Personality work without visualization

[ThatOneGuy]

This intrigues me...perhaps doing different forms of concentration uses different parts of the brain, resulting in pressure on different areas of the head?

[Guest]

I get the pressure, but I don't know how to "focus" on it. It comes and goes. I want to intensify it. I feel it's the start of my tulpa's sentience.

[Virgil]

It's only common because you think it is common. I'm going in thinking it's just a placebo, so hopefully I won't catch the headaches.

 

I started getting weird sensations in my head without knowing I was supposed to. Then I read Irish's guide and was astounded.

 

This intrigues me...perhaps doing different forms of concentration uses different parts of the brain, resulting in pressure on different areas of the head?

 

That's unlikely in my opinion. I believe the the sensation of pressure and pain originates most likely somewhere in the insular cortex or in some other related parts of the sensory areas of the cerebral cortex, and that would mean the sensations would be completely illusory. I think that a tulpa can somehow access these structures since early stages of development.

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Oh, and here are some intriguing and pertinent excerpts from the Wikipedia article on the insular cortex for those who are too lazy to read the whole of it.

 

The insular cortex also is where the sensation of pain is judged as to its degree.

 

Another perception of the right anterior insula is the degree of nonpainful warmth or nonpainful coldness of a skin sensation.

 

Functionally speaking, the insula is believed to process convergent information to produce an emotionally relevant context for sensory experience. More specifically, the anterior insula is related more to olfactory, gustatory, vicero-autonomic, and limbic function, while the posterior insula is related more to auditory-somesthetic-skeletomotor function. Functional imaging experiments have revealed that the insula has an important role in pain experience and the experience of a number of basic emotions, including anger, fear, disgust, happiness and sadness.

 

A study using magnetic resonance imaging found that the right anterior insula was significantly thicker in people who meditate.

 

An alternative or perhaps complementary proposal is that right anterior insular regulates the interaction between the salience of the selective attention created to achieve a task (the dorsal attention system) and the salience of arousal created to keep focused upon the relevant part of the environment (ventral attention system).

[Feral_]

just chiming in on the whole pressure feeling, i also get various pressures that I believe are my tulpa, as this was very very rare for me before I started the whole process. Most common ones seem to be the front right section of my brain, but also forward at times, and on the rare occasion back of the skull.