Six unhurried steps: settle, let an image arise, let it move on its own, step in and engage it, close, then record it faithfully. Nothing is timed — you move when you're ready.
This is a practice of engaging the imagination on purpose: you drop into a quiet state, let a figure, place, or mood appear without forcing it, and then relate to it as though it were real and other — watching what it does, asking who it is, listening for an answer you didn't author. Afterward you write down what happened, in the present tense, as accurately as you can. Over time the record becomes the practice: the images recur, argue, and develop, and the journal is where that conversation lives.
Sit somewhere you won't be disturbed. Let the breath slow and the day's noise drop a few notches. You're lowering the volume of ordinary thinking so something quieter can be heard. Stay until you feel a little more still than when you sat down.
Don't manufacture anything. Wait, and take the first thing that comes on its own — a figure, a place, an animal, a mood, a scrap of scene. Whatever appears is right. If nothing comes, rest your attention on a feeling in the body and let it take a shape.
Now let the image live and change by itself. Follow it; don't steer it. If the figure walks, walk with it. If the scene shifts, let it. Your job is to watch closely and stay with what's actually there, not to write the plot. Give it room to surprise you.
Step in and relate to what's there as if it were real and other than you. Speak to the figure. Ask plainly: who are you? what do you want? why now? Then listen — take the reply that comes as though it were spoken to you, even if it surprises or unsettles you. Let it be a real exchange, not a monologue.
When it feels complete, bring it to a close on good terms. Thank whatever showed up. Let the scene settle and fade, and feel your weight back in the chair, the room around you again. Don't bolt out — come back the way you'd leave a real conversation.
Write it down now, while it's fresh — present tense, plain and faithful. What appeared, what it did, what was said, how it felt. Don't tidy it or interpret it yet; just get it down as it was.
Tapping Record opens a new journal entry with your seed already filled in.
Everyone and everything that has shown up, most frequent first. Tap one to read every session it appears in — the thread of a single figure over time.
The quick mood tags offered on each entry. Edit to your own vocabulary.
Everything lives in this browser. Export a backup before clearing history or switching devices.
This is a real psychological practice with a long history, not a game. Engaging the imagination this directly can bring up strong material — grief, fear, old memories, vivid figures. That's normal and often the point, but it asks for a steady hand.
All wording here is original. Nothing in this app is quoted from any book or teacher.