Can tulpas create feedback for senses that don't work anymore?

[Guest Anonymous]

My idea is this: Lets say that I cannot smell anything due to the nerves between my nose and my brain are somehow severed. If I made a tulpa, could I still smell them, as they exist in my brain? I personally don't see why it might not be possible. Imposition allows you to feel them, but since they don't physically exist, it is somehow creating feeling in your hands.

[QB2]

Well if you have no idea how to conceptualize scent, because you've never experienced it in your entire life, you might experience problems...

Also go force Jimmy.

[Enoch327]

I won't say it would be impossible, but I am very dubious. The first egregores were "watchers" sent to gather information. They brought back reports, not images. I have also heard stories about amputees who develop psychic arms to replace the ones they lost. Once again stories are not proof. However, I will say that it smells like a worthy line of exploration. So do some research and let us know.

[motorheadlk]

Yes, you can, since smell is basically tasting the air. You just have to think of the taste of your tulpa and impose it, in a way that you can taste it with your nose. That will be like smelling them.

[412]

It depends. If you never had the ability in the first place , i don't think so. If you lost it however some time later in your life , i don't see why not.

[Kiahdaj]

Well if you have no idea how to conceptualize scent, because you've never experienced it in your entire life, you might experience problems...

Also go force Jimmy.

 

All of this.

But if you lost your smell after having had it for some time, then yes, you would be able to smell them just fine.

[Rythym Flow]

This thread is Relevent to my interest...

 

I have about 4/20 vision 12/20 corrected and my vision is, and will continue to get worse if I don't do something about it...

 

My friends have suggested new-agey Reiki and crystals and crap, I'd rather just burn the money and swallow a bag of skittles with "Magic Eye Medicine" written on the side, but nothing is outside the possibility of the mind (says the guy with a Rabbit and an Alien living in his head).

 

Part of the reason for my eyes getting worse is that my brain is starting to adjust to my poor sight and even if I was to go into surgery tomorrow there is no guarantee that it would increase my sight at all my brain has just accepted that I can't see and isn't trying to anymore.

 

Could I use visualization to re-train or trick my brain into thinking that my eyes work better so that I could at least consider surgery?

[waffles]

As many have said before, it would seem likely that those who have never had a particular sense could not hallucinate it, having no conception of it. That said, there are perhaps certain sights or smells that are ingrained into the human psyche for survival purposes that need to learning to know of - these could be hallucinated anyway if they existed.

If the subject has lost a sense, then they woul probably be able to hallucinate anything that they could conceptualise (because, of course, tulpas making you experience things would only ever be hallucination, and internal).

 

In response to Rhythm Flow up there, I really don't understand the question. How does your brain adjusting to your poor sight decrease the chance of surgical success?

[motorheadlk]

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SERIOUSLY. Smell is taste, but weaker. You are tasting the air when you smell something. Even if you never felt any scent in your life, you can still imagine what it is by conceptualizing what taste is, and reproducing it through imposition. There is no need to have the sense of smell or to have ever had it, since if you have the sense of taste, it's basically the same.

[Kiahdaj]

Guys

 

Guys...

 

 

Guise listen

 

listen...

listen guise

guise listen

 

guise what if

guuys listen

SERIOUSLY. Smell is taste, but weaker. You are tasting the air when you smell something. Even if you never felt any scent in your life, you can still imagine what it is by conceptualizing what taste is, and reproducing it through imposition. There is no need to have the sense of smell or to have ever had it, since if you have the sense of taste, it's basically the same.

 

It doesn't quite work like that.

After all, things often taste nothing like they smell.

I'm sure someone who was born unable to taste, would not be able to accurately conceptualize the sense of taste, even if their nose is in full, working condition.