Sort of newbie questions.

[StrawberryHollow]

So, I started my tulpa March 9th this year, and it stayed strong for a while, but then forcing slowly became scarce and it was more me just narrating. I had to stop because I was going through somethings that I didn't want to expose my tulpa to. I actually changed my views on things and have felt better than before. I want to start again, seeing as I feel that I am ready. Would I have to restart the process (i never got far enough for him to start speaking, and I just barely decided on a form), or sort of 'wake' him up?

 

Also, would it be a bad decision to start two tulpas at once? I have two that i just can't decide on who to start first. I would force with them together, but when 'giving' them their personalities, I would speak directly to who ever the personality is designed for. I realize that this may take longer, but i'm willing to go the distance for even just them speaking to me.

 

And lastly, lucid dreaming and tulpas, anyone have any experience with that?

[Bin]

You can just pick up where you left off. I'm not sure why everyone things you can't. They don't rot or anything they're concepts.

 

New people starting two at once isn't very common and it's hard to say what will happen. But I'd imagine the worst that would happen is just ignoring one. I'd personally go with only one and make another later, because I did that. But do what you want.

[Kaz with a K]

 

i can only answer that last question

 

 

I experienced a lucid dream the other day, after forcing with my Tulupa, if that means anything. I'd recommend against the combo-tulpa, but if you're up for it power to you.

[Linkzelda]

I had Eva for a good amount of months, and then happened to meet Ada along the way in a lucid dream actually. For some reason, I just was enticed with something about her, and although I've had several encounters with her in my dreams (mostly her probably being aggressive at me or her trying to do other weird stuff on me), she did it because she just wanted more attention from me.

 

And whenever anyone is trying to force with two tulpa at once, it definitely can be emotionally taxing, but personally, I think when you find certain exercises that allows you to imagine both at once, or just one at a time, I don't think they'll mind. I think it's best to communicate with them, and focus on the one you created first, and just give the other tulpa the assurance that you're doing your best to acknowledge them as well whenever you gain the mental prowess (and improving on it by finding more ways to learn) to keep them in your awareness.

 

I've also had lucid dreams with Eva in the past before as a dream character/being, though it's kind of iffy on that nowadays because I do have the challenge of confusing prominent and beautiful blonde women with her, and the same with Ada as well with black haired women. I'm trying to let them have their own identity while I'm using a base form for each of them in my tulpaforcing sessions. But it's not really "tulpaforcing" to me anymore, it's just learning how to train myself to be more imaginative, narrate better, visualize them in almost any situation I can think of, and finding new ways to get better at this experience with them.

And as for restarting, just see it as restarting your endeavors with your tulpa, not restarting them or setting them to default/blank state/etc. But if you want to, the choice is yours.

 

Personally, I acknowledge my tulpa's existence of what seems to be a hallucination/a concept/mental construct/etc. at first, and I know I gain more value by the actions, beliefs, and behaviors I have towards acknowledging their sentience, sapience, and many other factors that make them real to me on a personal level. And the more you trust your unconscious mind that stores all of the things you've learned and experienced (but may not have learned automatically) along with its implicit knowledge that's much greater than us consciously trying to conceptualize that, having two tulpa doesn't feel emotionally taxing anymore. The more you practice, the more you find value in what you learned in your attempts, and you get to the level that without a doubt, they will become real to you when you see your unconscious mind as your ally, just my personal opinion though.