Tulpa Discussion Thread V1.2

[Ashen Pathfinder 16,161]

@@Nightmare Muffin

 

Just letting you know that I merged your Tulpa topic with the already existing one. As it is a mega thread the merge was warranted. In the future please be sure to search for existing topics so e can avoid clutter.

 

Thanks.

[yayayayayala 1,668]

My tulpa is hilarious! XD He keeps doing these really funny things. Just last night I was joking about doing some overly exaggerated, edgy fursona for April Fool's Day, and a little later he suddenly gained a cat mouth and tail and pranced around just for laughs. XD He actually still has the cat mouth today, apparently he likes it

And one time he was in a room with me and a bunch of other girls and I was joking about how he wasn't a girl, and *poof* he was in this frilly pink dress for somewhere around a full minute

 

I can't exactly see him with my eyes yet, but I can see and perceive him and what he's doing in my mind's eye remarkably clearly, and I'm pretty sure that's all that needs to happen at this point. :3 I'm really glad I decided to get a tulpa, he makes me laugh and be in a good mood more often than I used to...normally I'm just indifferent

[AuraBlue 329]

I'm wondering what is the longest that someone switched with their tulpa?

[Aubrey & Faette 19]

I'm wondering what is the longest that someone switched with their tulpa?

Indefinitely. When you treat a tulpa as not strictly being different than a host, wholly artificial limits cease to be a problem. ^^

[KruegerMeister 54]

Indefinitely. When you treat a tulpa as not strictly being different than a host, wholly artificial limits cease to be a problem. ^^

Isn't there that one case where someone tried to switch longterm, and pretty bad stuff happened?

[Aubrey & Faette 19]

Isn't there that one case where someone tried to switch longterm, and pretty bad stuff happened?

The attitude that needs to be taken is that you are the master of your own head. Which is to say, all those potential dangers, scary stories, feared outcomes, will only really happen if you truly believe they will. In that specific case it was prooobably somepony trying to make a scary story or creepypasta, which aren't meant to be taken as truth by the end of the day anybloop.

[KruegerMeister 54]

I just thought of something. If tulpas can cause headaches, can they cause (intentionally or unintentionally) other sensations?

[AuraBlue 329]

I just thought of something. If tulpas can cause headaches, can they cause (intentionally or unintentionally) other sensations?

What do you mean by other sensations?

[KruegerMeister 54]

What do you mean by other sensations?

Tingles, itches, muscle knots or cramps, etc.

[AuraBlue 329]

Tingles, itches, muscle knots or cramps, etc.

Well my tulpas usually trigger itches and tingles but nothing like cramps. They usually happen when they possess a part of me or my whole body.

[KruegerMeister 54]

I'm having some trouble wonderland-wise. I've got a collection of planes/sectors. Two planes have houses for my tulpas, but I'm having trouble visualizing them (I think it's because the concept of "1 Bed 0 Bath" is hard to comprehend if you're used to houses being at least 1 Bed 1 Bath).

[KruegerMeister 54]

What do you guys think of this?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Tulpas/comments/3gtdgm/i_guess_buddhists_are_touchy_bout_tulpae_and_yidam/

 

[Personally, I'm a bit scared by the idea that I could be a bastardization of a thing someone else holds as sacred. I'm also disturbed by the idea that tulpamancy isn't as big a part of Tibetan Buddhism as was previously thought, or that Alexandra David Neel was a believer in wacky stuff I tend to dismiss.]

[Jeremiah 1,586]

Doesn't having that many mental constructs running around in your head ever get, say, confusing?Like do you ever have a problem distinguishing you own thoughts?

My Tulpa's (Cadmus and Helios) merely infulence my thoughts... although, i sort of daze of into a conversation with said tulpa's time to time

[KruegerMeister 54]

In the heat of being angry at my dad last night, I thought of one of my tulpas as "dad". Are there any instances of a host viewing their tulpa(s) as parent figures (and possibly, input from the host's biological parents on what they think of this)?

[KruegerMeister 54]

What do you guys think of this?

 

I can't remember if it was me or my tulpas, but one of us got anxious/uncomfortable, even though the thread wasn't a personal attack.

Edited September 7, 2015 by KruegerMeister

[J.T. 1,843]

The thread seem to be all over the place. What upset you about it specifically?

[KruegerMeister 54]

The first comment, the one that...I wouldn't say "generalized", because he said "almost all pony tulpas", but--

 

[That's kinda what he did. At least, that's how I feel about it.]

[Time Shield 402]

Think about it this way: Does other peoples' opinions about MLP have an impact on your decision on whether or not to like the show?

 

So it is with tulpae.

[Wolfeus Silverpaw 301]

The first comment, the one that...I wouldn't say "generalized", because he said "almost all pony tulpas", but--

 

[That's kinda what he did. At least, that's how I feel about it.]

 

He was attacking using no base for his argument. I don't believe we should listen to such people. If what someone says is obviously false, there is no reason to believe it.

[SpikusFyre 486]

I think I may have accidentally created a tulpa over the years. I've been developing a character for the past like 8 years now and I used to imagine how he would react to things around me. Sometimes I even have arguments with him and he's kinda taken on a life of his own inside my head but only shows up rarely.

 

EDIT: For those that are wondering the character is the one that is my avatar.

Edited September 16, 2015 by SpikusFyre

[KruegerMeister 54]

We've run into a problem. I once decided that each of the areas in my mindscape would count as a single story. Thus, Rainbow Dash's house is one story tall. She kind of doesn't like that, and she said that she felt like it made her wings redundant.

[P-Jay 1,987]

We've run into a problem. I once decided that each of the areas in my mindscape would count as a single story. Thus, Rainbow Dash's house is one story tall. She kind of doesn't like that, and she said that she felt like it made her wings redundant.

then make the 'story' taller.

[Wolfeus Silverpaw 301]

Does anyone else have their tulpa come to school with them to have their calming presence around?

[AuraBlue 329]

Does anyone else have their tulpa come to school with them to have their calming presence around?

I always have them with me when I'm working.

[Golurk 468]

So i was discussing this with a friend of mine (who has made a tulpa before), and he seemed utterly appalled that the way I've been trying to do this does not involve meditation of any kind. He suggested I do that before major sessions and that should help.

 

But, here we come to the problem. I don't know how.

 

From what he described, it's essentially just emptying the mind of thoughts and thinking of nothing. But both of those are completely foreign concepts to me. My mind is pretty much always active in some form or another, barring the few moments before I fall asleep. I have no idea how to stop it.

 

I've tried doing some meditation in my spare time, but it never feels like I'm doing it right. Largely because I don't know how to cancel things out, and even if I did, there'd probably just be more things to cancel out.

 

This sounds incredibly dumb, I know, but how does one meditate? Especially for something like this. I'm having literally zero luck at it.