somehow, Felicja (my headmate) is much more active while our body is tired and/or i feel down. Is this a bad thing? if so, what can we do with it to keep both of us active/alive not only when one of us (usually me) feels down,but in better times as well?(edited)
that's not a bad thing at all. it sounds like your headmate might by subconciously trying to compensating for your feelings of tiredness. it also means that if you ever have a period of perpetual tiredness, as some people have when becoming depressed, your headmate won't suffer from lack of energy.
When ever I'm depressed or tired, I notice my tulpa sometimes doesn't wake up for the day or is quiet. Like, if I'm low energy she just is in a a dormant state sometimes
4:53 AM
Truth be told I'm still working on having Alice wake up on her own
Me and Sebastian have some practice switching. When I let him take control of our body, his thoughts feel "louder" than mine, and I sort of dissociate from my body a bit. It feels like you're in a deep trance state after a while. We haven't been able to do it for more than a few minutes at a time yet, but it's progress.
I don't think we relate. Being switched-out doesn't feel like being in a trance, but I never stayed switched-in for long enough to think of that as normal. Gray described being switched-out like becoming a computer program
I feel like you should be able to do it for longer than a few minutes, it's a random detail that bothers me for no good reason
Apologies for any tired posting(edited)
Sebastian isn't even two months old yet and neither of us have experience with switching. I still don't think we've managed to switch "fully" yet, though. I think I just need to relax more and fully "let go of the controls" so to speak.
4:51 AM
It's mostly me asking to stop because my anxiety starts flaring up.
4:51 AM
Just need more time to get comfortable with it, I think.
I think your anxiety flaring up is important- if you have an underlying trust issue, that can lock up the switching front.
Being afraid of letting go isn't an unreasonable fear. I think it's a big ask for a host to be okay with trusting another person with their body.
I believe the key to resolving this issue would be to figure out why you're stressed and set ground rules you and Sebastian agree too. For example, maybe you don't like the idea of Sebastian being around your parents.
There's somewhat of an active discussion in #tulpa-discussion, and it feels maybe too on-topic for #general-discussion-
I'm more bothered by the idea singlets see tulpas as not human than I used to be. I saw another article about tulpas and I didn't like the language they used to describe tulpas-
https://screenshot-media.com/visual-cultures/internet-culture/what-is-tulpamancy/
I'm more motivated than I used to be to write my own article on tulpamancy to explain it to people. If I accomplish anything, I would like to create a "non-cringy" article that goes over the basics
I'm also surprised they cited tulpa.io but not Tulpa.info. It could just be me, but I feel like there was enough research done they would know it exists(edited)
In traditional Tibetan Buddhism, monks would primarily create tulpas to overcome attachments like phobias and desires. For example, if a monk had a fear of spiders, a formless tulpa approached a spider fearlessly to demonstrate how pointless the fear was. In some cases, the entity was also visualised as a spider itself to overcome the phobia. Either ways, the monks would meditate on the experience and the tulpas would disappear once the attachment was fully resolved.
4:39 PM
I must wonder whether I have missed something or whether they pulled this out of their ass. Because this is the first time I'm hearing it.
4:42 PM
Also speaking of cringey language to be honest I kinda think most if not all language related to tulpamancy is cringe.
4:43 PM
Tulpas, tulpamancy, forcing, wonderlands...
4:45 PM
All their own flavour of cringe to me. If it were up to me we would all assume the most pretentious terms possible for these things and introduce ourselves by invoking Socrates' daimon or something.
4:46 PM
And nobody would ever be allowed to mention what their inevitably anime girl/furry/pony tulpas actually look like. It would be forbidden to share that information outside of our cul- niche group.
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