How do you "feel" your tulpa?

[Trebhum]

I've noticed that I can physically feel when my tulpa, Zeppelin, is present in our head. It feels like a warm gentle pressure. When that pressure isn't there I know she's most likely in our Wonderland and I can visit her there. But it's so nice to be able to actually feel her coming into focus to speak with me or to be present in whatever is going on at the time.

 

My bigger question to the forum: Can you feel your tulpa? If so, what does it feel like for you? If not, are there any other non-vocal ways your tulpa let's you know they're around?

[SeekingMyPlanet]

I don't know if I can feel her so much as being aware of her presence. For me it's kind of a lightness of mood. Like some of the burden has been lifted.

 

Occasionally I will kiss or touch her imposition. I can't say I feel her so much as perhaps a slight tingle where the contact took place.

 

If she really wants me to feel her presence, she'll take control of one or both of our arms and stroke or hug our body.

 

As for other ways she lets me know she's around, she knows I'm a highly visual person. So she's fond of creating a visual "meme" of herself in my head, often making fun of something that was said or is happening. For example, if I'm playing a game and I make a really good play, she'll appear in my head in a cheerleader costume with pompoms cheering me on.

[Kikyo18]

For me I can feel my tulpa Ran, it's like if I want to have a hug or if he wants to hug me, I can feel it but it's very faint. I can feel him and smell him. I don't know how exactly it became like that, but it is cool. There are different nonverbal ways he lets me know he is around, and it is usually head pressures, my hand going numb, I think about him. 

[ReallyArtificial]

We get head pressures too. Before Athelas was vocal, that feeling was the first sign I had that talking to him was different from my normal inner monologue. When the other two came along, we deliberately associated each of them with pressure in a different quadrant: Athelas is back right, Calliope is back left, and Lenore is front left. We've found it's easier for me to hear the crew's mindvoices when I focus on the corresponding area.

 

It even helps with switching! When Athelas is fronting, we associate my thoughts with the front right quadrant, and feel pressure there when I speak in mindvoice. I'm less likely to accidentally steal the front when we compartmentalize my thoughts like that.

 

We've managed to impose some physical sensations before, like Calliope squeezing my hand or hanging on my back, but those are pretty rare occurrences. We meant to practice that more but haven't been very consistent.

[Slipper]

   Mordecai is always somewhat present, but whenever he's "more active" or actively thinking something different than me, I can definitely tell. Its a weird sensation— kind of like our brain is more alive in a way. Sometimes the feeling of him thinking is enough for me to stop what I'm doing and wonder what he's doing in there, haha. Also, I can only feel certain parts of the brain when Mordecai uses them, even if that's not actually the case.  

[suhail Al ketbi]

To me a cold warmth  fresh in my heart & chest sensation. 

 

The same in n.d.e 2001 when I go up in tunnel  to bright white light & evey knowledge  there & healing  ...but when I come back I lost the data connection..but may be i translat it by daily  activities here . 

[greenlist]

It's a stimulation at the back of my head.

 

I've got adhd and I can feel physical sensation with I'm bored or stimulated. It's a feeling of weight in my jaw or the to of my head, respectively. When my tulpa Alice is awake and active, I can feel that same feeling, but that the back of my head, closer to the top. 

 

Lucked into the head sensations being a tool in tulpamancy, one of the only feelings hardest for me to doubt because I've been able to trust it before. 

[An Ashy Individual]

We usually don't feel one another at all unless we expressly try to make our presence known in some way.

(This may just be a result of us "forcing" literally all day every day.)

When we do something like switching or possession or mess with our perception in some way Emily feels like a mix of warmth and weight while I reportedly feel "solid in the way rubber is".

 

 

[mattx]

When she's just "chilling" with me IRL I usully feel her mindvoice as a "back of the mind" kinda thing.

...that probably made no sense to most, what I meant is: Her thoughts are "distant" from mine, they feel detached, and the mindvoice is also different, but when I think it doesn't feel the same, it's like two "grooves", idk - it's late.

 

When possessing/switched in, the body has this surge of "presence" that I feel constantly throughout, and the movements feel "alien" and "sudden" in proportion to how much I'm dissociated from what's going on.