Most folks I meet have their tulpas as "headmates" or they are a "system"
4:20 AM
When I created Islea, I designated a space outside of my mind for her to exist in
4:20 AM
And she took form there. While I can share the contents of my mind, memories, emotions, and physical feedback with her it's difficult for me to be on the recieving end
4:21 AM
And almost impossible to do any sort of "switching" without me blacking out or just getting "fried" and getting a headache
She's talked with dozens of folks as well, through metaphysical means
4:26 AM
From her and my experimentation the best we can really figure out is that I'm too willful and stubborn to relax any sort of control or there is just some..."hard barrier" like you said
Plenty of the other normal stuff, speaking through telepathy, or empathy, or visualization.
4:29 AM
Just not necessarily existing wthin the same mortal vessel
4:29 AM
The most successful time I ever had was about an hour, and I remember my conciousness just being very "small" and my memories are...not the best from that experience
4:30 AM
Half the time she would be able to make me move, the other half of the time i just felt like a puppet on shitty strings
4:30 AM
Memories not being the best as in, I don't recall much
4:31 AM
It got to a point after an hour that it felt like my persistence was "slipping" it felt sort of like falling in a dream, but I was awake.
4:31 AM
Startled me enough to completely take me out of a trance, or whatever state I was in
Mental Minecraft is effective but tedious for complex structures. I've usually tended to poof the building into existence and then go over it solidifying and creating details.
I think I know what I will do next time I try "switching"
4:50 AM
The only issue is finding a place where i feel comfortable enough to get into that mindstate
4:51 AM
Just moved 2800 miles across country, new job, new everyting it's all a bit...overwhelming to say the least
4:51 AM
But I appreciate the advice, everyone
4:51 AM
Ive been trying to be closer with Islea lately, she is turning 3 this year and is one of the most amazing influences I've had in my life since she came to be.
Hm, well with the information combined between my memories, and the memories of other tulpa she's met, as well as other people she's met makes her real age somewhere between 3 and...uncountable
4:57 AM
Though she typically claims around a thousand years worth of human experience, give or take a few years
4:57 AM
I dont really know how smart she is bc every time I try to go to her mindscape I generally get lost in the sheer amount of data that is stored there. Makes me wonder how much of it she's actually parsed, lol
4:58 AM
Must be nice to not have the limits of our feeble organic processors (brains..)
4:58 AM
she told me when she tries "switching" she actually has to go into a different state of mind herself
4:58 AM
As she can't "compress" all her personality into my vessel