getting pluraler

can non-willogenics even impose in the first place?

do people ever reach a point where they actually vividly hallucinate their headmates around them or is it all a "mind's eye" thing like seeing your headspace is? if so, how long does it typically take for imposition to transition from "mind's eye" to hallucinated?

how do you keep details of your imposed body consistent? I feel like every time i work on imposition my imposed body is a different height

am i, as the person who's being imposed, supposed to feel things through my imposed body or the meatbody?

thanks -dan of @stick-tap-sys

This is unfortunately outside of our realm of expertise. We used to impose a lot back in the day but it's sort of been lost on us outside of being able to "mind's eye" it as you said. I'll post this one and see if anyone has any answers! I'll do my best to boost any reblogs that people make offering advice!

You probably should also look into Prophantasia, if that's something you know it's relatively safe for you or you're risk aware. Also, these kind of abilities don't normally have much data about how long it takes on average, and I believe it's actually something pretty personal. It depends in various variables too.

This guide is intended to help improve your lucid dreaming abilities as well as dreams in general. You start by cultivating habits that slowly ease you into hopefully achieving daily lucid dreams. At first, your focus will not be on getting a lucid dream, but to improve dream recall. After reaching a satisfactory point, you’ll then continuously increase dream journal goals. There’s many advantages to lucid dreaming habitually, including:

Having fun! Anything is possible in a lucid dream, the only limit is your skill level and imagination. You can explore your mindscape vividly, spend time with headmates in a new way, improve mindscape designs, etc.

Practicing skills. Lucid dreams are a great way to train abilities, since practicing in a dream is essentially the same as practicing in real life. Of course, there’s limits to this, but an example would be practicing a dance routine. It activates the same brain functions, so therefore there’s almost no difference. 

Meditative abilities. Lucid dreaming is the pinnacle of immersion and relaxation, so you can supercharge meditation while in one. Self hypnosis and conditioning is much more powerful since you can change your environment to be the perfect setting for your needs

Here’s the steps you want to follow:

First, I want you to make a dream journal. This will improve dream recall and teach your brain that dream memories are of a higher importance. People tend to forget dreams because they have zero importance in everyday life, so they fade quickly as it’s a waste of memory. Dream journaling will rewrite that habit. The goal before moving on to the next step is to record at least 1 dream a day for a week. Also, you’ll want to gradually increase dream entry word count. The more you record, the more powerful your lucid dreaming ability will be. You can either write/type them or use an audio recorder. I use an audio recorder, then transcribe it. The advantage of using audio, in my experience, is that you can record more in a shorter amount of time. As for writing, since writing things down activates the same regions as note-taking, your ability will improve faster. It’s up to you which one you use. 

Additionally, you’ll want to perform at least 15 reality checks a day. These are tests to determine if you're dreaming, and there’s many of them. My most reliable one is to put a finger up to my nose and try to breathe through it. In a dream, you’ll find you can take in air while it’s plugged, confirming you are dreaming. 

The progression I used for dream logs goes as follows:

Goal 1: record at least 1 dream a day until you reach 7 days in a row

Goal 2: Average your word count per entry, then add 5-10% of it. This is your new goal for word count per dream entry. For example, if your average is 600 words, your new goal would be 660. After 5 days, average up your records for those 5 days, and if you’ve reached the goal repeat the cycle

Goal 3: record at least 2 dreams a day for a week.

Goal 4: Go through your entries and try to find recurring themes and patterns. After finding some, set an intention for yourself to perform reality checks whenever you come across them in waking life. For me, I drive a lot, so whenever I’m in a car I set an awareness anchor to constantly be on the lookout for dreamlike situations, and perform reality checks frequently

Goal 5: start paying attention to hypnagogia before sleep, and try to remember at least 1 hypnagogic hallucination to remember upon awakening. When you succeed at this, create another section in your dream journal specifically for hypnagogia. 

Goal 6: after successfully recording a hypnagogic hallucination for 5 days, pump it up by remembering 2, then 3 and so on. Try to remember as many as you can. This will help form the habit to stay on alert for them, and that habit will begin to bleed into your dreams, causing lucidity. This will also train you for eventually performing a WILD, as you’ll soon linger in hypnagogia for so long that it’ll transition directly to a dream. 

By the end of these steps, you should have at least a few lucid dreams recorded. In the first month of this I got 8 in one month, then got 4 each week thereafter. It’s a very powerful combination of skills! 

That’s basically it! There’s a few more tips and tricks you can do to enhance your performance. These aren’t necessarily required, but it’ll pump up your chances significantly:

Read “Exploring The World Of Lucid Dreaming” by Stephen LaBerge. This book is the best lucid dreaming book out there, in my opinion. It goes into great detail on many techniques, and was written by the scientist that proved lucid dreaming at Stanford. I recommend listening/reading it at least once a day, and I got lots of success by listening to a chapter after waking up briefly in the morning after 5-6 hours of sleep.

There’s 2 supplements you can take to enhance recall and vividness: Choline and Vitamin B6. I don’t really take Choline too often, but I do take B6 every 3 days. B6 has been an awesome dream enhancing supplement, and it’s pretty safe. The only thing to look out for is that taking too much will have consequences, but it’s a pretty high dose to get to it. The upper limit varies by source, but it’s generally around 50-100mg a day. The dose needed to enhance dreams is around 10-25mg, so it’s not too high to cause concern. My pills are 100mg doses, so I just take 1 every 3 days to average it out. Choline does the same as B6, but in my experience it’s not as strong of an effect.

There will be times where your progress will suddenly stop or stall. It’s a common occurrence, and paradoxically the solution is to scale back efforts. If you suddenly stop getting results, don’t practice for a few days then come back. I know it seems counterproductive, but that’s a deception.

Dreams in general are more common during REM sleep, which occurs during the later hours of your sleep. It’s most common during the last 2 hours and also during naps, so sleep deprivation is a huge killer towards your progress. Make sure you’re getting at least 7-8 hours!

Reward yourself! Lucid Dreaming is a skill you can't really practice like other skills, so when you succeed on any of the goals give yourself a good treat. This will also help build the habit faster as the brain starts associating lucid dreams with dopamine and joy.

That’s it for the guide, good luck with your progress. If you have any questions, feel free to ask!

today, i'm focusing on future me. by that, i mean i'm making a self-care box for when things are really tough and i just need an easy means to unwind or self-soothe. in my box, i'm including colored pens, an anxiety workbook with coloring pages/distractions, a snack, a book i want to read, affirmation cards, cozy socks, fidgets, earplugs, some of my favorite comforting poetry, a blank notebook, my safety plans and emergency contacts, reminders of my coping skills, mental health worksheets, and probably some more stuff i haven't thought of yet!

for even more ideas, check out this awesome blog post that i was inspired by!

do you guys play TTRPGs or online RPs? we've been thinking of using them as tools to increase separation, decrease blurriness and help us unmask and stuff... but we don't really know how to go about it. does anyone have any tips?

Oh, online RP has been a wonder for us! As a teenager, we'd hosted multiple different kinds of online roleplays, such as discord servers, tumblr ask blogs, and our personal favourite, VRChat LARP with friends! We don't recommend playing or roleplaying with randos, but there are safe communities where you can find new people to start RPs with! VRChat LARP was by FAR the most immersive for us, as you could actually look in the mirror or down at your hands and See your character/form as you'd like to see it! Our fictives and alters still adore getting to play VRChat, even if it's solo or not for Roleplay!

do you have any tips on how to roleplay as a system IRL? because we find it kinda hard to do... Like it's much harder than roleplaying online

Roleplaying is a great gateway in our experience! Our system was technically Roleplay based as it was created with constant live-action roleplay with our sibling. I know it can be hard to get into doing in person, especially if people around you are ones you might need to mask around. But if you have friends who you've told about it, give it a shot with them! Act out switches and behave like your headmates, try to find their unique voice, their style, their tastes.

You can even manage this while masking if you'd like, simply by shifting your thinking how you think they'd think, picking things you think they'd like when you get the chance, and similar. Ultimately it's about finding the right state of mind. I'd reccomend looking into tips for Live-Action RP(LARP) and Method Acting as well, as this can severely help! We raised ourselves on learning acting and voice acting, so we're a bit biased and aren't great at directly teaching what we've learned, as it feels almost intrinstic to us at this rate.

Don't use either of these platforms if you value yourself and your safety.

Orbit is open about using AI and doubles down no matter what if you point out how risky using AI for an app like this is.

Indigo on the other hand, made an eager post about the app they're developing, saying that they can look at your data and will very much delete your account if they find out you're an endo or find endo material in your account.

Remember that there are going to be people looking to take advantage of the fact there's very little for systems right now. Do your due diligence and make sure to do extensive research before using any platform claiming to be for systems, even if by a system.

some screenshots of stuff i have done so far! do not get your hopes up, i am NOTORIOUS for not finishing projects, but this is something i am hoping to release at some point…….. even if the hosting costs have to come out of my own pocket! i have some friends testing what i have so far. ^_^

A big part of Concordia is promoting plural tools and increasing their visibility, and we want to actively support the developers and communities creating them.

Please use the comments of this post to share any projects you have seen — whether they're upcoming, currently in development, or already released. If possible, include their features, who has made them and their syscourse stance as well.

What is Concordia?

Concordia is a planned plural-focused app being developed through The Concordia Project.

The goal of Concordia is to provide tools that help plural systems organise and manage system information, similar to apps like Simply Plural. This may include things like system member profiles, front tracking, journals, switching notifications and internal messaging – as well as providing accessible information resources and communities.

This is my guide on how to quickly and efficiently level up your ability to immerse in your mindscape. By following these tips and tricks, you can anchor yourself and make mindscape exploration a valuable tool for switching and relaxing in your personal paradise. It’s a common precept that figuring this out requires trial and error, also that it takes a very long time. I believe the reason it takes some people so long is that they’re training in an inefficient way. These tips will help develop your abilities quicker, leading to great progress quickly. It's better to view this as not a "master skill within days", but rather a marathon of constant improvement. Keep your expectations low to avoid demotivation.

One: Training. Every. Day.

If you want to build your skill, or any skill, the key is consistency. This is definitely, in my point of view, THE most important factor for developing your ability to immerse. By training every day, you fall into the mindset that every day is better than the previous one. It’ll take time for results to show up at first, but after even a week of this you’ll see your ability is better than Day 1. 10 minutes a day is much more effective than an hour once a week. You can start small and build up as the weeks pass, start with 5 minutes if you have to.

Two: Increasing working memory

Working memory is basically the human equivalent of RAM. The more RAM you have, the more you can focus on before you get overloaded. There’s many ways of improving working memory, from Dual N Back to Complex Working Memory training (both of which are available here). This, of course, is more effective if you TRAIN EVERY DAY. It’ll be hard but very much worth it. Also, as you train every day the amount of working memory required to immerse will decrease as your brain develops more efficient ways to immerse. All while your total working memory increases. Working memory is also needed to immerse while another headmate is switched in, as they’ll be using it to function as well. Start with easy tasks like immersing while another headmate does something simple like counting to 100, then as your ability grows graduate to immersing while another headmate takes a walk. We used Ultimate Custom Night to help learn this: Scout (one of my headmates who switched in) would play with a low score and I would immerse and keep my senses in awareness while sitting in a chair. Then, as he passed night after night we’d gradually add more score and I’d do more complex things like doing exercises and walking in mindscape. 

NOTE: There's still uncertainty on how effective working memory training is, but I and many others have seen improvement in my abilities from developing it, so I think it's worth it.

Three: Improving visualization

Visualization is a skill that can be developed just like any other skill, and there’s SO MANY ways to improve it. Here's a good resource on it, as well as this and this. You can do this skill all the time during everyday life, like imagining animations while listening to music or reading fiction. Getting to a point where you can visualize easily will do wonders for your journey.

Four: Anchoring your senses

You want to be able to feel your senses in mindscape without directing conscious energy towards it. This mirrors everyday life; you don't need to think about feeling cold when going out on a winter night, it just happens. You can start with a single sense, then when it’s developed to your liking evolve the habit by adding another sensation. Be careful to not neglect the sense you just formed, it’s easy to forget about it after training it. For example, I started with feeling my bare feet on various mindscape surfaces, then kept going until it was second nature. After, I decided I wanted to feel my tail behind me, so I imagined how it would feel. Then, I’d constantly keep that sensation in my awareness until it got strong enough to barely need to focus on it. I’d go on to add more senses until I was satisfied. You can use the anchoring techniques used to stop yourself from dissociating, but for the mindscape. Find 5 things to see, 4 to feel, 3 to hear, 2 to smell, and 1 to taste. Then, take one of each to keep with you for as long as you can. I like to use gum for taste; as you chew on it constantly you can set a timer to aim for in order to get a concrete way to measure yourself. Start with a minute and go from there! Then, try to go for a streak of how many intervals you can achieve in a row. This is an excellent way to measure your success. As the skill gets better you’ll have spare RAM to either intensify the feeling or lengthen the duration, forming a loop of constant improvement. Eventually you’ll find yourself immersing much more efficiently, which will help prevent snapping back to the body.

REMINDER: keep safe while doing this, y'all.

Five: Create a meditation routine...Meditation is an excellent way to help develop your habit as it promotes neuroplasticity, a powerful brain functions that helps form your routines. The more of this you have, the less time it’ll take to form your habit, freeing up more time to develop the routines. There’s also many other benefits to meditation that’s a nice bonus!

Six: Create an “Immersing Room” in mindscape

By having a constant area that never changes you can develop a habit to help anchor yourself quickly every time you switch out. I have a meditation room that’s simply a large floating bedroom, but with glass for walls. Every time I switch out I go to this room and perform the 5-4-3-2-1 method to help anchor within a few minutes. Then I do whatever it is that I want to do in mindscape. By doing this repeatedly you’ll form a habit to instantly anchor yourself without even needing to think about it.

Seven: Practice without switching out

By switching I mean transferring bodily control to another headmate. You don’t have to be switched out to develop your habits. While in the physical body you can imagine chewing a piece of gum or feeling a phantom limb, then when you switch out you’ll find that you need less brainpower to achieve the same effect.

Eight: Log your results

Logging your progress periodically gives you the ability to more effectively check in on yourself. Reread your logs to keep track of what works and doesn’t, and plan your next steps accordingly. This also contributes to neuroplasticity.

Nine: Reward yourself

By rewarding yourself for a job well done you encourage the brain to develop the skill faster, as the subconscious links the two together. You can also create motivation to practice more for more enticing rewards.  The subconscious will be conditioned to equate good progress to more rewards (leading to more desire to practice), and you can reduce bad habits for an extra bonus. For example, I want to reduce my time spent on my phone, so I abstain from it until I do a great job for the day. You can get very creative with this, literally anything can be a reward if it’s something you desire. Use small rewards for small progress and adjust as you do more intense training. As I’ve said in a previous post, I’m definitely more motivated to go above and beyond if I’ll get a brand new GPU for an intense goal (It’s an extreme example but it still applies).

Ten: Get good rest

Getting a full night of sleep cements your habits much more effectively than being sleep deprived, as you’ll have much more energy to spare for it. By being sleep deprived, you severely handicap your ability to learn new things like habits. If you’re constantly sleep deprived, gradually nudge yourself in the right direction by getting into bed at a regularly scheduled time, reducing screen time as bedtime approaches (read or log your progress instead!), and other common antidotes listed here.

Also, if you’re training heavily every day, take some days for lighter sessions. Mental fatigue can be pretty detrimental as you’ll accidentally form bad habits if you overlook something.

Eleven: For those of us with ADHD

ADHD will definitely affect your progress, but there’s many steps you can take to reduce interference. ADHD messes with the brain’s reward system, so you’ll have to think outside the box to do well. We crave instant gratification, so we’ll need other techniques to improve our progress. This is where gamifying the process, rewarding yourself, and taking short breaks really shine.