Aria, Joss, and Correy's development in an eleven year old's head.

[Guest Anonymous]

Just don't puppet the voice, right?

[Charles]

Just don't puppet the voice, right?

 

Don't parrot the "mindvoice", but it's acceptable to parrot a more clear and audible voice. Mary believes that she would have been more easily heard much sooner had I put more work into doing so, but the process is different for everyone. Follow your heart~

[Guest Anonymous]

Aria's gonna have a soft, kind voice.

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Can you explain please? I don't get it.

[Kadoh]

I think he means, that you can parrot her with the voice you want her to use, so she can use it and be heard more easily.

[Chupi]

There's a few kinds of voice-in-your-head:

• Mindvoice is the little voice you hear inside your head when you think to yourself without moving any muscles. Many tulpae use this first.
  
• Subvocalizing is when you move throat or mouth muscles a bit like you're talking, but make no physical sound. This is often louder than mindvoice. Tulpae don't generally communicate through this unless you're receiving their thoughts and "amplifying" them consciously using this.
  
• Auditory imagination is what your tulpa will ultimately use. It's what you use when imagining sounds other than your own voice. A voice done using this is louder and can have far wider range than your mindvoice, and won't sound like some permutation of "you".
  

There's also hypnagogic voices, which are voices that say usually random things that some people hear sometimes as they're falling asleep. These appear to use auditory imagination.

 

Don't go out of your way to parrot mindvoice, but don't worry that you may be doing it. Worrying about the origin of thoughts she sends is a surefire way to make this take forever.

 

You can parrot the out-loud voice for a bit if you like, to try and teach her to use it. The way I do this, I listen for thoughts/mindvoice from her and then imagine it in her voice, coming from about where she is. This should come after she starts to communicate in other ways though.

 

As for both parroting and puppeting, early responses will likely feel like you're doing them. There's a nice explanation of this in this post on Bin's blog.

 

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A while ago I did a test to see what did and did not count as puppeting. First I just briefly imagined Lyra getting up and walking over somewhere, and she did. She assured me that was not puppeting, that she was the one doing the actual movement. This seems to be more like a suggestion, a visual form of "come over here, please". (Remember, tulpae can read your mind.) This makes sense -- she usually does what I imagine, but sometimes she does something else instead.

 

Then I more forcefully imagined a movement. This felt more like I was moving each limb manually, not just imagining a vague idea of the complete movement and letting her fill in the rest if she wants. She didn't like this and I got an almost immediate response like "wtf why you do that". This is puppeting. While the other thing felt like just imagining a movement, this felt like manhandling her into actually doing it.

 

Don't consciously try to make her do stuff you want like you might with simple pretending. But more importantly, don't make a conscious effort not to imagine her doing stuff. (You will probably be asking her to hold still quite enough while you get down all the details of her body.) If she appears to move, don't assume it's just you, even if it feels like it's just you.

[Guest Anonymous]

Okay. Thanks. I was just at a friends, and GUESS WHAT. She has been incubating a tulpa since preschool. Her tulpa's anime art is AMAZING. It's nothing like my friend could draw. Also, I had her look away first, and the drawing was still okay. She also worked on mouth possession. Her tulpa just mouths it, and she has to make a noise so that she actually talks. Soon, hopefully her tulpa will learn to use her vocal cords. Her tulpa had been talking to her three years; preschool, kindergarten, and first grade. Then her tulpa said being ignored is like dying. Her tulpa's name is Allison. Her voice is a bit higher than hers. Its amazing.

[Guest Anonymous]

No one is surprised?

[Pronas]

reminds me of atasco and tristan. tristan had a tulpa since he was 10.

[Frosty]

No one is surprised?

 

Imaginary friends do sometimes become tulpae by accident, it's not exactly unheard of.

[Guest Anonymous]

Cool. Gonna start my second session.