How To Inform Parents on Tulpas/Informative Information

[Elvode]

I don't really understand why you would tell your parents about your tulpa.

For me it seems like a bad idea, my sister knows however, she have been chatting with him sometimes when she need support but her and this forum are the only people who knows about his existens, if I told my parents they would probably send me to a psychiatric hospital.

But other parents perhaps might be more open minded to the idea of tulpas than mine.

[Guest amber5885]

There have been people who have beenforcedninto therapy or caused jnnecisary conflict within there family by insisting on telling there parents about there tulpas.

 

It's not a good idea because you can be labeled insane, forced into therapy, ostracized or ignored or cause an unnecessary fight by telling someone something they don't need to know.

 

The problem with your theory darkmanish is that most people aren't intelligent out of the box thinkers. Especially parents.

[Linkzelda]

I’m not sure that one’s level of cognition has a significant factor for most circumstances in automatically being so charismatic and influential to where they can strip away people’s concerns over someone’s well-being even if they were presented anecdotes, theories, and things of that nature.

 

For example, something like lucid dreaming is considered a scientifically proven phenomenon, but even if someone that’s had intellectual endeavors with lucid dreaming wouldn’t really utilize it being a scientifically proven phenomenon as their only justification. They would still have to explain to their peers and families over things like escapism, and how one is interacting with imaginary entities in their natural sleep as well, i.e., repercussions and challenges the person may have with lucid dreaming that may require philosophical inquiry. The Science that went behind validating lucid dreaming as something true doesn’t mean people think Science itself is their end-all be-all ethic of living out their day-to-day lifestyle. If that were the case, then Scientism would be everyone's way of living, and anything that doesn't match that may be pishposh.

 

There’s been anecdotes of people taking the lucid dreaming idea with some interest, and those who shun the practice despite there being empirical underpinnings behind proving it’s an actual phenomenon during REM periods and what have you. Do people really think that if empirical foundations were to somehow resonate with tulpas, that it would somehow make people think:

 

“Hey, it’s scientifically proven, and I’ll completely forget about the potential repercussions that may ensue, and forget about my knee-jerk reactions on how a proven phenomenon doesn’t justify that a person can revel so much in the imaginary state of being rather than in this reality. Or rather, trying to integrate both of them for a decent lifestyle.”

 

 

TL;DR:

 

To say the least, with something like lucid dreaming being a scientifically proven phenomenon, it doesn’t mean empirical foundations will strip away everyone’s individual moral and ethical framework on whether or not lucid dreaming can be flourishing for that individual’s day-to-day lifestyle. If they felt the Science behind it was the end-all be-all justification, then something like Scientism would run rampant, which is potentially a whole other dogma to deal with.

 

The foundations may make one feel at ease that it may be a natural thing for everyone, but I hardly think empirical foundations can easily validate if the phenomenon itself would be flourishing for that individual; that would be up for philosophical inquiry instead, and just try to imagine the tulpa phenomenon that has no empirical underpinnings potentially going to the same route.