Does your tulpa influence your behavior?

[MindSeeker]

I hope this thread does not exist yet for it seems like a pretty obvious question. However my forum search hasn't yielded any results, so here it is:

 

Does your tulpa influence your behavior? To specify, I do not mean via possession. I'd like to break the question down into three categories:

 

1. Immediate interactions

For instance, if you want to touch your tulpa, do you raise your arm? Or do you actually speak words, if you want to say anything to them?

 

2. Day to day behavior

Have you picked up or stopped activities, because of the preferences or hobbies of your tulpa? For instance, have you started watching a tv show your tulpa likes, or started listening to music they enjoy? Picked up gardening, because it's a hobby for your tulpa? Or are you cleaning up more than before, because your tulpa likes it more orderly than it used to be?

 

3. Long term plans

Are you planning or have you already changed your career/life plan because of ambitions or aspirations of your tulpa?

 

 

--- My answers ---

 

1. Generally I try not to, for habits like that might slip into everyday behavior and I might end up looking more eccentric than I'd be comfortable with. But lately, I have started using my hands to feel where my tulpa is during forcing, because I find it helps with visualization.

 

2. A big yes. For instance, Star likes to go outside and exercise, while I used to be more of a couch potato. To accomodate her, I started doing walks, and soon enough I found myself getting my bike repaired, going to the gym and the public pool. Frankly, I am astonished how much and how easily I was able to change my day, because of her.

 

3. Not really. When I conceived her personality, I gave her an aspiration that would fit well with the way I see my life going. If she decided to change it later or my plans changed, I think we would discuss it and try to find a compromise.

[Hamcha]

1. I do narrate out loud when driving alone and basically interact with her by moving and speaking when no one is around...

 

2. Big yes here too. Aeris is like my new omnipresent mom when it comes to do things, stuff like "Don't eat that, you'll regret it" or "You're so lazy! Go there and do that already!" are things that happens all the time. She always does it for me and.. she basically is making me more active and less of a lazy person than I used to be.

 

3. Not at all? She doesn't need me to do something I don't do to be able to like, cook or do whatever she likes.. so we don't really interfere one with each other..

[EnEllDee]

Actually funny story, we just had this pop up today.

 

At first it was mimicry; Aurora would sigh in the wonderland, I would sigh IRL.

 

Slowly it became her doing it herself via semi-unintentional possession.

 

I've also adjusted my diet to suit their tastes, but that was out of personal choice.

[NekoiNemo]

1. No.

2. Yes. F.e. she tries (fruitlessly) to make me follow more healthy way of life (like eat daily instead of when my stomach star to hurt reminding me that i forgot to eat for 3-4 days a row...)

3. Yes, Yami often acts like voice of wisdom, suggesting some opinions that i din't considered before.

[nemo345]

1. Immediate interactions

I speak to them when I'm certain I am alone. Sometimes I say a comment or two out loud without thinking to them

 

2. Day to day behavior

Ansaki Has tried (unfortunately Unsuccessfully) to persuade me to help out around the house more, While shade pushes me to read more often. They both push me to be more polite.

 

3. Long term plans

Nothing was affected here, Because just as me, They don't think ahead two much.

[Linkzelda]

I hope this thread does not exist yet for it seems like a pretty obvious question. However my forum search hasn't yielded any results, so here it is:

 

Does your tulpa influence your behavior? To specify, I do not mean via possession. I'd like to break the question down into three categories:

 

1. Immediate interactions

For instance, if you want to touch your tulpa, do you raise your arm? Or do you actually speak words, if you want to say anything to them?

 

I usually just talk things out with them, and they slowly come closer to me. I had it happen when I was imagining myself inside of some love hotel and talking about 1 or 2 things on my mind with Eva. I was sitting on the edge of the bed while she wrapped herself behind my back before I even realized it.

 

As for Ada, I just talk to her the same way, although I did notice the first time I met her on the side of a castle background similar to Resident Evil 4, she purposefully finds ways for me to touch her....like a jumping-off-the-side-of-a-handrail-into-darkness-making-me-have-to-jump-after-her-too-hugging-her-while-wondering-if-we're-doing a-double-suicide-in-a-lucid-dream type of touching.

 

*scratches head* But she did tell me it was just to get me to hug her, thankfully.

 

2. Day to day behavior

Have you picked up or stopped activities, because of the preferences or hobbies of your tulpa? For instance, have you started watching a tv show your tulpa likes, or started listening to music they enjoy? Picked up gardening, because it's a hobby for your tulpa? Or are you cleaning up more than before, because your tulpa likes it more orderly than it used to be?

 

I haven't noticed anything major as yet, but when I was in college, Eva sure did like the Lo Mein Noodle Chicken from an Asian Restaurant I used to go to occasionally. I had probably 2-3 moments where I was ordering by the phone and/or on the site, and Eva would tell me we should get the Lo Mein Noodle Chicken. That gave me a conflict because I liked other food like Sweet and Sour Chicken, General Tsao, and Mongolian Beef. So I would have to end up buying one of what I want and one of what she wanted.

 

It's a good thing the food was Pan-fried, because I would probably gain weight real quick, and having a bicycle as the means of transportation compensated for the double-eating. But when we eat the Lo Mein Noodle Chicken, I swear it's like she was having food sex with it or something.

 

Ada on the other hand, it seems she likes meat, like rib stuff, beats me, I only asked her once, so there's insufficient data for her at the moment.

 

3. Long term plans

Are you planning or have you already changed your career/life plan because of ambitions or aspirations of your tulpa?

 

I haven't really talked to Eva or Ada that much to know what she would like, but just knowing that they're there makes me consider things I could become. Maybe when I build enough money or go to community college during/after my 12-month leave from college, I might go into Psychology or something like that instead of Biochemistry (since I failed miserably with that major).

 

I feel that doing all sorts of things, like being in some kind of Therapeutic work where we use hypnosis (and it's variants) would be more interesting since both Eva and Ada can have some fun in between.

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Overall though, throughout my attempts to just acknowledge their existence and training myself to become more receptive to their voices and such, I feel more at ease than I was before I even knew about tulpa. I reached a pinnacle of realizations with Lucid dreaming and its usefulness, and the concept of Tulpa augmented that. Feels good man.

[Bin]

1. I like (or rather she wants me to) talk out loud to her when I can. She also yawns right before I do, but I think that's a mechanical thing, when I have to yawn it just sort of overwhelms my thought process. So I guess it's a reverse answer to the question.

 

2. We enjoy talking about psychology and philosophy. It's pretty fun. I never really had anyone I could talk to before that could keep up with me, much less someone I could talk to that knew all of my personal thoughts.

 

I don't think I have a 3 lol

[NotQuiteSkeptical]

I'm still only in the really early stages with Crystal, but I thought I'd add my input, since It's something I've considered before.

 

1. Reactions, not really. Sometimes I say things out loud that I meant to say to her in my head but so far it's always been either when I'm on my own or in a position where I can pretend it was relevent. ("Oh, yeah. Of course I was talking to you...")

 

2. Actually yes, I cant bring myself to drink beer any more. It might sound strange, especially since she isnt fully vocal yet (by a long shot) but I get massive negative surges when I do. Not related to the taste or anything. Doesn't apply to other drinks it seems: I'm cool with that.

 

3. Nope. Though with how early I am into the process, this might change.