Cinemaphobe's Tulpa Journal Concept

[Cinemaphobe]

 

When one creates a tulpa and a wonderland, they occasionally find themselves forgetting important but small details. The bigger the wonderland, the easier it is to overlook, or completely forget about a location or experience within it. The longer you have been tulpaforcing, the easier it is to forget about an important event in your tulpa's development. The more techniques you have tried, the easier it is to forget which one was the most effective for you.

Sure you can just re-read your PR if you want to recount your experiences, but if you have been using your PR for a long time, then you'll have to sort through hundreds of your own posts (and sometimes the posts of others) to recall important events.

I have found that to be an inconvenient method to recall experiences, so I got into the habit of documenting important events of my tulpa journey in a notebook/journal/diary (Whatever you want to call it). You can also do this virtually as well, but I personally prefer good ole' paper because paper doesn't require electricity.

 

 

The tulpa journal is used to document all things pertaining to your tulpa, your tulpaforcing methods, and your wonderland. The purpose of having this journal is to supplement your PR, but it can also be used exclusively if you wish to do so. This is more of a better and/or different way to organize a PR. Below, is a list of all things you'd possibly want to remember, and you can include these things as chapters in your tulpa journal:

 

 

Things to write down for quick and convenient recollection.

 

 

 

 

1. Information about your tulpa: Their name, personality traits (optional), appearance, what they like to do, basically anything about who they are. This is probably going to be the shortest part of the journal.

 

 

2. Information about your wonderland: Write down all locations, and all characteristics of the locations as well as what they are used for. Writing down the locations lets you expand your wonderland without forgetting about other locations over time. You can also document strictly wonderland-related anecdotes here.

 

 

3. Create separate chapters including but not limited to: Visualization, Imposition, Narration, Forcing, Possession, Switching, and Focus & Concentration. If you use paper, then make sure that each chapter has an adequate amount of blank pages for long-term usage. Of course not everyone is interested in all of the subjects mentioned, so you are more than free to exclude or include whatever. Within these chapters, you'll list what techniques benefit you for the purpose of remembering to practice them in the future, and you'll write down events relevant to the aforementioned categories. Be sure to keep the events short and sweet.

 

 

 

4. Within this chapter, you'll be documenting interactions with your tulpa, so you can call it whatever you want. If you are new to the tulpa phenomenon, then write down every sign your tulpa has given you that it exists. If you have a more developed tulpa, then write down quotes of what your tulpa has said, and/or any experiences/interactions you want to remember with your tulpa. Feel free to write down anything as long as it is relevant to what your tulpa has done or said to you.

 

 

 

 

5. If you still have plenty of room, then the rest of the journal can be used for anything! Artwork of your tulpa or wonderland, conversations between you and your tulpa, the results of experiments or studies, anything! Be creative for this one! Hell, you can even use the rest of it as a dream journal. The possibilities are endless.

 

 

 

Now I have to address some thoughts that are possibly running through your mind:

 

 

What is the point in starting a tulpa journal?

 

Organization, and recollection.

 

What happens if someone who doesn't know about the tulpa phenomenon or looks upon the tulpa phenomenon negatively finds my tulpa journal?

 

Well keeping secrets isn't a good thing, but the tulpa phenomenon is something that some people wouldn't exactly want to make public, unless perhaps you are a Tibetan monk. If you live with others and you need to keep your journal a secret, then make it virtual. Microsoft word, iPod notes, online document services, anything as long as it can be protected by a password/passcode. If you don't need to keep it a secret, or you prefer good ole' notebooks then use a notebook like I do.

 

 

 

 

 

Final note: I believe that a tulpa journal would benefit those who strive to create tulpas because it gives people the ability to remember more things, and quickly recall them. Not to mention that organization is a useful tool for accomplishing a seemingly impossible task. I also believe that having things documented about your tulpa, and creating the journal itself is an action that makes your friendship with your tulpa more intimate. How, you may ask? Because you are taking the time to make a journal for your beloved tulpa.

 

~Thank you.

 

 

Edited July 10, 2021 by Ranger
I resized TNR font to be a little bit bigger, I didn't change the font to respect the OP's design choice.

[sushi]

Personally, I think this whole fiasco is ridiculous. Like more ridiculous than tulpae/tulpas. Cinemaphobe could take less than two minutes to change the font, but looking back over the responses it seems like the majority of the GAT who has responded actually approves this as is, so it might not be necessary.

 

I don't see why the font is even an issue. It's not like he's using font size 6, or font size 60. I've been able to read this on my laptop and on my phone. I use the default themes for both, meaning that the site has a dark gray background on my laptop, and a white background on my phone, and the font size and color hasn't hurt my eyes on either.

 

I've always liked Cinemaphobe and I'd hate to see him leave our community over something as silly as this.

[Guest amber5885]

I agree I have no issues seeing, reading or understanding this submission on my phone or laptop and I also would like to note that this issue regarding guides being overly criticized has been brought to attention numerous times.

 

I'm not going to beat a dead horse but people don't submit guides very often and when they do, a lot end up leaving the community. I'd say that that's worth looking into and maybe trying to figure out what can be done to resolve that issue.

 

I like this idea, I think it was straight forward and well written and I have no issues with formatting or font on any platform I use.

 

If the OP comes back, I'd like it if he didn't leave over this. He has some good insight and I consider him a friend as well.

[Actinium]

Yeah. He's a pretty good guy, but the whole font argument is just plain ridiculous. He couldn't have left for nearly a year because of this, right?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Right?

[Sands]

GAT doesn't just rate the content of a guide. While the presentation is usually rather low on the list and it rarely is a reason to disapprove a guide, sometimes it just makes a guide plain unreadable in which case it would be more than justified. We also have to give feedback on things we might think are issues, as we are trying to all work together to make the guides helpful and easy to read. This includes choices on words or sentences we think don't convey the meaning all too well, or something we get because we know what they're talking about but something that a newcomer would have trouble understanding. And of course, it includes those little things like fonts, colors and sizes as well. These little things can make it or break it. I would be lying if I said that a site that had too big or small text and poor colors didn't just make me hit back as soon as I saw it without even attempting to read it.

 

It's a very common pet peeve. I see people complain about those things very often on forums that rate other forums and such. It is bad enough to make people want to stop trying to read because it's an eyesore and a bother. I wouldn't have read this if I didn't have to. If I bothered, I could have written a comment like "this text is ridiculously large and I don't want to read it", which easily could have led to this very same situation happening. And the thing is, the text isn't just gigantic. I have to zoom out to read it comfortably - but then the small text in the very same guide becomes to tiny it's very difficult to read! That forces me to zoom in and out constantly, which is a huge bother. You enjoyed the large text on your cellphone, Sushi, because you could read it from far away unlike the normal text on these forums. But what about the tiny text? Didn't it force you to bring it even closer than normal because it's smaller?

 

That is an issue. It's a bother. It's annoying. These little things can just break it for people, which is why we're here to help the authors to fix these issues so silly little things don't stop others from reading it. Because when it comes to the presentation, the ball is in the author's court - and our job is to help them. We're trying to make these things readable for the majority, not just you or me or the author or his or her friends. Even those outside our community, as guides can be the first things a newcomer reads. Once you start doing unique things, you need to know how much you can get away with without turning others away. You could scream SHUT UP THIS IS MY WAY AND IT'S GOOD, sure. But doesn't stop others from taking one look and turning away, which is a bad thing if you want them to read.

 

 

And .info is not a hugbox. We're not trying to be a hugbox and we don't want to be a hugbox. We have been fighting for the ability to say our opinions and honest thoughts, because we enjoy a thing called freedom of speech. It means you will present your ideas and others will possibly rip it apart because they disagree and you have to deal with that. That's life, that's critical thinking. .info isn't here to protect everyone's precious feefees, as then it becomes a hugbox where you're only allowed to compliment everything and everyone.

 

If a person is so sensitive that they can't handle it, it's probably better for them to leave for their own mental health. If it causes them stress and makes them feel bad, why stay? Why should we force these people to stay if they will just be miserable unless we censor ourselves? That's not what a healthy, sceptical community does. If a person is happier if they leave, then hey, that's a good thing. One day they will have to grow a thicker skin and we're here to help them do so, if they ever decide to come back. Or maybe they will come back once they have grown a thicker skin somewhere else. The internet isn't a hugbox either, even if some sites are hugboxier than others. You will always run into someone who doesn't agree. Maybe these people leave every single site until they can handle it. If it's the only way they think they can cope with it, can't blame them.

 

Because let's be honest here. The things that have been said here would have been eventually said by someone else, in every single case where someone quits something forever. Someone's going to do it. You can blame one group of people because they're doing it as it's their job, but if said group didn't exist, it would be done by random people. Who would you blame then?

 

Sometimes, the only thing to blame is thin skin and sensitivity. You can only grow out of it by experiencing the things that you think hurt you. They don't, in reality. It just might take you a while to realize that.