notice that this is a lot harder than actually 
maintaining an already existing image. If this comes easily, make it disappear and wait for a while, or go 
do something else, then later on try to summon it into your field of vision. The goal here is to be able to 
summon that afterimage into sight whenever you feel like it, and then maintain it for as long as you want 
to.


STEP 3:
Once you've mastered this step, it's time to start having some fun. By this point you should be able to 
summon the afterimage at will and hold it in your field of vision for as long as you want to. Summon the 
afterimage (In this scenario I'm assuming it's a circle, but whatever shape works) and try to make it 
bigger. Make it grow and grow until it covers nearly all of your vision. Then make it smaller again. Once 
you can change it's size at will, try changing the shape. If it's a circle, try turning it into an ellipse. 
Then a triangle, a square, a pentagon, hexagon, octagon, etc. until you can pretty much turn it into any 
basic shape you want to. 

The goal here is to move from a simple shape like a circle or line to complex 
shapes like a star or bird. At this point the image should still be in 2D. If it's in 3D, the next step 
will be a whole lot easier for you.



STEP 4:
Now you can play with the shapes, it's time to make them 3D. But before we do that, there is a minor step 
you have to master first, which may or may not be difficult. By now summoning the image into your field of 
vision should be a piece of cake. Try summoning a square, and then cloning it, holding both images at the 
same time. Once you can manage to hold both squares without losing focus, make a third one. Then a fourth, 
fifth, and sixth. Now try to glue them together, like the cross shape of an unfolded cardboard box. If you 
don't get what I mean, it should look like this:
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It should be obvious where I'm going for here. Your goal here is to try to "close" that box. Now I know 
this sounds /much/ easier than it actually is, and it may take you a while to get it right (or not, depends 
on you really. Just assume it'll take you a shitload of time so you won't feel bad when it doesn't work 
right away.) but once you do, you'll have much more room for experimentation.




NOW TAKE A BREATHER:
Alright. At this point you should take a break and look back at what you've achieved. You've managed to 
hold an afterimage in your field of vision as a hallucination, then manipulate it, then you've managed to 
make that image 3D. Congratulations, you're imposing :D U lukee fkr.
However, you're not even halfway there yet. Your box probably has an opaque color or no color at all, 
right? :ooo KOLORZ? Yes motherfucker, you forgot about the colors. Some of you may already be able to play 
with them by now, but we're not all as gifted as them, so for those who can't:



STEP 5:
So you've got your 3D box or circle or whatever you preferred making, but there is no actual color to it or 
it's just a vague, transparent kind of mind-color. Not a problem. I'll break this down into two sections 
for those with color and those without.

5.1:
If your box has no color, or no real color, it's just a shape, then what you've got to do is simply give it 
one. You've managed to create a hallucination of a 3D box at will, visualizing a color for it shouldn't be 
too hard. It may take some effort, but the important thing here is to pick a single color (preferably your 
favorite) and try to create an open-eye visualization of the box in that color before trying to impose it 
onto the actual box. Once you've managed to give the box a single color and are able to keep it that way, 
you can move on to the next step.


5.2: You better have read 5.1 you lazy fuck. The technique for this is basically the same, except more 
advanced. Your box already has a color or a number of colors, but you can't control it. So, you create a 
visualization of it before imposing it onto the box. Let's say you picked green. If you can hold that 
color, change it to red. Then blue, then yellow. If that comes easy to you, you can start by changing the 
color on one of the sides, for example an all yellow box with a blue front square. Vibrant, contrasting 
colors work best, but don't use white or black. Once you manage to color a single square, try coloring the 
next square in another color, and the next, and the next, until you've colored all sides differently. Once 
you can manage this, try changing the colors randomly. The goal here is to be able to change the colors on 
all sides with little to no effort at all. 




STEP 6:
Now that your square has a bunch of vibrant colors on it, let's dim it down a bit. Your tulpa's form 
probably isn't a christmas tree (Though if it is don't be feeling offended, I'm sure they're a pretty 
christmas tree) so you'll need to be able to do softer colors as well. Try working around the spectrum, 
rotating your box as you change the sides into different shades of the same color. You know, baby blue, 
light blue, dark blue, navy blue, etc. etc. etc. Once this is also an easy thing to do, you can start by 
practicing making more complicated shapes like a banana or a packet of cigarettes and giving them their 
appropriate color. Try to be as accurate as possible. 

Note: If you have trouble making things other than boxes and balls and whatnot, remember that all objects 
make use of those elementary shapes. It may sound like the obvious when I tell you a packet of cigarettes 
is a rectangle, but once you get to more complex objects this is an important thing to keep in mind. If you 
can't impose a pair of pants, make two cilinders instead, then join them at the top and work from there. 


STEP 7: 
Itz tiem. You have finally managed to impose 3D objects with realistic colors and it costs you no effort at 
all. You are an imposition GOD. Not really, but this is the part you've been waiting for, practicing so 
hard for, and raged so often at in impatience because you weren't here yet. You've read this step over and 
over hoping you would get to do it one day - and now you can.

That's right. Imposing the tulpa. For this part, the only thing you need to do is give your tulpa control 
over their imposed form after you make it. Creating their form like their wonderland form should take a 
while, as you'll want to implement all the details and try to make it as realistic as possible. From then 
on it should be up to your tulpa to make use of that form and move it around. 

Congratulations, you've visually imposed your tulpa :D Now you can interact with them in reality and do 
nsfw stuff with them while pretending you don't because it's morally wrong.




Final notes:

Obviously, this requires patience and lots of time, as all tulpaforcing techniques do. I've found it best 
to practice this at night, when I'm tired and more prone to hallucinate, however you can practice this 
whenever you feel is best for you. Remember to be persistent and consistent, and to incorporate your tulpa 
in the process whenever you can. Ask them about how you're doing, how you can do things better, etc. It's a 
different process for everybody so you probably won't do it exactly the way I described, but this should 
give you a good idea of where to start. Good luck :D