Accidentally created a Tulpa?

[Lebair]

So this may end up being slightly lengthy. Through out all of my schooling I would have a lot of spare time, and to have something to do, I would make people in my mind. Now they weren't just shallow thoughts, but things fully fleshed out with their own environments for me to interact with them in. This would go on for months, with them taking on their own personalities and such, always happy for me to visit. After a while I'd end up forgetting about them for one reason or another, just to go onto making another when i needed something to do. Is it possible that this has been creating Tulpas in my mind, and that they haven't just disappeared and that they all still live in me? if so, then is there a way to bring them back out? Can they resent me for this?

 

 

 

P.S. May be unrelated but, sometimes while deep in my thoughts, it will either feel like someone is trying to get my attention or I will hear my name being said in my ears. Could this be them?

[FrostedFoxes]

This seems rather familiar to my situation. Through my childhood I would create imaginary friends, and while I don't have much of a benchmark they seemed rather developed for imaginary friends, with personalities and interests of their own. Ultimately, I stopped thinking about all but my very first, Physik. Were they tulpas? Well, I wouldn't know. Personally, I think belief plays a big role into tulpamancy (it's literally all in your head, isn't it?), so from my perspective as I never believed they were tulpas, they never were. But that's just me.

 

If you want to bring them back, I would advise just trying to. Focus on all of their traits and personalities, imagine them before you, and do what you would do normally to create a tulpa from there based on that. To be honest I've never actually "salvaged" any of mine, but I doubt many of yours would resent you for having forgotten them, since you didn't know what you were doing back then and, well, you just revived them! That would deserve some gratitude or forgiveness at the least.

 

Hearing voices? I'm not experienced with that. Maybe try responding, try to make contact with whatever it is? That's all I can think of.

[Guest Anonymous]

Not every imaginary friend is a tulpa. I would say they are probably not. If that were the case, every human being alive could claim to having a tulpa in childhood. I would have had dozens of them. There is nothing wrong with having imaginary friends that were special to you btw. Not everything has to be a tulpa.

 

Do your imaginary people resent you? My gods. Really, my gut feeling is that is a ridiculous thing to worry about. Nobody in your head resents you unless you resent yourself. Let's not start creating anxiety over imaginary people. Just don't spend time on that at all. Worry about real people relationships first please.

 

Do you even want or need a tulpa? If you want a tulpa, start by realizing you probably don't really need one. LOL That makes it easier to not get anxious about it. If your going to find it a source of anxiety I say go do something else.