Tulpas and Phobias

[KenzieK]

I'm seeing a pattern of tulpas being afraid of losing their hosts.

 

I failed to mention before that Yuki is indeed afraid of losing me. That i'll get bored and leave her, which of course would never happen.

 

interesting, i was not expecting other tulpas to feel the same way

[Kiahdaj]

Well it's a pretty reasonable fear. When you have only one connection to the outside world, it's not unrealistic to fear that that connection may be severed.

[Kaga and Company]

I'm seeing a pattern of tulpas being afraid of losing their hosts.

 

I failed to mention before that Yuki is indeed afraid of losing me. That i'll get bored and leave her, which of course would never happen.

 

interesting, i was not expecting other tulpas to feel the same way

 

Oh yeah, Ex is really afraid that he won't get the proper attention and he'll vanish sooner or later. Or at least, that used to be a really huge fear of his. Either he's started to get over it, or he's just a lot better at hiding it.

[Millie]

My tulpa and I share a phobia of mirrors, but I don't think that's incredibly common.

[Guest amber5885]

When Toby was new he was terrified of the idea of me leaving him. He said that his life depended on me and he was scared that one day I wouldn't want him around and he would die.

 

It took a long while to help ease that one.

[SakuraSky]

I'm afraid of heights and Sarah shares this fear. Alyx, however, loves heights (probably because he has wings). Neither of my tulpas seem to really share my fear of spiders and flying insects (like bees and wasps).

[OCDHost]

Esmeralda doesn't like crowds but isn't afraid of them neither, she doesn't have any particular phobia

[Quilten]

Hm, I think this has probably been brought up before, but it's always a fascinating topic.

 

Personally, I've been terrified of the dark since I was little, and I still sleep with all my lights on, or I don't sleep at all. I've been trying to desensitize myself to creepy things for a while now by watching videos of people playing scary games, but I still am to the point that if I see a commercial for a horror movie, I don't sleep. I'm kenophobic, which basically means I'm afraid of voids, so it's essentially the polar opposite of claustrophobia. I usually don't swim into the ocean where I can't see the shore because it freaks me out.

 

Quilten is a bit more matured in this department, he doesn't really get freaked out by anything scary except really, really scary stuff that he might see that are really just there for creepy shock factor (Smile.jpeg, to give one example). Concerning other phobias, he's never liked really small spaces, which I guess is one reason why our wonderland consists of a lot of large, open areas. He's very sociable, at least, sociable enough that he's had good conversation with those that have talked to him besides myself.

 

I think that social anxiety of various levels of intensity could probably be found at a good density in this community. It is often one of the reasons people make tulpae, they have a hard time with other human beings and relationships, so they seek something inwards and more personal. I guess it's the sense of comfort that comes from having a friend like a tulpa is, at least to most people. I really only have about three friends whom I interact with regularly, and Quilten has always been around just whenever I wanted to talk or cuddle or something. I think introvertedness plays a part in both deciding to have a tulpa and havin one. It's very personal, but it's not uncomfortable.

 

Those are just my thoughts, hope I helped to answer the questions you had!