First you'd have to know what the difference between the two is, and I'm not sure anyone knows for sure, but I'm betting that if you think about and come to an answer on the topic it will help you out on getting over your question.
1:23 AM
Like, what is the difference between you imagining a tulpa speaking to you, and a tulpa speaking to you?
Can you toy with the idea of having your tulpa speak and comparing that speech directly with you doing what you just described?
1:33 AM
trying to see the differences in it, with the understanding that finding differences will make them more pronounced, and looking for differences can lead you to bring differences into existence as you can get a person to hear a sound in a quiet room by asking "can you hear that?".(edited)
The holy rule of tulpa, they aren't magic. They develop slowly from a seed, and that seed is your own thoughts. A tulpa is like an association between a smell and a memory, more-so than a surrogate brain, in my belief.
The key point being, you don't choose to remember when you smell, it's something that just happens.
What you are doing here is beginning the process of developing those associations that slowly become stronger. As they do, they begin to operate as a habit does, going off without your attempts to set it off. In your head there is a constant rush of activity, thought, and action, as you build up these things to go off on their own, some subset of that chaotic thought gets recognized and identified as "not me". You mention you hear your tulpa when you passive force, what I think is happening is you are beginning to see the establishment of these habits.
don't be afraid to have your tulpa talk in chat, even if it "is just you pretending"
1:51 AM
so long as you aren't actually just pretending, doing that is bad, but if you are just overcoming some doubt that you are doing that, you're good in my book
more chaos is better, the less you are preoccupied with thinking about your tulpa the more opportunity for free thought
1:59 AM
given that you build a foundation through active forcing as well, and have a sense that your tulpa is there in your head, and ready to speak, and "about" to speak, as well(edited)
2:00 AM
A busy brain with the tulpa in mind, primed to come up in your thoughts at a moment's notice through one of any number of triggers or associations.
2:00 AM
sorry, I'm speaking as much for my own sake as I am to answer your question
and that's good, I'm always disappointed when someone turns out to be like 15 after giving them advice and I have to say... "now hold on a minuite, you're a bit young".
Yeah, it seems to be a common trend for some reason. Please try keeping unrelated topics into #lounge or #general-chat if possible. It's okay to have a little off topic here and there, but if the topic shifts into something unrelated, it needs to be redirected. For example, the latest conversation was more of a #tulpa-discussion thing.