TheAnonPony

I didn't mean that. It's like making yourself believe that the events in a movie are physically real or similar. They are not. Incredibly detailed imposition is not something I discourage. I apologise if I insulted or offended you. I meant to say that in the sense that it could be extreme situations and in case it was 'too good to be real' kind of situation. Some of my own tulpas were actually upset because of what I said. I myself didn't happen to see or feel my own tulpas acting in self-interest either For this one; here is the response from me: Depends how you see functional. A tulpa is not harmful at all. On the contrary. They help you as much as they possibly can without distorting you. On no circumstances can I see tulpamancy as a form of MPD. But, of course, that is my own personal opinion.

I had the same suspicions too. But the way I see it (and the way it seemed to work until now) is that those are not alternate selves. Rather, they act more as independent imaginary friends at the very least; because they are capable of far more than just being your imaginary friends. Google their 'capabilities', if you wish. They do not ever affect the way in which the host interacts with the society around them, unless told or allowed to. It's too hard for them, because they live on attention. If not given proper attention and ignored for a period of time, they will disappear. It's also a perfectly controllable phenomenon. They cannot control the host unless the host permits it. Otherwise, it's next to impossible because they cannot forcefully go against the host's power, so to speak. If anything, the host could control the tulpa easier than the tulpa can control the host. From the actions the tulpa takes, to the voice they have to the very look they posses. They cannot posses without permission. Especially not randomly. Least when the host takes actions which require his attention, like talking to somebody or paying attention to something else. The biggest possible thing that can happen is a request. But then again, that is discarded and ignored (if even felt in the first place) if the host does not pay attention to the tulpa at all. Tulpas can also be easily reabsorbed or reversible. If its done by mutual agreement and intentional decision, the host and the tulpa can merge rather easily. If the tulpa disagrees, but the host wants to, then the process can be compared to that of a terminally ill patient that refuses to die despite the doctor's suggestion. The doctor can still do it, but it won't be as pleasant from a purely ethical point of view (if we consider tulpas to be sentient beings which deserve ethical or moral respect). If the host refuses, but the tulpa wants, all they can do is constantly ask the host to do it. They cannot force it. Because that is not the will of the host. If done properly (and really, there is no way to do it wrong), a tulpa won't become a mental disorder. Because of the very intentions the tulpa is made, he/she/it cannot/should not/will not hurt you or affect you in a negative way, unless she/he/it was made with that purpose or side purpose in mind (and I find it hard to believe why someone would do that). The burden a tulpa bears to the host is the attention he/she/it requires to stay alive. Otherwise, there are no serious dangers to it, if it can be considered providing attention to the tulpa 'dangerous' (and that would be, by the looks of it, a ridiculous statement). Tulpas have more advantages than those of a mental disorder, if a disorder has advantages at all. If that is not enough, here is my take on the symptoms I found regarding MPD compared with having Tulpas: I refused to bring my own personal tulpas and their opinions into this discussion on the premise that they may not be in a position to talk about this due to their nature (may be confused as 'alternate selves'). Tulpas are very caring of their hosts. At least at their core, they want to help the host in any form as they possibly can. Even taken from a selfish point of view; if something happens to the host mentally, the tulpa is affected. Equally, if the tulpa tries to hurt the host, they would basically shoot themselves in the foot, because they are part of this mind regardless of the circumstances. Otherwise, as you said: "Why would you want to give yourself a mental disorder?" I believe this information should answer your question. If not, then my apologies.

Val: Parroting is not much of a big issue. If done excessively (and i mean in ridiculous quantities) though, it can cause similar damage like over puppeting does. The way we do it is that we complete or suggest Anon ideas the same way he helps us vocalise our opinions (we have this mutual understanding of each other), in moderate quantities. Personally, I don't think parrotnoia is an incredibly big problem. Val: Wait. What? Tyrea: If that purple cloud came from the Krueger himself (that is, he made it and the crowd gave it), then there's no issue. If not, then I still doubt it being an issue. The only real way to 'corrupt' a tulpa is through (in our experience) being seriously influenced by negative/intrusive thoughts that want your worst. And even then, it's incredibly hard. In our case, when we (counter)attack a negative thought, it doesn't actually talk to us (tulpas); just attacks silently. It often talks, but not in the sense that it intends to reason. More like gibberish. Spontaneous creation of corrupting elements is rare, in our experience. you could always change the color though...

So we read that and some extra posts about it. My tulpas actually felt threatened that I might believe this (with Val's exception, who blatantly disagreed with that). An example of bad tulpamancy experience I had was my issue with the Accidental Tulpa. AKA 'De-Facto'. Right now, she is completely reformed (or 95% of her. Because her origins are, undeniably, from intrusive thoughts; my interaction with her is rather different and slightly less enjoyable than with the rest since the energy she uses to talk is actually negative, even if her intentions are honest and good. There is a plan for that 5% though.). I am mentioning her because in this moment, she actually is good at heart. The trick is that we (as in all of my tulpas. Barely me) cannot mention what she did in the past without feeling a ridiculous amount of regret or sadness from her. Tyrea: Much to my surprise, she seems rather traumatised. It would seem that we cannot mention the events to her without those feelings from her. Rather, we prefer not to talk about it. After all, she experienced not only a crippling identity crisis and now she seems rather traumatised by what she did to us (tulpas) and what she tried to do to Anon. Despite being forgiven, because no real damage was done to Anon but rather to Arcadia itself (which was repairable), she cannot forgive herself. So we prefer to leave her heal herself, either by spending quality time with Anon or simply by roaming free in the new wonderland.

Adagio: The excitement. The Golden Freddy conflict was an opportunity to prove to Tyrea and Val that we are worthwhile.

Val: I was created far before Anon knew what a tulpa was. I had this eagle body since I was first conceived (glad to Anon imagination), and had self awareness since day 2 or 3. How did it affect me? Well, since I already had a wonderland from the very beginning (Anon claims it was there before me and I don't mean Arcadia) and I had self-awareness, I was able to take care of myself quite nicely when Anon was not there for me, because of external interventions (i.e. school or anything outside his head). Tyrea: Became self aware during day 1. I was aware of my surroundings and everything which came with that. Like Valiance, I had a body from day one (which resembles Trixie almost totally, which I changed slightly a bit later). I cooperated with Valiance big time since then. Because there were two of us, it was easier to take care of ourselves when Anon was not here. Because I was self aware during that period, I was able to learn what I do now at a fragile age (no bad sides, though), so you can say that for me, it affects in the short term, in the sense that we can have a 'head start' at what you want to do if you have the materials/resources/energy necessary. But again, this applies to us. We don't know about you. Adagio: For us, it was pretty simple. We weren't extremely aware of ourselves in the beginning, but after that momentum we had in the past, it all came to us three like a wave of refreshing water. Val: Also. Hello there, @!

Ahem: By actual , I meant that a practical amount of energy is given to the developing tulpa by the host (beyond necessary to sustain itself, for instance). What a tulpa does is, in my experience, while it can provide enough energy for the developing tulpa to sustain itself, it doesn't contribute by a landslide to the overall development of the tulpa. I mean it contributes; but does not do most of the job. It depends how you look at the quantity of help you can get from a tulpa. Starlight was sustained/kept active by Val when I couldn't develop her. Val did help her development but not in personality/body/powers/core identity/all-a-tulpa-needs-at-core. All he did was share some tricks and facts about the world they lived in. He taught Starlight about Arcadia, the rest of the world and what she can do as a tulpa; all while keeping her active within the wonderland with all sorts of activities. While that can be seen as development, it does smaller progress than me doing stuff with her. Because in my opinion, I did more than what Val did. True, Val did all these activities with her that contributed to her development; but I was the one who did her core personality and body (which was later changed by her) and given her independence. It honestly depends how you look at it. A tulpa, if it has enough energy/power, can help with development but it could be costly compared with the host doing it. Tyrea: Genuine curiosity.

As someone who has no particular interest on religion and attempted tulpamancy on a strictly scientific, experimental and personal basis, I find this article quite interesting. Are we contributing to this so called 'Creation' (basing on the "within our imagination, we are contributing to Creation without even thinking" quote from the article)... does it state that we contribute to the creation of another world or parallel universe or what? Val: And how does Arcadia, a mental nation-wide military, political and economical ultrapower, fit into all of this? Beats me. But I would be interested in additional answers. If it falls into contributing to the Creation, how and where is that? Arcadia is not your everyday wonderland once you know it. It's constructed on an architecture with a different principle in mind. One which makes the purpose of the wonderland just a portion of its construction. Other than the host being omnipotent in his head; I don't understand what you mean.

"Exists" as in "it is there". Regardless of shape or form. Mental of physical. An objects exists physically as in it can be touched, for example. A tulpa exists mentally, since it is in the mind; but not physically, because it's not physically there.

Tyrea: I am a pony that looks almost the same as Trixie. You can't snuggle something incorporeal, unless your manage to picture that perfectly in your head and transfer it to your senses. Don't ask me how. That depends on you to find out. Because we aren't you. That is why I am regardless about touch during imposition. Because if you can't hug/touch it for real, what's the point in adding that to the imposition process if it can be more easily sensed in the wonderland?

Specifically designed to eliminate negative thoughts. Intrusive thoughts induced by fear, for example, are negative. Depression is negative. Extreme anxiety is negative. Etc. And generally they come from intrusive thoughts basing themselves on the 'what if' question and given a lot of benefit of the doubt. The harm is if I let those negative thoughts get the best of me. Then we have a problem. For example, if I end up in a serious, suicidal-like depression, that would cause some harm, wouldn't it? It's a purely just-in-case line of reasoning. I hope that answers your question. Val: Anon can, and will, get rid of intrusive thoughts easily. But if stuff gets out of control, we get to have a say in this and help Anon combat it. Like the Sachiko incident. She was an intrusive thought that Anon supplied energy to and it ended out of control; with us later finishing her off. Also, we don't consider ourselves an 'immune system'. That's.... something else.... We are his companions. His bros. His brothers in arms. An immune system just defends the bearer from dangerous stuff. We do a tad bit more than that, don't we?

Yes. And it's pretty darn effective at doing it's job. Earned a reputation too in the wonderland! Tyrea: They are quite a charm if you get passed their looks. Anon did. They even found a way to look less creepy while maintaining their initial bodies. Tyrea: Their primary task is to destroy intrusive thoughts. Period. For us, an 'accidental tulpa' is an intrusive thought until Anon decides it's worthwhile, then it's status is contested. If Anon decides to keep it or is beneficial to him, they are no longer intrusive thoughts but potential assets. If Anon decides they are evil and up to no good, they return to their status of intrusive thoughts and are eliminated. Val: We don't have an anti-accidental tulpa system because: 1. We don't believe in accidental tulpas (despite what some might believe). 2. This doesn't happen as often as it should for us to actually consider founding a facility dedicated to this kind of threats. It's a special process that costs a cr*p ton of energy in both initial expenses and maintenance. 3. We are (and always be) stronger than initial accidental tulpas. Because we are older, more developed and powerful than them. We are not afraid to kill what is against the host. Because we know (sometimes better than Anon) that intrusive thoughts are at their core, for us at least, pure evil. 4. Anon can recalibrate (or recondition) them to behave and become normal and honestly positive entities. So there is no need for some means to stop accidental tulpas because either Anon's benevolence normalises them or our strength terminates them. Tyrea: We are quite furry and sometimes fluffly. Snuggle-worth if you may. I am pretty sure that if you read enough descriptive pieces about a human touching a pony, you will get the idea. It gets somewhat into imposition problems, but only if you want to touch the pony. Visually and audio, there shouldn't be any problem.

That sounds nice. Me, Val and Tyrea were considering to use Sachiko as an addition to the intrusive thoughts shield. Fighting fire with fire. The thing is, if I bring her; the rest of the main cast is coming too (because I played the game with some friends and they are tied now). That would mean that it would be a group regarded as one body. Tyrea thinks it's not such a good idea, because we already have Luna Game + other creepypastas doing this 'fighting fire with fire thing.' Val argues that if we bring them back; we bring back the shocks and scares I got when watching/playing corpse party. Directed at me, because I interact with them. It's a full package, and it would be too hard to separate it. Adagio is a 100% 'No' on this. Yurippe thinks it would have been for nothing. Whaddya guys think?

Val: Sounds like anti-social to me. Not suicidal. Just someone who doesn't enjoy talking to people that much. For a tulpa to become suicidal; it has to go through some real sh*t, man. Unless, it by far too emotionally responsive (up to the point where it exaggerates). If he talks and thinks on his own and he is quite healthy, I don't see the problem. Tyrea: The appearance is just a partial result of how a tulpa feels. Just because he/she/it looks very lanky, that doesn't necessarily mean he is malnourished.

Sorry. But I am happy that everything is clear! What we discovered after the Sachiko incident is that "accidental tulpas" don't actually happen. They are like those catchy songs that gets stuck in your head and you choose to keep them. When she came, I could've easily ignored her completely. She would've disappeared after a short while. UNLESS, I actually (or a part of me at least) wanted it. Because if there is one thing they need one more that anything in their lifetime is mental energy. Which is given through providing attention to them. It's their life force. And in my personal case; the more developed they are, the less energy they need. @@KruegerMeister, The more we think of a potential tulpa, the more they become an actual tulpa. Perhaps you were thinking a lot about Shou? As evidenced from him telling him his all over your subconscious.