I'd think tulpas aren't as much about an identity – Robert Downey Jr. can identify with Iron Man – as much as they are about consciousness – RDJ is conscious he's not Iron Man
This is correct. My host and I have a number of identities scattered around and they are never supposed to be shared due to the danger of having too much of ourselves out there.
When we decide to join an online community, in an attempt to preserve our feelings of information security, we will create a new identity specifically for that community. There will be no unique identifiers connecting the two identities, and the sorts of behaviors that produce naturally in new social contexts generally coalesce into a distinct way of acting that is not the same as the rest
The primary difference in method acting/knowing a character as well as you would a tulpa and being able to do the equivalent of switching with them, is pretty obvious and clear-cut: There's no separate entity, or interaction between them.
4:57 AM
The definition of a tulpa literally requires they be able to independently interact with the host.
4:58 AM
Otherwise, as for what's actually going on in the brain when switching, it may well be similar to method acting, if that's the right term. You're basically becoming someone else for all intents and purposes. Only, a tulpa is a normal person, whereas acting as a character requires you significantly limit mental interaction with the world to retain the character's character.
4:59 AM
A tulpa thrust into the same scenario would start developing as a person immediately, and by the end of the filming of the movie they would probably not be much like the character anymore.
I feel like there are at least some exceptions to the rule. Makes me wonder how it might pair with development or "style" of the tulpas
12:36 PM
Like, would a person who makes a tulpa because they are curious about things be more likely to have a tulpa that's "inside their head"? Would extroverts be more likely to have tulpas that talk to other people? That sorta thing.
external would be when the tulpa is "acting outward" rather than communicating or interacting through the host
12:40 PM
I feel like it's more one of those things that models, rather than actually a "predictive trait" of a tulpa. You can say you have a tulpa that's mostly external, but the tulpa isn't actually "mostly external" it's just you having a current lean towards that behavior. That said, it might not be that way either
Yeah. This is true. But you can do an ethnography from an emic perspective.
6:09 PM
You just have to be upfront about what your goals are.
6:11 PM
You just have to be careful to as much as possible present the etic perspective as well.
6:14 PM
From a psychological perspective, I agree. You want at least a co-author who isn't involved in tulpamancy at all. Might even be difficult from a sociological perspective.
6:15 PM
But an insider ethnography on the tulpamancy community, and the plural community more broadly is doable.
I think there are way too many "professional DID researchers" researching DID and similar topics, and not enough "normal uninvested psychologists"
6:16 PM
making themselves a cult of support, papers built atop papers atop papers with no real strong evidence and lots of handwaving about "lots of scientists support X"
Pat Burgus thought she would soon be healed when psychiatrist Bennett Braun began treating her for multiple personality disorder. Instead, under hypnosis and on heavy medication, Burgus came to believe she possessed 300 personalities, ate human flesh, and sexually abused her ...
It isn't entirely untrue that they aren't alergic, they aren't alergic to radio waves, but due to the placibo effect they are still alergic to perceived radio waves(edited)
And that's fine, if the researchers have the brains and spine to say that it is a placebo effect instead of lazily trying to justify something they want to be true with flimsy evidence
And it's fine to be allergic to water as well, if that's what you experience then that's perfectly okay and I wouldn't seek to screw with people in that place, call them fakers, or otherwise
@Esehl a few minute of searchings and I've found links to a few paper although most of them seem to be about either how anthropology and psychology treat dissociation differently while only using DID merely as a point of reference or using it as an example as to how culture influences what is and isn't a disorder and what people think about disorders (at least that's what I understood from the abstracts, they were all like full papers not articles that summarize)
This article explores the social construction of multiple personality disorder by analyzing professional agreements about the nature of the diagnosis, while locating these within their historical and...
Dissociation is something everyone is familiar with, but thinks of in different ways: movie plots about Dissociative Identity Disorder and amnesia, possession and trances stories in textbooks and o…
I don't think either has a paywall, atleast the second doesn't it's all right there, the other one says you need to log in that might require paying idk
Some person on Reddit (finally on it) mentioned that they couldn’t hear their tulpa calling for them when they were focused on something else. I guess we’ve got to make the assumption here that this person can parallel process. What do you think? How aware are we of our tulpas’ thoughts? How well can we block them out?
