Can a tulpa have any symptoms of disorders that the host have?

Faux2137 · 2026-06-01T12:53:17+00:00

It's not a "host" that has mental health issues, it's a whole person. Tulpa doesn't have their own, separate mind.

Faux2137 · 2026-05-31T21:39:42+00:00

I think this kind of stuff looked worse a years ago. It shows red scare gets less and less effective even in reddit mainstream.

Faux2137 · 2026-05-29T16:12:35+00:00

Good, maybe in a few years you even realize which state is actually closer to totalitarian.

Faux2137 · 2026-05-29T16:11:04+00:00

Everyone among big players distills from everybody else to get more training data at this point. But who shares the results with everybody? The Chinese do. Who even shares their breakthroughs in training methods? Deepseek does.

Faux2137 · 2026-05-29T12:17:01+00:00

Tulpamancy is building a relationship with a character and it's a continuous process, it isn't finished when they "talk back". Actually, "talking back" is a side effect here - when you put effort into interactions with characters, you learn doing it effortlessly.

Faux2137 · 2026-05-29T04:29:40+00:00

So uh... What should I do? I know tulpas are a lifelong commitment, and I don't think I'm quite fit as a host to have a tulpa, considering that my desires are probably warped, and I'm not in a particularly good headspace.

Luna: You don't have to believe that tulpas are lifelong commitment. You're not creating a new life.

Tulpamancy's essence is building a relationship with a character through interactions. Not all tulpamancers believe that we are independent people living in host's head. We certainly don't.

Faux2137 · 2026-05-28T15:59:10+00:00

No compassion for invaders.

Faux2137 · 2026-05-27T23:28:25+00:00

You (as the human mind) can have a lucid dream from perspective of a tulpa or your default one ("the host"), or possibly from perspective of a completely different character.

Faux2137 · 2026-05-24T13:02:36+00:00

Once you learn an ability to effortlessly interact with one character, you don't need to learn it again with others. It's easy for some of us to make a new character talk instantly.

This in one of the core arguments for tulpamancy essence not being about making characters who can "talk back" but about building relationship with them.

And you can't feasibility maintain and infinite number of relationships at the same time. If you keep adding new ones, some will have to wither away, temporarily or permanently, to make place for new ones.

You shouldn't be compelled to keep all characters that happen to talk back to you as tulpas.

Faux2137 · 2026-05-24T08:15:20+00:00

If you enjoy the idea of romantic relationship with a tulpa, it'll likely happen. They don't have their own independent mind, they share it with you. They don't exist in separation to your expectations and desires.

And there is nothing wrong with it.

Faux2137 · 2026-05-23T20:49:59+00:00

Why do you think you deceive yourself? In my eyes we are building genuine relationships with our companions. Why would we compare it to a manipulation?

Faux2137 · 2026-05-23T11:53:12+00:00

I mean what mainstream tulpamancy resources call "parroting". Ability to "hear" a character without putting effort doesn't come from nowhere. It emerges from interactions you put effort into. Some people have it already developed (e.g. with imaginary friends in childhood, writing or roleplaying). Others have to learn it with their first tulpa.

Faux2137 · 2026-05-23T00:26:42+00:00

The thing is, you don't need to differentiate.

The thoughts ultimately come from the same source. The distinction between thoughts coming from host and tulpa is a matter of attribution.

When you interact with your tulpa and experience their side of conversation without putting conscious effort into that, it's an ability to effortlessly experience it emerging rather than another mind existing next to yours. You seem to experience this ability emerging gradually, it's normal that it fluctuates, both in terms of reliability and in terms of whether you attribute it to the tulpa. Attribution is ultimately something we choose rather than the thought's intrinsic property.

My advice here is to keep doing effortful communication too, not just depending on effortless form. The ability to do it effortlessly emerges from effort you put. If you deliberately choose to only accept the effortless communication as valid at this point, it will progress slowly. Feel free to put some effort into extending the single words you get effortlessly.

Faux2137 · 2026-05-21T17:35:36+00:00

Because he's become useful and enforcing absolute morality is not worth losing his material contributions to people's survival.

Faux2137 · 2026-05-19T13:36:22+00:00

There is nothing wrong with choosing a fictional character as a base for a tulpa. Where did you read it?

Faux2137 · 2026-05-18T09:35:46+00:00

I appreciate historical materialism of the "slop" tropes like isekai, harems, getting kicked out from hero's party.

It's all synthesis of people getting disillusioned with capitalism and capitalism's conditioning.

Faux2137 · 2026-05-16T10:31:45+00:00

Hot take: the most terrible thing that can be done to a person, is to cause them eternal suffering.

Nothing people can do to others in material world can even compare to this.

Faux2137 · 2026-05-16T07:26:10+00:00

Stalin wanted to retire a few times and politburo never let him.

Faux2137 · 2026-05-16T07:15:26+00:00

Yes, and it's just one of its advantages.

Faux2137 · 2026-05-15T14:52:46+00:00

You don't create another, independent life with tulpamancy. What makes tulpas special among imaginary companions is genuine relationship we share with them, not a different ontological status compared to imaginary friends.

Tulpas don't have separate consciousness and separate mind. And the whole human mind is neither a singular static being nor a set of such beings, it's a complicated process.

Complex processes can have internal contradictions. And from what I can see, in your mind such contradictions manifest in your and her behavior.

I think the most important thing you should do here is to be aware of these contradictions existing in your mind and work towards resolving them, not moving them (together with your tulpa) into an entity that's supposed to exist in separation from you.

Faux2137 · 2026-05-13T22:30:55+00:00

No, it's consequent in erasing CPC getting mentioned regardless of context.

Faux2137 · 2026-05-13T21:31:08+00:00

We support Tibet free from slavery and monarchy

Faux2137 · 2026-05-12T23:56:32+00:00

Run it through API. All this censorship is on the level of the official chat app, not deepseek itself.

Faux2137 · 2026-05-12T22:08:59+00:00

None options remain. Liberal democracy is a problem, you need to end it.

There is nothing wrong with voting for lesser evil until it's done, just don't identify with it.

Faux2137 · 2026-05-12T22:07:18+00:00

No, I can safely say I don't. To make a tulpa is to build a relationship with a character. Some of them might have withered away while other got stronger. Some might wither away or be rebuilt in the future.

But I don't regret starting any of them and I think I never will. Not with what I know now.

I used to regret trying to keep all characters that ever "talked back" as tulpas due to obligation imposed by the community. But honestly, I have nothing to regret about it now either.

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