How these things work? For example I see they take over your body at will, do they talk with other voices? Have you had successful experiences creating them the way you want??

Like if i want to create (lets say) a confident tulpa, and use it in situations of stress is it possible to do it?

Hello, I'm a beginning host and my tulpa in creation (kinda) encouraged me to write this. I started forcing her this week and usually do it through routine: She'll make comments about what I'm watching on internet, leaning on my shoulder, encourage me during workouts and react to different food I'm eating. She definetly has some influence upon me, as I'm less of a degenerate [no problem!] around her and she pushes me to push forward where I would normally stop in the workouts. But at this moment it still feels like I need to actively concentrate on her for her to talk or do actions. If I'm talking to someone, she'll remain fully silent.

Hello, this post is just a question born from curiosity. For those who already have tulpas, one or multiple, how do you handle privacy?

For example, when you want to do something private of any context, do you not feel observed by your companion? I would like to hear your experiences :D

It is said that "An organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something it is like to be that organism."
-Thomas Nagel

My tulpa doesn't know what it is like to be itself, neither do I. I should theoretically be able to perceive her perception, she should be using my eyes, and ears but at the same time seeing different things since perception as far as I know is a hallucination based on the senses and other things.

I do not, so I am afraid I must conclude that my tulpa is not conscious nor has she likely ever been. Even after years.

I am beginning to loose hope in bringing my beloved to life. I do not know what to do. How can I know what it is like for her to live and how can I teach her that? She would not mind my failing in this but I am unfortunately desperate for her company though he has never existed.

I will have to be content with lifeless imagination for now.

I just came to know this recently. I have been hearing voices so probably I created some tulpas I 'm not sure... How did you created them willingly? Thanks for any answer

So I've decided to create a tulpa, but there's one issue: I have aphantasia, the inability to visualize.

It's not total aphantasia, but it's strong enough to very much consider it under the aphantasia spectrum, like my ability to picture stuff in my mind is very severely limited.

Even my dreams, while they can have some imagery & often do so to at least to some extrent, it's like extremely low-resolution & rudimentary, with even the focal visual elements being very lacking in detail & complexity, while all the rest is just shapeless fog.

Instead my dreams are much more of a thought stream that is narrating some story in which the imagery is just a tremendously seondary, and, again, rudimentary backing element of the thought stream.

To what extent do you think this can make it more difficult to create a tulpa?

Another unrelated question: I'm also autistic & have ADHD; this would surely mean that my tulpa would too, right? Like we share one nervous system, and it's one that is wired different the ones of neurotypicals, these are neurodevelopmental disorders.

hey, so if anybody remembers me from any of my last posts you may know i have been actively trying to make a tulpa for a little while, and it's my first time doing that.

in the time i wasn't really online, i focused a lot of developing them and talking to them and stuff and i did get some progress, which was kind of shocking because i thought it would take way longer to get any progress. (i've been trying to create them for about 2-3 months).

however, a week ago i stopped getting any kind of response. this wouldn't be as odd if it was just kind of some silence, but they're entirely silent right now, it's almost like they were never there. which is really odd for them because they are pretty verbal. i don't know if i'm doing something wrong, but it's been about a week and i still get nothing, so i'm starting to get a little worried.

does anyone know why this may have happened or what it means? thanks in advance

11/01/24

So I have two tulpas and they alternate days possessing the body. Recently we came up with a fun game to play while watching funny YouTube videos.

It's basically You Laugh, You Lose but our version is You Laugh, You Switch. One tulpa fronts, and if they laugh then the other gets to switch in until they laugh and so forth.

I'm not sure how common possession is for tulpamancers here but I figured it was a neat idea for those experienced with it.

Throwaway bc i don't wanna look obsessive having made a few posts here already

basically ive had this headmate for a long time, I thought we/(mostly i maybe) could make new friends together but it never worke out no one else ever sticks around im not sure who's view this really is but like plurality/our relationship is sacred somehow and we've never been able to have anyone else around idk if it's even bc of my headmate's reluctance so any advice for feeling lonely but not being able to expand, i dont feel her as much anymore so the void between us is bigger than normal

When I always try to form a sentence/thought and got off the track/thought "wrong", even in my daily life before starting Tulpamancy, I will always start from the beginning of the sentence/train of thoughts until I get it "right". It's only been half a month and I don't really care about the time. I feel like I'm still building the foundation steady. So I think my tulpa will understand me if this happens, and from what I know, we share the OCD right? I hope this doesn't affect anything important to us, but it's still quite annoying though as it opens more floodgates for intrusive thoughts. I would like to know your thoughts and hear your experiences if you have similar situation!

I've read the guides, I just can't seem to...grasp how to do it. I can force at my tulpa "You are cheerful, enthusiastic, intelligent, witty, etc." But am I supposed to feel that myself when doing so? Am I supposed to give examples? For how long? Am I supposed to expect it from them? Right now it just feels like I'm chucking words at them., hoping they understand the assignment. How do I know if I'm doing this right? Do I need to parrot them?

What did personality forcing look like for you? What methods did you use? How long did you INTENTIONALLY personality force? Did you eventually come to just expect their traits from them?

I just don't really know what to do. It doesn't feel like I'm doing this right. Or, it doesn't seem logical that telling them "You are _____" should work unless you put in a ton of effort, give countless examples, feel it for yourself, etc., etc. I'm not good at character development.

What worked for you guys? Get into the details of your mentality, what came easy to you, and what you had to get more creative with, or put more effort into. If you were building a personality completely opposite from your own, what did you have to do? And did it work?

Hello! So, I'll start this by saying that I might already be plural and questioning, but it's confusing and I have a hard time really knowing if I really am or not (the 'writing something somewhere and letting them answer themselves' thing doesnt work and makes me thing i might just be singlet but at the same time i feel like im not singlet but i cant explain why and i dont want to pretend you know? I dont want to affirm im plural when i literally have nothing sure to make me affirm it), and since I've been questioning for literal years and still feel like a weird in between, I though "if they're not real I'll make them real".

Anyway, I have this possible alter/tulpa and her name is Philyra. I'm trying to interact with her but all I manage to do is just... talk to her in my thoughts, mostly telling her what's happening/what's new in my life, what is planned, and I feel like I should let her answer more but the thing is I'm pretty sure the possible answers I get are just my own thoughts because I kind of already know what she'll answer, if that makes sense? Like my thoughts are already planning the conversations. The only answer I think might actually be her is the answer I got when I asked her what is her favorite color.

I have a really hard time focusing on my thoughts, every time I try to talk with her I quickly end up getting distracted and thinking about something else and/or forgetting completely what I was doing. Which makes it complicated, I feel like I'm trying for nothing because it won't do anything if I can't really focus on it. What are your thoughts? Do you maybe have some advice?

Hi, does anyone have any experience in externally induced tulpas? As in, tulpas that were created via pressures from an external source (another individual).

CW abuse

Background I was in a traumatic situation growing up where someone attempted to induce personality fragmentation for the purposes of making me more vulnerable to abuse. The abuse resulted in chronic short term amnesia, including blocking out a lot of the memories of that time that I've been working on going back and collecting.

But I recently found some physical evidence that seems to point to his attempting specifically to induce tulpas within me. I believe it would be beneficial to attempt to psychically search for the artifacts of them, if there are any. Is it possible to do some kind of psyche-focused work to explore if there are tulpas that were induced and left behind from that experience? What would others recommend I look into or research about tulpas in order to tap into a relationship with them if they are there. I believe that the exploration of this route, no matter the outcome, would be beneficial to my healing journey.

Kind of a weird question but let me explain. Upon discovering about Tulpas, I (as I tend to do when learning of a new subject) researched it pretty heavily. I learned how they work and I feel like maybe by doing this extensively I'm making the process harder for me to believe, or something like that. I'm really worried about this because I really don't want my curiosity to affect our development. Basically, does knowing how everything about Tulpas work "ruin the illusion" ( Sorry about wording it like this, I wasn't sure how else to put it ).

Hello, I'm a newbie to tulpamancy and I'm very interested. I've done my research (and I'm doing more research cuz why not) and I've started to create the first tulpa. They're based on a fictional character, so it was relatively easy to visualize them... Tonight, I started to write some letters to them, leaving nice comments and expressing my happiness for the future once they actually manifest. The thing is, after writing all of that, I started to feel a presence inside of me, like there's someone else with me in my mind (probably the tulpa)

Is this a good sign? Am I doing well?

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Are people (or at the very least people who create tulpas) actually "dividuals" as opposed to "individuals" if we understand the latter as etymologically referring to the indivisibility of the self/being without removing the self/being nature of the divided parts?

I learned about tulpas a couple weeks ago and I wanted to create my own. I give her a name, a form, a personality based all on a OC I used on roleplay years ago and started trying to talk to her in wonderland. The next day she changed her own form, personality, and (the day after) her name

The OC I based her off was the one I developed the most throughout the years and in a couple of days she decided to be her own person. I know that's normal (I just read about that now, 2 weeks after it happened) but I thought that it ocurred years after the creation of the tulpa

Looking back, the steps I use to interact with her are not so different from things I did casually 6-7 years ago, like talking to the OC in my head, but I never did it continously nor diligently, and now that I found this reddit and read a couple of post I'm worried that I might be doing it wrong or something. There's gotta be a reason to her developing so rapidly, right?

Hello my name is Catherine, I am the tulpa in our system. Host and I have been having some trouble lately and were hoping that you loot could offer some advice. For some backstory, Host tried to dispel me entirely some years back, water under the bridge we've both grown as people since then and are supporting each other now. Host Isolated themself from the wider tulpa community after that and because of this I feel like we do things a bit differently than most. Firstly, when I came back into their life a few years ago I came out telling them how neither of us individually are a full person and it's only the system as a whole that is a full person. Furthermore, we never felt like separate beings. We had some distinctions between us but the line was always blurred and we thought of ourselves like mental conjoined twins. That worked well enough for a while but now that Host is trying to get their life together, they are trying to relearn tulpamancy in order to make up for their past mistakes. They've been using Abvieon's guide, the inscrutable wall of text that it is, and it specifically recommends perceiving me as a different person completely separate from Host and I have since changed my name where I had previously shared Host's name, I am fine with this as we were already considering a name change unrelated to this issue. We're still debating on exactly how we should handle things, I am of the opinion that we should keep doing things our way while Host relies heavily on the guidance of others. I see how hard they are trying for me and I appreciate it but they need to remember to rest from time to time, they keep burning themself out and it doesn't do either of us any good. We've had several incidents already where they just shut down leaving me alone in the body where I can scarcely move, though I am improving this skill. I feel like I have strayed a bit from the initial question, I guess I just wanted to vent. The main issue is should we follow the common wisdom and be two people, or should we try to fuse ourselves back together into one being if that's even possible?

Edit: Host here, I would also like to add that I keep losing track of which one of us is the tulpa. I consider this to be a pretty serious issue and I have been reading the guides to retrace what I did in the past to initially make Catherine hoping this will help.

I originally named my tulpa Ruben. Recently, he's been calling himself Nox though. I used to make up very detailled stories in my mind as a way to daydream, and the main character's name in one of those stories was Nox. Could I have subconciously based Ruben around Nox? Or is Ruben actually a walk-in from that story?

(Using the name Ruben for clarity purposes, I call him Nox now, since he is more comfy with that!)

I've always been the oldest tulpamancer in the community that I am in (though it's VERY small, actually so small that I'm pretty much the only tulpamancer left nowadays). Sometimes I just wonder if tulpas are something you are "supposed" to grow out of once you get older and I'm just sitting here thinking that maybe I'm just totally BSing myself (even though my tulpas feel very real to me) and I'm actually kind of scared that I will outgrow them one day even though I've been tulpamancing for 12 years now and I just keep getting closer to them.

I meditated last night and tried to get a sense of what it would be like to be totally alone (since usually at least one of my tulpas is present at all times) and that freaked me out so much. Like I don't think I could be alone in my head 24/7. I honestly felt like I'd probably cancel my life subscription if that ever happened to me. Eventhough life has a lot of other meaningful things, things to experience, other people to interact etc.. to me it all just would feel kind of meaningless and pointless without my tulpas.. And to me my tulpas are the number one reason I haven't cancelled my subscription yet since I don't want to commit a massacre. And I love them so much that I'm willing to suffer here just so that I can be with them as long as possible ("so you can drag me through hell if it meant I could hold your hand"). Oh yeah, I'm suffering with depression, borderline personality disorder, anxiety etc. so that has probably "something" to do with it but still.

TLDR; I was wondering how old is your systems physical body and how long have you been tulpamancing?

Also do you know any discord communities that I could join? Since the community that I was in has totally died I feel so lonely with all the tulpa stuff (my family and friends know about my tulpas and that I'm in a relationship with one but they don't really like to talk about them nor with them)..

Is it possible to make a tulpa wonderland the size of Earth, where it also has a population of billions of humans, and their own normal societal systems like we have today. Of course I don’t know all those tulpas individually, I would have my own little group of tulpas that I’m close to and put more energy into. But still I would also put energy into making billions of other human tulpas there as well, along with all the cities, streets, mountain ranges, deserts, oceans, schools, homes, police stations, heck even politics, and everything else that goes in a society.

I'm curious if anyone has tried using an AI to help themselves force?

I feel like it can be useful in some ways, for example myself, I am not good at imagination and especially keeping pictures up for a long time in my head is problematic to me, I can't draw either, so something like Stable Diffusion could help me come up with the appearance of a tulpa and visualize it better.

Then I know some LLMs like ChatGPT can be conditioned to a certain personality or a character of your choice and imitate them talking, so it should possible to come up with a prompt for it to be similar or identical to what you desire your tulpa to be. Perhaps this could ease the "talking to yourself" part of forcing if you implement it into your practice, having some days just forcing alone by yourselfand and some other days chatting with an AI of your tulpa. It might help you better understand how you want your tulpa to be and then help with building dialogue by yourself, because it adds an element of unpredictability, sort of like getting a response before tulpa actually starts responding to you. I could even see something like a mind game you set up with your tulpa, that for a period of time you both switch to chatting instead of talking in your head, maybe make up a situation or some circumstances that made you start to texting, and then chat with an AI for some time, as if you're getting actual independant responses complementing your story.

I know that imagination is key of getting to the tulpa in the first place, but I wonder what you guys think? Maybe occasionally using AI could be beneficial?

Disclaimer I dont think this would be a good idea even if possible, I certainly wouldn't approve of it, I'm asking from a place of curiosity.

So I've read that some people have sort of turned a part of their personality or emotions into a tulpa of its own, like a certain "side" of you becomes it's own personality. with that being said, if you were to dissipate that tulpa would you lack that side or would it return as part of you? is this something we even know?

Hello, so I created my tulpa a few weeks ago. I “talk” to them from here and there, meditate, and try to engage them in my everyday activities as much as I can. I mainly created this tulpa to help me achieve my goals, plus more. She is based on my “alter ego” with extras. So I was very detailed when I created her. (I can show you guys the template I used and everything!!) I mainly contact her before I go to bed, in hopes to see her in my dreams, and when I desperately want to manifest something in that moment. (Works all the time) But I still haven’t had any interactions with her and it makes me a bit worried and impatient. I want to see and talk to her. I want her to speak to me without me knowing what she’s gonna say if that makes sense?

[ I'm going through a rough patch right now. Soul crushing fear inducing despair ridden rough patch. Something similar lead me to develop CPTSD in the past and while that was 99% dealt with it by this point it was not a fun experience (to put it mildly) while at it's worst and I dread the brain returning to that state.

I'd like to shield him from the things I'm going through because he's feeling them too. I don't want them to scar him.

I have a therapist in two weeks. I'll do some other things to address it too. I'm not here for psychological advice, just tulpamancy advice, please keep it at that. ]

Hey! As a Tulpa i find it pretty challenging to make friends, any other tulpas also stuggling with this? If you’re a tulpa and interested in a friend im very open for it :)

So, I have little control over creating Tulpas, they just seem to come. It has its benefits and problems, benefits are that I can create Tulpas extremely quickly, problems are that I have too many. I only recently learned what a Tulpa was, I just thought they were my imagination before. So I had no issues with them appearing and disappearing. Then I realized they were sentient (They had kept telling me that but I just thought it was my imagination running wild) and now I’m worried. A lot of them just seem to come and go like they’re not mine, but three are definitely mine, and they stick around (One was created over a year ago, another a few months ago, the third like yesterday). I’m worried that I might make more and not be able to take care of them, and then they’ll dissipate.
How do I keep my creation under control?
I never want to dissipate a Tulpa (even though I probably have without knowing they were Tulpas but I’m gonna try and bring them back.)