Personally, I never liked guides that much. I think the abundance of them might just make people feel overwhelmed and tulpamancy is mostly about intimate experience and bonding with parts of yourself.
To be fair teenager-dnd, in my memory is... nearly always overly edgy and not so much a shared story between friends, but a gaggle of narcissists trying to one up one another...
That might just be the people I played it with though. Perhaps we were just especially immature at the time.
college/uni and later dnd is a superior time for it(edited)
Zen
To be fair teenager-dnd, in my memory is... nearly always overly edgy and not so much a shared story between friends, but a gaggle of narcissists trying to one up one another...
That might just be the people I played it with though. Perhaps we were just especially immature at the time.
I don't think any given tulpamancer should read every guide. Not all guides will apply to everyone. However, there are some neat and clever ideas that are in guides that can inspire people
To be fair teenager-dnd, in my memory is... nearly always overly edgy and not so much a shared story between friends, but a gaggle of narcissists trying to one up one another...
That might just be the people I played it with though. Perhaps we were just especially immature at the time.
What are the conversations like in Tulpa Central? I'm banned and I haven't tried again with an alt account. Is there much said about servitors or intelligence improvement?
Well with servitors beyond a passing interest in tulpa spaces you're not likely to find much interest. They're inherently basic and much of what they "can do" is thought to be supernatural rather psychological. They're traditionally used for things like psychic communication and the like.
Anyone with a non-metaphysical mindset is probably going to look at a servitor and just go "But why? It's just training a reflex to feel strange. And it takes months if it's not already something you can do."(edited)
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And importantly the reflex does still need to be trained.
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As for intelligence improvement, broadly speaking... you can't improve your intelligence with thoughtforms. That's always been the claim but it's completely spurious and without a shred of evidence.
To be less reductive you can end up improving things like social intelligence by having good emotional awareness and more adaptive personality states for the purpose of communication, but that's not the same thing as learning being actually smarter in the sense that you are more intuitive about problems or can do math better.(edited)
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What are the conversations like in Tulpa Central? I'm banned and I haven't tried again with an alt account. Is there much said about servitors or intelligence improvement?
You can't improve your intelligence, but you can learn tools and methods that would make you smarter and make your beliefs, opinions, choices more reasonable(edited)
In fact people don't even seem to believe in it. They'll flatly sat shit like you can't change your emotional reactions to things, what you like, pain tolerance, empathy, etc, when you totally can and that's basically a chunk of what is getting obfuscated by tulpamancy when you wind up with differences between headmates but people totally act like the only way to do it is accidentally, randomly, unintentionally, and never on purpose or with forethought.
Broadly speaking I think skepticism in the context of tulpamancy is something of a self-congratulatory lie. There's so much in tulpamancy that people have just arbitrarily said "I'm skeptical so I don't think this is possible" and it's patently false. It's nothing to do with intelligence though - It's emotional manipulation and personality adjustment, none of which changes how good you thunk.
On that point I've seen numerous guides I think claim that tulpa relationships of any kind including friendships somehow lack an arbitrary "something". In retrospect I find this to be purely a matter of their doubt failing them
Well and maybe it gets hard for their own brains to keep surprising them.
Zen
Broadly speaking I think skepticism in the context of tulpamancy is something of a self-congratulatory lie. There's so much in tulpamancy that people have just arbitrarily said "I'm skeptical so I don't think this is possible" and it's patently false. It's nothing to do with intelligence though - It's emotional manipulation and personality adjustment, none of which changes how good you thunk.
People who are not surprised by their brain have either little insight into what is happening inside their heads or there is nothing interesting going in that particular brain(edited)
Imo, a lot of times when trying to figure out how plausible something tulpamancy or brain hacky related is, I just look at what it is most probably based on. Rooted in memory, belief, associations, reinforcement? Totally fucking hackable.
Imo, brush up on psychology. Understand suggestion, think about what's actually happening, and don't build it up to be something magical or otherworldly.
It probably hinges largely around just having a central concept of your tulpa and training your brain through repetition to associate certain things with them/them with certain things, which along with compartmentalizing, brains are totally good at.(edited)
The notion that sensory manipulation to high degrees for... various purposes... is somehow impossible is equally nonsense. Imposition =/= touch, but in this context the purpose I'm talking about is heavily dependent on mindset. The enjoyment you get from... this thing... is actually firmly based on mindset at any given time.
Actual sensation is like 10% of the thing. Learning to hack perceptions in this way is actually the considerably superior way of... doing things. There's a reason it comes up in tantra (chakra manipulation) - and it's considered considerably more euphoric.
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Imo, brush up on psychology. Understand suggestion, think about what's actually happening, and don't build it up to be something magical or otherworldly.
It probably hinges largely around just having a central concept of your tulpa and training your brain through repetition to associate certain things with them/them with certain things, which along with compartmentalizing, brains are totally good at. (edited)
Then I'm not sure why you have skepticism. Hell that's probably a good question. Which parts are you skeptical about, or what is making you skeptical?
What are your "but what about..?" doubts?
Zen
The notion that sensory manipulation to high degrees for... various purposes... is somehow impossible is equally nonsense. Imposition =/= touch, but in this context the purpose I'm talking about is heavily dependent on mindset. The enjoyment you get from... this thing... is actually firmly based on mindset at any given time.
Actual sensation is like 10% of the thing. Learning to hack perceptions in this way is actually the considerably superior way of... doing things. There's a reason it comes up in tantra (chakra manipulation) - and it's considered considerably more euphoric.
Then I'm not sure why you have skepticism. Hell that's probably a good question. Which parts are you skeptical about, or what is making you skeptical?
What are your "but what about..?" doubts?