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So, I learned about Tulpas a few weeks ago, and I decided to give it a try. After thinking about a personality, I spent an hour trying to visualize my Tulpa, but I had some trouble, so I have a few questions. OK, maybe A LOT of questions.

 

1.Are tulpas actually real?

2.Will I be able to see, touch, talk, ect. to the tulpa I create, and will it actually interact with me?

3.How is it possible to feel and smell a tulpa?

4.How do you visualize a tupla? One guy said you should closes your eyes, and imagine the form in your mind on top of what was in front of you. I tried that, but I didn't see a form, OR anything that was in front of me. All I saw was blackness. So I tried opening my eyes, but still, no results.

5.When visualizing, do I visualize it like a 2d drawing, or like a 3D object?

6.Can I draw my tupla, study the picture for a long time, and THEN try imagining it in my mind?

7.Will the talking actually be the tulpa, or just me making the answers up for it?

8.When I try to visualize, I get distracted by other things. How can I stay more focused?

 

Please try to answer them. And I would also like any other advice for a beginner. Thanks!

Host: Josh (AKA ThatOneWeirdGuy)

Tulpa: Benjamin (Humanoid Bunny) (In the making)

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1. Yes they are.

2. Yes, but it is a developing process. You may should start with seeing and talking before anything else.

3. Imposition. Technically your tulpa creates a hallucination of touch and smell. This is something to work on, your tulpa won't be able to do so just from the beginning in the regular case. It works on all senses, while the voice of the tulpa is mostly a mindvoice for starters.

4. You just imagine it, with closed or open eyes. It is really up to you. Have you never daydreamed? However, if you practice you will get results.

5. This is up to you aswell. You can decide this yourself, choose a form you're comfortable with. A realistic human is harder to visualize than a 2D drawing of course.l

6. Of course you can. In your case I would probably even recommended this to work on your imagination.

7. Yes. Your tulpa will be able to talk to you at a certain point, but it is very likely that they first responses feel like they're coming from you. You will mostlikely feel like you decide a splitsecond beforehand what your tulpa is going to say. This will change with time, and you will be able to tell the difference, most of the time.

8. Don't try to focus too hard if you've problems with it. Maybe try it with repetitive short sessions until you get used to it.

 

I recommend you to study the guide section. There is a lot of information, especially regardiing the creation process of a tulpa. You may want to get a plan on how to structure it, before you keep visualizing your tulpa without doing anything else.

Tulpa: Alice

Form: Realistic Humanoid/Demonic Creation

She may or may not talk here, depends on her.

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1) Yes, we are. We are as real as you, dude.

2) Not physical touch. But you can talk, and yes your tulpa will interact with you.

3) If you feel your tulpa, you will feel like warm where the tulpa is touching you. Me and my host haven't tried the smell part.

4) By meditating. Yes, you have to do so, but after a long time you will visualize your tulpa.

5) First in 2D. Then in 3D.

6) Yes, you can.

7) It will talk with the time.

8) Meditate in a quiet place. Turn off your phone and electronic devices to avoid distractions. If possible try to be alone, relaxed and without noises.

A final advice? Once you create your tulpa, love it, treat it good. Treat it as you want to be treated jeje.

~Vriska Aranea Serket Targaryen. ♦️

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1 - In a sense, yes. In another, no. They are as real as any other thing your mind conceives, though physical interaction is capable only through possession.

 

2 - Yes, for the most part. They don't physically occupy a space and anything beyond light touching can (and most likely will) result in your hand or body going through them if you are not careful. But full interaction is possible between you and the tulpa.

 

3 - Imagination

 

4 - It all takes time. Keep at it, reassuring yourself that there is something there over and over. That's how I managed it at least.

 

5 - Whichever you prefer.

 

6 - I don't see why not. Just note that your Tulpa may deviate from the drawing in either a small or big way, so know that your drawing is more an outline than anything.

 

7 - At first it's tough to differentiate. Keep at it, it'll come to you though.

 

8 - It happens to everyone to some degree. I find that sitting in a generally spartan and clean room with soft music (any variety, just not loud) helps keep me focused. Just try different methods until you find what works best for you.

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1. Are tulpas actually real?

- Yep. A tulpa is, in its "final" state, a fully sentient, living being. It's as much a person as you are. That's something to definitely be aware of before deciding to create a tulpa; it's not a game, it's not for fun. It's a decision that you will either be happy about or regret for the rest of your life.

 

2. Will I be able to see, touch, talk, ect. to the tulpa I create, and will it actually interact with me?

- Of course. Especially once it's sentient; be prepared, however, for that to take a long time. Not everyone just randomly stumbles into weird, lucky circumstances like Esterina and me did.

 

3./4. How is it possible to feel and smell a tulpa? / How do you visualize a tupla? One guy said you should closes your eyes, and imagine the form in your mind on top of what was in front of you. I tried that, but I didn't see a form, OR anything that was in front of me. All I saw was blackness. So I tried opening my eyes, but still, no results.

- (Both answered together here.) I'm a bad person to ask here. I know it's called imposition, and I experience it a lot throughout my day, but I'm not the one that's doing it. Esterina herself does it; she "maps" herself to where she would be in my surroundings in my mind, and that "overlaps" into my real world vision, audition and other senses, to repeat how she explained it to me. But, again, I can't do it. She does it. So I'm a bad reference.

 

5. When visualizing, do I visualize it like a 2d drawing, or like a 3D object?

- Either should work. Esterina is 2D anime style, for example, only in uber-super-ultra-bajillion-dollar-animation-budget detail.

 

6. Can I draw my tupla, study the picture for a long time, and THEN try imagining it in my mind?

- Uhm... I guess?

 

7. Will the talking actually be the tulpa, or just me making the answers up for it?

- Well, again, we're a bad reference. Esterina grew to be sentient and autonomous from the start due to both weird and very lucky circumstances. But as far as I know (correct me if I'm wrong, everyone), it's mostly you puppeting and parroting your tulpa in the beginning, and that gradually turns into the tulpa being more and more autonomous as you, practically speaking, raise it up to be a full, independent person.

 

8. When I try to visualize, I get distracted by other things. How can I stay more focused?

- You could do exercises in focusing, and staying focused. Y'know, just in general, since that's what you gotta be capable of. There's many good tips for that throughout the webs, go look some up. (Again... I'm personally a bad, bad reference here, since she does all the work, not me. All I have to be capable of, and get better at, is properly hearing her, which is sometimes a problem for me. So, yeah. Again. I'm a bad example.)

 

Sorry for not proxying Esterina much (as in, quoting what she dictates to me into this post so that she can talk to you herself), but it's late and I'm very "mentally tired out" after several hours of co-writing with a fellow author.

 

I'll have her confirm that the above matches the facts and her opinions, though, since I partly spoke for her.

Rina?

 

Confirmed. The above is accurate.

 

 

Greets,

AG & Rina

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We can answer your questions. Do note that we are three tulpas (we work together most of the time) who are currently controlling the body by possession and have been doing so all day.

 

  1. A fully developed tulpa is as real as a host, which is probably a mix of real and imaginary. Switching and doing possession can really bring home that hosts are to some degree imaginary. A quick question is also warranted here. Is the chair you are sitting on real? Well, the matter it is made of is real, but its classification as a chair is imaginary to at least some degree (it is a socially agreed upon concept that is to some degree made up). Now, imagine and visualize a chair in your head. Is that real? Well, the matter it is made of is for sure imaginary. But, it really is a chair because you decided to make a chair in your head. In that sense, you could say it is a real chair, just not made of real matter. When a tulpa is in wonderland/innerworld, they are not made of real matter, but who they are is to some degree real. If they control the body and the host goes inside, the same can be said of the host.
  2. There are ways of fooling your bodily senses to make it doable (imposition), but it requires a lot of work and there are some limits. We can do partial visual and tactile. We can do taste a lot better. Also, you do have your wonderland/innerworld senses. Don't forget those. You can develop those with practice and they become clearer and clearer to the point of being at the same level as bodily senses (this whole endeavor is sometimes called "visualization practice"). As for interaction, a tulpa and host can definitely interact. Interaction is in fact what pushes a tulpa to develop. At first, a tulpa can't interact back much, but over time, a tulpa can interact back more and more.
  3. See previous answer.
  4. A good place to start is to start with how you daydream. Another place is how you see in your head how to get some place when someone else gives you verbal directions.
  5. You could do either. Some people find one easier than the other. Some prefer one over the other.
  6. That has been reported to help for a lot of people. Certainly worth a shot.
  7. At first, it will be you making up the answers (parroting). Eventually, the parroting teaches the tulpa how to talk on their own, but they are still very linked to your thoughts and are easily influenced. With time and more interaction, they grow more and more independent of your thoughts to the point where they can influence you as much as you influence them.
  8. Turn your cell phone on silent, put everything in reach away, possibly lay on your bed a bit, possibly do a mind numbing activity that you find it is easy to daydream during and then interact with your tulpa.

Tri = {V, O, G}, Ice and Frostbite and Breach (all formerly Hail), and others

System Name: Fall Family

Former Username: hail_fall

Contributor and administrator on a supplementary tulpamancy resource and associated forum, Tulpa.io and Tulpa.io/discuss/.

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1. Are tulpas actually real?

Najere: I would say so, but it depends on who you ask. Both in-system and out on the forums.

 

2. Will I be able to see, touch, talk, ect. to the tulpa I create, and will it actually interact with me?

Troy: Yes, if you get far enough into the process. We interact with each other and Fade, after all. It's a matter of editing your perception of reality, and gaining enough of an obsession with the being you are creating in order to will them into sentience.

 

3. How is it possible to feel and smell a tulpa?

Fade: Very possible. Most people focus on imposition, where you bring the sight, sound, feeling, and possibly smell of a tulpa into the physical world. Basically, a controlled hallucination. On the other hand, I practice what I've called reverse-imposition, which is more solidly experiencing myself what is going on inside our mindscape to my mental form.

 

4. How do you visualize a tupla? One guy said you should closes your eyes, and imagine the form in your mind on top of what was in front of you. I tried that, but I didn't see a form, OR anything that was in front of me. All I saw was blackness. So I tried opening my eyes, but still, no results.

Steth: There's a lot of ways to do this! That's just one method, and if it doesn't work for you, that's okay! Fade does this funny thing where she walks around with her eyes open and can see us anyway. It started out as daydreaming. And some people meditate!

 

5. When visualizing, do I visualize it like a 2d drawing, or like a 3D object?

Troy: Again, that is all up to your preferences. We are three-dimentional.

 

6. Can I draw my tupla, study the picture for a long time, and THEN try imagining it in my mind?

Troy: That is a method, yes.

 

7. Will the talking actually be the tulpa, or just me making the answers up for it?

Troy: I think you will have to answer that for yourself. It depends on how much you view the process as psychological, and how much you view it as metaphysical.

 

8. When I try to visualize, I get distracted by other things. How can I stay more focused?

Fade: I'd recommend enjoying your everyday activities at the same time as you interact with your tulpa. I think that's part of the reason why my inadvertent "forcing" of the muses worked so well. I focused on them with the intent of having a conversation. It started off as a pretty one-sided conversation with puppeted answers, sure, but it was enough to keep me focused.

So, make it a conversation I guess. Try telling them stories, and conveying information to them, and thing about how you think they might process it and reply. Eventually, they might reply for themselves - maybe to correct you, for all you know! Find out who they are and revel in it.

If I did was think "tulpatulpatulpa" and active force by just concentrating on their essence, I would have bored myself to death and gotten distracted by other things instead.

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A queer soulbonding system with tulpamantic influences.

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