So...I took the time to research what you're talking about it here, I've been looking at guides, forum posts and the like for the past couple hours. I think I might try this. Why? Well, I get bored a lot, and whenever my life gets dull and I have nothing to do I attempt to learn new skills and try new stuff that will richen my life. Some examples include teaching myself script handwriting (i forgot since grade school), teaching myself to draw, experimenting with the culinary arts, etc. That and I have a lot of spare time which can be allotted to this sort of thing. I'm also very introverted. I live inside of my own head, always thinking, visualizing, wondering, etc. Moreover, I get lonely sometimes, don't we all? I think it'd be awesome to have a companion who was always there with you and you could share everything with, even if you're all by yourself. So, contrary to my previous joking post on here (which in hindsight was probably in bad taste) I think I'm going to give this an honest try and see what comes of it. I will admit I'm doubtful that anything will come of it, and I'm still under the impression that anyone who says they have a sentient, fleshed out tulpa is a nut. But what the heck, can't hurt to try right?
Good thing I've got a pretty good headstart on this thing, as I've been doing things similar to this for years, though I doubt it will fully matter in the end.
Hmm, well right now I'm thinking of a personality and traits. This is something I've always had trouble with when creating characters with drawing. I'm good at visualizing stuff, not so good when it comes to giving characters a personalities and different sets of traits, then keeping those traits consistent in my head for that particular character. I think visualizing the form will be much easier for me. I'm finding it hard to even think up specific traits and how they will affect its personality, emotions, reactions and thought process. I suppose I'll go look up different personalities and their respective traits and write down a set that I like, then work more specifically from there until I have the personality layed out. Then I suppose I'll start forcing and whatnot. I suppose having experience roleplaying or having an imaginary friend when you were little would help a lot with this. I never did. I visualize stuff a lot and talk to myself, but never tried creating a sentient being to interact with. I guess we'll just see how it goes.
I just did my first (almost) full hour of tulpaforcing. The start is always rocky. But after a while I get more concentrated, and narrating goes easier and more fluently. After some time in I often get this fuzzy warm feeling of connection. I read in one of the guides that once you get a feel of any kind it's a good sign, and you should built further on it. So, yay! I wonder if it's going to be hard to keep tulpaforcing when school starts, with all it's stress and shenanigans. I still plan to take an hour every evening for it.
Well, I've read you shouldn't do more than 3 hours a day because it'll drain your energy too much. So I guess 1 hour a day is absolutely fine.
They say you should do a minimum of 30 minutes of tulpaforcing a day, a maximum of 3 hours. But more important than forcing is giving them attention, ie talking to them or at least thinking about them. They are the result of a psychological process, so thinking about them makes them appear, and ignoring them after awhile will make them disappear. More or less. I'm still working on getting my tulpa's personality and traits worked out, I have a general idea of what she'll be like but there is still much more planning to do, and intricacies in personality, rationalization, logic, likes/dislikes, hobbies, world view, self-image, etc to be worked out. I want the foundation for her personality laid out as much as I can before I even begin forcing. At the same time, I'm trying not to be too specific. I want to leave enough wiggle room for deviation. I've also already done the greeting stage, meaning I acknowledged her existence, said hello and stated that we were about to embark on a journey together to make her exist and be sentient, etc. I've read this helps. However I haven't thought of a name for her yet, but I have taken to imagining that she is with me at all times, not a form or anything, just that there is another consciousness there. When I start forcing her personality, which will be soon I hope, I guess I'll have to think of a name, if only to have something to focus on and make her more "real." I suppose if she doesn't like it she can always change it later. I'll let you know how it's going from time to time. Oh and good luck to everyone else who is attempting this.
This sounds interesting. I do believe I've been Tulpa-ing (is that even a word?) since I was very young. Made my parents very nervous, but it helped me figure out lots of things in life. Maybe I'll revive this old ability of mine.
Hmm, I was trying to map out my tulpas personality, then start forcing. But I started overanalyzing it, got stressed, and my brain scrambled itself. So, I got some advice from the tulpa.info forums and now have a different perspective on the whole thing, as well as a different approach. Instead of trying to "create" a tulpa, I'm going to approach it like I'm getting to know a friend, sort of. I'm going in with the viewpoint that my tulpa is sentient already, but needs attention and ideas/suggestions to come to fruition, so to speak. I've already got a fairly good idea of her personality (or what I want her personality to be) so I'm just gonna start narrating/forcing. Yup.
Yup, as always, I went and made a mess of things, hopefully this new approach works for me better. I went out for a walk today, and narrated the whole time while imagining my tulpa next to me. No form or anything, just another consciousness. It was really awkward at first, I felt really self-conscious and silly, but it got easier the more I did it. I just explained to her that we'll be doing this together to try to make her real, described kinda how we would do it, and talked a bit about her personality and our future forcing sessions, then talked a bit about what we could do together in the future, after she can talk and/or is imposed, etc. I also made sure to tell her I believe in her, that she is sentient, and that even though she couldn't talk yet or anything that I know she is listening and understanding, and that counts for something. Haven't done any forcing sessions yet, but I plan on starting that soon, right now I'm downloading some of Fede's tones, to help me focus and meditate or whatever during forcing. Still haven't thought up a name for her yet though, I'm kinda leaving that open for later. I assume it'll either come to me or she'll just choose it when she can talk. *shrug* Oh ya, I made a forum account on tulpa.info btw, my username is Frosty. Big surprise right? So if any of you are on there, feel free to hit me up. I think I've already seen an EPN member on there, the username and writing style seems very familiar, but not sure. I won't say who I think it is though, in case they don't want it known, I'm nice like that. Anywho...ya. I might start keeping a progress report on there, not sure yet. I think I might wait until I make at least a tiny bit of progress before doing so.
eeeeeeeh, are you talkig about conscience? I don´t know you guys but I talk with my conscience all the time.
