I do believe that you can create this 'friend' and talk to them in your mind, but, being able to let them control your body? nono. You're the one making this tulpa, so you're the one controlling it. Well, your brain is anyway.
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Originally Posted by isaac
Your imaginary friend thing at 10 sounds about the same as a tulpa. I find it odd you stopped though. Were the imaginary friends personally attatched to you? Or were they just characters in a fantasy world? How was it unhealthy?
I'm not lonely. I'm actually quite an introvert and usually I have a surplus of people I'm obligated to talk to. I feel drained if I talk to too many people for too long. A tulpa relationship is different from a human one though. We're more of the same person, or at least we share the same body, so it's different.
yes. the imaginary friends were at most times personal, but also displayed certain characteristics in their personality. at times i felt like they reflected specific people from the reality, though it weren't my intentions to do that. the 'schizophrenic' part kicked in when i started to develop their personalities. i wanted them to be unique, so it didn't feel like i was talking to myself. by the time i was about 13/14, i had become accustomed to each character. i could talk to them with little effort, though conversations would be generally short-lived.
when i got into high school i realized that i had spent too much time developing my character's personalities instead of my own. all the seclusion made it difficult for me to talk to people, since they weren't like me. and that's how i get to the unhealthy point. the number of my visits to 'the world' started to diminish, so i could focus on other things.
you say you're 18, so you must have created your character when you were 16/17. that's around the time when I stopped with my imaginary characters.
also, people's reactions to this discussion aren't surprising, but it would be nice if future posts could be productive or relevant to the topic.
Originally Posted by Rumour
that would be you solving the math
what
"you're not the one moving it"
yeeeeeaaaaaaaa, uh, it is the actual person moving it
I don't think you quite get it brotha. Think of it like a placebo. Tp YOU it legitimately feels like a different person moving your body. You also don't put any effort into the math, the tulpa tells you the answer. I don't know exactly how it works, the brain is an amazing thing, but I feel it's probably similar to the placebo effect. In which case it's the end result that matters, not the process.
Originally Posted by Skylarrr
I do believe that you can create this 'friend' and talk to them in your mind, but, being able to let them control your body? nono. You're the one making this tulpa, so you're the one controlling it. Well, your brain is anyway.
It works though. You'd have to experience it to truly understand maybe.
Originally Posted by MintCat
yes. the imaginary friends were at most times personal, but also displayed certain characteristics in their personality. at times i felt like they reflected specific people from the reality, though it weren't my intentions to do that. the 'schizophrenic' part kicked in when i started to develop their personalities. i wanted them to be unique, so it didn't feel like i was talking to myself. by the time i was about 13/14, i had become accustomed to each character. i could talk to them with little effort, though conversations would be generally short-lived.
when i got into high school i realized that i had spent too much time developing my character's personalities instead of my own. all the seclusion made it difficult for me to talk to people, since they weren't like me. and that's how i get to the unhealthy point. the number of my visits to 'the world' started to diminish, so i could focus on other things.
you say you're 18, so you must have created your character when you were 16/17. that's around the time when I stopped with my imaginary characters.
also, people's reactions to this discussion aren't surprising, but it would be nice if future posts could be productive or relevant to the topic.
Yeah I was 17 when I started. It hasn't affected me negatively in any way so far but I didn't make her in order to avoid real people or anything. Just as a neat experiment of sorts.
I honestly didn't expect this much back lash. Having a tulpa for so long may have desensitized me lol. I prefer the harsh reactions as opposed to the thread being locked though.
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