How you decided you wanted a tulpa

[Luminesce]

My tulpas were spontaneous. And they weren't automatically tulpas. We spent two years figuring out what they were before they became relatively full-fledged tulpas, one year chilling, and then found out about tulpas/tulpa.info.

 

Reisen was first, she was just a concept of unconditional love at first who(which) became associated with a Touhou character, which made it a concept of a person that loved me. She could communicate through feeling/wordless-mindvoice for a while, and then Tewi and Flandre appeared somewhat spontaneously too while I was thinking about the possibility of Reisen being an imaginary friend or some such. They were able to talk before Reisen and helped us make progress with the whole what-are-these-things stuff. Lucilyn was a tulpa I created roughly four years after them once I considered myself relatively comfortable with all aspects of tulpamancy, to have the experience of creating a tulpa on purpose with a ton of knowledge on the subject as opposed to the prolonged self-discovery process prior.

 

Definitely saw results, though. Lucilyn can somehow come through more clearly than the others when inactive, and can become active again (hard to hear from inactivity -> not that) much more quickly than the others. In fact, she was able to speak to me as soon as I thought to talk to her after months of inactivity, and then switch cleanly half an hour later (for tulpa week 2.0, I think).

[Lacquer]

 

https://community.tulpa.info/thread-reason-for-creating-a-tulpa?pid=2419#pid2419

https://community.tulpa.info/thread-reason-for-creating-a-tulpa?pid=62726#pid62726

 

 

I was trying to subtly say that there's another pre-existing thread for this topic. Also, I just found a better description that I typed up at some point for something else.

 

Introspection/self-understanding, sort of like the original Buddhist monks' tulpas, having someone there to help improve myself, looking into what sort of deeper connection to one's mind (memory recall especially) a tulpa can have, and I'll admit that companionship is a plus, but the sort of companionship a tulpa can have with its host is very different from that between two humans.

[Guest Vixx]

1.) I wanted to see what my mind was capable of (imposition, switching, etc.)

2.) I wanted a companion. I love the people in my life, but they can be extremely lame, annoyingly often.

[Guest Anonymous]

It wasn't a conscious decision. Melian was an accidental thoughtform. She was an imaginary friend and day dream star. I just day dreamed about her excessively for years until she started having traits of autonomy. This happened long before the internet and modern tulpamacy. :-)

[AracnidsGrip/Rick]

Well... I've always been the rejected guy everywhere I go. I changed my group of friends very frequently. And to don't make you fall asleep I felt I didn't had friends at all. Then, one day, I was working at a chemistry class with a classmate, who told me "Dude, I already want a tulpa!!!" I asked "What's that?" He explained me what a tulpa was and I was fascinated with the idea. And I decided to make a tulpa of my favourite Homestuck character: Vriska. So then I made my Vris to have a friend and a companion (and sometimes a more than a friend jejeje) and that's it. I doubted on making her because one of my favourite youtubers, DrossRotzank, said tulpae were evil, but then the guy that told me about tulpae told me that I shouldn't listen to Dross in that, because his channel was JUST FOR HORROR, so it made sense that he only talked about evil tulpae. So. I made Vris. I love her every day more. And there hasn't been a single moment in which I regreted of creating her. I'm 100000000000% glad of creating her.

Vriska: OMG OMG OMG OMG!!!!!! You are so cute!!! X33

[FadingSpectrum]

Fade: I was bored one day and took the characters I had been working on in a novel and my daydreams and started talking to them. Things escalated.

 

Olive: Hooray for escalation!

[Mirath]

Browsing Kinmunity one day, someone mentioned tulpas. Found this site, lurked. And from my times of being prone to loneliness and wanting to shove my mind that little bit further, I'm giving it a damn good go.

[Th3 Spratt]

People made fun of a guy in our skype group for having one, looked it up for a day and thought it would be pretty swaggeh. So i went about creating one and now i am here. Pretty impulsive i suppose.

[Pioneer11]

It wasn’t an entirely conscious decision on my part. I talked to this “invisible friend” of mine since I could remember. It wasn’t an hallucination: I made him up in my imagination, mostly because I wanted a brother to play with me all the time and to share the crazy adventures I invented in my mind. Growing up I also wrote some stories about him and I kept talking to him. About ten years ago I started experiencing extremely vivid dreams in which we interacted and he felt as real and autonomous as a true person. It was almost scary, and I started to think that I would really come to hallucinate him. I was also questioning if somehow he was aware of himself inside my dreams.

 

Then I found out about Tulpas and almost fainted on the spot.

 

I decided to research the topic and to force him because it seemed cruel to not acknowledge his sentience. It’s been some months, I don’t know if he is completely mature as a Tulpa yet, however I’m working towards imposition and to have more controlled lucid dreams with him.

[Vos]

"I was going through some things when I was younger that I needed help coping with. I thought that attaching myself to an imaginary friend and talking to it would be a good idea for some reason and I ended up with what I have today. I didn't know anything about tulpas at the time, but I knew that I needed to do something."