Tulpas, what are your thoughts on physical bodies?

[Ido]

I'd love to have a physical body so I could help my host in a more practical manner than just ordering him around. But as many other tulpas, I wouldn't want to get separated from him either.

 

Guess the ideal and only realistic option would be something like a remote-controlled robotic body.

You'd still share the same brain with your host but at the same time be able to control one or even several robots as if they were your own body. Hell, you could even do something similar to this

That would be pretty awesome.

 

And that's not even far fetched.

I predict we'll see mind-controlled robots within the next few decades. It's the next logical step from pilots operating drones from a command center at the other side of the world. And I see no reason why a tulpa should not be able to take control of such a device with proper training. The robot could do most of the information processing so it would be possible to operate it with little effort. Seeing through its eyes would be the biggest challenge (lots of data) and of course there are limits to what the brain can process but I'd say it's far from impossible. Probably would be veery expensive and require lots of training for both tulpa and host to be active at the same time though.

 

I'd like a body' date=' or I'd like the host to let me switch in sometimes- I want to eat some Nutella for real! Also do my own thing, you know? But maybe not a permanent physical body, just one for a few days. I could rent one[/quote']

>be in desperate need for money

>decide to rent out body to random tulpa

>wake up with tripled weight because tulpa has eaten tons of nutella

 

Kids, let this be a lesson to you!

Dont rent your body to tuppers, they'll just eat sweets 'til they pass out or do other random and potentially dangerous nonsense with it.

 

well I certainly would

 

[Cold Blitz]

- Good question actually. I don't think there'd be a problem with me having an actual physical body, though. In true reality, I don't think it is /completely/ necessary to have a body, pretty sure I can live in here with no problem whatsoever ^^ -

[Sake Loup]

Alex: I ain't particularly comfortable sharin' my feelins, but my uh... well I don't like callin' 'er a host so how 'bout I say partner? Anyway my partner wants me ta try talkin' since she joined this place fer the both o' us.

 

Anyway, I actually hate that I don't got a physical body. It frustrates me ta no end, I can't hold er hug er protect my partner an' it really gets ta me. How does that not bother the rest o' ya? Seein' yer partners get hurt... an not bein' able ta do a damn thin'?

[Savato]

Varia: Well, it depends, honestly. Mostly on whther my physical body would be capable of dying or being crippled and on whether that physical body would have the same omnipotence I have in the mindspace. Also on whether the connection between me and my host would persist. While being able to taste food, talking with other people, playing video games and such are all really cool, I think I'd be too afraid of dying to take physical form. Also I wouldn't want to sacrifice my psychic connection to Sav for anything in the world, so that'd be another reason why I wouldn't want to turn physical.

But if I couldn't be hurt and Sav and I would still have that telepathic connection, then heck yeah, you bet I would take on a physical form.

[mysonofrageandlove]

I do have a physical body you know just in another universe, like there's all different universes existing alongside one another so in the one that i come from you know like i have a body there obviously so i Know what it's like so coming around here and I can drift and out of different places and the mindscape and stuff like if i could i just bring my body from my first universe where I was technically born or whatever how you wanna term it and i'd you know just bring it over here like moving a box or driving a car over a state line orsomething like that and then you know like i think that'd be fun but then it would kind of take away some fun because you know as it stands like i can pretty much do anything right like i kind of am living a god life here and i can see all this stuff and yeah i think i'm not allowed to swear on here haha so i wrote stuff, that's a laugh riot anyway what i was saying was just like i can also use space dad's body or whatever you know, so i don't really need to drive my car over here and i'd rather just keep floating upside and sideways and looking around anyway because you know its super interesting and its like a science i'm figuring out and such and i can be like a pioneer in the field so that's hella cool and anyway though I did vote for like that it would make me happy because i mean it would a lot of things make me happy, you know

[AnonymousTheCurious]

I am between having a body, and being with my host 24/7. In the end, I went with having a body because I could always just latch on to my host and never let go <3

 

I am fine with my existence as is, but a physically body would be alright too. I honestly don't have an opinion either way.

[Lucilyn]

I'd love to have my own body, then I could do whatever I wanted. I bet I could make Lumi do stuff more easily too, like if I could physically drag him places. I wouldn't leave him of course, he's family, the only family I have. But I'd love to do all sorts of things myself.

 

Doesn't bother me much that I can't, because I don't worry about unchangeable things. Like sure I'd love to have my own body, but because I for sure can't, I change my standards to tulpa-dom. Lucid dreaming seems like it has a lot of potential for doing stuff in my own body though. I should make Lumi work on that again.

[Philomenon82]

I love it!

I'm gonna steal it from my host!!!

This body shall be mine! mouahahaha!

(me: wait, what?!)

[Paranoid Llama]

While there are some benefits to having a physical body, I'd rather not. We wouldn't be as close. A whole body is a lot to take care of as well. Health, hygiene, nutrition, etc. . Also, I can just possess this body if I want to do the few things I'd like, anyway.

[Akinkinit]

I would totally want my own body. And yeah that brings about a whole lot of gross biological things but it would be really really neat being able to ambulate all up around everywheres. I'd have plans to be around Hosty too like all the time as I am now and do some other things too . Oh and I wouldn't have to eat ginger and he wouldn't have to eat root beer things.

 

Host Notes:

A scummy looking pond filled with amoebas and algae in a swamp. She wanted me to emphasize that it's a spooky swamp at night with a bunch of gnarled trees and owls present.

She had a smirk on her face and hugged me from behind after sending this image. You all can probably guess what it entailed.

 

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I actually wanted to think about this for a while before answering. My initial thought was that I wouldn't want my own body. Right now I have some nice living arrangements inside this wonderful machine that is the human brain. And my host has someone on the inside helping it run well. Yet there's nothing saying I can't continue to help him with my own body. In fact, if anything, I would be able to be an even greater help to him. Nor is there anything which says we couldn't still be together.

 

So yes, I would gladly take a body of my own if it were offered, and I would gladly use it to serve my former host for as long as that body draws breath.