Wonderland creation

There's a difference between "helping" and "helping too much". Sometimes people need to figure out stuff on their own, especially when it's a personal, subjective journey.

That doesn't mean you can't show the beginning techniques. Like with art -- everyone will develop their own style and technique, but learning the basics establishes that foundation that they can then branch off of in their own direction. Same with any kind of visualization -- first learn the basics and how they apply to different subjects (tulpas: people or animals, movement, gestures expressions, voices, touch. wonderlands: objects, spatial awareness and recall, furniture, architecture, landscape features, navigation, etc.) and then you can more easily and effortlessly build your own.

And nothing is more personal and subjective than your own mind.

So? A well-written guide takes that into consideration.

You have to bite the bullet and go at it. Having someone hold your hand shows you their journey, not yours, and you won't get as much out of it.

Going along with someone on their journey can teach you the steps needed to set out on your own. I'm not talking about a guide that's all, "And two feet to your left there's a tree, reach out and touch the rough bark." I'm talking, "Consider what an object feels like when you hold it. Is it warm, or cool? Feel it's weight and pressure on your hand. How does it move?" That sort of thing. You don't need to go to the same place as your guide to be guided to visualise a place, and learn to create one from scratch. You need to learn to pay attention to and recall sensory details and reconstruct them in your mind -- which is all visualization really is, but if you're bad at it or never learned how, figuring out how is tough to start.

Yeah, I sound like a dick, but I don't lie, and I give the best, not easiest, answer.

The nature of a subjective journey means everyone goes their own way -- but that doesn't mean every way is distinct in every way. There are enough similarities amongst most people that a well-written guide can at least get someone started off well. Of course I'm well aware that what works best for one doesn't work best for everyone -- and that includes going guideless. Your idea of best =/= everyone's.

You don't sound like a dick. You just have a mistaken idea of what kind of guide I'm talking about.

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