Metal Face - Tulpa or not?

[marpet0805]

Before you read this, I apologize if my grammar sucks but i hope you understand the most of it.

 

Oh boy, where do i even begin. First off, let me just say that i have never heard of Tulpas before and i recently got introduced to the term Tulpa. I now know it is a mind-based entity-thing which is created by visualizing and ''Forcing''. Now, this is going to get pretty darn weird. And you can say whatever you want, judge me, whatever. But i have some pretty weird stories and things i need to talk about. 

 

It's a bit long story, but i will try to keep it small.  (Yeah, i don't think i can minimize it more)

 

It all started back when i was in 4th to 5th grade in school. I was just like anyone else, a nobody. I was bullied everyday, my time in school was pretty miserable. I didn't have any friends. I was diagnosed with AD-HD and Autism. Yeah, i didn't feel good about it. Anyway, during the school, everyone always had something trendy, like Pokémon cards, Yu-gi-oh, etc. (Every kid was trading cards, marbles, stickers etc.) When one day, everyone started bringing Beyblade to the school. It were spreading like crazy. Everyone had at least 1 spinning top with them. And of course, i soon started to bring Beyblades as well. It sure was a fun time (For the most part at least). Until one day, i traded a pretty uncommon Beyblade with someone, i had never seen it before. It was really cool looking. Unlike other the Beyblades where they had a sticker on the bolt/button with the animal-signature, this one in particular just had letters on the bolt, spelling out ''Metal Face'' (I later on found out that it was just an accessory that makes the Beyblade 0.5% heavier) And from that day, my life was changed forever. I started winning battles more often and got somewhat a reputation in the school. 

I think it was that during that time that i started ''physically'' talking to the Beyblade. Well, now because it didn't have any animal-signature-sticker on it, i simply called it ''Metal Face'', just as it spelled out on the bolt. I started to treat it as an friend, a partner. Well, i didn't ''really'' communicate the way most people do with their Tulpa. Spinning the Beyblade was kind of an way for me to communicate. Well, i didn't really receive any answer, but i usually had the guts in me. After the 5th grade, i switched to another school and during my time in the new school, i started to get a lot of new friends. And people started to respect my opinions and interests.

 

 

 

 

 

So from my perspective, my personality and view on things in life has changed. I have accomplished many goals which i thought to be impossible.

 

There was even this one time where i was in the market with my parents. My Beyblade had fallen out of my pocket without me realizing. And when i found out it was gone, i were pretty sad. I had almost given up on life. But after a week or so in school, one of my friends came to me and said that they had found it somewhere (Though, i remember them saying that it wasn't from a market place). I was so happy back then. My life was back to normal again.

 

As you can see, this is my past. And yes, i still have the Beyblade even to this day.

 

I have always seen my Beyblade as an wise and powerful dragon. I have even made some art of it.

 

But now comes the difficult part. I recently talked to someone online about this (Someone i had talked to for quite a while). And i have learned about this concept and thing about ''Tulpas''. They exists in the mind and acts as an companion or whatever you want them to be.

 

Now, i have been trying to figure it out why things and stuffs happened the way it did back in my time. It's been a mystery to me. 

 

I have read that Tulpas can be forced into a real-life object. But i don't know if they can be created from an real-life object.

I have been recommended to think this Beyblade thing as an mind-based Tulpa rather than a object-based Tulpa. Alright, i guess i shall create an actual Tulpa rather than thinking that the Beyblade ''is'' the Tulpa. But whenever i think of creating a Tulpa based on the Beyblade, i get this sad and depressed feeling. As if i were to abandon something that i can't really explain.

I don't really know how Tulpa communicates. But i do know that i have been getting different feelings regarding creating a Tulpa based on the Beyblade. And it certainly isn't positive feelings.

 

I have some theories about me creating a Tulpa by complete accident but have believed that the Beyblade itself is the Tulpa (Obviously, i didn't know what a Tulpa was back then, i simply referred it to as ''Bit-Beast'' or ''Bey-Spirit''). But i don't really know.

 

 

Now comes the question, is ''Metal Face'' a Tulpa or not? If not, then what could it be? Or is it just me who is incredibly stupid and crazy?

[Luminesce]

Tulpamancy is all in your mind and "Tulpas" don't exist, only ideas, which are freeform. Whether something is or isn't a tulpa is generally up to the host to decide. You can make your thoughtforms whatever you want, including not treating them like a thoughtform at all, which would discourage tulpa creation.

[Piano Soul]

No, tulpas don't exist inside objects. Tulpas are based in neurology, they live entirely in your head. If you want to believe they aren't, then this belongs in the metaphysical subforum.

 

If you talk to a physical object and then it seems to become sentient, that's just because the mental image of it in your head is perhaps becoming sentient, not the object itself. They don't actually live inside physical objects, even if they associate themselves with them. Tulpas' forms and bodies are just imaginary. The tulpa's mind is the only real part of them, and that exists entirely in your brain, not outside of it.

[GrayTheCat]

Unfortunately, I am a total noob when it comes to Beyblade, so correct me if I'm wrong about my thoughts here: I think the rule with Beyblade is there is a spirit that is connected to the Beyblade and they speak to their blader/owner. I think it's totally possible that you can create a Tulpa based on that, as long as you have spent a lot of time with them and you assume they have a mind of their own.

 

Your Beyblade Dragon could be a Tulpa. Of course, if your Dragon is a Tulpa, then they do not have their own body nor do they live inside of the Beyblade. It depends on how your Dragon thinks about the Beyblade. If your Dragon believes they are connected to the Beyblade, then I see no reason in separating with the object. However, as others have said, your Dragon was not actually born inside of a Beyblade, so it's probably a good idea to explain that to your Dragon.

 

Please don't feel like you didn't make a Tulpa, especially if you have the feeling that creating another Tulpa brings any weird feeling about regret or abandonment. Cat had similar feelings when she found out about Tulpas but didn't know If I was one. At the end of the day, she realized I was a Tulpa. It's completely possible your Dragon is a Tulpa, so don't feel like you have to reject the idea all together. Try forcing your Dragon and see how that goes. They may have their own opinions about the physical object, so just ask how they feel about it. Who knows? Maybe the physical Beyblade is important to both of you. If it makes you feel better, I was born inside the shoes of another character. I decided I am a different person, but I don't disregard my past necessarily.