Can Tulpas Hear What You Hear?

[The_Unnamed]

A silly question indeed, but I am curious to know if tulpas can hear what the host hears. For example, can they hear the music that the host listens to?

I often listen to my music a bit loudly, and I worry if I'm hurting Celeste's ears.

[Tewi]

Similar to the knowledge thing. Most tulpas either have pretty decent awareness of what's going on in the host's life, or are themselves connected to the body's senses (less common).

So it depends on if your tulpa is aware of what you're aware of, or if they need you to direct their attention toward it.

[tulpa001]

It is also possible for a tulpa to listen in on your sensation if they are not connected to the senses by default. Much how almost all tulpas either instinctively know their host's memories or go explore them.

 

Whether they are unusually sensitive to sound or not is more complicated. They could listen to the sound through your senses, meaning that they experience it the way you do. Or they could listen to it themselves, meaning they could experience it differently. The latter happens while switching and is more likely to happen during possession. In both cases, the tulpa may not like the same music you do.

[jean-luc]

Ears hurting is a physical thing, so you will only hurt the ears of the body by listening to loud music. Who owns the body is a complicated question that really only you can answer.

[Tewi]

They could listen to the sound through your senses, meaning that they experience it the way you do. Or they could listen to it themselves, meaning they could experience it differently. The latter happens while switching and is more likely to happen during possession. In both cases, the tulpa may not like the same music you do.

 

That's an interesting subject. While not particularly connected to/listening in on the body's senses, if a tulpa were asked their opinion on the music their host was listening to, utilizing the host's experiencing it for their knowledge... would their answer differ from if they were switched or otherwise more connected to the senses and hearing it directly? Assuming we're ignoring personal biases like being predisposed to not liking a song because you don't like its genre. Judged purely on the sound (let's say it's not really a particular genre), would their opinion of it change from when they say, relied upon the host's memories of listening to it?

 

I would say yes, probably. For us, as the active switchers in our system have rather varied tastes in such things, thinking about this is (well, was, I thought before writing this) pretty interesting. Certainly, we each have our own tastes in music, and while we generally like the same songs what we choose to listen to does differ. Yet, I think we all experience the sound itself the same. That would explain why despite our ""different tastes in music"", we all generally like the same genres, but different songs within them. I assume with my own body I wouldn't be nearly as fond of electronic music, insofar as if I had to "choose" which genres I liked they would be quite different. But I think our body/brain itself has those predispositions to what it likes in music - presumably developed from childhood, and to a lesser extent ongoing, experiences. So the sounds themselves that any of us find pleasing are roughly the same.

 

However, the moods or feelings in those songs, differ greatly. I think that's where the difference in tulpa and host comes into play. While the body/brain has its own preferences for the sound itself, I believe the mind has its preferences for what it feels from the music. In fact, host and tulpa may like the same song for different reasons. Tulpa and tulpa in my case, Lucilyn (and Lumi) like a lot of music I like, but I feel it's more for the sound than for the feelings if that makes sense. Similarly Lucilyn's favorite song was simply a song Lumi just liked for nearly a year before she first heard it, although that may have been for more philosophical/personal meaning reasons.

 

Well, anyways, I'm glad to have thought about that. We now have a clearer understanding of our tastes in music, what we share and what we don't. Probably applies across nearly everything else one can experience, but this'll do for now. (Yes, all of that was spurred by "the tulpa may not like the same music you do". I really do find thinking about this stuff fun.)

[Solune]

If the music is loud enough that you're concerned it might be hurting HER ears, chances are it is hurting YOUR ears.

 

I encourage you to invest in some decent headphones (or subwoofer/speakers for your car) if you can afford it.

Many people who are used to low-quality equipment increase volume as a cure-all instead of adjusting levels like treble and bass.

There's no substitute for high quality low end... it makes or breaks most songs in my opinion.

[Tewi]

I didn't take the "hurting her ears" thing so literally. Whether or not it hurts your ears, playing music loudly will damage your hearing, especially over a long time. Good headphones seem to give a better "loud" feeling without being as harsh on the ears, in our experience. But no, you can't hurt her ears any more than you hurt your own.