Tulpa from dreams?

[Dracky]

I've been working on a tulpa for a couple of months now, and I haven't made much progress to speak of. I talk to her daily, but it mostly just feels like talking to myself and she hasn't shown much in the way of sentience besides a few brief responses that could just as well have been wishful thinking on my part. So I guess out of frustration, or doubt, or some combination of the two I've been talking to her less and less, and I've been on the verge of giving up.

 

Then a couple of nights ago I had a dream. I was in a library of some sort, with books and various documents strewn about, and there was a girl. We talked for a while and a bunch of random dream stuff happened, and she left. When she left, I remember feeling this intense sense of lonliness, mixed with longing. It was like some vital part of me had been taken, and all that was left was this gaping void. It was such an intense sensation that I woke up shortly after.

 

Long story short, I couldn't get the dream off of my mind, so I decided to try to go back to the library like I would my wonderland. It was still there, and so real I could smell the musty books and feel the plush carpet between my toes. She was there, too and she's been here ever since. She feels much more fleshed out and "real" than the tulpa I had been working on, and even has a distinct voice in my head. I feel like I just went from no progress to "ZOMG TULPA" in a few days.

 

Has anything like this happened to anyone else? I'm wondering if this is the tulpa I've been working on all along, and this was just a breakthrough of some sort, or if she's completely new and I somehow forced her into existence in my sleep. I tried asking her, but she just said that she's "always been there in the library" whatever that means.

[Faemon]

Yes. Sometimes, the most effective method is to just get out of your own way!

 

If you got by Jungian psychology, these symbols and complexes are always floating around in our psyches, but we experience them as symbols most clearly in dreams and, I believe, in successful tulpaforcing (or tulpa creation without forcing, as the case is here.)

 

Carl Jung also developed a technique called Active Imagination which is usually conscious visualizations of dreams that a person has had, so as to return to the dreams and better explore them. I think that he had an imaginary friend named Philemon that he found there and would, while awake, walk around in his real-life garden and talk to Philemon.