Research on internal monologue

[Guest nach_in]

So I stumbled upon this article: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-07/afps-iss071513.php

 

Basically it says that internal monologue is linked to Corollary Discharge, a preview of what we're about to do our brains make so we don't get surprised by our own actions.

 

So... could this be related to tulpas? you think we're suppressing our corollary discharge? or there's something more going on?

 

 

Discuss!! :D

[Dr. Faust]

I don't think we'd be suppressing our "inner-voice". Perhaps we'd be duplicating it at best and perhaps making it more independent of ourselves.

 

I know that right now, when I talk to Justine, she takes the place of my inner voice and tells me things I'd normally tell myself. I have her tell me to clean my room, help me plan things, and be a bit of a "personal manager."

 

I'm sure that this only further develops my inner voice rather than suppressing it though (in my own humble opinion as a non-psychologist/psychiatrist/scientist/researcher)

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(This is also known as the efference copy.)

 

Since creating a so-called 'tulpa' requires dissociation of self — specifically, the subconscious — it seems totally plausible to me that corollary discharge would be processed differently. If you've ever encountered a clearly rendered person or entity in a dream, then you've experienced this phenomenon firsthand.

 

In the case of psychosis, the areas of the brain responsible for mediating efferent and centripetal perception are intact, but apparently severely discomposed and disconnected.

 

I believe a 'tulpa' to be an inverse dream manifestation. So, in the absence of frank psychosis, I would surmise that the method by which most members of this forum dissociate their inner psyches to produce a customized copy of their 'dream self' is an exercise in willfully dividing, rather than suppressing, their brain's processes.

[Guest nach_in]

fancy answer... I like it :D

[glitchthe3rd]

I prefer to think of a tulpa as being more closely related to inner dialogue. In other words, the efference copy is being duplicated rather than suppressed. This might explain why a tulpa can learn to effectively control the body during possession, but they might be clumsy or inefficient at it starting out.