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INFORMATION SHEET Please read the following carefully My name is Ciarán Dervan, I am currently conducting and undergraduate research project in the School of Psychology in University College Dublin, under the supervision of Dr. Michelle Downes. Thank you for your interest in taking part in this study. STUDY TITLE: Tulpamancy: An Exploration. OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY: This study aims to assess aspects of Tulpamancy using two distinct investigative methods. Firstly, an in-depth thematic analysis will be conducted on relevant threads of the Tulpa.info website to detail the major aspects of the practice. Secondly, an online questionnaire will be administered to gather participants’ demographic information, accounts of their methods, as well as their experiences and attitudes regarding Tulpamancy. This phase of the study will also utilize four standardized tests to assess aspects of everyday thinking and behaviour of the Host (person who created the Tulpa/s). WHAT HAPPENS IF I VOLUNTEER?: Your participation is entirely voluntary. You must be 18 years of age or older to participate, and be of sound mind – meaning you can legally give your own consent to participate in this study. If you decide to take part and subsequently change your mind, you may withdraw from the study at any time without difficulty, so long as you have not submitted your finished questionnaire. If you agree to participate in this study you will complete a self-report questionnaire, details of which can be found above and in the cover sheet of the questionnaire. RIGHT TO WITHDRAW: You can withdraw from the study at any point provided you have not yet submitted your finished questionnaire. However, once the questionnaire has been submitted it will no longer be possible to withdraw your data as it will be anonymous and unidentifiable. ARE THERE ANY BENEFITS TO MY PARTICIPATION?: Tulpamancy is a new practice, as such there is sparsely any literature on the topic, yet alone scientific studies. Your participation will help to build on the existing research, and aid in providing more first-hand information on Tulpas to a wider audience. ARE THERE ANY RISKS INVOLVED IN PARTICIPATING? The risks associated with participation in this study are minimal, there are questions relating to personal opinions and experiences but none of these are gathered unnecessarily. Furthermore, all information given will be anonymized and confidential. Upon completion of the questionnaire, you may return to this thread to avail of the mental health resources linked below if you have been negatively affected by any of the topics raised. CONFIDENTIALITY: All information gathered via this questionnaire will remain anonymous, and you are asked not to put your name, or the name of your Tupla/s anywhere on the questionnaire. Direct quotations may be presented to illustrate an unforeseen point or consideration, but will not be identifiable, and only used if essential. Data from the questionnaire will be kept digitally in anonymized form in a password protected file on a password protected computer, and kept for a maximum of one year after the thesis has been examined by the university. As this is a thesis the finished study will be reviewed by members of the university, and it may subsequently be published. You are reminded that all publicly viewed and published versions of the final thesis will be deidentified and anonymous. Should the study be published, a link will be provided in the original research thread so that you can read the results of the study you helped to complete. If you agree to the terms listed above, please follow the link below to continue to the questionnaire. http://ucdpsychology.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9Lx7Zln26G08GB7 MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES: If you have been affected by the questions or topics raised in this study and would like to talk to someone about how you are feeling, the resources below offer excellent counselling services and advice. • Visit https://www.imalive.org/ to talk with someone if you are in crisis. • Visit https://www.mentalhealth.gov/ and click on the section “Talk about mental health” to talk to someone, or “How to get help” for further instructions on seeking help. • You can email the Samaritans at: jo@samaritans.org to talk to someone about any negative feelings, or give them a call at 116123 UK and ROI

Hello! I am conducting a survey for some research. This is primarily about how tulpas interact with the brain. If I feel I have enough responses to post something, it will be at my Tumblr account: ( https://mordecai-and-i.tumblr.com/ ) Our account tries to analyze different aspects of tulpamancy. We are hoping to provide an article about how thoughtforms are able to change brain chemistry and find lost memories, but we can only do that if we have some responses to work with. If you have more than one thoughtform and the abilities are different per tulpa/alter/thoughtform, please elaborate. No names will be posted, but your responses might. Feel free to PM me your responses or post them below. (A.) Basic Information: (A.1) How many sentient tulpas/alters/thoughtforms do you have? (Anything that reoccurs in your mind that has some conscious attributes) (A.2) How old are they? (A general guess is okay, date of creation or any beginning milestone is fine) (A.3) How close are you to your tulpas? (Can the thoughtform see your memories, feelings, etc.) (B.) Tulpa’s Abilities: (B.1) Is your tulpa able to perform possession, switching, or imposition? (Say yes ONLY if you have seen movement, had dissociation with a tulpa switch, or seen your tulpa physically) (B.2) Can your tulpa change your mood at will? (NOT including bleeding emotions. Can your tulpa make you happy for no reason?) (B.3) Does your system experience any emotional bleeding? (If your tulpa is happy, do you feel happy? NOT including mutual happiness due to mutual care for the other; I mean you are experiencing their emotions directly) (B.4) Can your tulpa find memories you’ve previously lost/couldn’t recall? (Have you ever completely forgot about an event, but then have your tulpa bring it up? Or have your tulpa remind you of something you would not have thought of otherwise?) (B.5) In regards to (B.2) and (B.4), how does your tulpa accomplish this? (Please elaborate as much as possible. Have your tulpa answer if necessary. How does your tulpa find memories/ change emotions in the brain?)

Link to survey This is a survey intended to determine if linguistic ability and writing experience has an effect on first-time tulpa creation, and to what degree this can be observed. Hopefully, this data may allow for some insight into what allows some first-time tulpas to develop faster than others, and perhaps help out those aspiring hosts who cannot make a breakthrough in the creation process. This survey is for hosts only, please, and primarily concerns your first tulpa. If your first tulpa was created on accident or without your active intention of forcing, please do not respond to this survey.

This will really help my research for the book I'm writing.

Requested to crosspost this by /u/freyasspirit, who is conducting research on plural systems of trans experience. Survey: https://sites.google.com/view/trans-plural-survey Link to the survey thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Tulpas/comments/5ick8q/transgenderplural_survey/

In case you hadn't noticed, this is one of my first ever posts on this website, and there's kind of a reason for that. I've been kind of lurking for a while, but decided to make an account prompted by a project for my high school psychology class (I know, lame). I wish I could provide specific information on the thesis, but the survey kind of necessitates the takers not to know. As I mentioned on the survey, I am going to be personally looking into the results beyond the subject of the actual assignment, and I'll of course be releasing all of the relevant results and hypothesizing on it. Hopefully this will be interesting for some people, although I can't go into detail. If you're willing to participate, the survey is here, and will only take a couple minutes to fill out. Thank you very much.

https://surveyplanet.com/56a785a94bd6c0966453b390 I have made a survey. I have an upcoming project, and require additional information from the forum populace. Feel free to fill that in.

Over seven months ago, I began working on a project that I hoped would shed light on the positive effects tulpas often have on the lives of their hosts and the potential this has in the context of mental health. After a half year of researching, misstepping, learning from those missteps, making connections, and general trudging, I am pleased to present the final data collection process for my observational study. The following is a link to a survey that seeks to explore the relationship between plurality and mental health. The questions are designed to contrive a comparative analysis that may identify which aspects of tulpamancy cause its therapeutic effects. The overarching goal is to develop a hypothesis as to whether there is a correlation between tulpamancy and improvements in mental health, mental disorders, and neurodevelopmental ones, and if so, the cause of this relationship. Survey Link At the end of the survey, you will be asked if you are willing to be contacted for follow up questions or an interview. The purpose of this is to investigate in depth some of the specific phenomena that I noticed in my pilot survey and research. For example, tulpamancy systems diagnosed with schizophrenia that are willing to answer follow up questions may be sent a questionnaire that asks how the tulpas are affected by the disorder, whether they are independent of it, and how interactions with tulpas differ from hallucinations. If anyone has any questions, comments, or advice, please don’t hesitate to send me a message or email me at tulpastudy@gmail.com TL;DR: Take this survey, for science! --Ford Original study announcement (6/23/15): http://community.tulpa.info/thread-new-tulpa-study Change of plans (8/04/15): http://community.tulpa.info/thread-tulpa-study-update-change-of-plans Tumblr: http://fordaplot.tumblr.com Thanks to everyone who already participated in the random samples on .io, .im, and .info. If you already completed a survey through those, there is no need to submit another.

I would be grateful if you would take this survey on the correlation between mental illness and Tulpamancy (if there is any at all.) Non-mentally ill people should take this survey as well. I will be creating charts with this information for the purpose of sharing with the community, and also to answer the common question of "are these two things related?" Your personal data stays anonymous. I used Google Forms. Here is the link to the survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Ygotj9nOKteGINlHB5Gt_-vLxbb3GngDVq_kHwgmoUg/viewform (If the link doesn't work, please let me know, and I will try to fix it.) If you have any suggestions on how this survey can be improved, they would be appreciated. Questions are welcome. If you'd like to post your general views on this topic below, that would be wonderful too.

This is a simple survey I am conducting to supplement my study. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1YRlTl2j1L4w3B_RM9GIvjQMTwow9GIl71mzN7REQEbA/viewform

Can you all please help me with this simple, 2-minute survey? I am doing a study on tulpae. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/15tB8Vqgu47MB6MQUR5LYx4LrDzur-TW7QgqN7Sc7ad0/viewform