In what sense are Tulpae real?

[ThunderClap]

There are a few ways to look at it and unfortunately it is very hard

impossible

to prove which one is correct.

 

Some believe, and from the beginning most believed, that tulpas are literally separate consciences inside of your mind. Separate meaning separate from your own. To me, that is a bit of a stretch.

 

Others believe not quite that, but instead that tulpas are illusions of a separate conscience inside your mind. Makes a bit more sense, considering the fact that tulpaforcing is essentially tricking your brain into believing what you are seeing is real. At least, that is what the people who believe this believe.

 

Finally, the last of that popular explanations that I have seen is that the tulpa is just a different personality (DID.) I don't think that this is the case, but there is no saying that it isn't true.

 

 

So, just take your time and choose which one lets you sleep at night. Alternatively, you could not choose one at all.

[yenu]

I once had a long discussion with Graiho about that - she eventually convinced me, that we are essentially equally real, in that we both consist of memories, likes, dislikes, etc.

The only difference is, that my "Me-Persona" usually gets the credit for everything I do, and the others just influence the way I talk - or something.

(Graiho had definitly an impact on my overall personality; she is much more extroverted and I can now be more like that too)

 

Well, back then, I didn't know about the tulpa-community, and I had no idea such things like imposition or switching existed. Which makes the whole thing even more spacy.;)

 

In terms of consciousness itself - well, I think, we share that. It may or may not be countable, that consciousness-thingy. So saying "Each of us has 1 consciousness" doesn't make sense - saying we are both conscious is more like it.

[Guest amber5885]

I'm new and trying to figure this out as well so don't feel bad about being confused and having questions. I think that's why we're all here.

 

I didn't create mine. Toby, he goes by Murphy now came to me when I was a kid as what you would consider a normal everyday imaginary friend but as I got older I began to have less and less control of him.

 

I would ask him to do things with me and he would say no he wanted to do something else, like watch a movie or go outside for a while.

 

I didn't really notice sentience in him until I was older. I got into a relationship with someone an Murphy went away for a while and allowed me to be alone with my boyfriend until my boyfriend became abusive. After this man starte slapping me around I remember feeling Murphy behind me one day and I heard him, like a voice in the back of my head telling me that I wasn't safe.

 

He told me that just because he wasn't there didn't mean he hadn't been watching us and he didn't like what he saw. I took Murphy for a walk and I listened to him explain to me that it was only a matter of time before my boyfriend lost control and really hurt me and told me what I needed to do to get out safely. I remember telling him that I was scared, that I had nowhere I go and he told me that it was okay, he would be there with me.

 

So I did what he told me to do and I got out of there before things got really bad.

 

His voice may have been coming from the back of my mind but he was able to see things that I hadn't yet accepted, he knew what to do to get me out safe and he provided me with a plan I never would have thought of by myself.

 

If that's not sentience I don't know what is.

 

You can call him an imaginary friend, a physical interpretation of my subconscious, whatever you like but to me he's as real as my friends that love ad breath.

[Ashmo]

I feel like Bud is both a part of me a separate at the same time (kind of the norm, right?). Recently his sentience has taken leaps and I'm really starting to see what his true likes and dislikes are. I always left everything up to him developing naturally, so I didn't spend time on traits or personality or anything like that. I wanted him to be a real person, and in order to do that, he needs to develop the same way a real person would.

 

Honestly I think tuppers are a split from the subconscious. Yes, they are real people. They are sentient, sapient beings within the confines of our own minds. Or at least they become that with the proper nurturing and attention. I believe tuppers are somewhat as a bridge in our minds between what we have access to (our conscious thought) and the things that lurk deeper (our subconscious). It doesn't mean that they should be used as tools, or that what they think and feel doesn't matter, but once someone goes to the length to create a tulpa and maintains them, I think they gain both a friend and asset to their own mind.