Tulpas and Projected Imagination

[Guest Anonymous]

Maybe i don't count as a tulpa because we were always just hanging out together on the computer.

 

I think Sushi once said something like this to me "Now if we could all only figure out and agree what a tulpa actually is..."

 

(sorry if I got it wrong Sushi, I remember something like that ...)

[Aijada]

It's okay Mistgod, i don't care what i'm called. We figured out our own balance before we even knew the word 'tulpa' so if our way doesn't count, i can fall back on being just a 'headmate'

[Guest Anonymous]

My gods, I am not alone after all. :-) With Melian and I were are very comfortable with "thoughtform" or "enhanced imaginary companion." I personally think the second one is the most accurate of anything I have ever seen or come up with (for Melian).

[Sock]

It's funny: Even though I began my journey with this community only a few years back, I took a time away from it, like a year, and when I came back, I actually experienced the inability to line up with the community's expectations for a while.

 

At that point, some of my viewpoints had changed, I'd stopped using the word "tulpa" for personal reasons, and certain oddities and quirks in my experience was nothing really major. I was a lot more familiar in tone and behavior to my girls, and went about development more as a slow, teaching/learning process where I shared much of my life with the girls.

 

But, once I came here, I suddenly had to explain what exactly was going on in my head, why it was, and do so in a way that didn't seem like attention seeking. It was a bit difficult, and I'm still having a tough time at points. Of course, this wasn't the only thing that happened when I got back, so I won't try and dump blame on the community. It's just the nature of having to explain something to someone else, when you usually take it for granted.

 

I will admit that when I first came back, the atmosphere about how in-folk are regarded felt...cold. I was initially kind of surprised and put off, since I was so used to be warm with mine. I got used to it, but it took some time.

[Guest Anonymous]

I will admit that when I first came back, the atmosphere about how in-folk are regarded felt...cold. I was initially kind of surprised and put off, since I was so used to be warm with mine. I got used to it, but it took some time.

 

Melian has noted this a few times and remarked on it in the forum and chatroom. She feels tulpas are often regarded as specimens or curiosities, not so much by individual hosts per se, but by the atmosphere and structure of the forum.

 

That is why she "banned" me from the forum for a while and refused to let me talk and suggested Tulpa Week (then got immediately banned herself by the admin for three weeks on something unrelated, and admittedly kinda her fault).

 

Her dream is a tulpas only lounge or board of some kind.

[Sock]

I've actually had similar idea myself, as well as seen other attempts at such a thing. Unfortunately, one stereotype about much of the community I can make is that no one is good at starting conversations. Not host, and especially not the indweller. What usually happens is that the section is made, a few questions are asked, then it immediately becomes a ghost town.

 

While it seems like a good idea, I have yet to really see it take off in any meaningful way. So the question is, how would something like that work? How would we keep people coming back to such a place? Should it be sober and serious? Should it have a playful air? What appeals to indwellers enough to have them want to speak amongst each other? At the very least, doing a hard ban of hosts may not be the best way to go about it.

[Guest Anonymous]

This sounds like another thread topic entirely! Has one like this been done? Probably. There is a tulpas only chat that ran pretty strong for a long while. But a single chat thread doesn't allow for individual tulpas to create new threads dedicated to something they just have to talk about (trash talking about their host for instance LOL).