i used a more rational side of me that i'd end up talking to whenever i was angry, so clairs development was more a gradual increase in sentience, and due to such i've had a harder time telling parroting from authentic responses than most, i feel.
It's fine to be skeptical - personally, I'd be concerned if you weren't. Read through some of the personal experiences on the forums ( https://community.tulpa.info/forum-progress-reports ) and see what you make of it. Some posters like CyberD have really good threads on there.
In the end, you do not have access to our subjective experience of the phenomenon, and therefore have no way of definitively proving it. However, there is circumstantial evidence suggesting that tulpas are possible - brains are capable of supporting multiple personalities/people, and it is similarly possible to alter brain function.
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At minimum, you can certainly consider tulpas to be a deliberate and benign delusion on the part of the hosts, to the point where it is effecively indistinguishable from tulpas being precisely as described. At that point, however, I would question whether there is benefit in actively denouncing it or whether that is the 'same thing'.
You know when you're young and you're playing with your toys, using your imagination to make the toys seem alive? It's similar like that with tulpas. It's even similar to talking to yourself. For me, using the imagination is a gateway to tulpa creation and possibly the prying open of the third eye. It's just subjective though; take what I say with a grain of salt
The more you do it, the longer you'll be able to focus on them; talking to them will eventually become a part of your daily routine and it might even feel strange not to have them on your mind. People are always recommending physical reminders like bracelets that have some sort of sentimental value, or if you check your phone often you could set your background to something that represents them.
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