Have you told your parents?

[Guest Anonymous]

I've told my parents about tulpalamas (as of late) and... rather I told my mother, and she was more worried about my mental health, which is understandable. Eventually, I'd tell her about Snow and Celicia, but more when they weren't so much worried about my mental state.

[PsychoticDoc]

As neat as it would be to tell my mom and step-dad about Amelia and have them interact, I would be worried because they know about my history of depression and all of that, meaning they could toss me back to my therapist(even though I can easily one-up her in psychological warfare). But then again, neither of my parents are that familiar with stuff dealing with tulpa(hallucinations, schizophrenia or anything similar) so, maybe if my girlfriend and her tulpa backed my up I could. Eh, I'm just gonna wait and see.

[Merman]

I wouldn't even tell them about it at all. My mother is an old school catholic, and If I told her about my Fennel she would say that it's the devil and that I need to go to church or something..that, or she would assume I'm pulling her leg and just tell me to do the dishes.

[Mexter]

After the fact that I told my parents about me Creating a tulpa(As I haven't done that yet), they thought I was insane. Basically after about a day, I ended up telling them I gave up. Only to get them off my back about that... xD

[Linkzelda]

I would never utter the word tulpa to them, with how people in my life and family members in general are with being narrow-minded in all sorts of things and think linearly. To me, unless this tulpa experience gets mainstream and can be taken a bit more seriously after the backlash it'll get initially, I'm keeping this all to myself and this community. The concept behind tulpa is just one where I don't feel an obligation or seeking validation of acceptance from others if I admit I'm into the experience.

 

10, 20, 30 years from now, those same people will be gone, and I will have nothing except my faith in tulpa (hopefully I'll find some way to balance them with my daily life by then) and the totality of my mind and everything I want to feel is true to me in terms of experiential truth. Having a sense of privacy within my mind and being able to collaborate with brain-friends/thought-forms/tulpae in my mind, and all of the things I can do together with them, I don't need to tell anyone in my life about it.

 

Maybe in terms of saying "Hey, there's this concept called Tulpa, and it was .....Tibetan Buddhist....so and so...," but never to my parents or even my fodder friends. I told the concept of tulpa to my closest friends, and ironically, she had a tulpa before she knew about them.

[Hornets]

My parents already shame me for having gay/transgendered friends, and claim I'm not normal either. I really couldn't tell them.

[Zer0.iNSaNiTY]

I sorta joked about it with my family that i 'have voices in my head'. Didn't mention tulpa, but basically said that i hear voices in my head as thoughts (saying the reason's just cuz im more audio inclined) and that sometimes one of them tells me to eat better XD (not a lie there lol).

 

They spent the rest of the day going "who's talking to you now?" and "what are they saying?" ^^; Pretty sure they thought it was joke or just normal (cuz people have voices in their head, just no sentient ones). Also pretty much forgot about it now.

[left blank]

I think I'm the minority here, what with being in my thirties, having deceased parents, and apparently differing significantly in my 'tulpa' experience.

 

But if I were a minor, I wouldn't have kept an 'imaginary friend' secret from my parents; they were encouraging, semi-hippie intellectuals who possessed a deep well of curiosity. In fact, they—or at least my mom—might well have participated in some way.

 

When I tell any of my maternal family about my 'phantom phenomenon,' their reactions range from mild curiosity to sympathetic nods. It's easy to understand where my propensity for the 'tulpa' phenomenon originated.

 

It's not a secret for me; it's an undeniable facet of who I am on a regular basis. I'm an otherwise respectable citizen, so I'm not terribly concerned with the social implications.

 

"My friend helps me understand

Attention to self is the key

For life's within and not without

But you knew this intuitively

 

But child, beware of parents' care

They'll convince you that you've lost your mind

They only believe what they can see

As you cry for the spiritually blind

 

Imaginary friend

My imaginary friend"

 

 

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[Angus and Alexis]

Told my parents (and every good friend) by the third day of forcing.

 

*protip*

Educate them.

[Vickluvsya]

Absolutely not! A history of mental illness runs in my family and while I know tulpa forcing has nothing to do with that, they will think I'm insane. I found out that I have Aspergers and I haven't told them that either. I cannot be locked away in some asylum because they think I'm loony.