AN EVIDENCE-BACKED APPROACH TO COMPLETELY REMODELLING YOUR IDENTITY- abused dogs, mentalcels, inhibcels GTFIH.

[luuk]

Whats to say you can't do this with just imagination and sensory deprivation?

Because the identity is most malleable/vunerable in emotionally volatile conditions and responds to repeated cyclical practices, not just dreams and wishful thinking which I literally addressed. Sensory deprivation will just bore you in small quantities and is potentially more torturous than anything I’ve mentioned if sustained for long enough to make a difference

The methods mentioned are hardly actual torture I just think you need to sort of simulate the conditions of a mental breakdown to really reconfigure identity because that is when it actually happens in reality. You can say you’re going to change whilst in a stable mental state but you’ll only achieve subtle and incremental progress and will struggle to alter your most core values/traits because you aren’t breaking down the old identity

I used flowery language for engagement but the overall point should be obvious

 

[luuk]

dnr ur tryna bluepill us

morph avi, corny tiktok username, less than 0.5 rep ratio and 90 rep, buzzwords, the GREYEST of greys

 

[Mess]

Love it, dude. Got a little scared with the occult imagery near the end, but good information.

 

[luuk]

90% of the post is stuff thats used on other people, not shit you do on yourself, no way you did this stuff to yourself JFL if so and you aren't larping, tell us the stuff you did to change yourself and be explicit

A lot of it is stuff I didn’t do intentionally at first
Abused stims for a while during a very turbulent period in my life and went days without sleep repeatedly and lived like a hermit for like a month which fundamentally changed me as a person more than any other period in my life, which I reflected on and researched about, which itself crosses off most of the shit I wrote about

Upon realising this I experimented for a while towards the end of last year and in jan i tried to replicate those conditions once more in a controlled manner (with the intention of lowering inhib) and basically just made a point of repeatedly getting myself into a stim and exhaustion fueled state and performing as much exposure/rejection therapy as possible, with some success. Slayed more than I ever have that month despite being a bit looksminned

Some of it is stuff I did, some more theoretical stuff that I want to test and some is just extrapolation from research and my past

 

[ImaASCENDsoon]

morph avi, corny tiktok username, less than 0.5 rep ratio and 90 rep, buzzwords, the GREYEST of greys

Nigha joined the forum 1 month ago. I used to browse on here without an account back in 2024. So fuck off idc abt some fucking reps and shit. My pfp mogs urs cunt

 

[luuk]

Nigha joined the forum 1 month ago. I used to browse on here without an account back in 2024. So fuck off idc abt some fucking reps and shit. My pfp mogs urs cunt

You are an illiterate recessed iqcel child and your presence here is pointless and unwanted

 

[catastropy]

Bro watched one monster edit

 

[Quetila]

I respect the effort but this is a whole bunch of nothing, you’re not saying anything

 

[ImaASCENDsoon]

You are an illiterate recessed iqcel child and your presence here is pointless and unwanted

I dont care to argue with a chronically online ragebaiter. U joined last month so stop using immature slurs

 

[sdram4]

Spoiler: THREAD THEME

The Man Who Sold the World

Abstract
It will become apparent to anyone who participates on this forum for an extended period that, despite its focus on lookism and maximising our looks, it is home to many people who are most limited not by their appearance, but by their own maldeveloped minds. We can craft a beautiful exterior through dedication, but if work is not done on the mind itself, even after ascending we remain the broken, inhibited abused dogs that many of us on this forum grew up to become from childhood trauma, bullying and lookism. Every maladaptive trait initially develops as a defence mechanism, but once it has outlived its usefulness, it serves only to hinder you. In this thread, we will explore radical psychological methods to independently mould your identity to your will, calling upon evidence-backed protocols and findings in doing so. I have personally applied this protocol to myself recently, and it has had the greatest ROI of anything I've ever tried wrt life satisfaction, sexual success and social status. However, the mind is an unpredictable and complex beast so your mileage may vary- use this guide at your own risk.

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First- What really is your "identity"?

• IT IS NOT HOW YOU PERCEIVE YOURSELF
• IT IS NOT HOW THE WORLD PERCEIVES YOU
• IT IS NOT YOUR PERSONALITY, YOUR TRAITS OR YOUR CHARACTER

Identity, at its core, is what your brain predicts you will do without needing to think.
Effectively, it is who the subconscious mind thinks you are, not the conscious mind.
Why is this relevant? Because its not about just larping as a different person, or telling yourself consciously that you've changed- although these are baby steps towards reshaping the subconscious mind, we can do better. Reshaping your identity is a matter of literally changing your internal wiring to favour different decisions, different feelings, different actions.

How does the identity develop?

• Your "natural" identity develops in a similar manner to looks- through a combination of genetic and environmental factors. Genetic factors regarding things like brain structure, intelligence, neurotransmitters and hormone levels set the intial conditions, which thereby affect your environment and experiences growing up and the way your mind reacts to various formative life events.
• Poor early life conditions are linked with the development of negative traits: inhibition, personality disorders, cynicism, depressive/anxious tendencies etc. These are natural reactions to abnormal conditions, designed to keep you safe in that environment. Children who grow up in hostile environments may become sociopaths because shedding their empathy could increase their capacity to cope and thrive in such an environment. Children who are bullied growing up may withdraw to avoid attracting attention, as they learn to associate socialisation and "being themself" with pain and mockery.
• The problem is that whilst the identity is malleable well into adulthood (under more extreme circumstances), it still generally solidifies and crystallises by adolescence in most people, leaving you with traits developed in childhood even when the environmental stressors that prompted their development are gone. Now, you are poorly adapted for a world where you no longer need to survive abuse or neglect, no longer need to hide away from your oppressors etc. You are an abused dog, cowering in the corner of your cage whilst the world goes on outside.

Well that sucks, how do I fix it?
I'll level with you, it isn't easy. Despite whatever redpill gurus tell you, it's not a matter of "willpower", cold showers or changing your mindset. It is about creating the conditions for maximal identity plasticity, dedicating yourself to repetitive behaviours to convince your minds prediction circuits that things have changed, and constructing a coherent narrative for a new identity to emerge.

STEP 0: WHO DO YOU WANT TO BE?
First, we must manage expectations and rigorously define and plan out the person we want to become.
This protocol can potentially:

• Lower inhibition
• Increase extraversion
• Increase confidence
• Lower anxiety/depression
• Potentially mitigate personality disorders
• Alter sexual and fetish preferences/proclivities

It cannot:

• Cure, or significantly treat, conditions like autism or adhd
• Cure or treat conditions like schizophrenia, bipolar or psychosis (and should not be attempted if you are vunerable to them as the destabilisation phase is highly likely to induce episodes)
• Change your looks, beyond increasing your capacity to stick to looksmaxxing programs/rituals (sorry manifesting/subliminal copers, this is all internal stuff)

Mind you, I'm not a psychiatrist, this has not underwent clinical trials. This is N=1 on myself, nonetheless everything here is supported by the science and plenty of anecdotal evidence alongside it.

Anyhow, before we can start the process we should reflect on and answer the following questions about the person we want to be:

• What traits should they embody, that you lack?
• What traits should they lack, that you embody?
• How would they act, what habits/rituals would they perform?
• What environment would such a person live in?
• Who would they surround themselves with?
• Etc...

Only once you have a solid idea of who you want to be, you can begin the process. Be reasonable- ambition is admirable but it is going to be incredibly difficult to become an entirely different person without genuinely going insane. Focus more on becoming a better version of yourself, or the person you could have became had the world been kinder to you.

STEP 1: DESTABILISATION, PRIMING, OBLITERATION OF THE OLD SELF
It sounds dramatic because it is, we are going to be applying CIA-level tactics on ourselves..

Destabilisation- what makes the mind malleable?
The human mind is most malleable under extreme, stressful circumstances. This is when the brain realises external conditions have drastically changed, and it needs to update its internal models to adapt to this to keep you safe. This is the same mechanism whereby the aformentioned negative traits develop- trauma and stressors in childhood. This occurs organically to adults in times like war, trauma, heavy drug use, mental breakdowns and psychosis. There, it is not constrained, not surgical, not controlled and thus generally leads to negative outcomes. We will apply the same principles in a precise manner to mould identity to our will.

Identity destabilises when:

• Predictability vanishes
• Routines collapse
• Emotional intensity and variability spikes
• The identity and core beliefs no longer reflect reality

The accumulation of repeated prediction errors forces the brain to update its models
Thus, we want to inhibit the brains capacity to accurately predict outcomes, in such a manner that the updated model reflects desirable cognitive traits that we want

Our toolset- how do we inflict enough stress on our brains to reconfigure them?
We know that we need to create conditions that inhibit prediction accuracy, increase emotional intensity and that draw a distinct line between the 'old' and 'new' you. Now we will visit some ways in which we can bring those conditions about.

Sleep deprivation is an age old tool for breaking down minds because the brain cannot function normally if it is not allowed to rest and repair. Sleep promotes identity maintenance, executive control and emotional stability. Limit it, and we create conditions that allow for heightened emotional salience, identity fragmentation and increased suggestability.

Drugs are an obvious means to induce high-intensity emotional states, as they alter the way our brains function byView attachment 4645011 pulling and tugging at various systems that regulate the central nervous system. The CIA used them in MKUltra to break people down and modify behaviour in their attemps to poke and prod at the human mind. Psychedelics like LSD and psilocybin were of particular interest due to their tendency to increase neuroplasticity and act on the default mode, salience and central executive networks of the brain. This is highly exploratory and I only have limited experience with the matter, but I found that one of the most transformative times for my identity was fuelled by an extended stimulant binge. The increased dopamine levels (alongside the sleep deprivation I masked with more stimulants) attributed greater salience to the experience and events during that period, influencing my identit. Take care not to fry your brain though.

Isolation enables for identity malleability as it is social structures that play a crucial role in regulating who you are. Everyone else has a version of you in their brain (based on your old external identity) by which they base their own predictions and actions off of, which in turn reinforce yours, solidifying your current identity. Remove them, and suddenly nobody else is telling you who you are. Nobody else is reinforcing your old self. This is why people often change when they leave old social groups; their new environment has recalibrated their personality and identity according to different reinforcement. If you want to change who you are, you must first isolate yourself from your old social networks, calibrate a new identity and develop new networks that reinforce it.

Environment change, as I just mentioned, is a core driver of identity change. It alone may not be enough to change the fundamentals of your identity, but combined with the aforementioned destabilisers you may find yourself becoming a whole new person upon changing your environment. You will want to mark a clear divide between "before" and "after" in every facet of your life
Some examples of things you can do

• Change your appearance- this is more about visually indicating a change rather than increasing smv in this context: cut/restyle and dye your hair, get a tattoo, replace your entire wardrobe, start wearing different accessories, go to the gym/take roids/lose weight etc, its all down to you and according to the new identity you want to craft.. Stare at a different person in the mirror for long enough and you'll stop associating with the old you, akin to the Ship of Theseus.
• Change your setting- move out of your old town/city, change school/job, redecorate your room/house. This creates a coherent narrative line between where you were before and after
• Change your social circles- as I mentioned, the people you surround yourself with reinforce the version of you they have in their heads. Replace them and you can attempt to mould the new groups initial perception of you in such a way that it will reinforce your desired new identity.

Combine these, and you'll feel like shit but will also be perfectly primed to begin introducing new traits and forgetting old ones. You'll be suggestible, emotionally volatile, unconstrained by others notions of who you are and free to mould yourself like clay
YMMV with each step, pick and chose what works for you but do not proceed until you have created adequate conditions for your metamorphosis.

STEP 2: RECONSTRUCTION, RITUAL, REPETITION
Now you are but a beautiful blank canvas
But how do we paint it?View attachment 4645010
An introduction to rituals, and how they shape the mind

A ritual is structured, repeated sequence of actions, words, or behaviors performed in a particular order. The subconscious mind works not on logic or instructions, but on cycles, patterns and repetition to imprint ideas and messages.


A ritual is a technique we can use to imprint traits on the now vunerable subconscious. We must craft and perform them in such a way that they promotes and reinforces a desired trait, and must then repeat them for an extended period to crystallise the trait into the reformed identity.

The general pattern is priming -> action -> reaction -> reinforcement [repeat]

Rituals generally involve performing actions that feel strange or that push you outside of your comfort zone. You must embrace this and fully commit to it if you want to truly achieve metamorphosis.
Here is an example of a ritual to lower inhibition

1. Priming- psyche yourself into the right mental state for the action. A good way to do this is by chanting or writing down positive affirmations relevant to the trait you are trying to train. Ignore the cringe factor, both of these are proven to be more effective than simply thinking it internally, as they externalise your belief into an action which the body will associate with the mental state. This is a short-term method to convince yourself to act as someone with your desired trait would, the real change comes from the reinforcement.
2. Action- Perform an action that somebody with your desired trait would perform. If you are trying to become low inhib, you will want to try things like striking up conversations with strangers, flirting with/asking out a girl etc. Adapt your action for the relevant trait, ensure it is something that someone that embodies that trait would do.
3. Reaction- You must effectively learn to filter out feelings that would lead to negative reinforcement and amplify those that provide positive reinforcement as your mind. If you experience rejection, do not internalise it- it is tantamount that you attribute it to error/unworthiness of your subject, and avoid letting it affect your emotional state, lest you reinforce the wrong traits. If you experience success, internalise it- you are low inhib, you are a chad, this happened because you are these things. Repeat these things to yourself, remember the positive feeling you receive.
4. Reinforcement- This reaction, this feeling will now reinforce that you are someone who performs this action, and thus you are someone who has this trait. Repeat the ritual as much as possible to amplify and maintain the effect.

THE KEY TO THIS WORKING IS RELENTLESS REPETITION. Think, daily for months on end. Sorry, but the long-term changes of this protocol will take months to solidify, although you may begin to notice a change in a matter of days.

Rituals do not always have to be high-stakes social performances, though. Low-intensity daily rituals, often referred to as habits, are also crucial for identity redevelopment. You should research the habits that the person you want to be would practice, and cast off any that do not embody that person. This may involve things like hygeine rituals, exercise, meditation, dietary practices, hobbies and sleep/wake schedules. Quit negative habits such as pornography consumption, doomscrolling, binge eating etc.

Another powerful tool at our disposal (and highly intertwined with ritual) is symbolism. SalienceView attachment 4645008 (as referred to earlier) refers to the prominence/importance the brain assigns to particular information. Symbols- which can take the form of iconography, words, ideas, music etc- can be used to hijack the salience network to assign particular prominence to them, allowing you to invoke particular feelings/qualities/states upon encountering them. To prime this, you will need to perform conditioning on yourself to associate a particular symbol with a particular emotion or experience. To do this, chose your symbol (a particular stimuli), perform an action that will invoke your desired feeling/state whenever you encounter it and repeat until you build the association between the symbol and the "reward". Integrate symbolism within your rituals to amplify their effect.

A final tool you will want to exploit is social bonding and reinforcement. I instructed you View attachment 4645063before to distance yourself from former social relationships as they will only reinforce your old self. But now that you have been isolated and destabilised for long enough to decouple from your identity, you would benefit greatly from finding a new group to mould and reinforce your new identity. Target groups or institutions comprised of people like the person you want to be and that reinforce the traits you desire. It could simply be a matter of associating with new friends, but it could hypothetically involve more extreme measures like joining the military, a religion/order, a gang, a political/ideological movement etc. You'll want to focus on groups that promote uniformity, ritual, high emotional intensity and structure that fits your goals for optimal results.

Tangenial, but notice how many parallels there are here to religion/cults/the occult etc. Prayer View attachment 4645006rituals, symbolism and iconography in architecture and attire, stimuli like bells, incense, chanting etc and a strong group connection are all used to reinforce belief and obedience, which is why religion is so effective at controlling and influencing worshippers. Additionally, if you take a look at converts, they almost all do so at times of psychological stress: incarceration, near-death experiences, mental breakdowns, addiction etc.. They are destablised and primed for cognitive rewiring, making them particularly vunerable to the symbolism, sense of belonging and ritual religions/cults employ; sound familiar? This stuff works, and appears everywhere when you start looking.


STEP 3: REINFORCEMENT, CONSOLIDATION, MAINTENANCE
Restabilise and solidify your new self
Now that we have reformed our identity, we must take care to ensure that we do not drift back to our old ways.
This will involve a number of maintenance steps:

• Restabilise- we no longer want our identity to be malleable once it satisfies us. Thus, remove the sleep deprivation, the drugs, the isolation and any other stressors that inhibit identity maintenance/crystallisation.
• Environment- do NOT go back. This is not transitory, this is a change. Returning to your old environment may cause you to regress, especially in the early stages. For example, I notice that I end up feeling and acting more like my childgood/teenage self when I return home from university, because that environment is so heavily associated with a different version of me that still lingers in the depths of my mind. Avoid if possible, focus on ritual maintenance if you must.
• Ritual maintenance- if you have been successful in your transformation, you should now be at the point where you want to perform your rituals innately, because you are now the kind of person that does that kind of thing. Nonetheless, make sure to continue performing them to keep reinforcing the traits you have gained.
• Protect your mental state. You should hopefully be a somewhat mentally healthy and well adjusted human by now. Take care to maintain this state- focus on your wellbeing, keep up your habits, protect your peace and remove negative influences from your life. A mental breakdown or depressive episode can undo all of your progress.

If you are happy with where you are within a few months, congratulations, you have literally psyop'd yourself into a better person. Enjoy your newfound freedom and ability to interact with others in normal and healthy ways. Maybe you can leave this shithole (or not)

MY PERSONAL TESTIMONY
Practicing this method, both unintentionally during a very formative time of my life last year and once more with intention within the last few months, has massively improved my prospects in pretty much all aspects of life. My sexual success has increased massively, talking to women has been easier, I've made more friends, gained quite a lot of social media followers and became much less inhibited and more motivated in general. I was in quite a dark and chaotic time before this and I felt I needed to completely rewire my mind to stand a chance in life, and I sought inspiration from the methods of intelligence agencies, cults and trauma survivors on how and when the brain rewires in response to stress, and how to replicate these conditions in myself. I truly believe almost anyone can rewire their mind when they understand how it truly works on a fundamental level. Even the lowest of addicts, deviants, loners and losers can change their mould with the right structure and dedication. I wish you all the best, feel free to provide your feedback and critiques, I will likely refine this in the future with further research and experimentation

Tagging people that expressed interest (sorry if i forgot you)
@ragingmanlet @afroheadluke @Former Shortcel @xzylecrey @Fridx @turkcelfatcel @LTNUser @mohi_100

absolutely insane needs to be botb thread

 

[Brian Weber]

Dude this is fucking rad af bro

 

[Luquier]

I think moving out is important. Your family members will re-affirm your old self-image

Or just focus on sticking up for yourself

 

[unfortunatehobbies]

every

 

[tomahawk]

Did read great thread