Tulpa acting out of character?

[HackofAllTrades]

How do you react when your tulpa seems to be acting out of character? As is they do or say something they would never do? I don't know if its something I'm supposed to take as a valid response or to toss off as an intrusive thought conjured up by me unconsciously going through possible reactions to a given situation.

 

Example being that I have gotten several clear responses lately, but the problem is they aren't consistent. Sometimes responses are two extremes at once (sort of like a simultaneous yes/no), other times she has acted like a total bitch, against her normal demeanor, or at least from what I can gather from previous responses and what I designed her to be.

 

Secondary question, when your tulpa became vocal, did it feel like it was aggressive, at least more than it would turn out to be in the future?

[glitchthe3rd]

>tulpa acting like a bitch sometimes

 

Yeah, you'll have that. As for her acting out of character a lot, I'd say she's trying to find herself. Best not to worry about it too much.

[HackofAllTrades]

Possibly. I know that the general rule of thumb is to accept every response, good or bad, as one generated by the tulpa. But I have a hard time believing that some of these are her words and ideas and not my mind being stupid and giving me random things that express how I subconsciously think she she react (in which many times I know I am completely off the mark because during the "real" responses the personality has been more or less consistent). Which could go either way, depending on what you believe is a valid response. I just say this because I've had some distinctly "Her" responses that feel like I'm actually talking to her.

 

These only happen when I'm least expecting it, it seems that when i reach for answers or ask her questions she is either silent or my mind tries to make a response that is wildly inaccurate to what I've come to understand as her personality. What I'm getting at is, do you believe that intrusive thoughts that do not contribute to the process or seem to contradict previous understandings are valid?

[Guest Anonymous]

Don't think about it. Just let her do what she wants, and you're absolutely good. Let her be herself. Deviation from what you expect is natural.

[HackofAllTrades]

Oh well I expected deviation. In fact, I embraced it. I've already had significant deviation from the beginning, where to start she was going to be rather introverted and passive. Now her personality is quite the opposite. But the only problem I can't ignore is that of the what seems like extremely out of character thoughts. Many times when I ask a question, she does answer as well as she can, but when asked about the outbursts, no truthful answer is reached on whether or not its an intrusive thought or her being outrageous for no reason. I figure it could be either, or maybe an intrusive thought, sort of like a pink elephant, that influences her to make these strange thoughts.

 

Imagine you didn't have a tulpa that was always saying things in your head, and some one tells you something. You suddenly have a thought that seems like it should never cross your mind and certainly would never be said aloud. Its not something your personality would allow to be associated with it, so it seems like an incredibly alien thought. Problem is they still happen, and are quite frustrating when trying to discern among the chaos of my thoughts the true personality of my tulpa.

[TulpaCouple]

Eh, it depends on the timeframe on what I did about out of character actions.

 

Early on I believed all the out of character stuff was intrusive thoughts--Because I knew his personality and I knew that he wouldn't do that. A bit like your friend texting you something she never would and you thinking 'hmm, I think someone else took her phone'. Jaden is glad for this because I didn't build upon him the expectation for him to act like a monster or the fear that he would change into a bad personality or whatever. Now when he seems to act out of character I just ask and he'll answer whether it was him or not, and if so why he did that. Usually it's when he got caught up in my emotions and just acted out and said something silly.

 

But of course, when I say acting out of character, I'm not talking about something small like being a little more hyper or liking books when he wasn't supposed to, I mean creepypasta quality things that would obviously never happen.

[Koji]

Sometimes responses are two extremes at once (sort of like a simultaneous yes/no)

Doublethink up in this bizzle.

 

And to your questions, I would try to understand why they are acting so out of character, possibly with a straight out "why are you acting like this?" But in my mind, that seems a little blunt. A better way might to observe when something/what triggers. Once you figure out the trigger, you can do whatever feels right to you. One thing that could be doing it is that she simply wants to exist, and she does so by being more aggressive than usual, bringing your attention to her.

[HackofAllTrades]

She tends to remain silent on most questions that are too difficult to answer, or those that would take too long to answer, so asking her whats up wouldn't yield a clear answer. But I really appreciate the advice. The aggressiveness has definitely dissipated quite a bit, maybe it really was just a device to catch my attention (I mean, it worked, didn't it?).

 

Also maybe the intrusive thoughts were just her trying to get the hang of getting my attention using imagery. Lately they've become a bit more relevant and make more sense to the situation.