How do tulpas feel host's touches?

[Guest]

Ohhh, feel myself? Like being touched. Yes of course that works in wonderland and Bear can share my feeling of myself for himself if any of that makes sense. Since we can change camera views and share camera views, that is also true for any of the senses. Wonderland really is a very valuable tool, whew.

[Twice Sparked]

Good question. It highlights how influential starting assumptions can be.

 

 

I'll just echo what the others have hinted at: Find a way to develop your senses that's internally meaningful. Some technique or contrived forcing practice. You might even draw from imposition and visualization guides and learn to use your imagined senses alongside your host. Learning together, as it were.

 

For some here, if not most, I imagine this problem never came up. When they started, they probably assumed their tulpa could feel, or at least never thought about it, and so the assumption crept in. That works, easy and done. Tulpa is able to feel.

 

There's another thread like this, I think. Someone asking about chess? There, the mental separation topic came up. Again, for some people, it isn't a problem. They started with the assumption their thoughts were separated from their tulpas'; over and done. For others, they started with the assumption everything was more blendy. I think the latter is the norm now, but that wasn't always the case. In this forum's early days, many people started with the assumption host and tulpas' thoughts were separate. Opening one's thoughts to their tulpas, along with memories, emotions, etc, was even a part of the whole process in some guides. A distinct stage where you would allow your tulpa to see into your mind. We started with blended thoughts too, then switched gears to separate thoughts, which I think just shows that it's not so important where you begin.

 

If you want to achieve something, you can always go back, alter your system to make it possible. Nonetheless, it would probably be useful to list the kinds of assumptions you can enter tulpamancy with. A kind of chart that lets people customize their system before they get started, and include those things they want out of the practice.

 

If you're interested, or if they never occurred to you, you can add in the other senses too, not just touch, if those at all concern you. For instance, can you see things on your own? Hear them? For some systems, perspective is shared between host and tulpas, while for others, tulpas have their own, distinct point of view. Again, neither is better, but clarity on where you stand might help down the line.

[Guest]

We can also change on the fly so to speak, for us it's a matter of symbolism.