The Definition of Role Playing and How it Relates to Proxy Typing

[Drakaina]

My first tulpa, Xira, was actually conceived and grown in a roleplay environment. She would have been what you termed a "seasoned role play character", the only exception being I never gave her any sort of backstory or past. That part was unique with each character she played, but her personality and general behaviour stayed constant across the many stories she participated in.

 

I'll readily admit, at the time I had no flippin' idea what was going on, nor did I suspect the way I was roleplaying was somehow different, or that I was unintentionally creating a being that would form a will/mind of it's own.

Xira (and I, I guess?) used to roleplay on a forum, and when I went to type a response, I would sit looking at the last post(s) for a bit and more or less say in my head "well. What would she do?" Because I had no idea a thought-form could be sentient at the time, I never directed the question at her. But the responses always came through, and I wrote like I was dictating whatever was being fed to me. Not unlike a secretary might transcribe a letter.

 

While I'm not sure if Xira ever developed full autonomy from me (I was young, knew little of tulpa (read: nothing), and she's been gone for quite some time now), but I know for certain she developed sentience and a will of her own.

[Guest Anonymous]

I was accused of being a roleplayer waaaay back when I first joined the site in 2012 for saying Luna could possess me and type things on my computer. Everyone who doesn't fit neatly into .info's mold of what constitutes tulpas is a roleplayer. Just don't go on IRC if it bothers you so much.

 

I have actually run across a very old post in one of the Tulpa Info threads in which you were put on a list of probable "role players." Mistgod and I were instantly offended for you. Someone said they made it "as a joke" but we didn't see it as a very nice joke. It is an ancient thread though. We don't judge anyone or label anyone anything they don't call themselves. Never have and never will. We respect you so much for being a seasoned member here for so long and for the interesting experiences you relate about your tulpas. In fact, seeing that you may have been once accused of role playing only increased our respect for you, because, here you still are. A "role player" (meaning faking or lying or deliberately pretending to be a tulpa) would not have such dedication and longevity and commitment. It speaks for itself.

 

Yep. People constantly forget that each time a new skill or aspect of tulpamancy is discovered (switching, possession) the person discovering it inevitably is considered delusional or labeled role player or a liar by someone else or "illegitimate and invalid and trying to fit" or "being a special snowflake and attention seeker."

 

Being different causes a small group of people to get nervous. Only a small group though. Most of Tulpa Info members are fabulous!

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Pssh, did you just reply to me explaining how you were an exception? You should know that I know how different you guys are by now.

 

Thank you Lumi. :-) Yeah we still get jumpy. It's better than it has been, but we still get so defensive so fast.

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My first tulpa, Xira, was actually conceived and grown in a roleplay environment. She would have been what you termed a "seasoned role play character", the only exception being I never gave her any sort of backstory or past. That part was unique with each character she played, but her personality and general behaviour stayed constant across the many stories she participated in.

 

Oh Xira was a universal character and an actress just like me and my Melian Show! That is interesting! Thanks for sharing that story. I am glad Mistgod and I wrote this thread about seasoned role playing characters. I think a lot of people, who have never role played, do not understand how often these "games" become very deeply meaningful to the player and even life changing. Seasoned role playing characters can easily become a soulbond or tulpa in time.

 

Too many people in the tulpa community discount role playing too quickly. It really is a form of visualization actually. It may not be appropriate technique for deliberately creating a tulpa (for very good reasons), but it isn't the evil people are making it out to be.

 

Mistgod and I believe a seasoned role playing character is a legitimate thoughtform, in its own right, because of things like the story you just related. We think this is true even before they become a soulbond or tulpa. There may be a few seasoned rp characters mixed in to the tulpa community and the role players are just not revealing that. Rather than think they are frauds, Davie and I would treat them the same way we treat any thoughtform and would consider them absolutely legitimate. That is a very unusual perspective here.

[yenu]

Graiho and me had a discussion about how we don't need to spell out some concept in full words, since we use the same brain and we often already know what the other one means to say before the sentence is complete.

 

We called it "Faster-Than-Thought-Communication" (analoguos to Faster-Than-Light-Travel^^)

[Guest Anonymous]

OMG! Mistgod and I just did a post about how we communicate in "memes." https://community.tulpa.info/thread-groovy-guru-stuff-epic-blabby-babble?pid=159275#pid159275 You are so right! Full words are not needed if you share thoughts. That is one advantage to not being fully independent as in the case of Davie and I (not speaking of you with the independence just us).

 

Here is an older post about how I talk to Davie in his mind: https://community.tulpa.info/thread-mistgod-and-melian-megathread?pid=127989#pid127989