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I’ve ‘killed off’ many imaginary things.

yeah but it was your choice

My pages and pages of characters

I have been told to drop my tulpas "just because theyre are not real"

☁ Indigo Blue ☁ he/him 💡

imo tulpa is a term that's basically "if you're not an original and want to call yourself a tulpa then you're a tulpa"

Anna: What is an original?

Many of which I used to be very attached to and even had traits similar to tulpas, but then I made a different character that I found more interesting

Makikikikiki

Anna: What is an original?

The host. The original personality

Anna: I came from a ttrpg character the host plays as. A walk-in

Rusty

The host. The original personality

interesting

We are an OSDD system sooo...there isn't an original one /lh

People use original instead of host because the host isn’t always the original. Technically the host is the primary fronter, which can be a tulpa.

all my tulpas are OCs except one who is a fictive but developed into his own person. the only thing he shares with his "base" is his first name and a similar appearance

Well this is a tulpa server so we use the terms for tulpamancy not DID or OSDD

yup we know

wait an a person with OSDD who supports tulpamancers?

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Anna: I'm still curious of what to call myself tho.

Luminesce: A lot of tulpamancers/plural systems eventually realize that the host/original person in the mind wasn't ever really different than what their systemmates are - a personality and countless associations with countless things - and that the rest of the body and brain are somewhat separate from them. People who haven't experienced plurality (tulpamancy being one kind of that) generally associate literally everything about the body and brain with themselves though, so they tend to come into the practice believing tulpas/systemmates to be some tiny thing by comparison. So that's why you'll see some people here say that hosts/"originals"/non-plural people ("singlets") are no different from tulpas or so on, it's a perspective shift/realization (edited)

rain

wait an a person with OSDD who supports tulpamancers?

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of course! there are other traumagenic systems around here too ~~

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^^

THANK YOU

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THANK YOU SO FUCKING MUCH /pos

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bro

My system is just full of accidental tulpas from characters because I hyper fixated on roleplays. So now I have an Error!Sans and Ink!Sans tulpa -_-

like Im glad someone understands that the DID umbrella isnt the only kind of traumagenic plurality

But yeah DID systems do support tulpamancy they are just uncommon. I know of two DID systems who have a tulpa

Reisen

Luminesce: A lot of tulpamancers/plural systems eventually realize that the host/original person in the mind wasn't ever really different than what their systemmates are - a personality and countless associations with countless things - and that the rest of the body and brain are somewhat separate from them. People who haven't experienced plurality (tulpamancy being one kind of that) generally associate literally everything about the body and brain with themselves though, so they tend to come into the practice believing tulpas/systemmates to be some tiny thing by comparison. So that's why you'll see some people here say that hosts/"originals"/non-plural people ("singlets") are no different from tulpas or so on, it's a perspective shift/realization (edited)

oh, that makes a lot of more sense now, thanks ❤️

Honestly the only difference between me and the rest of my system is that I am automatically the default person fronting if no one else is doing it.

rain

like Im glad someone understands that the DID umbrella isnt the only kind of traumagenic plurality

we are glad to make you happy ❤️ all type of systems are valid

I dont think I've shared my story here but long story short if it werent for a little tulpie named hailey I probably wouldnt be here right now

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here as in

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on the earth

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my system developed because of severe lack of human contact

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and Im glad it did

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because just in case I lose all my friends again I know I wont go insane

yup being plural has this advantage /lh

I treat my tulpas as friends

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just how you would hang out with your "real" friends

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I hang out with my tulpas

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because thats what I needed at the time of their creation

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and still do

thanks for sharing it with us ❤️ /g

Rusty

Honestly the only difference between me and the rest of my system is that I am automatically the default person fronting if no one else is doing it.

Luminesce: That's the eventual conclusion nearly all systems that learn switching and probably some that learn possession come to (edited)

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The only difference I see in myself and my tulpas is that I've existed a lot longer than them, and a lot of how the brain is set up developed along with "me" so there are many similarities in our automatic thinking and my thinking compared to my tulpas'

rain

I treat my tulpas as friends

Shit, I’m doing it wrong

I did used to be the one who'd wake up switched in if any of my tulpas went to sleep while switched, but after a few months that stopped being the case and they stay fronting seamlessly

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So one more difference between us gone, lol

Rusty

Shit, I’m doing it wrong

lol

Actually...

my system is a mess with a bunch of origins and we aren't very separated either

I love when people are like, tulpas are our friends and they make our lives so much better and I love them so much. And I am just there like yeahhhh ahahah

Luminesce: My tulpas are ~13 years old, and I was ~14 years old when they were first created, so very soon here they will be as old -> older than I was in my life before them (edited)

I count my tulpas' age in human years

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because I dont keep track of when I made them

Yeah, two different kinds of "age"

but I know that my oldest is about 8 years old in tulpa years

Real-world years and tulpa's-form years

I was 11 when I made them lol

I was 19 when I had to start dealing with Error’s bullshit

that phrasing

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chef's kiss

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same way thomas feels about me

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:^)

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well

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not all the time

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lol

Anna: I don't know if I consider myself a tulpa cuz, the way u guys talk about them, they seem waaay cooler than me Like, the people in our system can't do mindvoicing constantly, we don't have innerworld and we only remember about things that happens in front I/we are more like masks than saparated people

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Anna: So... I guess I'll go with thoughtform

You can have mindvoice and mindscape stuff too if you want it We had nothing at the start, after all, and built up everything from scratch

Anna: We want that, but it seems very hard...

Couldn't find command 'so? (I'm not saying it's easy but idk which part you have a hard time with)'

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How so? (I'm not saying it's easy but idk which part you have a hard time with)

Yuka

How so? (I'm not saying it's easy but idk which part you have a hard time with)

First, how did you managed to develop both mindvoicing and innereorld? (edited)

I talked with my tulpa til I started getting little responses to my questions. I encouraged them to talk more and think more about stuff. I had to understand that we share mental resources for them to think more freely. For inner world, we made up a location we wanted to use, gathered some visual references (like photos of interior design, furniture, beaches), and started visualizing ourselves in that location. (edited)

So, it's hard to my sysmates to think for themselves. We have 10+ members but none of them seem able to think or talk like that. And the fact that I get distracted with every tiny thing does not help

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same with innerworld building. My mind loves to create distractions everytime I try (edited)

Your headmate Anna said a few things above, does that not count?

it's hard to know... Maybe it's just denial, but we feel a lot as the same person

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but I noticed they are indeed more able to express themselves by writting (edited)

Writing is a good way to practice. We did that a lot Try sitting down with one headmate and go through this worksheet https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YDCtvTyy-P7a_oklO2rcJq4secvEQDk-7bgu3HYASqk/edit

Tulpa Vocalization Practice

Tulpa Vocalization Practice By Indigo Felight Introduction Think of this like a digital worksheet for you and your tulpa, to help your tulpa learn to vocalize through practice. There are 10 different exercises organized from most basic to most advanced, each with 15 examples/prompts for the tul...

:0 I think this will help a lot! thanks ❤️

Good luck! Don't forget, you share a brain and will feel their thoughts like normal thoughts. Accept that it's them thinking.

ok I'll try my best to not invalidate their thoughts saying it's just me

but I like to pretend they are real

@rain - jump well, nothing wrong with that because that’s core of the tulpamancy, it’s all a product of the mind

wait an a person with OSDD who supports tulpamancers?

@rain - jump how do you mean support lol

KiTkAt( •̀ .̫ •́ )✧

wait an a person with OSDD who supports tulpamancers?

@rain - jump how do you mean support lol

wdym?

could i use tulpamancy to create median facets?

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i want to try it later someday

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but not now

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they also will probably deviate (edited)

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but i have a certain ...interest

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on it

not personally a fan of forcing headmates to conform to an identity, and making them identify with being a median facet of you is not exception. It's one thing if that happens naturally, it's another if you're making someone do that.

i do have a headmate that is sort of...median in nature but he doesnt want to change it

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so i guess its fine

☁ Indigo Blue ☁ he/him 💡

not personally a fan of forcing headmates to conform to an identity, and making them identify with being a median facet of you is not exception. It's one thing if that happens naturally, it's another if you're making someone do that.

true

could i use tulpamancy to create median facets?

@Adeus. - jump sure

Adeus.

i do have a headmate that is sort of...median in nature but he doesnt want to change it

he does identify as another version of me

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would it count as a tulpa? (i created him intentionally)

labels are arbitrary

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so if it feels like a tulpa to you, then sure