Tulpa(?) answering before I finish a thought

[Guest Anonymous]

I've been working with my first tupper, Sam, for a bit less than a month. She's able to occasionally cause a single emotion/feeling (hard to describe, not really important anyways) and I'm trying to move us on to speech. I try to ask a simple question, mentally, and I will always get a response (in my own mental voice, of course). The thing is, the answer will almost always come before I'm even done "talking" ("Hey, Sam, do you li- Yeah"). I know that everyone always says that if you're not trying to puppet, then you're not, but my thoughts were somewhat uncontrolled and invasive before I ever had Sam.

Does this happen to anyone else, and can it point to a rare case of unconscious puppeting?

[Gryphon Flight]

Subconscious parroting has been theorized, but is for the most part, not agreed upon. Many (including myself) even believe that tulpa speech in itself is subconscious parroting. I had the issue of my tulpa responding to me before I had finished my statement as well, and it was due to her being able to read my mind. As I had thought out the statement before relaying it to her, she felt no reason to wait until I was finished saying it to her as it was basically like I was repeating myself. I simply asked her to wait until I had finished whatever I was saying before she responded, and she complied, although finding it a bit difficult and awkward.

[Linkzelda]

I’m skeptical about something like subconscious parroting, mostly because the premises behind parroting itself is usually just something of conscious willpower and acknowledgement. When it’s something related to adding a “subconscious” there, it’s probably people worried of there being unconscious parroting due to them probably using methods related to that to have predispositions, or tendencies to formulate a response at times.

 

But this seems to undermine the mind’s capability and set of occurrences that would cause something like that. I personally feel it’s not something that would be all according to my conscious willpower, especially if you have conversations with them for a few hours. Maybe people think that entrenched predispositions (e.g. the desire to have a tulpa and wanting someone to talk to) would be categorized as “subconscious” parroting, but that word “subconscious” has a lot of ambiguity where it could mean anything for any individual.

 

Maybe for laconic responses, we may be able to predict how our tulpa responds, simply because we would be accustomed to that kind of acknowledgement of responses. But if it’s something where it could be an open-ended question that’s more than a few sentences, it is a bit of an overstatement in my opinion to think the conversation is hard determinism based on entrenched predispositions and desires of the host. Maybe there could be determinism implied, though it would be mostly for soft determinism with the probability of making choices within that implied constraint.

 

But to add on to cases on tulpas finishing an answer before we finish, I’ve had the same thing with mine. If it’s something where I probably want to apologize for something, they may usua---

“It’s okay, - insert empathetic speech here-”

 

It can get annoying at times, especially if I may worry at times that I don’t want them to think I’m an asshat towards a topic we’re discussing, but I’ve just grown to accept their responses. Persisting too much on apologizing, or finishing something in this circumstance is kind of like apologizing to a customer for something, or an inconvenience you caused, and they say “it’s alright,” and then you’re still referencing an apology after they’ve forgotten about it already.

 

Mine haven’t really been annoyed if I tried to persist in the apology, they just know I don’t usually like leaving the conversation with lackluster or apathetic intentions.

[LukeDude759]

I actually have a theory about subconscious parroting. What I think is that your tulpa is actually speaking, and the words register in your memory even if you don't hear them. In Layman's terms, subconscious parroting isn't parroting; it's you remembering what your tulpa said. As for speaking before you finish the thought, your tulpa is picking up on what you're thinking about saying to them before you actually say it to them.

[The-Syreth-Clan]

Martina does that ALL THE TIME. I think she does so because she thinks that if she'd wait for me to finish I'd believe it's not her/I'm just parrotting. (She's right, by the way.)

 

It's because you the tulpa already read it off your thoughts before you could even begin to speak, and responded immediately to the thought itself. Try doing the "last letter, first letter" game once, it'll be ridiculously fast. We played it once and as soon as the image of an apple became clear I already got the response image "Elephant!".