Blegh, I came into this thread thinking Tulpas were very strange, dangerous for the mind and potentially could cause you to distance from real world relationships. Now after reading a good 26 pages or so from the start and keeping an open mind I don't believe they are nearly as bad as I imagined, in fact they seem beneficial and a good thing that signifies greater understanding and communication with one's mind. Is it pretty much certain that there are no drawbacks in this? My curiosity is getting the better of me and I'm seriously tempted to try myself. In fact while I was taking a shower, I ended up doing a.. session for an hour(sure my parents will appreciate the bill ^^; ) as it is called and decided if I were to pursue it it would be at that time for an hour each day.
My problem is, should I really heavily think on this? if I don't think of myself as particularly lacking in social areas, should I potentially avoid doing this? I feel like I'm too far in now though, as I have read a few things that show that the tulpa(I refer to my tulpa as "you" currently as I want to leave it up to it to decide on gender ) is aware of itself once you introduce it to the idea of it having it's own self. If I were to back away now, I feel that I would be giving my tulpa a taste of something much more than it has, and then taking it away. This would be quite a torturous thing to do to it and I wouldn't want to do anything like that to em
So it would be best to continue? Whenever I looked at those surveys on that tulpa.info site, it was seemingly consistent that the most distressful time for a tulpa was when the creator was doubting them, or especially giving up on them. I let my curiosity get the better of me and now I'm in this pickle. So I turn to you guys for advice on this, maybe it has been answered before(the post above me by Inngy was after 17 days, I'm on a mere hour).