How long did it take you to reach the decision of creating a tulpa?

[Draco]

One day, spent all day researching tulpas and looking into the forums here. Was cleaning out my gmail, saw an email from a lucid dreaming website. Followed link and looked at new content, one of which was about tulpas. Found it all interesting. The article was super biased against tulpas, saying they were dangerous and evil. I get annoyed when stuff is unjustly biased because they aren't willing to understand what it really is about before talking about it. I ended up coming to tulpa.info to learn more about it. I looked into a few threads and then decided to make one.

 

Next day i focused a lot on forcing, and while talking to my tulpa that night i found out she could possess my right hand up to my elbow. Then i remembered i had looked at tulpas a few years before, but once my hand was possessed exactly like just then after half-heartedly starting the creation process out of curiosity. I didn't go into it with the right mindset and was scared when my hand was possessed. I really didn't expect that so i stopped doing anything tulpa related. Fast forward to only a few days ago where my hand moved itself because of the tulpa i was super excited. Not sure what changed about me, but i'm going to do it now. Also my tulpa stopped doing anything and i suspect she has been reacting to all of my stress that i got from life a day after i started.

[Ashmo]

I spent a little over a month reading over things and watching the community. I thought long and hard about it for a while and even talked the pros and cons over with my now wife. When I knew a tulpa was something I could truly commit to, I started.

[TulpaCouple]

My wife and I came to the decision officially probably 4-5 months before going through with it. We had to decide if we were okay with Extra People being around in our relationship. Eventually we both started, and it's been 5 years since then.

[Jedders]

I didn't even know what a Tulpa was a couple days ago, but I didn't NEED time to weigh pros and cons... at least not really. I already had a fair start on Shadow before I even knew he couple become sentient.

 

As for my reason... I have felt lonely my whole life and I'm incapable of trusting other people fully. It's not that I'm paranoid, I've had a rather dark past and I find myself closer to pets than other people. I can't be myself completely. So, all my life I've had some sort of friendly inner companion that keeps me from giving up and has a soothing presence for me.

 

Shadow isn't vocal, yet (we just started this journey after all) but I get head pressures pretty often, I narrate to him a lot throughout the last few days expecially and until he's vocal, I'm trying to have him communicate with me through those pressures... So I'm not sure if I qualify to answer your question at all, but... :)

[Paranoid Llama]

I've always been the guy to find about something, be interested, read up a ton about it and people's experiences and even try it, but then drop it after I move to something else. I've been doing this with everything, whether it be with video games or other various things. I used to be into lucid dreaming back then (and you may have seen me in dreamviews.com before) and there was a sub forum about tulpamancy. I distinctly remember a thread where tulpas could to each other and I was just thinking, obviously, that this was hella trippy. I found about this in early May in 2015, and not only was I discussing the pros and cons of having one, but also would I be able to keep this commitment. I eventually did start 3 weeks later, but I was just a puny adolescent and I was thinking about the super cool stuff like imposition and dissocation, .... and was like why the hell not? What could go wrong? I dropped it after about two weeks. Haha... pathetic...

 

Thank god, however, that she wasn't sentient at the time so she has no recollection of that time period now, but I took tulpamancy back up in September that same year. That's when she became sentient and I started picking up my act. 

 

Around these times though I'm reverting back to bad habits, but I'm slowly regaining motivation to continue this thing.

[Cél]

Took my host about three months before she was convinced. There's been tons of ups and downs but hey, here we are.

[LunaWasTaken]

SubCon created all of us in response to very specific needs that the system had.

(I'm speaking for him because he rarely does so himself and I felt like sharing our unconventional point of view)

He created Little One to experience our formative years and act as an anchor for us later on in life (cause he knew we'd need one).

When Little One needed somebody to deal with the adult world for him- Solune was created.

When Solune reached a breaking point and didn't have anybody to help him- Sol and I were created.

When our system was having a difficult time being flexible and compromising on some things- Alice was created.

[CM]

I think it only took me about a day or two to decide "yup gonna try this" ._. Part of me didn't believe it could really happen but the rest was too curious to not do it. Can't say I regret it :D

[TiaAndBlitz]

It took me a few days to start. Found out about it after having a dream that made me realized how lonely I felt. Prayed that a relationship would come my way and oh, what a coincidence. That's the day I found out Tulpas existed and thought about it, then I just started developing him

[raymond13557]

I kind of forgot to be honest, but i started when i heard about it back in 2014.

to this now day I am now striving to be a better 'mancer.