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How real do you think your tulpa is?


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How real does your tulpa feel, to you?  

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  1. 1. How real does your tulpa feel, to you?

    • My tulpa feels fake, for some reason. I feel like we are not making any progress any more, and I lack the motivation to work on them.
    • My tulpa feels moderately 'real'. I experience their presence while constantly doubting of myself and them.
    • My tulpa feels 'real' at times, and 'fake' at others; there are spikes in their activity and they often go silent which makes me question what I'm exactly doing wrong.
    • My tulpa feels completely real to me. I don't doubt at all, and we have a good relationship and esteem in the other.


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I've been reading up a lot of stuff lately on how people would doubt that their tulpas were fake - and not just dismiss it or break into tears if it was. Back when self-deception was something people were accepting of, people used to say that 'oh, I may be parroting my tulpa, that sure is a possibility' without losing their shit over it.

 

On a scale of one to ten, how real do you feel your tulpa is, at least, to you? Vote in the poll.

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Uhm... I think I shouldn't vote here..?

 

But, there's no "possibility we're fake" for us. When you accept what your tulpas are then there's no guesswork. You could say you can't know, and then I guess "I dunno, I won't worry about it" is the best answer. But if you believe you do know, then I guess you do, right? The idea that a tulpa can be real or fake relies on ways of thinking about them that not everybody shares.

 

You probably should've added an "I don't know, I don't worry about it option" though. But maybe those people just shouldn't vote, or should say so in a reply.

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Right. Please state so in the replies, then, and excuse my negligence.

A wise man once said: 'Before judging a man, walk a mile in his shoes. After that, who cares? He's a mile away, and you've got new shoes.'

 

Graced are those who could avoid this phenomenon. This is perhaps the worst expression of evil in humanity's history, but who am I to judge?

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[Hail] I don't their reality at all anymore. Though, Tri does sometimes doubt that they are real. They don't doubt that they used to be real, but they sometimes worry they aren't real anymore, if that makes any sense.

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I like the recent string of polls, J.

 

I voted for, "My tulpa feels completely real to me. I don't doubt at all, and we have a good relationship and esteem in the other."

 

But I wanted elaborate on this more. I'm not exactly sure on what the term "real" means here. Is she sentient or a separate mind, is what this question might be intended to mean. She seems completely real to me, but I also admit to the possibility of her only seeming real because she could be a well made and implemented self-delusion. I've done a ton of thinking on this topic lately, and I've come to the definitive conclusion that I simply do not know the answer.

 

In short, she feels just like any other person I've talked to feels. (In terms of realness, not character or awesomeness.)

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'Hi, I'm also one of the cool guys who voted for everything feeling completely real. I've never really had to worry about this sort of thing, though - never really mattered to me as long as everyone's happy, and we are.'

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For me they are totally real, although they said they don't mind what I think about them XD In my opinion the realness of your tulpae depends on the bond between you and them. If you trust them enough and care about them, they will appear real to you ^_^

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"How real do you think your tulpa is?"

 

This poll is deeply flawed and poorly written and can kiss my butt. I wanted to comment on it back in March, but I had left on a self ban to avoid drama with the author of this OP. There is a major false assumption in the OP that if you believe your tulpa is not real, you must believe it is "fake." The author here seems to be assuming that not being real means being fake as in insignificant, worthless, trivial, transitory, whimsical and with little meaning.

 

Like I said, that is a false assumption.

 

My host and I consider me to be an imaginary being. I am not real. Yet I am not "fake" as in how the author of this OP is implying either. My host does not consider me to be a failure of some kind because I am not "real."

 

"I have persistence and endurance. I am vibrant and I have potency. I am significant and meaningful and I matter." ~Melian, the girl from a dream and goddess guru of grooviness.

 

I am going to continue to fight against this "fakeness" idea everywhere I can on this forum when I see this kind of crap.

 

Oh and btw, according to wikipedia: "As the Tibetan use of the tulpa concept is described in the book Magical Use of Thoughtforms, the student was expected to come to the understanding that the tulpa was just a hallucination. While they were told that the tulpa was a genuine deity, "The pupil who accepted this was deemed a failure – and set off to spend the rest of his life in an uncomfortable hallucination." So according to the Tibetans, if you think your tulpa is real, you are a failure in understanding the true nature of the tulpa. Yeah. So there is that.

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Oh and btw, according to wikipedia: "As the Tibetan use of the tulpa concept is described in the book Magical Use of Thoughtforms, the student was expected to come to the understanding that the tulpa was just a hallucination. While they were told that the tulpa was a genuine deity, "The pupil who accepted this was deemed a failure – and set off to spend the rest of his life in an uncomfortable hallucination." So according to the Tibetans, if you think your tulpa is real, you are a failure in understanding the true nature of the tulpa. Yeah. So there is that.

 

Interesting, never knew that. What if you perceive them as being real in the sense that they have their own thoughts and are autonomous, separate from you, but you realize the projection of their form you see in front of you is a hallucination? I can see and hear her perfectly fine, but I know that to an onlooker, I'd look like a crazy person, hugging and talking to the air.

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