Does this count as forcing?

[LifeInside]

Imagine you're talking with someone, and you'd like to be forcing instead. Now, let's pretend you can focus both on the conversation and your tulpa at the same time.

 

If you direct to your tulpa everything the person's saying, would it count as forcing? It would be something like: "hey, tulpa, this is really interesting! listen!".

 

Wouldn't it count as narration?

 

Thank you!

[jean-luc]

Now, let's pretend you can focus both on the conversation and your tulpa at the same time.

 

That's the real trick. If you can actually do that, then yes. However, I tried this when I first started and found it very difficult. With podcasts it's a little easier but still doesn't really work (for me).

[Nageki]

That's something I do with Arro when I remember to. The only difference is that I don't see it as narration so much as giving him a window to the outside world through my senses, but yeah, what you described is pretty much narration/passive forcing.

[LifeInside]

Great, we'll be giving it a try then, thanks!

[Vos]

Wouldn't it count as narration?

 

I'm unsure if just having your tulpa listen to that could cause narration. I'm sure that, by having your tulpa firmly planted in your thoughts while you're listening to this person talk to you, that it would have positive effects, but I would suggest summarizing things when you can. If you're listening to a podcast, for example, go ahead and pause it every now and then so that you can talk about whatever the topic was with your tulpa.

[Metatron]

I have had my tulpa comment on my and help me digest/consider the deeper meanings of what people are saying, or discuss what is being spoken about. (Helps in particular when your partner is giving you a rundown of Poland's medeival law...) Done like that, I imagine it counts.

[Guest Anonymous]

Well, Esterina generally always uses my body's senses to see, hear, taste etc. whatever I see, hear, taste etc...

... and we also tend to sort of keep talking, or communicating through gestures and eye contact (via projection, of course), while I talk with someone else.

 

So, yeah - interesting question, actually.

IS that forcing...?

 

I don't really know at all what kinds of activities actually count as "forcing", that always seemed sorta blurry to me.

Kind of a word that never really meant anything to us.

If "forcing" means "any sort of interaction with your tulpa", then Esterina and I are marathon-forcing world champions. xD

Does it mean just that? "Any sort of interaction with your tupper"?

 

 

Greets,

AG

[Metatron]

In all honesty, I am not sure or the accepted meaning of "forcing", but I would imagine it counts. In my opinion, it is really anything that is done to grow and develop your tulpa, whether passively through minor details (small talk, comments) or more actively such as deliberate time spent together or sharing senses.

[Luminesce]

Forcing is any activity that is aimed at developing your tulpa. Given the nature of tulpas, simply interacting with them can be forcing. Thinking of them in any way is pretty much forcing, although in my experience there's a certain level of engagement for it to really be productive. I can *think* about my tulpas easily, but I have to actually have them present for them to get anything out of it.

[Guest Anonymous]

Forcing is any activity that is aimed at developing your tulpa. Given the nature of tulpas, simply interacting with them can be forcing. Thinking of them in any way is pretty much forcing, although in my experience there's a certain level of engagement for it to really be productive. I can *think* about my tulpas easily, but I have to actually have them present for them to get anything out of it.

 

Pretty loose definition.

 

'cause - like, by that logic, anything and everything you do with your tupper is forcing.

And Rina and I are then world champions in Competitive Marathon Forcing™... y'know. Since the only breaks we have are when she's buggered off to our wonderland for a while. xD

 

Dunno.

You get my point - such a loose definition is sort of weird... and kind of useless. xP

 

 

Greets,

AG