Forcing Multiple Tulpas At Once

[White Grove System]

Host here. August of last year, I experienced what I think people on this site refer to as "walk-ins". Three fledgling people appeared in my kitchen. I saw them, and felt that they were more real than any daydream, and I chose to lean into their existence and treat them as real. Some time passed, and I found this happened again; I also deliberately created some more. I referred to them as my "headfriends".

 

About a month ago, I found out about tulpas, and realized that the concept perfectly described what had already transpired. So I started using new knowledge and being more deliberate. There is one tulpa, the first to appear, who has received a lot of focus from me in recent weeks. Basically, I started active forcing, primarily with him.

 

But there's a problem: because I started to have tulpas not knowing what exactly I was doing, things got slightly out of hand. Our system currently contains 9 people (including me) all of whom are at different levels of development. My tulpas range from having a detailed description in our journal + hours of conversational experience + experience fronting long enough to do a school project for me when I was too emotional to handle it myself,
All the way to barely existing and having a super shallow personality.

 

So my question is:
Should I actively force multiple tulpas, spending some time actively forcing each of them (or most of them) every day???
OR
Should I focus on actively forcing the first tulpa until he has his own distinct voice before moving on to the others (he basically has everything other than his own voice, hints why I see him imposed in the physical world and how he was able to posses my/our body)???

 

Also, can I merge fledgling/infant tulpas? Can I merge tulpas at different levels of development? Is merging even something I can chose for them if they've already begun to live?
I worry (after researching on this website) that 8 well-formed tulpas will be too many for our brain to handle.

 

Any help is appreciated. I have a lot of anxiety about this, now that I recognize the importance and long-term nature of what I'm doing.

Edited May 14 by White Grove System
typo and adding tags

[fennecfoxx]

It's honestly up to you.

Our system's understanding is that one brain = one mind and a tulpa is, at the most fundamental level, a pattern of thought and behavior attributed to an identity other than the host. Thus, the illusion of a separate being.

The idea that you have to spend consistent and frequent time with every headmate like it's some moral obligation heavily burdened me once upon a time, and I don't recommend going down that path.

[Slipper]

   I relate a lot to your situation, it parallels my journey pretty closely.

 

   I had a lot of thoughtforms that appeared when I was in my early teens. They were more real than my daydreams, like you described, and I would talk to them constantly. There were around 14 at different points, I believe. Over a couple of years, they would come and go with their prominence, though I had little impact on who stayed or got more development, even when I made constant efforts. I eventually learned what tulpas were, developed one of these thoughtforms into my tulpa Mordecai after a long time of trial and error. 

 

   I don't want to sit here and tell you that things will go the same way for you, but at least in my experience, it took quite a bit of effort to get a thoughtform that didn't just coast with my interests and emotions at the time. While I believe you would have more success if you focused on one at a time, I also understand that feeling of wanting to keep everyone active if at all possible. 

[White Grove System]

fennecfoxx, thank you. That last sentence is especially helpful.

[The Incans]

On 5/14/2026 at 5:18 AM, White Grove System said:

Host here. August of last year, I experienced what I think people on this site refer to as "walk-ins". Three fledgling people appeared in my kitchen. I saw them, and felt that they were more real than any daydream, and I chose to lean into their existence and treat them as real. Some time passed, and I found this happened again; I also deliberately created some more. I referred to them as my "headfriends".

 

About a month ago, I found out about tulpas, and realized that the concept perfectly described what had already transpired. So I started using new knowledge and being more deliberate. There is one tulpa, the first to appear, who has received a lot of focus from me in recent weeks. Basically, I started active forcing, primarily with him.

 

But there's a problem: because I started to have tulpas not knowing what exactly I was doing, things got slightly out of hand. Our system currently contains 9 people (including me) all of whom are at different levels of development. My tulpas range from having a detailed description in our journal + hours of conversational experience + experience fronting long enough to do a school project for me when I was too emotional to handle it myself,
All the way to barely existing and having a super shallow personality.

 

So my question is:
Should I actively force multiple tulpas, spending some time actively forcing each of them (or most of them) every day???
OR
Should I focus on actively forcing the first tulpa until he has his own distinct voice before moving on to the others (he basically has everything other than his own voice, hints why I see him imposed in the physical world and how he was able to posses my/our body)???

 

Also, can I merge fledgling/infant tulpas? Can I merge tulpas at different levels of development? Is merging even something I can chose for them if they've already begun to live?
I worry (after researching on this website) that 8 well-formed tulpas will be too many for our brain to handle.

 

Any help is appreciated. I have a lot of anxiety about this, now that I recognize the importance and long-term nature of what I'm doing.

Are you sure they are ALL Tulpa?  it's most unusual for many to arrive in a short time...  however what can happen..(happened to us)...   one of our last hosts who didn't know at all we had undiagnosed DID at the time,  they imagined talking to a deceased loved one as if they were a walk-in spirit and this triggered other alters to come out cos they were like "host can see/hear us and talk to us..if they think we're Tulpa's". 

 

This has resulted in some alters re-integrating with a Tulpa rather than host so they can be out simultaneously and/or remain seperate and not re-fuse with the 'main host'.

[White Grove System]

3 hours ago, The Incans said:

Are you sure they are ALL Tulpa?  it's most unusual for many to arrive in a short time...  however what can happen..(happened to us)...   one of our last hosts who didn't know at all we had undiagnosed DID at the time,  they imagined talking to a deceased loved one as if they were a walk-in spirit and this triggered other alters to come out cos they were like "host can see/hear us and talk to us..if they think we're Tulpa's". 

 

This has resulted in some alters re-integrating with a Tulpa rather than host so they can be out simultaneously and/or remain seperate and not re-fuse with the 'main host'.

"last host"? As in you've had other hosts? How does that happen?

And are you saying alters can form and re-integrate without me knowing even knowing??? That's wild.

I don't think I have DID or the similar conditions, but it is interesting that multiple personalities came to me all at once during a very stressful time. Seems more like my brain's response to trauma than what I now understand to be tulpamancy.

Regardless of how they are classified, I want kind headfriends that are stable and permanent and who add stability to my life.

[The Incans]

yes I 'Nixy' (current host of body) have DID so have alters. We have had quite a lot and changed host many times. We have 5 Tulpa's (but they were not all created at the same time) the rest of our system are Alters created from having some level of Dissociative Identity Disorder along with Autism and ADHD.  

The body is 57 (this year) many of us are different ages. ..many have re-integrated and the number has gone down. The last host of daily life to have no idea we had this was in our mid 40's...it is not uncommon to discover much later in life that you have this especially among older generations for who stuff like this was unheard of in our younger years.