[Subselves] The Shadow

[Lukenstein3D]

I would try to defeat it through some symbolism and 'purify' the tulpae somehow.

 

Actually, I acknowledged all of the things that he was, which I am, all of the parts of me that I don't like and that I thought I had phased out from my personality and accepted it and him as me.

My tulpae are no longer frightened and he hasn't shown up since :D

[Bazil]

Here ive been trying to create a malevolent, mischievious tulpa and you guys already have one...

[hakase]

Here ive been trying to create a malevolent, mischievious tulpa and you guys already have one...

 

Why would you EVER want a tulpa like that?

 

And the shadow isn't a tulpa, nor is it automatically malevolent or mischievous. Furthermore, making a tulpa of it is a conscious move to keep your personality in pieces and to continue denying that certain parts of you are you and not just some personality that you thought up. Making a tulpa of your shadow is a stupid idea and should not be done.

[Bazil]

Oh but my subconcience is twisted and dark and really 2edgy4me. While i myself dont exibit such traits ive always felt an attraction to such things. If im to create a manifestation from my subconcience id like it to be true to its character

[Merc]

I'm actually looking forward to meeting my shadow, if I have one. It will help me learn more about myself. I hope it isn't too meek though, I meditate all the time and connect with my true self. From what I have read, this creates a very insignificant shadow or erases its existence altogether. I want a challenge >:D

[Wolfe]

This has me curious of a previous experience I had. It was after I fell asleep after turning off my alarm:

 

I found myself on a one lane street close to the bottom of the hill. I decide to go down, but a black and white cat walks in the way from the side. I walk past it, fearing it might have rabies or something (At the residence halls, I have seen a cat that walked toward me, and all the cats have rabies. So I understood what it looked like.). The cat then tells me, "I need to talk to you!" in a female voice. I get scared and walk a bit faster. I head into a food store and try to get away from the cat. The cat speeds past me and then stops a few feet in front of me. I go into a fighting stance, my right foot in front of my left. She starts walking toward me and then jumps. I land a front kick onto her belly but she is still heading toward me, now a bit higher than before. I decide to sidestep and use my arm to move her body to the side while she is midair. She lands back on the floor and we look at each other.

 

And then the alarm goes off and I wake up. 8:30 AM. My heartbeat is a bit accelerated and then it hits me. The cat was one of my tulpae. I believe it to be Amethyst... Now I'm kinda stuck wondering what the message was.

 

Now I believed it to be my tulpa at the time, but after seeing this, it might be plausible that the cat I saw was actually this shadow. I had that sense of fear and maybe adrenaline at the time until the alarm snapped me out of it. Think this was my shadow? And can shadows talk to you? I was looking here in the thread to see if anyone said so, but couldn't find any.

[glitchthe3rd]

I mentioned how my shadow took on the form of a black guy in dark platemail and kidnapped Luna while I was doped up on painkillers after getting my wisdom teeth out. He was a man of few words, but he tried convincing me he was the embodiment of my racism or some other bs. Luckily I knew better, and I decided to leave this shadow being alone rather than attack it and give credence to its existence. And the very next day, Mr. Dark Platemail Guy was gone without a trace.

 

So to answer your question, I guess they can talk?

[schlondark]

This has me curious of a previous experience I had. It was after I fell asleep after turning off my alarm:

 

 

Now I believed it to be my tulpa at the time, but after seeing this, it might be plausible that the cat I saw was actually this shadow. I had that sense of fear and maybe adrenaline at the time until the alarm snapped me out of it. Think this was my shadow? And can shadows talk to you? I was looking here in the thread to see if anyone said so, but couldn't find any.

 

I mentioned how my shadow took on the form of a black guy in dark platemail and kidnapped Luna while I was doped up on painkillers after getting my wisdom teeth out. He was a man of few words, but he tried convincing me he was the embodiment of my racism or some other bs. Luckily I knew better, and I decided to leave this shadow being alone rather than attack it and give credence to its existence. And the very next day, Mr. Dark Platemail Guy was gone without a trace.

 

So to answer your question, I guess they can talk?

 

They can indeed talk. Mine sounds like the anti-spiral.

[Brohanu]

I was exploring around my wonderland when I encountered a little cabin in the woods with Ava.

Ava went up to the window trying to see when what appeared to be a huge black bear with a grey, horrified human face lunged out at her. It came out of the cabin, but I didn't run, and it just goofed around for a while before running off.

Later when we've met some nastier creatures it actually came to our aid.

I like that big fella.

[moondragon]

Interesting thread..I might have known someone in the past who had a pretty strong shadow. I always felt some kind of presence around him..Something, dark and maybe dangerous, but interesting too. Turned out he had a lot of issues, was into some hard core drugs, and had lots of anger issues, and had some pretty dark interests..When I met him, I thought he was just a horror fan like me, but I think his interests went beyond an interest in films that are somewhat dark and morbid.