Was it my tulpa?

[Ghastey]

Greetings!

I've been working on my tulpa for about a month now and I am having this thing that is so confusing to me.

After few days of forcing, I began to hear random words and I don't know whether it is my tulpa or not. I only hear them when I let my thoughts drift a little, so I am thinking it might be just the thing that happens when one is falling asleep. Of course it was a shock when suddenly I've heard some voice saying my name, so I automatically assumed it was my tulpa, but it was so real and vivid.

A few days ago, I have asked her to yell at me, and so she did, but I've only heard her scream in mindvoice, and the things I am describing were auditory hallucinations.

So my question is, am I hearing her or is it just my brain falling asleep?

[arcanemagic]

Now, I'm not sure about this, as it's not actually happened to me, but I tend to be able to hear Markus(my tulpa) better when falling asleep and waking up. I suppose that your tulpas voice could have triggered the auditory hallucination in that half-asleep state. I've had auditory hallucinations(or at least very vivid thoughts) when falling asleep but never Markus' actual voice, but it seems plausible that it could happen. The only problem that I see arising from attributing everything you hear while falling asleep to your tulpa is that I would imagine that it would get difficult to differentiate between your tulpa and stray thoughts, at least while your tulpas voice is similar to your own(assuming that your tulpas voice wasn't different from yours from the start; I've heard that a lot of tulpa voices start out sounding like yours. I know that Markus' did.)