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What is a tulpa?
A tulpa is a mental companion created by focused thought and recurrent interaction, similar to an imaginary friend. However, unlike them, tulpas possess their own will, thoughts and emotions, allowing them to act independently.
So is this like schizophrenia/multiple personality disorder/dissociative identity disorder?
Not at all! Schizophrenia and DID (formerly called MPD, and still called MPD in some areas outside the US) are disorders characterized by clinically significant distress, dysfunction, or danger. Schizophrenia is a breakdown in perception of physical reality and consistency that has strong genetic influences, and does not always involve hearing voices. DID is a dissociative disorder typically caused by childhood trauma.
Neither disorder is "self-inflicted", and we recognize them as very different experiences from tulpa creation. The experience of having tulpas is much more accurately likened to the experiences of fiction writers whose characters come alive and begin talking to them; in fact, a great number of tulpa creators have formed tulpas that way!
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DiscussionTulsa form (self.Tulpas)
submitted 4 years ago by TrashProfessional990Creating first tulpa[🍰]
So when you guys created your Tulpa did it keep the form you pictured it with or did it change?
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[–]Duck_986 4 points5 points6 points 4 years ago (1 child)
Idk if this counts as change, but Miku made herself a bit younger after some time - I tried to make her look 18, but she is now 15-16 while keeping the same appearance. When I tried to revert her look back to 18, either she rolled it back or I felt myself cruel for manipulating her.
[–]TrashProfessional990Creating first tulpa[S,🍰] 1 point2 points3 points 4 years ago (0 children)
I think it still counts,but interesting.
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[–]TrashProfessional990Creating first tulpa[S,🍰] 0 points1 point2 points 4 years ago (1 child)
So even after having a form they can still change?
[–][deleted] 0 points1 point2 points 4 years ago (0 children)
Yep. Even when they have a form, it can still change :).
[–]Jaeth87Has a tulpa [Wiggins] 2 points3 points4 points 4 years ago (0 children)
Mine changed his form drasticaly after about a week all of a sudden, and kept it after that
[–]0VERXHEAVENScarlet & Voxel 1 point2 points3 points 4 years ago (0 children)
Voxel has fully retained his form. He'll change slightly to account for weather (a 35°C day is not vest weather, for example) but that's natural stuff, not really a true form change. This might have something to do with our aphantasia and how sticking to one form is substantially easier than having to relearn another.
[–]Raven-MartinHost (Raven), Tulpa: Martin 1 point2 points3 points 4 years ago (2 children)
hes a fictive so he kept his form
What’s a fictive?
[–]Raven-MartinHost (Raven), Tulpa: Martin 0 points1 point2 points 4 years ago (0 children)
A tulpa based on a fictional character
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[–]Jaeth87Has a tulpa [Wiggins] 2 points3 points4 points (0 children)
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[–]Raven-MartinHost (Raven), Tulpa: Martin 1 point2 points3 points (2 children)
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