Couguhl July 3, 2013 July 3, 2013 Season 1 of Supernatural (the television series) also had an episode which featured a tulpa (and did use the actual term). The movie Drop Dead Fred was very similar to Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends in its treatment of thoughtforms. Those are a couple off the top of my head. I knew someone was going to mention Supernatural. I used to have the tibetan glyph for 'tulpa' engraved on a notebook that I would carry, but eventually I abandoned it because people thought I was an avid Supernatural fan. Meh. Ryuk can hold things, kill people and interact with world. Did you even read Death Note? =_= Ryuk stills reminds me of a tulpa in many respects. The only tulpa in media I can think of that hasn't already been mentioned is the character Old Georgie from Cloud Atlas. He could be considered a tulpa (if not a malicious one). This is somewhat irrelevant, but I stumbled upon the psychological equivalent of a wonderland: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracosm Tulpa: Sierra Forcing since July 2012 Couguhl’s Progress Report
Starr July 3, 2013 July 3, 2013 Deadpool, from marvel comics, has has two "voices" in his head which represent the scholarly and "brutish"/"primitive" forms of thought, in the recent game, they also had completely different voices from deadpool himself, and he would interact with them much in the same way I do my tulpa when I'm not actively forcing or trying to create adventures for Tia and I in our wonderland. They did once interact with the "real world" at one point but it was a deliberate joke at breaking the fourth wall.
Tulpony July 3, 2013 July 3, 2013 The game series Drawn to Life takes place entirely in the player's mind as a coma dream. Depending on your definition, this can make the game world their wonderland, the player character, Wilfre and maybe some others tulpae, the other residents NPCs/servators, and that one guy whose name I forget (Mike?) the player's avatar.
Candellaith July 4, 2013 July 4, 2013 I was reading Berserk, and this page reminded me of the tulpae.
left blank July 6, 2013 July 6, 2013 The game series Drawn to Life takes place entirely in the player's mind as a coma dream. Depending on your definition, this can make the game world their wonderland, the player character, Wilfre and maybe some others tulpae, the other residents NPCs/servators, and that one guy whose name I forget (Mike?) the player's avatar. In a similar vein, Monkeybone. 'The Phantom' in David Lynch's Inland Empire seems to represent an iconic 'tulpa' in the midst of a very bizarre paracosm. There are several other potential 'tulpa' candidates as well. 'Tulpas' are bound to proliferate the media as they are an integral aspect of an artistic mind. Authors (including script writers) seem especially prone to the kind of dissociation which produces alter-gos, imaginary companions, paracosms, and dissociative fugues. It's safe to argue that every fictional character presented to the public is a 'tulpa' (or 'egregore').
Antylamon July 7, 2013 July 7, 2013 The Companion Cube from Lab Rat (official Portal comic). http://www.thinkwithportals.com/comic/ A pretty obvious one here. Rat Man was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and has disarranged thoughts, but a Companion Cube helping you rather than wanting you dead strays into tulpa territory.
left blank July 10, 2013 July 10, 2013 Has anyone mentioned Beyond: Two Souls? Granted, it hasn't been released yet, and it boasts what this board labels as "metaphysical" themes, but the synopsis sounds suspiciously like a "tulpa" creation very similar to my personal experiences.
glitchthe3rd July 15, 2013 July 15, 2013 Has anyone mentioned Beyond: Two Souls? Granted, it hasn't been released yet, and it boasts what this board labels as "metaphysical" themes, but the synopsis sounds suspiciously like a "tulpa" creation very similar to my personal experiences. No, Beyond: Two Souls has a poltergeist. I did some research into the story, and Aiden is definitely not a tulpa. "Science isn't about why, science is about why not?" -Cave Johnson Tulpae: Luna, Elise, Naomi My progress report
left blank July 15, 2013 July 15, 2013 No, Beyond: Two Souls has a poltergeist. I did some research into the story, and Aiden is definitely not a tulpa. In my experience, the two are precisely synonymous. It appears as though the plot is making the same parallels.
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