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Especially now that I'm dabbling in the metaphysical and I have stuff like external beings manifesting in my neighborhood that want to come mess with my mindscapes if I don't maintain barriers
@Jas concentrate on how sleepiness feels and manifest that in your mind. It is a simple pushing your mind into that feeling or pushing that feeling into your mind.
I guess I don't know exactly what that means. Insomnia is a problem that we can only naturally solve with extreme sleep deprivation, and that always seems to result in conscious sleep paralysis
Sometimes I am not tired, and still find my consciousness lapsing into lost time too. Somehow I need to figure out how to generate a feeling of unconsciousness. Consciously. Or I can figure out how people control their forays into out of body experiences. I don't want to start practicing it intentionally until I stop doing it unintentionally.
10:07 PM
There's a painful feeling when you are in freefall and the buzzing hypnagogic hallucination gets so loud. It's worse to just force relaxation through these senses and allow that sort of sensation to be perceived.
I was wondering yesterday if trying to pull away from the body controls as if for a switch might help with inducing sleep, but I'm not sure how reliable that would be(edited)
It can help in the sense of focus if you do that meditation where you're as still and relaxed as possible (like you're letting go of all control) but I haven't yet managed to convert that to anything like sleeping faster.
Say, I understand why all of you react so negatively to the golem post... But: I do think he raises some rather valid points. If you scroll a bit trough the comments, the OP makes some pretty interesting and valid points.
For example, most of not all of the users here think that tulpas are sentient, period. OP on the other hand puts his morality on hold and objectively analyses the situation.
Yes, the things he says might seem cruel to you, but I say he raises good questions and maybe wakes up those blind believers.
But hey, maybe I'm wrong, who knows? Have some of you had the internal debate whether a tulpa is really sentient or not and what were your arguments?(edited)
@Deleted User you can't accurately differentiate between a real sentient being and a p-zombie, so I think we should treat all beings as sentient until proven p-zombie(edited)
AJ is sentient, she has feelings, and is seperate from me and can... feel
I would go into how I knows she can feel but there are no nsfw channels.
At the absolute LEAST she is incredibly good at emulating these feelings.
I guess in the end it's a belief thing. If you want the tulpa to become sentient and independent, it will, otherwise it won't.
10:34 AM
I hate how everything in the world dissipates if you look close enough. In the end, it'll make no difference how I treat the tulpa, just the experience I'll get may vary.
I meant that in a broader sense. It's unbelievably frustrating to search for a definite truth, because there is none. Yet again, most people seem to think there is one...(edited)
Well... if some of the principles of magic can be used in the ways I think they can be, anything that sets off my "powerful being" radar is to be avoided at all costs(edited)
1:18 PM
I'd rather not deal with bona fide eldrich-tier beings
1:19 PM
Whereas before it was just "oh hey, I sense a being at that church maybe I should go say hi"(edited)
I'd be interested too! If you find some time, would you care to throw some names (people, books, etc) at us for some advanced research? Occultism is quite fascinating^^
This book will get you started taking meditation to the next level, which is useful for creating mindscapes and channelling processing-intensive tasks when the need arises
5:06 PM
The Mind Control and Sigils parts I use, and make sure to take note of the barriers section
5:07 PM
The rest of the book... I don't really use
5:08 PM
Pages 14-22 are the specific range
5:10 PM
People who study tulpamancy will likely know about image concentration, but the other two types the book mentions are useful as well
5:12 PM
Anyways, with respect to the "magic" stuff, there tend to be three main components to a "spell": knowledge of what needs to happen in order for the desired effect to come about and a method by which to enact such a thing, energy to fuel the change, and faith that magic works (that last one is trickier than you'd think)
5:14 PM
An example of a low-level spell would be a barrier spell. I project via image concentration the shape of the barrier into my vision as if it were actually in the real world around me, making sure to describe all the edges and faces involved in the shape, as well as its volume, then start feeding energy into the shape, and that's the spell
5:15 PM
I mentioned terrifying things? If my theories about magic's potential is correct, how do beings that can travel through time freely, warp space on a whim, or conjure storms of gamma radiation to assault you sound?
5:17 PM
I will say that venturing into this field comes with side effects
5:18 PM
Once you get your mind's eye working well, you can get... visitors... from time to time, and they're not always friendly to the contents of the mindscape or your mind
Alright, NOW I'm curious! First of all, thank you for taking the time to compose a useful and informative answer, I appreciate that! And second: Could you elaborate on the visitor part?
So far, I've met a being that implied it was "one who guides the dead", so make of that what you will, a weird eldrich shark-looking thing, as well as some various other lesser beings that have shown up from time to time, ranging from weird golem-like things to a swarm of insects that showed up today while I was having to sit through church.
5:26 PM
The dead-guiding one and the shark showed up in my dreams, and the others invaded my mindscapes while conscious
5:27 PM
I call the first two external beings because they're foreign symbols to me and even in the dreams I was confused by their appearance(edited)
Anyways, to summarize where I'm at with magic stuff, I'm currently working on being able to create auditory illusions so that I can integrate sounds into my mindscapes, as well as starting to look into learning something akin to the chakra system so I can get energy control and make casting more consistent than it currently is
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