Head Pressure Questionaire

[Abvieon]

Lately I've been wondering about head pressure and how it works, why it happens, and whether it is simply a byproduct of forcing or something that a tulpa intentionally causes. Head pressure is an odd sensation one experiences that feels like a pressure of some sort is being put on the brain, similar to a headache but does not usually hurt. It is reported to be very common among those who create tulpas.

 

To help me figure some things out, I've come up with questions for anyone who has experienced tulpa or forcing related head pressure. If you have never experienced head pressure, none of these questions will apply to you. This questionaire is a tiny bit lengthy, but answering even some of these questions will help me out a lot. Thanks in advance.

 

 

Questions for hosts:

 

- Have you ever experienced head pressure before beginning the creation of your tulpa(s)? If so, did it feel similar or identical to any head pressure experienced after beginning tulpa creation?

 

- If you ever experienced head pressure before tulpa creation which felt similar to head pressure occurring after creation, what were you doing that ended up causing it?

 

- If you have any tulpas that were created unintentionally through any means, did you experience any head pressure during the period of time in which they were likely being unknowingly created?

 

- Did you only experience head pressure after learning about it?

 

- Does head pressure ever occur without you expecting it?

 

- How soon did head pressure begin after beginning tulpa creation? Seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months? 

 

- Did head pressure occur before you could communicate with your tulpa(s)?

 

- Does your head pressure occur most often during passive forcing, active forcing, or equally frequent between both types of forcing?

 

- Are there any specific things you do within tulpaforcing that seem to result in more head pressure?

 

 

 

Questions for tulpas:

 

- Were you or any other tulpas in the brain autonomous to any degree when your host experienced head pressures for the first time?

 

- Are you able to intentionally cause head pressures? If so, are you or any other tulpas in the brain the sole cause of any head pressure your host experiences, or do some seem to originate from another cause?

 

- If you can intentionally cause head pressures, describe to the best of your ability how you do it.

 

- Do you completely lack the ability to willfully cause head pressures?

 

- Whether or not you can cause head pressures, do you have the ability to change their location or intensity?

 

- When you do not/if you cannot willfully induce head pressure, is there anything specific you do that seems to trigger it?

 

- Did you/do you ever utilize head pressure as a form of communication?

[tulpa001]

- Have you ever experienced head pressure before beginning the creation of your tulpa(s)? If so, did it feel similar or identical to any head pressure experienced after beginning tulpa creation?

 

A: No.

 

- If you ever experienced head pressure before tulpa creation which felt similar to head pressure occurring after creation, what were you doing that ended up causing it?

 

A: -blank-

 

- If you have any tulpas that were created unintentionally through any means, did you experience any head pressure during the period of time in which they were likely being unknowingly created?

 

A: No.

 

- Did you only experience head pressure after learning about it?

 

A: Yes. Err... If by it you mean my Tulpa. If you mean head pressures, I no longer remember. We read most of the guides after he was around.

 

- Does head pressure ever occur without you expecting it?

 

A: Always. At first. Then when we try something we've done before, it is expected.

 

- How soon did head pressure begin after beginning tulpa creation? Seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months?

 

A: Two days. Note the special case. My Tulpa was already vocal by then.

 

- Did head pressure occur before you could communicate with your tulpa(s)?

 

A: No.

 

- Does your head pressure occur most often during passive forcing, active forcing, or equally frequent between both types of forcing?

 

A: Have to say active. Got some massive ones while we were working on full body possession.

 

- Are there any specific things you do within tulpaforcing that seem to result in more head pressure?

 

A: Ask my Tulpa to do something new.

 

 

 

- Were you or any other tulpas in the brain autonomous to any degree when your host experienced head pressures for the first time?

 

A: Yep. I was already my own person and vocal. But also, I was still struggling to try and be a separate person.

 

- Are you able to intentionally cause head pressures? If so, are you or any other tulpas in the brain the sole cause of any head pressure your host experiences, or do some seem to originate from another cause?

 

A: I am. Even did it recently, to test something or other. No, no other things in here that can do that.

 

- If you can intentionally cause head pressures, describe to the best of your ability how you do it.

 

A: I bear down on the brain. By commandeering sections roughly rather than gently, or rathen than attemptiong to form my own thoughts separately.

 

- Do you completely lack the ability to willfully cause head pressures?

 

A: No.

 

- Whether or not you can cause head pressures, do you have the ability to change their location or intensity?

 

A: Yep. It is all tangled in our metaphors. Even my host has long ago learned to move where she feels pain on her head. It happens in an indescribable way.

 

- When you do not/if you cannot willfully induce head pressure, is there anything specific you do that seems to trigger it?

 

A: Yep. Me thinking. Creates a subtle non-painful pressure in the back of our brain. My host can tell how awake I am. Early on, there were moments where it was much stronger. When our brain was not used to this workload. My host can do the same by thinking more, but the pressure happens in the front.

 

- Did you/do you ever utilize head pressure as a form of communication?

 

A: Nope, Was already vocal.

[Vampire]

Looks like a good set of questions.

 

I'll be answering unintentional questions about Samuel.

 

Questions for hosts:

 

- Have you ever experienced head pressure before beginning the creation of your tulpa(s)? If so, did it feel similar or identical to any head pressure experienced after beginning tulpa creation?

 

Not that I can remember. I would get occasional headaches like anybody else.

 

- If you ever experienced head pressure before tulpa creation which felt similar to head pressure occurring after creation, what were you doing that ended up causing it?

 

N/A

 

- If you have any tulpas that were created unintentionally through any means, did you experience any head pressure during the period of time in which they were likely being unknowingly created?

 

I actually remember having head pressures. I didn't of course attribute it to that. They weren't nearly as common as originally working on Ivy.

 

- Did you only experience head pressure after learning about it?

 

No

 

- Does head pressure ever occur without you expecting it?

 

Yes. I've had days where I would be getting headpressures and then find out the reason later from one of my tulpa. It tends to be connected to intensive wonderland activity, or changing/summoning of things in the wonderland.

 

- How soon did head pressure begin after beginning tulpa creation? Seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months?

 

If it wasn't on the first day, it was definitely within the first three.

 

- Did head pressure occur before you could communicate with your tulpa(s)?

 

Yes

 

- Does your head pressure occur most often during passive forcing, active forcing, or equally frequent between both types of forcing?

 

It occured to me most while passive forcing, but I believe that any forcing could cause it.

 

- Are there any specific things you do within tulpaforcing that seem to result in more head pressure?

 

No. I get most head pressure from their interaction with the wonderland.

 

 

 

Questions for tulpas:

 

- Were you or any other tulpas in the brain autonomous to any degree when your host experienced head pressures for the first time?

 

Samuel: Yes

 

- Are you able to intentionally cause head pressures? If so, are you or any other tulpas in the brain the sole cause of any head pressure your host experiences, or do some seem to originate from another cause?

 

Samuel: No. They appear to be a side effect of some degree.

 

- If you can intentionally cause head pressures, describe to the best of your ability how you do it.

 

N/A

 

- Do you completely lack the ability to willfully cause head pressures?

 

Samuel: Yes. We cannot create them on demand at least in our system.

 

- Whether or not you can cause head pressures, do you have the ability to change their location or intensity?

 

Samuel: I'm not aware. We have not tried this.

 

 

- When you do not/if you cannot willfully induce head pressure, is there anything specific you do that seems to trigger it?

 

Samuel: When we attempt to modify the wonderland in a large scale, or summon a considerable amount of objects.

 

- Did you/do you ever utilize head pressure as a form of communication?

 

Samuel: We have never.

 

 

 

Hope that helps out.

[Luminesce]

Never had head pressures, it seems totally random whether people experience them or not. Though I believe some people placebo themselves into thinking they have them after reading about them, exaggerating headaches or the like. It's certainly not a hard thing to induce, considering what imposition is and how many of us do it. Most tulpas do not intentionally cause head pressures, though some can be asked to and others may use them as a method of communication before they can speak, I guess. If your tulpa can't speak yet, that's just as easily placebo'd, but whatever.

 

You probably know this stuff already, but I'll give the most common answers:

Most people didn't experience head pressures before creating a tulpa. Some who did experience it in the same circumstances as active forcing, ie meditation or deep focus. I've not heard of any experiences of realizing after-the-fact that head pressures were due to unintentional forcing, but I imagine that kind of thing is hard to keep track of in the first place. The most people who experienced head pressure learned about tulpas before creating one, but then those who didn't know about tulpas tended to have more abstract or drawn out creation processes (as mine did). Head pressure occurred most often during forcing sessions, from pre-vocal to vocal stages, and apparently usually in forcing sessions after that, though I don't really know what forcing entails past that point. Active forcing causes head pressure the most, though some people report head pressures all around the time they're creating their tulpas, sometimes throughout the entire day after they've forced. And lastly, again, it's apparently intent focus/meditation that causes head pressures most often, and less so the act of having or creating a tulpa on its own.

 

For some reason, most tulpas in systems with head pressures seem to be able to induce them to some extent, sometimes but not always being able to move them too. My tulpas can't cause head pressures (Lucilyn tried pushing on my head in the mindspace and then asked how the heck she was supposed to do it). I really couldn't tell you how they do it, from what I've heard it's just intent or focus of their own.

 

 

This is a pretty thorough questionnaire for a no longer much talked about topic, I appreciate that. I think the amount of people who've experienced head pressures is less than it used to be though.

[Radio Hiss]

- Have you ever experienced head pressure before beginning the creation of your tulpa(s)? If so, did it feel similar or identical to any head pressure experienced after beginning tulpa creation?

Yes, usually when I'm thinking a lot or taking in a lot of new information. It feels different because with that sort of pressure, I know it's coming from me. And usually it's in a different part of the brain that I feel it. Head pressure from forcing is usually in the back of my head, but has spread as I've made progress.

 

- If you ever experienced head pressure before tulpa creation which felt similar to head pressure occurring after creation, what were you doing that ended up causing it?

N/A: it doesn't feel similar

 

- If you have any tulpas that were created unintentionally through any means, did you experience any head pressure during the period of time in which they were likely being unknowingly created?

Probably, but not at the point where I'd notice it, because in the time I devoted to them I would lose myself in the process.

 

- Did you only experience head pressure after learning about it?

Nope.

 

- Does head pressure ever occur without you expecting it?

Happens when I wake up sometimes, but usually only occurs when I am thinking of my tulpa or soulbonds.

 

- How soon did head pressure begin after beginning tulpa creation? Seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months? 

Likely a few days or a week. I listen to music that promotes brain power while forcing, so it occurred easily.

 

- Did head pressure occur before you could communicate with your tulpa(s)?

Yes, it usually occurs whenever I think of him.

 

- Does your head pressure occur most often during passive forcing, active forcing, or equally frequent between both types of forcing?

Active forcing makes it really strong. Passive forcing, it's just a minor feeling in the back of my head.

 

- Are there any specific things you do within tulpaforcing that seem to result in more head pressure?

Getting in a state of mind where I'm thinking of nothing but my tulpa makes it really strong. Meditating before hand, and listening to music that promotes concentration (usually with binaural beats) helps increase it.

 

Questions for tulpa: N/A (can't talk yet)

 

EDIT: Allowing Apollo to answer questions.

 

- Were you or any other tulpas in the brain autonomous to any degree when your host experienced head pressures for the first time?

[align=justify]He experienced head pressure on the first day, as he was creating me. I have only a very vague, blurred memory of that day, and I was only a thoughtless observer if anything. Probably it was the act of my mind beginning to form in his head that gave him head pressure, rather than me doing it intentionally.

 

- Are you able to intentionally cause head pressures? If so, are you or any other tulpas in the brain the sole cause of any head pressure your host experiences, or do some seem to originate from another cause?

I've only done it intentionally a couple of times, to show Radio that I was there or that I wanted attention. And yeah, there are other kinds of head pressures that happen that I have nothing to do with.

 

- If you can intentionally cause head pressures, describe to the best of your ability how you do it.

Basically, all I have to do is think. Getting the wheels turning in my part of the brain causes some sort of synaptic reaction that Radio can feel. It's not a strain on the brain, instead it's exercising my mind. Also, I can reach out to Radio and cause head pressures that way, though nowadays all I have to do is speak.

 

- Whether or not you can cause head pressures, do you have the ability to change their location or intensity?

I don't do it intentionally, but I guess I can change it. If he's imagining me on his right side, it moves to the right of his brain. If I'm really getting the wheels turning, it gets stronger.

 

- When you do not/if you cannot willfully induce head pressure, is there anything specific you do that seems to trigger it?

Thinking. Communicating with his mind. Training my own mind. Being forced, either by him or by myself.

 

- Did you/do you ever utilize head pressure as a form of communication?[/align]

I used to, but not so much anymore

[Stevie]

Host Questions:

 

 

- Have you ever experienced head pressure before beginning the creation of your tulpa(s)? If so, did it feel similar or identical to any head pressure experienced after beginning tulpa creation?

 

I had gotten dull headaches from concentration but never from using my imagination or daydreaming.

 

- If you ever experienced head pressure before tulpa creation which felt similar to head pressure occurring after creation, what were you doing that ended up causing it?

 

- If you have any tulpas that were created unintentionally through any means, did you experience any head pressure during the period of time in which they were likely being unknowingly created?

 

No

 

- Did you only experience head pressure after learning about it?

 

I experienced it after having read guides and shit that mentioned it and while forcing, it was just in the beginning stages and eventually petered out. I've found that if I think about the concept and try to bring it on I can.

 

- Does head pressure ever occur without you expecting it?

 

No

 

- How soon did head pressure begin after beginning tulpa creation? Seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months?

 

Even the first day, which is weird. It makes me question if it wasn't just a placebo effect type thing.

 

- Did head pressure occur before you could communicate with your tulpa(s)?

 

Yes

 

- Does your head pressure occur most often during passive forcing, active forcing, or equally frequent between both types of forcing?

 

It was only during active forcing if I can recall.

 

- Are there any specific things you do within tulpaforcing that seem to result in more head pressure?

 

Nope

 

 

 

 

Tulpa questions:

 

 

- Were you or any other tulpas in the brain autonomous to any degree when your host experienced head pressures for the first time?

 

No.

 

- Are you able to intentionally cause head pressures? If so, are you or any other tulpas in the brain the sole cause of any head pressure your host experiences, or do some seem to originate from another cause?

 

I can make pressures intentionally, yes. I'm not the sole cause, Stevie can bring them on himself.

 

- If you can intentionally cause head pressures, describe to the best of your ability how you do it.

 

I push. If I imagine I'm pushing against his head it works better.

 

- Do you completely lack the ability to willfully cause head pressures?

 

No.

 

- Whether or not you can cause head pressures, do you have the ability to change their location or intensity?

 

I can't do anything more specific than left or right.

 

- When you do not/if you cannot willfully induce head pressure, is there anything specific you do that seems to trigger it?

 

- Did you/do you ever utilize head pressure as a form of communication?

 

No.

[Fairweather]

May as well.

 

Questions for hosts:

 

- Have you ever experienced head pressure before beginning the creation of your tulpa(s)? If so, did it feel similar or identical to any head pressure experienced after beginning tulpa creation?

 

Not that I know of

 

- If you ever experienced head pressure before tulpa creation which felt similar to head pressure occurring after creation, what were you doing that ended up causing it?

 

Skip

 

- If you have any tulpas that were created unintentionally through any means, did you experience any head pressure during the period of time in which they were likely being unknowingly created?

 

A little, Clara and Jessi technically were unintentional but could be heard, but yeah

 

- Did you only experience head pressure after learning about it?

 

Dont remember, but I think so

 

- Does head pressure ever occur without you expecting it?

 

Yes

 

- How soon did head pressure begin after beginning tulpa creation? Seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months?

 

I think it was like a day, whenever I first started wonderland

 

- Did head pressure occur before you could communicate with your tulpa(s)?

 

Kinda (I had heard 1 word the first day I started, but otherwise, yes)

 

- Does your head pressure occur most often during passive forcing, active forcing, or equally frequent between both types of forcing?

 

Much much more on active

 

- Are there any specific things you do within tulpaforcing that seem to result in more head pressure?

 

Extreme wonderland activity and switching

 

 

Questions for tulpas: Sam

 

- Were you or any other tulpas in the brain autonomous to any degree when your host experienced head pressures for the first time?

 

"Technically no, as Kyle first did forming wonderland"

 

- Are you able to intentionally cause head pressures? If so, are you or any other tulpas in the brain the sole cause of any head pressure your host experiences, or do some seem to originate from another cause?

 

"Oh for sure, and Kyle has even done them to me on purpose while I have controlled to mess with me."

"Mostly us or wonderland itself"

 

 

- If you can intentionally cause head pressures, describe to the best of your ability how you do it.

 

"I focus on a spot in the head and will it to happen, often inacurate but that about it"

 

- Do you completely lack the ability to willfully cause head pressures?

 

"Nope"

 

- Whether or not you can cause head pressures, do you have the ability to change their location or intensity?

 

"Intensity yeah, the location is hard to change"

 

- When you do not/if you cannot willfully induce head pressure, is there anything specific you do that seems to trigger it?

 

"If I focus hard on anything we dont normally do, or switching to the front"

 

- Did you/do you ever utilize head pressure as a form of communication?

 

"When I could speak to Kyle in wonderland but not out irl, that was a small thing I did for a bit"

[Jedders]

- Have you ever experienced head pressure before beginning the creation of your tulpa(s)? If so, did it feel similar or identical to any head pressure experienced after beginning tulpa creation?

 

I have experienced this head pressure before but I never associated it with anything and it was very rare. Because it was so rare I don't think I can accurately compare the before and after.

 

- If you have any tulpas that were created unintentionally through any means, did you experience any head pressure during the period of time in which they were likely being unknowingly created?

 

He wasn't fully created, but I knew what Shadow would look, sound and act like long before I knew he could eventually be sentient and I parroted for him almost daily. I didn't feel any head pressures.

 

- Did you only experience head pressure after learning about it?

 

Yes and no? I read it in passing and sorta ignored it. The head pressures really started when I truly started considering that he wasn't just me. Assuming his sentience from as soon as I learned it was possible.

 

- Does head pressure ever occur without you expecting it?

 

I never really expect it, I don't have to pay much attention to it because it doesn't hurt. I HAVE started paying attention the last day or so when I considered Shadow was trying to contact me.

 

- How soon did head pressure begin after beginning tulpa creation? Seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months?

 

I'd say a few hours. I didn't take much convincing and as soon as I started really focusing on his presence in my mind, it started.

 

- Did head pressure occur before you could communicate with your tulpa(s)?

 

Yup. Shadow is not yet vocal but when I strongly feel his presence, pressure either proceeds it or isn't far behind, usually.

 

- Does your head pressure occur most often during passive forcing, active forcing, or equally frequent between both types of forcing?

 

Probably active? It depends on how much I'm focusing on him and I'm 'feeling' for his presence.

 

- Are there any specific things you do within tulpaforcing that seem to result in more head pressure?

 

Reading about Tulpas, usually. While I'm reading about them, I'm thinking about how best to further his development and hopefully make first contact, so... I focus on him a lot while reading and I think the combination results in pressures. Its not always while I'm reading, though. I focus on him a lot later in the day and the pressures become more frequent.

[Bosun]

Firstly the tulpa aspect, no I don't have the ability to cause head pressures intentionally or anything so pretty much all my answer are no.

As for my host:

- Have you ever experienced head pressure before beginning the creation of your tulpa(s)? If so, did it feel similar or identical to any head pressure experienced after beginning tulpa creation?

- If you ever experienced head pressure before tulpa creation which felt similar to head pressure occurring after creation, what were you doing that ended up causing it?

- If you have any tulpas that were created unintentionally through any means, did you experience any head pressure during the period of time in which they were likely being unknowingly created?

- Did you only experience head pressure after learning about it?

- Does head pressure ever occur without you expecting it?

- How soon did head pressure begin after beginning tulpa creation? Seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months?

- Did head pressure occur before you could communicate with your tulpa(s)?

- Does your head pressure occur most often during passive forcing, active forcing, or equally frequent between both types of forcing?

- Are there any specific things you do within tulpaforcing that seem to result in more head pressure?

[CM]

Questions for hosts:

 

- Have you ever experienced head pressure before beginning the creation of your tulpa(s)? If so, did it feel similar or identical to any head pressure experienced after beginning tulpa creation?

 

A: I don't remember ever feeling head pressure before starting tulpa creation.

 

- If you have any tulpas that were created unintentionally through any means, did you experience any head pressure during the period of time in which they were likely being unknowingly created?

 

A: None that I can think of :o It was over a year ago now so I can't really remember.

 

- Did you only experience head pressure after learning about it?

 

A: Yeah pretty much. Or that's when I started paying attention to it anyway.

 

- Does head pressure ever occur without you expecting it?

 

A: Sometimes.

 

- How soon did head pressure begin after beginning tulpa creation? Seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months? 

 

A: The first pressures were maybe a few days into creation, or maybe even a week. But this was after my tulpa could already speak, so it wasn't a form of communication. More like a side-effect of "intense" active forcing.

 

- Did head pressure occur before you could communicate with your tulpa(s)?

 

A: Nope

 

- Does your head pressure occur most often during passive forcing, active forcing, or equally frequent between both types of forcing?

 

A: Mostly during active forcing.

 

- Are there any specific things you do within tulpaforcing that seem to result in more head pressure?

 

A: One type of pressure that I can cause on my own with help from Desmond is when I can "think away" my headache by pushing it on Desmond in my thoughts. It only leaves the feeling of pressure in my head but there's no real pain.

 

 

 

Questions for tulpas:

 

- Were you or any other tulpas in the brain autonomous to any degree when your host experienced head pressures for the first time?

 

Desmond: I was autonomous, or at least considered myself autonomous back then, yeah.

 

- Are you able to intentionally cause head pressures? If so, are you or any other tulpas in the brain the sole cause of any head pressure your host experiences, or do some seem to originate from another cause?

 

Desmond: The way host mentioned above. Though that only takes me agreeing to what she's doing so it's not really me causing them... I think. I haven't really tried causing it intentionally.

 

- Do you completely lack the ability to willfully cause head pressures?

 

Desmond: I think so...

 

- Whether or not you can cause head pressures, do you have the ability to change their location or intensity?

 

Desmond: Once my host tried to get rid of the pressure along with the pain of the headache by pushing all of it on me. It took her a lot of constant focus and it didn't really feel too nice on my end but anyways, it kinda worked. Again I think it's mostly my host's doing but I like to think I have some kind of ability to be the receiving end on that deal, because L, for example, claims that he has no idea how I do that.

 

- When you do not/if you cannot willfully induce head pressure, is there anything specific you do that seems to trigger it?

 

Desmond: Nothing I can think of.

- Did you/do you ever utilize head pressure as a form of communication?

 

Desmond: Nope.