Tulpa.info - tulpa-questions

Well, I'd be tempering any hopes from the beginning. Sometimes a tulpa isn't capable of providing a fulfilling sense of companionship depending on the nature of their relationship with their host. I know that wasn't true in my case.

3:04 AM

The variance between the effects on the person engaging in this practice is so wide that perhaps one just has to be sure that they're not going to have a negative result and that the potential benefits are worth the time investment.

so i just got involved w this and i have no idea where to start with creating my tulpa

3:40 AM

pretty much lost to say the least

Read a guide

Start .... what ivy said

Like Kiahs or Tulpas

@message if you need my new disc Learn as much as you can about what tulpas are first.

3:41 AM

Take some time deciding whether you want to actually make one or not.

what are kiahs?

kiah is a user who wrote a guide

ah ok

If you have any specific questions or topics you are curious about, feel free to ask.

...are they still around? (edited)

I took 5 months to make the decision from the time I learned about tulpas, that day being a few days ago :P (edited)

I also recommended Piano's guide

I forget how long I took after learning about tulpas to start

3:42 AM

probably not more than a few weeks, to be fair

Not before I read multiple guides/articles as well

Who dude

i saw a link to the tulpa.info site in a server and that's how im here

do you wanna ask old people around here questions

3:43 AM

I wanna answer new people questions

Indeed. Take your time to decide - it is a decision that you can make at any time, but not something you can really decide to undo.

3:43 AM

Some may disagree with that on a technical basis, but it should be treated as such.

I think there is a large amount of opportunity to un... one step ahead of me

I know.

3:44 AM

Certainly, once it gets beyond a creative writing exercise (for most people that treat it as such), it isn't something that can be undone in any practical manner.

3:45 AM

Or practice in putting thoughts into words, alternatively.

I look at it more like a very very shallow hill, both ways

3:45 AM

you go up slow, you go down slow, except once you get too high you get stuck going up and up and up

@Reguile He stepped down as admin. I didn't know him elsewhere so I don't know if he is

Indeed.

3:46 AM

In any case, @message if you need my new disc, is there anything you would like to know?

ask away friendo

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if i do go along with creating a tulpa and reach where they start speaking to me, i would personally freak out. any idea how to deal with that ?

uh

3:47 AM

why would you freak dude

Most people "freak out" in some way.

3:47 AM

That said, typically if you have gotten to the point of actually making a tulpa, you should have prepared yourself for that to happen.

like excited or like nah kill it freak out

You have to be prepared for the unexpected.

excited mostly

oh

3:47 AM

nah just be excited

Go ahead and be excited. Prepare some party poppers if you must.

3:48 AM

Just, be aware that it can take some time given what a tulpa actually is.

does the amount of time depend on any factors?

time put into it

3:49 AM

and just

3:49 AM

some people make one faster or shorter

your mindset

never know

yeah some people do it more naturally

took me over a year to make one talk consistently.

Primarily, the amount of effort and variety of experiences you give them.

i hear of some talking in less than a month regularly

3:50 AM

so its just kinda however long i guess

"First speech" can certainly happen in less than a month.

3:50 AM

Consistent and clearly conscious speech often takes much longer.

3:51 AM

...not always, but typically.

really does sound like you're raising a child huh

kinda

There are similarities.

in that you wanna give them both experience but not too much at once

personally I had Allun saying a few small pharses mainly "it's okay" within 10 minutes, it took just short of a month for her to form full sentences and she still keeps them pretty simple short sentences

3:52 AM

I like to describe it as raising a child with access to your memories and your maturity

Indeed. They do have access to your chronological memories (albeit with a different perspective) and more clear access to procedural and semantic memory ("how" to do things and "what" things are).

3:54 AM

However, the context of that knowledge is not there yet.

yeah

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like its cool

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cause if my tulpa remembers something from me

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he can like

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take away a different lesson from me

3:55 AM

which makes tulpas pretty useful in growing as a person or something

just out of curiosity, but can tulpas dream?

In what context?

Our body dreams, it is usually from my POV, since I am the primary fronter.

In our case, we dream. That said, when we dream it isn't particularly divided by identity - it is more just "me", without specifying. Whether that is simply us individually not noting our own identities or us both experiencing it simultaneously isn't really discernable.

10:39 PM

...that said, I also rarely dream, whereas Skye dreams more frequently when she has slept.

We have bipolar disorder with psychotic features.

10:45 PM

we made tulpas Harleen before that started

10:46 PM

but I was made during it, when we weren't on any meds, and were have psychotic breaks frequently

10:46 PM

I would wait for medicines and stuff to settle you down some, but I wouldn't not do something because of a disability.

10:47 PM

You should do everything that you still can, and not let that hold you back.

10:47 PM

But I still would play it safe and wait for the meds and shit.

10:48 PM

My host actually blamed me when I was young, for all these things appearing so strange and scary and shit and all that right as I was made.

I personally would not recommend making a tulpa if you do have mental health issues - specifically ones that are potentially enhanced or otherwise more directly related. For example, people who have schizophrenia or existing DID.

10:51 PM

That said, if you are making a tulpa and have other mild mental health problems, they can be helpful. They simply should not be considered any kind of replacement for actual mental health care.

10:52 PM

Simply keep in mind that, using the same brain, physical anomalies in the brain causing these traits will affect them.

10:53 PM

...to some extent.

10:54 PM

The way the issue expresses itself may be different, but think of it this way - the tulpa is using the same hardware, the same brain.

10:56 PM

Quite a few are - typically the more severe ones are, to my knowledge.

that question has no simple answer.

That said, it couldn't necessarily be determined without some actual physical scan.

If you have a mental illness that causes you to have a warped sense of reality I would'nt recommend it. I don't know how bad your psycosis(?) is so I guess it's up to you

Indeed.

I advise against excluding people for any reason, citing lack of evidence, and prejudice.

I would not recommend making a tulpa if one can be considered to have significantly impaired judgement.

11:01 PM

There may be a general lack of evidence, but I do not say this out of discrimination - rather out of a sense of safety.