Can't hear your tulpas?

[Avalanche]

Won't make a difference genius.

Unless we are talking about the form, then they just wouldn't see anything. I would even wager newly blinded people (who once saw) can't imagine things anymore, at least after a while after going blind. You stop doing something for long enough, it becomes impossible to imagine, or at least far harder.

 

Blind from birth people "imagine" in sound. The picture they build of their surroundings by hearing is what they can imagine, I would say.

[Sands]

I guess you could also try having them write or draw or just show mental images or something. Sometimes that will end up being difficult too, I know shit at first was blurry as fuck but got better with time.

[Chaike]

You could also go with what Athena and I just started using: RPG-esque text boxes (http://www.retrogamer3.ca/Images/Video%20games%20Text%20box.png ).

 

It's not terribly difficult to see them, unless you're completely hopeless at visualization.

[Avalanche]

I would say that works just the same. It's actual words being seen by the host, but that's essentially the same thing as hand movements being seen by the host. They share the same meaning and would be equally as difficult or easy to see.

[Chaike]

The only major difference would be that one process requires you to learn sign language (or create your own sign language), whereas the other uses a form of communication that you already know.

 

But regardless, I suppose that it'd ultimately come down to host preference.

[Avalanche]

Actual letters and words are generally much much harder (possibly one of the hardest things) to visualise than body parts. So that's a plus point for sign.

[Chaike]

Like I said, it's ultimately up to the host. If you can visualize words and letters easily, then that'd be the best option. But if you're better at visualizing movement and gestures, or if you just prefer it, then sign language is the way to go.

[Avalanche]

I might give it a shot. Learn the alphabet, try seeing it.

 

Might end up being easier than hearing the damn things.

[Bacn]

Bacn would imagine that learning to communicate through any medium is just as difficult and as time-consuming as the last.

 

Also, does nobody ever just communicate via emotions or abstract thought?

[Lacquer]

Also, does nobody ever just communicate via emotions or abstract thought?

 

Some call this "tulpish" (raw thoughts/emotions), and many people use this to communicate, even when the tulpa is entirely sapient and vocal.

 

Bacn would imagine that learning to communicate through any medium is just as difficult and as time-consuming as the last.

 

Please don't talk in third person like that, it gets really annoying really quickly.