Feature: Paracosm Immersion A paracosm (also known as a mental wonderland) is a kind of thoughtspace that you can create, control and immerse yourself into. It is a lot less hard to create and immerse yourself into than people expect, almost deceptively so. The method explained in this document is roughly based on literal philosophical metaphysical analysis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphysics), or in simpler terms: to answer the following two questions with as much detail and as generally as possible. 1. What is _there_? 2. What is _it like_? The method used here is a combination of a sensory grounding technique and something I found to help mitigate feelings of aphasia. The parts of this technique can be thusly taken out of the context of this exercise and used to either help you ground yourself or for helping you feel like you can visualize and experience things better. It's really not hard unless you make it hard. Make it easy and it will be trivial. I have been noting my progress here: https://write.as/ma-insa/ If you want to read more on the topic, look here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracosm This subreddit may also be useful: https://www.reddit.com/r/paracosms/ > If you want to view paradise > Simply look around and view it > Anything you want to, do it > Want to change the world? > There's nothing to it - Pure Imagination: https://youtu.be/SVi3-PrQ0pY Background: Given you have a mental world in mind Or an image of what you would like to experience And are willing to let the sensations of that world overwhelm you And have some time to yourself And you have some writing device # punt if this distracts you Scenario: picking somewhere in the space As a visitor of that world In order to get an idea of where you want to go When you pick a place Then keep it in mind as you go forward Scenario: grounding As a visitor of that world in the location you picked In order to help ground yourself into that world When you take in the sensations that would make sense for it Then you note five things you can see Then you note four things you can hear Then you note three things you can touch Then you note two things you can smell Then you note one thing you can taste Then you note additional sensory reactions to things as they come into your focus Scenario: feature analysis for random things you noted As a visitor of that world in the location you picked In order to get more detail in mind about some random thing you noted When you focus on that thing in particular Then you note what group or category that thing is in Then you note what common uses exist for that thing Then you note what inherent actions are common for that thing Then you note what properties that thing has Then you note what the most common location for that thing is Then you note any other associations that come up when thinking about that thing Then you repeat this a few times as makes sense Scenario: daily practice As someone who wants to immerse in a mental world In order to help train this skill When you are planning your day # I personally find it helps the most in the morning Then add some time for this practice Then (if it helps) set a timer to help limit your sessions # I use 30 minutes maximum Then pick a place you want to immerse yourself into Then ground yourself in that place Then describe a few things using feature analysis Then (if it helps) put your notes into a blog or diary of some kind