this is a blog to inspire people and to help them get more plural!
i am NOT radqueer, i simply use transID terms for reach, and because they personally describe my experiences and POV regarding what i seek in terms of my plurality.
i have been in the DID/OSDD/plural community for 10+ years, and as of writing this (April 2026), I am 26 years old!
eventually i want to get to "worsening" my symptoms (but decreasing my somatic, conceptual, and emotional dissociation) so that i can finally work on addressing my "trauma" and "painful past".
if you must know, i personally want to be "more plural" so that i can feel more valid as a system, in addition to having a functional system that is actually helpful for me.
i am a median system with 5-ish sides/facets!
currently i am working on drafting more shadows ("facets/members"), and eventually i want to be a complex system with some amnesia barriers and a decent amount of differientiation.
So you want to make a tulpa, alright give me ten minutes and a dream
Hello everyone, my name is Astra of the Candlelight Society. I am a tulpa, and for the last few years I have been working on my techniques for making a tulpa, defining a tulpa, and how to learn all the tricks, secrets, and wonders of tulpamancy. Through all of this I have developed a wonderful community of like minded people and have refined many of my ideas into things I believe are practical and useful.
Due to this I have been working on a guide to tulpamancy and the wonderful mental world that surrounds it and adjacent mental skills. This guide is nowhere near complete however, so instead what I want to do is provide small independent topics of it in posts for others to use and benefit from in the meantime. To begin this process, I want to address the most common question I get: how do I make a tulpa?
This will not cover what a tulpa is, tulpa terminology, or anything elaborative. Below you are going to find the shortest, simplest guide you will ever see on this topic without sacrificing quality, in the form of some basic instruction and an exercise I wish to walk you through.
To begin, you need two things for your tulpa, a form and a personality. A form is how they are going to appear in your minds eye, and this can be absolutely anything. It can be the likeness of a fictional character, an established OC, or something entirely new and unique. All you have to do is figure out what design you think represents what you want them to be best. If you need inspiration, Google images is your friend.
Next you need a personality. To do this think of it like designing a D&D character. I want you to make a mental list of what traits you think would be most important for them to have. These can be brave, energetic, sweet, soft, mischievous, introspective, anything. It may also be useful to think in terms of literary archetypes such as the chivalrous knight or a fem fatale. Collect these traits together and see how they connect to one another in your head, let the shape of a well rounded personality take form.
Once you have the form and the personality, you have the base of your tulpa. This base is what they shall be built upon and shaped by, but it will not be the final verdict. As individuals they may change or grow from these traits in various ways, just like we do as people. More often than not however this base will be a central part of them.
Got all that? Good. That's all that you need. Now if you have read this far, congrats Tiktok hasn't ruined you entirely yet, but also I want to invite you to join an exercise with me. It's simple, easy, and only takes a moment. You'll see why in a second.
I want you to imagine your tulpa, their form standing next to you or sharing any furniture you may be using. Imagine their personality, how they carry themselves, how they act. Imagine them as your tulpa, knowing who they are. Feel their presence. Now I want you to interact with them, it can be in any way but for the sake of this exercise let's use a question. Imagine this question, imagine this question and ask your tulpa about it. Once you have asked this question imagine your tulpas response. Imagine how they would respond to this question as your tulpa, don't force it, don't overanalyze it, just passively let it come into your mind. I want you to take that first clear response that comes naturally and feels right and hold it. Take that question and response and remember it, even feel free to share it on this post.
You have it? Congratulations, you have just spoken with your tulpa.
What you just did was the essence of forcing as Scholastica's style of tulpamancy teaches it. By interacting with your tulpa in this way you begin to build up their autonomy. It may feel like you at first, but don't worry about that. By accepting these responses from your tulpa as real, they become real. The more you interact with your tulpa and get responses back just like you did above, the more they will feel separate from you. Their responses will become faster and smoother, they will feel more distinct and separate from your own identity. Eventually they will be almost entirely independent from you, and your tulpa will be an individual with thoughts, feelings, dreams and memories of their own. From here you simply enjoy and share your life with them. Try and work interacting with your tulpa into your daily routine, the more interactions with you and the world they have the more they will grow.
That's it. That's the guide. It doesn't get any simpler than this. Not without sacrificing effectiveness anyways. No extra material, no deep dives on implications contexts or further technique. This is a tulpamancy creation guide in it's purest form.
If you want to learn more however, please see our new blog, Tulpa Scholastica! @tulpa-scholastica
We've made a more cleaned up version of this guide on tulpa.info for anyone interested! It will likely be uploaded to the r/tulpas subreddit tomorrow as well!
Hello everyone! My name is Astra, a tulpa and member of the Candlelight Society. For the past few years I have been working on my models and
Sorry if youve answered this already, but how do you willo in your first headmate with mad adhd? I cant ever stay focused on willing and always get distracted. At one point i was trying to listen to lofi and think about them but I kept mind wandering!
Thank you for any advice <3
@leafwing120
Haha we have terrible ADHD too (idk if you’ve seen us mention that and that’s why you’re asking, but) so I absolutely get it!!
The very very first time we tried to create a headmate we ended up getting bored and giving up within a couple days because of our ADHD. Like, 4-5 years ago now, I think? But we approached with less of a strict expectation when we started willoing again.
Your new willomate does not need your attention and effort 24/7, at least when they’re not entirely sentient and separate from you (of course once they are, they’re a new being, so they deserve acknowledgment and attention whenever you feel their presence). If you forget for a few hours or a day or so, you haven’t lost progress. If you sit there for 30 minutes and think about them in and out for half that time, then you still spent 15 minutes thinking about them, it doesn’t matter that it wasn’t entirely consistent.
If you have any sort of daily routine (nighttime, morning, after work/school), then try to work into what’s already built. For example, try to talk to and parrot with your headmate while brushing your teeth or making/eating breakfast. We find it really easy to communicate while in the shower, especially back when we were first forming our system!
Try to make it fun and interactive, too, so it’s easier to pay attention! For example, load up a building game (Minecraft, Sims, Bloxburg, Rooms) and build them a room while talking to them! Or make them a playlist, moodboard, gacha character, picrew, or straight up draw them.
You can also try to find pro-endo friends to hold you accountable to remembering and engaging with your willomate. When I was forming our system, we looked around for a bit and found a partner system on tumblr who was also a brand new willogenic system, and so we helped each other remember just by interacting every day. We’d give our headmates chances to talk to each other as well, which helped a lot.
Good luck willoing, whatever you do and whatever works for you!! Even 2 days of consistently doing what you want to do and then losing interest/forgetting for 5 days is still better and more effective than 7 days of not having done it at all. That goes for anything at all, too, not just willoing!
So you want to make a tulpa, alright give me ten minutes and a dream
Hello everyone, my name is Astra of the Candlelight Society. I am a tulpa, and for the last few years I have been working on my techniques for making a tulpa, defining a tulpa, and how to learn all the tricks, secrets, and wonders of tulpamancy. Through all of this I have developed a wonderful community of like minded people and have refined many of my ideas into things I believe are practical and useful.
Due to this I have been working on a guide to tulpamancy and the wonderful mental world that surrounds it and adjacent mental skills. This guide is nowhere near complete however, so instead what I want to do is provide small independent topics of it in posts for others to use and benefit from in the meantime. To begin this process, I want to address the most common question I get: how do I make a tulpa?
This will not cover what a tulpa is, tulpa terminology, or anything elaborative. Below you are going to find the shortest, simplest guide you will ever see on this topic without sacrificing quality, in the form of some basic instruction and an exercise I wish to walk you through.
To begin, you need two things for your tulpa, a form and a personality. A form is how they are going to appear in your minds eye, and this can be absolutely anything. It can be the likeness of a fictional character, an established OC, or something entirely new and unique. All you have to do is figure out what design you think represents what you want them to be best. If you need inspiration, Google images is your friend.
Next you need a personality. To do this think of it like designing a D&D character. I want you to make a mental list of what traits you think would be most important for them to have. These can be brave, energetic, sweet, soft, mischievous, introspective, anything. It may also be useful to think in terms of literary archetypes such as the chivalrous knight or a fem fatale. Collect these traits together and see how they connect to one another in your head, let the shape of a well rounded personality take form.
Once you have the form and the personality, you have the base of your tulpa. This base is what they shall be built upon and shaped by, but it will not be the final verdict. As individuals they may change or grow from these traits in various ways, just like we do as people. More often than not however this base will be a central part of them.
Got all that? Good. That's all that you need. Now if you have read this far, congrats Tiktok hasn't ruined you entirely yet, but also I want to invite you to join an exercise with me. It's simple, easy, and only takes a moment. You'll see why in a second.
I want you to imagine your tulpa, their form standing next to you or sharing any furniture you may be using. Imagine their personality, how they carry themselves, how they act. Imagine them as your tulpa, knowing who they are. Feel their presence. Now I want you to interact with them, it can be in any way but for the sake of this exercise let's use a question. Imagine this question, imagine this question and ask your tulpa about it. Once you have asked this question imagine your tulpas response. Imagine how they would respond to this question as your tulpa, don't force it, don't overanalyze it, just passively let it come into your mind. I want you to take that first clear response that comes naturally and feels right and hold it. Take that question and response and remember it, even feel free to share it on this post.
You have it? Congratulations, you have just spoken with your tulpa.
What you just did was the essence of forcing as Scholastica's style of tulpamancy teaches it. By interacting with your tulpa in this way you begin to build up their autonomy. It may feel like you at first, but don't worry about that. By accepting these responses from your tulpa as real, they become real. The more you interact with your tulpa and get responses back just like you did above, the more they will feel separate from you. Their responses will become faster and smoother, they will feel more distinct and separate from your own identity. Eventually they will be almost entirely independent from you, and your tulpa will be an individual with thoughts, feelings, dreams and memories of their own. From here you simply enjoy and share your life with them. Try and work interacting with your tulpa into your daily routine, the more interactions with you and the world they have the more they will grow.
That's it. That's the guide. It doesn't get any simpler than this. Not without sacrificing effectiveness anyways. No extra material, no deep dives on implications contexts or further technique. This is a tulpamancy creation guide in it's purest form.
If you want to learn more however, please see our new blog, Tulpa Scholastica! @tulpa-scholastica
If you're interested in making a tulpa, regardless of what you call it, I'd recommend checking out the tulpanomicon!
Some guides in it may be a bit outdated, but it's also got a good mix of different perspectives!
Before getting started, I'd advise reading these two in particular:
The first gives you things to consider before committing to making a tulpa. The second is coming from the other side and listing bad reasons to not do it, helping to alleviate some doubts.
I'd also highly suggest this guide on how to be a good host:
Even if you just go into it expecting it to be a simple imaginary friend, your relationship with your totally-not-a-tulpa will be stronger the more respect you show them.
Below is one of the most detailed guides you'll find on the internet:
Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. Explanation of a Tulpa 3. Different Types of Tulpas 4. Basic Creation of Tulpa 5. Creating a Summoned T
And if you'd like to find resources for yourself, you can see a big list of community guides and resources here:
A list of the various guides, tips, and articles submitted to tulpa.info, arranged by their topic. Whether an entry is approved or disapprov
I would tag you, but something tells me you'll find this post on your own! 🤪
Hey! I’m attempting to create a soulbond/willogenic headmate. I’ve been trying for about a month or two without much progress. Do you have any advice?
Hihi!! It’s different for everybody, so I can’t say any advice I have for you will work, or maybe I’ll just sound like a broken record with advice you’ve heard before, but I’ll try anyway!
What worked for us was talking with each other. This worked especially well when we were tired, because when we’re tired, we don’t mask as well and therefore it’s easier to do things that are “weird.” My first willomate was Mari, a caregiver, so I would often imagine her telling me to go to bed or eat something, and I would also walk her through what I was doing while I was caring for myself!
Talking helps a lot. It will feel like roleplay— even when they’re formed, if your system is monoconcious like ours, it may still feel like roleplay. The important thing is to acknowledge that they exist. Even when they’re forming, even when they don’t have a consciousness of their own yet, even when they just feel like a “puppet,” they still exist.
You don’t have to talk to them every day for them to exist. They don’t have to front to exist. They don’t have to speak to be with you in front, if you feel them without them speaking, that counts too!
Act like them sometimes, too. Online, make posts “acting” like them, think how you believe they would, eat things they like but you don’t, pick up a hobby they like even if you’re not too interested in it; convince yourself it’s them, not you. If you have discord, find an endogenic safe space, make a pk proxy for them, talk to others as them and allow them to make friends and have conversations. Especially conversations you wouldn’t typically have! If it fits them, give them a typing quirk, because that helps you “get into the mindset” of another person!
If you’re in an environment you can’t really let them front, if it’s possible, let them front when you’re alone. At night when everybody’s asleep, let them guide you through your nighttime routine, choose the video or book you use to wind down, something like that.
Another tip I’ve heard, if you’re worried they may disappear— give them something in the physical world that is separate from you, something ground and connect them! Give them friends, communities, maybe a favorite object like a stuffed animal or a favorite activity that you don’t share. Allow them to exist separate from you and have connections to this world that you don’t.
And above all— any progress is progress. Even if it’s so subtle it feels like nothing, even a mountain can be made up of a lot of smaller rocks, even a huge pile of sand is just thousands of tiny grains. It doesn’t happen overnight, and even if they feel more like an “imaginary friend” than a separately conscious headmate, they’re still a headmate, and they still exist.
you do not have to be a human to be treated well. humanity is not a requirement to be treated with respect, dignity, and compassion. it is entirely reasonable to expect to be treated well, which you are more than deserving of for existing. your nonhumanity is entirely capable of being respected, acknowledged, and considered, with compassion and care.
plu·ral relating to, consisting of, or containing more than one
-ism state : condition : property
WARNING: SYSCOURSE OPINION
I would like to talk about something that's been on my mind for months since we've accepted our plurality as someone who suppressed their own system mainly because of people's opinions AND medical labels.
Why so much "syscourse"? Its merely divided us all. Anti this. Anti that. I understand harmful paraphilias and IDs, but outside of all that, you're gonna be ignorant to someone else's experience of being and feeling multiple simply based on YOUR experiences itself and what YOU believe is "true" multiplicity/plurality?
Opinions on someone else's experience on "what it means to be plural/multiple" is NOT YOUR PLACE to comment on, whether maybe they asked or not, whether you are medically recognized or not, whether your experiences are "real" in your saying or not, whether you've done your research or doing it, living through it or wanting to live through it;
THATS YOUR OPINION AND IT IS NOT A TRUTH BUT A PERSPECTIVE ON A SELF-IDENTIFYING EXPERIENCE THAT COMES IN A WIDE VARIETY (UNLESS STATED FROM TEXTBOOK, IT WOULD BE CONSIDERED "SCIENCE FACT"/A BIASED OPINION.)
With little research in dissociative disorders (in the traumatized childhood sense) and with the ever growing stories of natural, created and unknown multiplicity, there is more to it than a written textbook (DSM-5).
I have done research on DID/OSDD and Plurality itself within 5-6 years (not consistent) but enough to understand the fundamentals, the background and how such can form. So this is a... Semi-biased(?) opinion...? /gen. With my own research based around multiplicity, the stories I've read and even my own experiences in multiplicity, this is considered "biased" despite my best efforts to be neutral, I do not agree with "anti-" anything other than actual crimes.
Calling yourself "anti-endo", "anti-willo", "anti-tulpa", "anti-(INSERT PLURAL ORIGIN)" is acknowledging an existence even if you do not want to/care for it, you are still acknowledging someone's literal experience outside of medical recognition whether you're tagging "anti-" or not. Your opinion of someone's experience with multiplicity, a spectrum of such, is being self-absorbed in your one lil world of what it "truly means" to be multiple. I dunno man, seems pretty weird to be "anti-endo" while also being "pluralpunk". 🙄
To be considered "multiple" comes in 4 of MANY subgroups (as by the plural symbol that hints at a community's peace, the interlocking circles of possible experiences overlapping which was made by "Tracee of ouregaiya" and/or "Iris of Astraea" in October 2011.)
1. Green: Trauma/Adaptive Systems/Medically Disordered systems formed from early longterm childhood torture/abuse that resulted in the brain splitting into different personality states a childs mind used to cope regardless of choice.
2. Yellow: Unknown Systems/Endogenic systems tend to be formed from traumatic instances growing up but that which they do not remember or know of, or something of mixed origin whether it was through neurodivergence, religious trauma or any abuse/torture they cannot remember or anything the system deems are their experience within being "unknown/endogenic" or maybe they don't want to be labeled. This is a coping mechanism that can be and/or is not a choice depending on the systems perspective themselves.
3. Red: Created Systems are formed from many factors, almost mixed origin depending on the systems perspective of their experiences which could be through maladaptive daydreaming, roleplaying, unintentional/intentional tulpamancy (could be spiritually connected), unintentional/intentional willomancy or paramancy, and possibly even art/music/game/item/fandom related creations to have such headmates (Eg, a system created a "character/headmate" that was the embodiment of an experience they struggle to speak about). This can be seen as a coping mechanism that can last for any amount of time.
4. Blue: Natural/Spontaneous/Spiritual systems are formed from a few factors; which could be tied to a traumatic religious home, being born with more then one soul, through other spiritual practices or through something sudden (Eg: dissociation outside of childhood trauma). Can be a coping mechanism.
Identifying as "plural" is/can be, depending on YOUR experiences based on your surroundings, your memories, how you process in your head and the voices inside your mind;
IS A CHOICE.
Plurality in itself is COPING from what YOU want/need help with. Plurality in itself is having more than one "identity" in you, whether it was made traumatically, suddenly, spiritually, purposefully created or unknowingly: If it feels real to you, express it the way you know (verbal/journal/art/music/video/games/blogs, WHATEVER YOU WANT). Because if they are real to you, let your headmates exist as they are, in a sense, a living being too (neurological rewiring). Does not matter the type. Does not matter how many headmates/alters/tulpas/willomates/fictives/factives you have.
HOWEVER, maybe you are born feeling split in half to the point you've always known, or you grew up talking to fictional characters in your head, maybe your brain needed help as a child and it made an internal best friend (alter) to help cope and carry things a child should not carry. You did not choose that multiplicity, and I am sorry to all disordered systems who grew up in a way NO CHILD should EVER EXPERIENCE. These systems can subjectively accept the "plural" label as they please, but to not be treated that their multiplicity in general was a choice.
You're not invalid if you question yourself. You're not invalid if you don't remember. You're not invalid if you do remember. You're not invalid if you don't know but suspect such. You're not invalid if there's no simple way of explaining it/can't find the "right label." You're not invalid if you don't want a label. You're not invalid if you intentionally created headmates. You're not invalid if you didn't intentionally create your headmates. You're not invalid if you only have fictives. You're not invalid if you only have factives. You're not invalid if you have otherkin/kintypes/otherhearted/therian headmates. You're not invalid based on someone else's opinions/views, knowledge of "plurality/multiplicity" or input on your experiences that which is NOT theirs to talk about- unless you trust them or asked (especially if it's a doctor), that's your decision on how you will respond or deal with such situations.
If they help you to survive, to cope through your surroundings, or to simply not feel lonely, maybe it's a spiritual reasoning, WHATEVER IT IS TO YOU- You are PLURAL. You are VALID. If you want 1000s of headmates, that's nobody's business but yours, that's your brain structure, that's what works for you or it's just for "fun", whatever, it's not my business nor should it be anyone else's, you're not intentionally "mocking" or "copying" a disorder where at least any form of early childhood abuse has to be present (unless you're "adding trauma" to headmates that never experienced such, which is different from a headmates "source" and genuinely copying someone's traumatic experience you/headmate never lived through), your practices can be related to your own trauma itself. It's all up to YOU to interpret. It's YOUR system, YOUR story. No amount of textbook can tell you otherwise (unless it is a growing issue to the point of it may be emotionally, psychologically and/or physically affecting you outside of your usual coping, I do advise you reach out to someone. It's okay to have more help outside of your mind, we know this, do what works for you 💜)
There is a growing amount of systems that are minors due to many factors such as intergenerational trauma (disordered), neurodivergence, lack of actual mental health help helping, Internet influence, grooming and many more; systems who are bodily and/or cognitively an adult who have or are doing the healing through medical recognition (or not), I feel as though we should be willing to have open arms to these experiences on multiplicity outside of written textbook. I don't mind if you're a doctor/a professional in neuroscience or in dissociative disorders. Hear them out. Hear us all out first then study, overanalyze us to diagnose us a medical label. But please. Every system is something, someone's real life. We are all valid enough, we are all real in our sense.
It's been a genuine issue for me to stick in this community due to people outside plurality AND EVEN OTHER PLURAL FOLK THEMSELVES referring to PLURAL FOLKS/SYSTEMS as "ableist", "not actually plural", "not a real system", "someone's who's just lost", "mocking a disorder", "larpers", "fakers", just plain slurs and genuine hate for someone they don't know. There is a BIG difference in the self-identity of "plurality" and being a genuine ableist in DID/OSDD spaces and only those who pry, attack or groom on others on these sorts of things are the people who should be called out upon, NOT the minors and adults who are trying to live in a systematically broken world where they turn to plurality to cope, no matter what "type" it maybe be. And that does not make them invalid simply based on your OWN experiences of multiplicity.
Although all we can do is share our experiences online and talk like normal people, there's gonna be "anti's" for something for which they do not understand, are ignorant about or simply uneducated on plurality/multiplicity and it's spectrum. And that's fine, even if it hurts. We cannot force a change in someone's fixed mindset, only educate on what plurality is all about: an identity outside of what was built through a medical system, that to this day as mentioned before has only so much information on the studied version of dissociative disorders that are built on a brains structure based on SA/CSA/COCSA/DA/RAMCOA or anything heavy trauma related they noted to create alters, not necessarily spiritual practices or how neurodivergence (other brain structures) or loneliness, daydreaming, emotionally absent parents, lots of moving, maybe being born with more then one soul, maybe it was severe bullying; almost anything deemed traumatic for a CHILD can cause and/or create a seperate personality OR an "imaginary friend" that is relatively sentient enough to hold emotions, memories and experience life itself. Everyone has a mindset and your OWN mind itself is YOUR responsibility, NOT someone else's unless YOU want it/don't care for it/asked otherwise, that's up to YOU and YOUR system. So screw people who name call you, call you slurs and genuinely spread bad negative energy and enthusiasm to an experience that is named directly what it is to "have more than one".
If a label helps, go ahead! Who cares? As long as NO ONE IS GETTING HURT and its not harmful to you or spreading/enabling harmful paraphilias/IDs, GO AHEAD!! Does being diagnosed help you? GO FOR IT!!
We're all human.. non-human, alien. We just exist on a fuckin rock yo where we have to pay taxes on stolen land, I feel like we got bigger issues then someone online with 2000 headmates bro 🤷🏼
You're welcome to share an opinion, that does not make it a worldwide truth, but it is your OWN truth to tell that which may be agreed upon, even if it's based on the textbook, that makes it a science fact outside of someone's genuine experience of their own neuroplasticity in THEIR perspective.
An article that helped us see things differently about endos and understand ourselves more too :3. OKAY BYEE HAHAH IM SO NERVOUS TO POST THIS BUT IM SO SERIOUS TOO AAAAAA
NO HATE COMMENTS WELCOMED OR TOLERATED, I BLOCK FREELY 🧿🪽
plurality can be based in many different things without that necessarily being the origin of the system. some of these things can be quite simple, others quite complex, with some being involved in topics that are considered to be rather taboo. and whatever your system is based in can be inherently morally neutral. what matters is your functioning and happiness, not how someone else should think your system should work. so if the road to that is embracing what impacts your system functions and making it into a more functional and happier version of yourselves, it is definitely a road worth taking. your happiness will always come before how others think the world should work.
All The Resources You'll Need To Build Your Own Wonderland, Headspace or Inner World, Now Mobile Compatible!
I made a page dedicated to this, but it wasn't mobile compatible. On request, I decided to make this in a post for mobile readers.
I see a lot of systems asking for advice on building their own inner worlds and Wonderlands. There are a lot of resources out there, but they can be difficult to track down because they all are so spread out between different websites and different systems, so I decided to make a dedicated page for the topic with all of the guides and resources I’ve gathered, to make the process as streamlined as possible.
What’s a Wonderland?
Wonderland, inner world and headspace all refer to places you create inside your mind. These are imagined environments in which you can interact with your headmates.
You should start with the expectation that it isn’t going to feel very real in the beginning. Immersion is a skill that takes time to build. Don’t get discouraged if your inner world experiences don’t match up perfectly with those of others. Be patient and be kind to yourselves.
On Building Headspace
On Building Headspace is an introductory guide that focuses on beginning with a simple object and building around it. It’s light, but is an effective starting point.
YOUR GUIDE TO THE HEADSPACE (For OSDD/DID systems)
This is an introductory guide to building headspaces specific for OSDD/DID.
The DIY Headspace Guide
This handy little guide has a lot of ideas of how to build a headspace for yourself with an accompanying pinterest to jog your creativity. This guide is all about using references from real life, games and art to use as the basis for your inner world.
Immersion
Now that you have the basics down, it’s time to start working on immersion. This is a more in-depth guide focused on immersing yourself in your Wonderland or headspace, going through each of your senses.
Wonderland Immersion
This guide utilizes a much more focused method of immersion through semantic analysis.
How To Refocus On Your Wonderland
A detailed guide on focusing your attention in the Wonderland and staying in the moment.
When Things Go Wrong in Your Imagination and How To Fix Them So They Don’t
This one is pretty self-explanatory, providing tips on how to rein in your Wonderland when it doesn’t seem to be behaving how you’d like it too.
Innerworlds & mindscapes in Plurality & dissociative identity disorder #DID101
This DID-focused guide to inner world creation is centered around using self-hypnosis to enter your inner world and create a safe space in your mind.
How to Build a Memory Palace
This one is actually not about building Wonderlands per se. Rather, it provides you a practical way to use your Wonderland to improve your memory once it’s built. If you’ve already worked so hard building your visualization skills, why not put them to good use by allowing you to more easily remember large amounts of information?
Additional Resources:
Besides guides, here are some other tools you might be interested in using for making your headspaces.
Homestyler
This was mentioned in the DIY guide, but I wanted to provide a direct link to the site, as it’s a free program and could be really useful for designing homes in your inner world.
Inkarnate
Where Homestyler is for your homes, Inkarnate is a map maker that you might find useful for designing the larger areas of your Wonderland. Caves, , landscapes, cities, countries, etc. It’s unfortunately mostly a fantasy map-maker, so you’ll struggle at building a lot of modern or sci-fi environments with it.
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Anyway, I hope someone out there can make use of these. And if anyone else has more guides or resources to add, don’t be afraid to send them my way! Good luck, and happy Wonderlanding!
"Is it plural to-" "Am I a system if-" yes. The answer is yes. You are plural. I don't care what you're talking about, that's plural. If you think you're plural, if you want to be plural, if it would be helpful to identify as plural, you're plural. It doesn't matter how clear or different your headmates are, if you switch or not, if you have amnesia or not. If you identify as one person with different modes and you want to describe yourself as plural, then you're plural. The only person who gets to say if you're plural or not is you, and you say that based on what's helpful to you.
oh oh ! would also like to note that you do not have to be worried about "faking" plurality . even if you are still questioning or curious . if you feel like you are or should be plural , you don't have to keep hiding it or feeling as if you aren't . plurality comes in many different forms and everyone has their own unique experiences ! that includes you ! your own experience of plurality being different from "the norm" doesn't mean you're faking it!
even if you do believe you really are [pt: are] faking it (or "faking it until you make it") , i promise you can still consider yourself plural . yes , even if others have given you shit for it in the past , you aren't invalidating anyone else's experience by being how you are .
I know my truth, I know what happens under my skin.
In my head.
In my mind.
They say "you're faking, you're a liar" but they haven't experienced what you have. They aren't in your shoes.
So whatever you experience with plurality, whether it be through natural causes, traumatic causes, created;
You are valid. You are free. You are real. Everything you experience is real. Don't let people tell you otherwise, I'm tired of people giving others labels or labels being used in general when you can just EXIST.
If labels help btw there's nothing wrong with that :3 (as a system who's fighting for one that helps explain us lol)
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