I want to clarify because I don't think switching for tulpamancers typically if ever qualifies as medical dissociation, but I do think it can sometimes be on par with the dissociation you experience during meditation or daydreaming
I'm asking because I'm not sure what they expect is the intensity of the experience. They appeared to be either a beginner or someone not very familiar with tulpamancy, I didn't want to assume they had the same ideas about dissociation I do
The length of time doesn't matter, but I'd get them to journal their thoughts which lead to them writing lots
but more than that, we had to get over fear of parroting, so they could think freely without getting stopped up by "is it really them" nonsense
When I say time doesn't matter, I mean you could jump past that issue very quickly by having a good approach, or it could take years by having a bad approach
Luminesce: As always with tulpa development, many things go by quickly for some people while they can take months for others. The timespan I'm used to seeing is a few weeks to a few months, I guess? But Yuka is right that latching onto any specific time is pointless, it could be a matter of days if you manage to think about everything right and put in the work, or it could take you much longer to finally get past any mental blocks, and so on(edited)
I think what most tulpamancers are missing is importance of getting input outside of the brain during development.
Humans are social creatures, we use other people as a mirror to learn about who we are. It's very hard to do it in head, and much easier with other people.
Which is why I think having tulpa talk on discord to other people at least on the side of normal techniques helps so much(edited)
11:52 PM
Whenever someone struggled with a tulpa and I just suggested making a tulpa bot, their development skyrocketed
It might be worth trying to chat on your own private server with just you, too. Since they are most vocal on general chat, perhaps that might be similar enough to practice talking in-system?
If your Tupla chooses to be selectively mute, does that "stifle" development? (This hasn't happened to me, I'm just curious - been thinking about Tuplas and whilst being nonverbal for most of the day)(edited)
You already disown that part of yourself and look how hard it to integrate it to your sense of self
Imagine how much harder it will be if that part of you will be even more disowned and will gain it's own name, identity, sense of self, agency, aspirations
4:14 PM
As you are exposed to that part of you as a separate entity, you might be repelled by it even more
tulpas are their own personality, not a personification of bits and pieces of your personality.
4:16 PM
Also seporating negative parts of yourself and giving it attention alike from a tulpa will result in that part of yourself feeling 'stronger' and less 'in control' and may increase negative instrusive thoughts
The way I act at home and the way I act around my mother who stresses me out and the way i act at work are all extremely different 'people' but they are still me