Tulpas, why do we have the skill goals we do (especially older/accidental tulpas)?

[Guest Anonymous]

I wonder if anyone ever even heard of "head pressure" before the internet tulpa communities existed? I have never encountered anything like it myself with Melian. I did get eye strain and fatigue from lack of sleep from too many hours day dreaming. To be honest, I have always thought the concept of head pressure to be a sort of pseudo-science myth that everyone is just propagating. Alexandra David Neel never mentioned head pressure in her writings about her experience in creating a tulpa. Of course she never mentioned switching, wonderlands or possession either and her tulpa could be seen by other people and went rogue. She ended up having to destroy it.

 

I wonder if head pressure could be a psychosomatic effect that has become a community mass delusion? Like people read about it, think about it, and then experience it because they are expecting it to happen?

[Linkzelda]

Well, since the OP is talking about what telos a tulpa has, or in other words, what purpose do they have in terms of being end-goal and what have you:

 

- I think as long as a person can create a narrative capable of creating future scenarios to sustain the ethic of treating them as sentient, it’s hinged upon direct, subjective experiences. In other words, it seems difficult to pinpoint if there’s an inherent goal people have with tulpas, and even the “treating as sentient” isn’t inherent because it was grounded upon others wanting to change from the “assume sentience from the start.”

 

- So with treating as sentient, it becomes a narrative that allows the tulpa and host to act out, or for a lack of better words to avoid ideas of “fake,” “RP,” and such – it becomes a narrative that allows them to even do something because I feel there is no ultimate purpose for a tulpa. This doesn’t mean no purpose as in no hope for the future. It’s just that the purpose becomes a collection of other acts of doing and treating that eventually gives the impression of some end-goal, or a type of preference a person wants to consistently believe in.

 

 

We use these narratives capable of creating future scenarios on a daily basis, which is probably the catalyst in why tulpas have the skill/goals they do. The narratives are a kick-start for that do. Treating as sentient becomes an example of those kinds of narratives.