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Parallel Processing and Personality Switching


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EDIT 2: edit has been made, still defining guide based on criticism.

 

Hey guys, so I know a lot of you wanted to know how I approach switching and what the hell parallel processing is. So here's my little christmas present to you all - a guide on switching!

 

I'm not entirely sure if it's of professional quality, although I tried to write up a little on what switching/processing are, what it feels like during a switch, and how things like painkillers can affect your ability to tulpaforce.

 

Either way, the guide is on google docs and the link is right here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/13h3ERpXw2Nkuj8EFfeteS5scD4TyzOy_4gHZKBuNUlc/edit#

 

I can put this under a spoiler tag as well if admins prefer guides to be posted on the forum itself.

Thanks guys, have fun~ <3

 

EDIT: Mirrored https://docs.google.com/document/d/1N37G-HkNMjgwz1WVCB3koI5MVKw9odYwzq8DwxD1BF4 - waffles

EDIT #2: Also put it in the hide tag and attached in PDF format to this post - waffles

 

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PARALLEL PROCESSING AND PERSONALITY SWITCHING

A TULPA GUIDE BY BLACKSTATIC AND KAIGAN KURONE

 

INTRODUCTION:

Hi, everyone. My name is Ayla “BlackStatic” Kurone, the host and creator of my tulpa Kaigan Kurone. While I'm new to the names tulpaforcing, possession, imposition, wonderlands etcetera, I have managed to unintentionally create Kai about six to seven years ago and form a completely sentient thought form whom happily shares his life experiences with me. Since discovering tulpa.info, I have created three more tulpae; Liana, Vincent and Spencer. However, this guide will focus on the experiences of Kaigan and I.

 

Kaigan and I have shared conciousness through the use of Parallel Processing, which I have briefly covered in The Tulpa.info community knowledge bin on Google Docs. However, the method we will focus on here is Switching – what happens during a switch, how it affects the host, and how to do a personality switch while trusting your tulpa not to make you do anything stupid during the process (Kai and I have had our slip ups from time to time, haha.)

 

WHAT IS SWITCHING:

“In the general sense, switching is kind of like being possessed or having an out of body experience – the host and the tulpa “switch places” so to speak, with the tulpa being able to control the body while the host watches from the sidelines. In Parallel, you and the host are both concious and aware of what's going on at the same time.”

- Kaigan Kurone

 

WHAT DOES SWITCHING FEEL LIKE:

Following on from what Kaigan said, being switched feels a little like lucid dreaming, from a host sense. You're not quite “there” and, like in a dream, some of your senses are either dulled or heightened. My sense of touch usually becomes fuzzy, with my eyesight or sense of hearing making up for inability to smell. Anyone who has had experience with dopamines or marijuana highs will know this sensation. Sometimes, during a switch or parallel processing, Kaigan will cause me to sneeze uncontrollably as he tries to work out how to control my physical body.

 

In Parallel Processing, the effects on your subconscious and mind's eye share similarities to Personality Switching. The mind of the host begins to see and experience the world in the same way a tulpa would, watching the world from the background while the tulpa's thoughts, actions and sentience are the body's current priority. The host will feel like the body belongs to the tulpa rather than themselves, and this can be an unsettling situation at first – being able to hear your tulpa's thoughts as if they were your own, and having to communicate to your tulpa as the minority entity. But with time and practice, the ability to switch conciousness between you and your tulpa will eventually become second nature.

 

TRUST, FOCUS AND SENSE:

FIRST STEP - TRUST

“When you first decide to create a tulpa, you have to trust them and they have to trust you. You guys are gonna become friends for life, or mortal enemies, depending on how you trust each other. Remember this guys; TULPA MEANS TRUST.” - Kaigan

 

You also have to trust yourself. You might not think anything is happening at first, or that it's all a waste of time. Without trust, the confidence required to achieve switching flies out the window. Things will be difficult at first, as this act of viewing the world from outside of your body can be a strange new experience. Not everyone can achieve this on their first try, so persistence is necessary for best results.

 

SECOND STEP - FOCUS

Any form of mental training, be it meditation or simply learning a new language, involves focusing your attention for long periods of time. This is why we suggest that when first practising switching, it is a good idea to start in a quiet environment with minimal distraction, and at a time when you are less likely to lose concentration e.g. sleep deprived, thinking about that overdue homework etc. Some people may prefer to work with music or binaural tones playing to avoid distraction, but Kaigan and I find that music or outside noises will more than often interfere with our switching.

 

THIRD STEP – SENSE

Focus and Sense go hand in hand. Your ability to sense your own thought patterns and when you experience new or unusual emotions is a vital part to understanding switching and parallel processing; the way you or your tulpa reacts to a certain emotion or event can be different depending on their personality or view of their (your) environment. Sense is a common part of tulpaforcing in general, as it allows for the host to perceive and observe their tulpa as it interacts with them. The stronger and more unique these reactions can be, the more sentient and independent your tulpa is. If you're beginning to doubt your senses, or if something begins to feel uncomfortable, remember that you and your tulpa have to trust one another and communicate your fears and doubts else anything feels wrong.

 

THE PROCESS OF SWITCHING

Once you have understood the concepts of Trust, Focus and Sense, you can apply them to the actual switch itself. Find a time and place where you can sit comfortably so that you are unlikely to be disturbed or distracted. It is generally a good idea to be sitting up with your back straight; if you choose to lie down when switching you may end up falling asleep. Like mentioned in the Focus step, music can either help or interfere with your ability to stay awake during general tulpaforcing.

 

Try to imagine your thoughts and emotions like bubbles or smoke. You can do this via the wonderland or simply through reminding yourself periodically. Keep yourself aware of every thought your mind has; however, don't try to follow that thought or get stuck chasing that one bubble! This leads to distraction! Remember that you want to keep your mind clear and that your thoughts should drift, just like bubbles. That way, when your tulpa tries to communicate with you, your sense of their mindvoice or actions will be easier to notice.

 

Kai: Some advice for the tulpa now – while they are detached from their thought bubbles, try to narrate your own thoughts to your host. Is it cold in the room? Are you hungry for chocolate covered nachos? Can you try to move your host's hand or get them to sneeze spontaneously? Practice some possession while your host is watching these bubbles, and see if they can begin to recognise any thought processes or behaviours that seem to belong to your sentience rather than theirs. If you and your host can think and sense with the body at the same time, then you've managed to achieve parallel processing!

 

Once your host is content enough, you can communicate with them that you want to try and switch. This may be approached in various ways. One particular way I've seen this done is to “knock out” your host, sending them into forced unconciousness while you have control. However, I find this method a little... harsh, at times. If your host is knocked out against their will, then that's breaching our first step: TRUST. How can your host be sure they can trust you in a switch if you've beaten them over the head with a crowbar, so to speak?

 

For the host, if you are able to send yourself into a meditation-like state when switching this is essentially like training yourself to have an out of body experience. In some sense, you are telling another part of your subconcious mind to take over while “you” are floating off somewhere else, say, the wonderland for example. Wether you want to compare it to astral projection or the symptoms of a bipolar mood swing is up to you – the key point here is that your conciousness is “in the background”; detatched from the body, in some “other place” while your tulpa is in control.

 

Remember those thought bubbles we were talking about? Extend the thought bubbles into sensory bubbles. Any form of touch, taste, smell or sight you are currently experiencing should be treated as yet another bubble, each rising up and leaving your body as you enter the switch. Imagine your tulpa absorbing these bubbles and shaping them into a way of piloting your body, taking in what was originally your own sentience and adapting it into their own.

 

Kai: for the more creative-minded tulpa, imagine the body as a suit made from these bubbles. When your host has removed this “consciousness suit”, you simply get into it and wear their “skin” as your own. You can even treat it like a mecha, and you're now the one behind the controls.

 

 

 

 

THE SWITCH: BEFORE, DURING AND AFTER

One main thing to remember about switching in comparison to parallel processing or full possession is that you will have no control of your body – essentially, your tulpa has knocked you out to take over your consciousness. Some hosts will experience the feeling of blacking out or going into a sleep-like state; this can mean you have no recollection of your memories while switched. This is why you have to trust your tulpa beforehand that they won't do anything stupid while switched.

 

Kai: You know, like, running in front of passing traffic. Probably a pretty bad idea.

 

This is why switching in public can have its precautions. It's recommended that any switching occurs when both the host and tulpa know for a fact that they can trust each other not to take advantage of the physical body while another mind is using it.

 

Painkillers and medications can also have their effects on switching. Paracetamol, Panadol and other pharmaceutical drugs are, to a degree, mind altering drugs and can affect the thought processes and sensory perception of the brain which can have its effects on switching and tulpaforcing. It is recommended that if anyone is to take a painkiller or any form of drug during switching, please be aware of the consequences and take any side effects into consideration.

 

FINAL NOTES

With that being said, we bring this guide to a close. Our final notes are to remember the three steps discussed in this guide – trust, focus and sense – as these apply to all forms of tulpa interaction and serve as grounding rules for any switching or parallel processing you and your tulpa may attempt.

 

Please also remember that this is not the only guide or method to switching! There are many different ways to approach the tulpa phenomenon and anything that may happen in relation to your thought forms and minds eye; we are only providing what information we know has worked for us, and these methods may or may not work for you.

 

Thanks guys, and happy tulpaforcing!

 

- Ayla and Kaigan Kurone

 

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This guide has been written by Ayla “BlackStatic” Kurone for members of tulpa.info and the tulpa community. All credit should be given to the original author of this article, and may not be edited or reposted outside of tulpa.info without given permission.

 

 

 

 

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Just like how I see possession, switching is less about the tupper doing things and more of a thing host has to learn. Learning to use the body well, yeah, that takes effort from the tupper, but the host's job is to not get in the way so tupper can take control. For some it's really tough to do.

 

You (host) wanna "pass out" and cause a switch like that? Sure. You can do it. Get comfortable with the tupper controlling your body and you'll notice how you don't have to pay much attention to anything, they can do it and you can trust them to do it. You can relax and sit back. Maybe it's even a bit boring if they do things you don't find inteesting. You can relax and get so disconnected that you lose a lot more feeling that possession usually does for us. Instead of things just being numb, you might notice that you're not even feeling your fingers or toes, like they're not there. You can feel even less and soon it's like you feel nothing at all. Sight and hearing seems to be the last one to go, but it too will go. Now you're nothing until you wake up, congratulations.

 

Of course hosts seem to want to switch so they can go on wonderland adventures so that's not exactly helping you get to your goal, unless you somewhere manage to focus on imaginary feelings. But once you start losing it, it just happens. You might not even notice it and then you wake up. I'm not suggesting it to anyone.

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Just like how I see possession, switching is less about the tupper doing things and more of a thing host has to learn. Learning to use the body well, yeah, that takes effort from the tupper, but the host's job is to not get in the way so tupper can take control. For some it's really tough to do.

 

You (host) wanna "pass out" and cause a switch like that? Sure. You can do it. Get comfortable with the tupper controlling your body and you'll notice how you don't have to pay much attention to anything, they can do it and you can trust them to do it. You can relax and sit back. Maybe it's even a bit boring if they do things you don't find inteesting. You can relax and get so disconnected that you lose a lot more feeling that possession usually does for us. Instead of things just being numb, you might notice that you're not even feeling your fingers or toes, like they're not there. You can feel even less and soon it's like you feel nothing at all. Sight and hearing seems to be the last one to go, but it too will go. Now you're nothing until you wake up, congratulations.

 

Of course hosts seem to want to switch so they can go on wonderland adventures so that's not exactly helping you get to your goal, unless you somewhere manage to focus on imaginary feelings. But once you start losing it, it just happens. You might not even notice it and then you wake up. I'm not suggesting it to anyone.

 

Koomer: This does not happen when Oguigi is possessing me, But i think it's because she keeps me entertained whenever she is, the things she does while possessing me are very similar to the things i would do if she wasn't. So am guessing the key here is to have your tulpa do things that are different then you would usually do.

 

I guess this is why she can possess me for a week time and i can still maintain my own consciousnesses or awareness.

 

Oguigi wants to learn a faster way of Temporally putting me unconscious.

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Even though it would be easier for you to do it yourself, okay.

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Might want to elaborate further on parrallel processing

Noted; will consider a separate guide in future.

 

Am very interested in learning how to "knock out" my host consciousness

Kai: For clarification, this is a technique I have seen another tulpa use, and I am indeed skeptical as to if this is the best method. I do not use the knock-out method as I find it does not work for me and breaches the trust between the tulpa and the host. I would suggest the bubble-catching method Static has focused her guide on.

I think that knocking your host out isn't that good of an idea [...] I think it's best idea if we don't encourage switching methods that can hurt the host.

Take care of the body when switched. It is, in a very real sense, yours too.

Kai: Basically what Purlox and kerin said. We don't want switching to cause any harm to anyone and the knock-out method should be used with caution.

 

If I appear to be encouraging impractical information then I send my apologies and will gladly remove any information on the knock out method if needed.

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... you want to knock out your host? That is quite possibly the dumbest way I can think of going about this.

 

-.- Fuliam we talked about this in the IRC you told me it was a bad idea, this was before that. oh and and my host also wants to add his input

 

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Koomer: it may be one of the worst way of doing a switch but i'd do it anyway; if Oguigi magically had the ability to do so,

it'll be just like time-traveling. she can knock me out whenever work is being done and bring me back during fun moments.

or if the whole week gonna be crap she can bring me back during the weekends.

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Koomer can get abit despite at time and think of crazy things, he would literally let me do almost anything to him.

While am not really perusing the idea anymore it still interest me; am sure it won't kill him, koomer is a host

he's inherently resistant.

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You're just the laziest person who can't do anything on his own, Koomer.

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What if we want to in a sense simulatanieously control the body, I'd assume that I would have to imagine these bubbles as something else, say the cocpit of a 747, where 2 people fly the plane.

Or even something like playing a 2 player game on a PS2 or Xbox. Yami has an ability that allows the merging of concsiousness between 2 people. meaning that switching may require our consciousness to join. plus if I start to zone out Yami can wake me up if needed.

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Well, as others have said, to me, this is not a complete guide, however, with some concrete wording and proper formatting this could become a guide, otherwise, I believe this should be put into a "tips" section.

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Agreed, and the fact that OP had intentions to elaborate on it based on the criticism given (but has yet to explain more), its current state is a good way to conceptualize "Switching." However, it doesn't really give a series of methods, just a mentality to keep in mind.

 

I would critique, but it doesn't seem OP would be active to consider suggestions from me or other members.

 

So approved for "Tips" section.

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