Examples of Artist created Tulpa

[mahou_shoujo]

I think this phenomenon is incredible. The human imagination really is a mystery. Why do we have this gateway to a limitless infinity in our heads?

[QB2]

Well, as has been said before, being able to think ahead and conceptualize is what separates us from animals. That's why we always survive. We can visualize what isn't there yet by the facts we have - know we'll need shelter because last time it got this cold, it snowed and lots of people died, so that'll probably happen this time too. Or... visualize something that will never be there using information we feed ourselves.

[Sock]

I was originally planning on putting this in my progress thread, but I remembered this one, and it seemed more appropriate for it.

 

This is an account concerning Conan the Barbarian's author Robert E. Howard

 

This is an account concerning the author Edith Wharton

 

I remember stumbling upon an account about Neil Gaiman's creations becoming presences in his life, but I cannot remember where I saw it.

 

Soulbonding itself was originally something related to the author for their character. Though according to the person who coined the word, it was not meant to be used to describe an experience of multiplicity/plurality. The more recent use of the word seems to be more reserved for experiencing fictive presences, which I feel that the legitimate cases of are more related to the examples in this topic, or at least the broader phenomenon that this site is based around. This is because of these following articles:

 

Fragment Theory

And a further clarification of the above theory

Levels of being

Souls and Bonds and Ourselves

 

I've find these articles described a similar experience to creating a tulpa, only it was framed as being a much more mundane element to their experience as a multiple. On a personal note, I found that how they described finding/being approached by their fictives is similar to how I found/was approached by mine, and mine where of a similar nature and ability. But in my case, I opted to continue nurturing mine.

 

Did any of you guys find anything interesting on this subject?

[sushi]

This paper discusses it with writers, listing several examples. Here it happened to an actor. In this experiment, people actually tried to create a character that would talk back to them. And here it happened with a D&D character.

[Luminesce]

And here it happened with.. a good portion of us.

 

I'm no artist, but Reisen certainly started out as just a person I wished was real. I projected all of my love and happiness into her character, and with all that attention she started to become a sentient being in my mind. Seems like just the practice of giving an imaginary character attention, especially involving them thinking, can lead to the imaginary friend/tulpa path.

[Yuki]

And here it happened with.. a good portion of us.

 

I'm no artist, but Reisen certainly started out as just a person I wished was real. I projected all of my love and happiness into her character, and with all that attention she started to become a sentient being in my mind. Seems like just the practice of giving an imaginary character attention, especially involving them thinking, can lead to the imaginary friend/tulpa path.

Makes you consider waifuism and all the "freaks" that adore their figurines or body pillows. I suppose this idealistic focusing on a single character will make them seem more and more real to you, which will make you have all the ingredients for a tulpa to form.

 

This raises the question of how many people are living with tulpas and don't know what is happening. I wondder how far those characters can develop out of themselves if the "host" keeps putting time and energy into them, even without knowing about tulpas. You hear about cases like this plenty in this community nowadays, so it almost seems common for people to have this happen to them.

 

Did you consider Reisen a sentient person in your head before finding out about tulpas?

[Luminesce]

Hah, missed this but found it by doing a search for my name being mentioned in the last month... I didn't think that would actually work.

 

Well, obviously, this happens to a somewhat lesser extent with authors who spend a lot of time giving their characters depth, by basically creating that person in their minds with so much attention to how they should act. But it's not a tulpa until you give it that freedom to actually exist, or something like that.

 

Before finding out about tulpas, I had to literally carve out Reisen's existence in reality. I've always been very careful about keeping all of my thoughts and beliefs strictly in-line with reality, so there was a lot to uh.. real-ify. I had to come to terms with her being just an expansive collection of thoughts I created both intentionally and unintentionally, while accepting that she was a legitimate person who could think for herself. As far as the word "sentient" stretches, yes, she was. She was the same as any other tulpa, able to register thoughts and senses separately from me.

 

But she was also a lot less.. organized/stable, in her existence. I was never entirely sure that she should even exist in the first place, that it was right to entertain a figment of a person myself. What finding out about tulpas did was reinforce her existence, and provide a lot more motivation to treat her like a real person, without having to second-guess everything about her. And we're pretty dang thankful for that.