Tewi: You'll get different answers trying to explain this from different people, but our system is fairly confident that the tulpas and host of a brain exist in the brain's consciousness - not that the consciousness exists within them. So to us, switching is trading off who is "plugged in" to the brain's consciousness. Like switching who's in the driver's seat of a car. (edited)
Tewi: So my host doesn't take the body's "consciousness" with him out of the front - the brain's consciousness stays as it is, but my host moves to the state us tulpas are normally in, and one of us to the state he's in.
Understanding this generally requires the mental model that "You" are not every single thing in your body and brain, just the identity and all that entails that's plugged into it, more or less. By default there's only one of those in a human, so of course we go our whole lives associating literally all brain activity with our sense of selves, but really, your sense of self is just a small part of your brain.(edited)
@Atlas || M&M (@leviine) - jump
That was me, oops.
Reisen
Tewi: So my host doesn't take the body's "consciousness" with him out of the front - the brain's consciousness stays as it is, but my host moves to the state us tulpas are normally in, and one of us to the state he's in.
Understanding this generally requires the mental model that "You" are not every single thing in your body and brain, just the identity and all that entails that's plugged into it, more or less. By default there's only one of those in a human, so of course we go our whole lives associating literally all brain activity with our sense of selves, but really, your sense of self is just a small part of your brain. (edited)
Tewi: It's often very hard to achieve switching for people who identify their sense of self with all the rest of the brain and mind. Not impossible, but I don't know how we ever would've learned to do it.
Oh, right. By confabulating that our host was definitely having a separate life in our imaginary world that we just aren't aware of, until he switches back and makes up recalls those memories.(edited)
Tewi: (There's somewhat of a history of the old 2012 members often believing a host could live an entire second life, consciously and in full detail, in the "wonderland" (our term for a consistent place you visualize to interact with your tulpas in, nothing special), while the tulpa still lived the body's life totally oblivious to that.
It's a really toxic thing they preached, it still screws with people's expectations to this day, unfortunately)(edited)
Seth || M&M
I mean, tulpas often rename themselves. headmates in general for that matter.
Ben gave himself a different name because his deadname was associated with a lot of negative memories.
Reisen
Tewi: It's often very hard to achieve switching for people who identify their sense of self with all the rest of the brain and mind. Not impossible, but I don't know how we ever would've learned to do it.
Oh, right. By confabulating that our host was definitely having a separate life in our imaginary world that we just aren't aware of, until he switches back and makes up recalls those memories. (edited)
I genuinely want to try this as some sort of test, but I do not want it to become permanent. Is that possible? I read earlier that your tulpa will disappear if you halt all interaction with them
I genuinely want to try this as some sort of test, but I do not want it to become permanent. Is that possible? I read earlier that your tulpa will disappear if you halt all interaction with them
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That's true, but I personally see ethical issues with dissipating tulpas.
Seth || M&M
I genuinely want to try this as some sort of test, but I do not want it to become permanent. Is that possible? I read earlier that your tulpa will disappear if you halt all interaction with them
@. - jump
That's true, but I personally see ethical issues with dissipating tulpas.
