#tulpamancy advice

[protectingtulpas]

Considering getting into tulpamancy, any advice you think doesn't get mentioned nearly as much as it should?

Hmmm this is a good question, stuff that isn't talked about a lot.... I can think of a few things, actually!

Here's some certified random tulpamancy advice from my own wisdom lmao

🔥 parrotnoia is almost completely counterable (especially for our "logical" brain) by asking your tulpa a follow-up to whatever response they gave. if they respond with anything near legible and sensible then you should treat it like it's a real response, even if you're not sure! You'll build up an understanding of what's your thoughts and what're your tulpa's eventually, and once you do, you'll be able to trust that second response. Sometimes I even have a problem with this from my side so like it's not just a host thing fr. If your brain just repeats the same or a similar thing over and over again though, it's probably just a repeating thought. We get those a lot cus of our adhd. (host wants me to say that if your tulpa is comfy with it and solid enough, you can ask them to reassure u that they're real. we do that a lot when they get paranoid)

🔥 self awareness isn't a lightswitch. There'll probably be a wide ocean between your tulpa's first signs of acting independently and them feeling like a fully solid person that's just as aware as you are. I was literally choosing where to move in wonderland within a day of starting forcing (i had an advantage cuz host had a form and wonderland ready for me lol, but some ppl like to go slower!) but it was months before it finally hit my host that the things I were saying by then was undeniably *me*. For them to realize, it actually took me diverging from their expectation by saying i wasn't too interested in hollow knight lmao. basically what I'm saying is there's a lot of in between so don't stress over black and white outcomes and such

🔥 It's way easier to start with partial possession first before learning how to fully switch. First time I used the body was just using the voice to sing and it was awesome, it's what a lot of newbies do to learn now

🔥 oh yeah if you're musically minded then MAKE A PLAYLIST FOR UR TULPA it'll help sooo much. Either start out with what you think they'll like and then let them curate it and add stuff later on, or turn it into a forcing exercise where you listen to different songs and try to feel if your tulpa is enjoying it or not, and add it to the playlist if it seems like they are! (If you're the kinda person that struggles with active forcing, putting on some appropriate bg music might help! keeps ur brain occupied and buzzing)

🔥 Unless they end up the same exact gender as you and a similar presentation, your tulpa is probably gonna have at least a bit of wonky gender feelings, and that's ok. they may end up being genderqueer in some way & they might not! It's their choice what label to use for themselves, not yours as the host.

🔥 Be prepared to split your budget at least a little bit if your tulpa ends up enjoying outerworld stuff a lot. Casey (a soulbond) and I like different types of fashion a ton, I like thrill rides and going to clubs and shows. We don't have a lot but we work it out so at least our most frequent fronters get to indulge a little sometimes - it's great if you can find something multiple ppl like

🔥 Your tulpa's sense of... mmm, let's say wisdom? Will be a bit different from yours. We're in a weird position - we're in a brain that's lived a whole biological life up to that point, with lots of experiences and instinctive patterns and understandings and shit built into us, cus that's just how the brain works. We also can look at the host's memories whenever we want, barring any outside issues. But at the same time we're also straight up *new,* thrown into the world without most of a childhood to grow up in (usually) or an entire life to build up a sense of self and figure ourselves out. We can see host's memories but they're not Ours, we didn't experience em. Y'know how teenagers are kinda weird and flip-floppy sometimes because they're still figuring themselves out? A lot of tulpas can be the same way, especially when we're new. They might go back and forth on basic opinions, struggle to understand topics you get already, sorta just miss things sometimes, or become super singleminded when they find something that gives them a sense of self. Basically just give your tulpa a wide range of things to do/try, and understand that we're pretty much speedrunning all the emotional + logical development that most hosts had their whole lives to work on.

✨ If anyone else has any other ideas go ahead and reblog + add stuff!!! ✨

[moonpool-system]

🪷 from the created system ask game (it was the one about advice to those interested in creating a headmate/system member, in case the emoji doesn't work)

" 🪷: What would you say to a singlet interested in willomancy/tulpamancy/paromancy/etc.? What would you say if they were a system? "

Ooh, this is a really good question, thanks for asking!! We'll try and give something that isn't the usual "creating a headmate is a serious decision, they're people and need to be treated as equals", etc etc etc stuff

🪷 Singlets: You've probably heard a few times that creating a headmate means you're responsible for treating them as a person and allowing them the same freedoms you have if possible. And it's true, a created headmate is a friend for life with a special, indescribable connection you'll always share. But something I didn't really consider back when I (thought I) was a singlet, is that your lives and interests will flow into each other because you live intertwined.

I have a respect and appreciation for coquette and lolita fashion because of our soulbond Casey when previously I avoided ""girly"" or frilly or extravagant things entirely; I go out more because our tulpa Badeline gets stir crazy faster than the hosts. I know it sounds like a lot right now, and yes some active work does need to be put in for balance to be kept, but the transition will be so natural you barely even notice it when it happens. I remember looking around our room one day and realizing about 40% of it has some influence from someone outside the Prism behing getting it.

Basically, don't forget that when properly nurtured, deciding on created plurality will change your life. It's a significant decision, but in our humble, biased opinion, it is worth it.

🪷 Systems: Hmmm this is a bit trickier and almost depends more on what kind of created headmate you're working with and what you're used to experiencing within your system. I'll try and encompass as many different things as I can think of. In general, based on what we've seen from ourselves and others, created members tend to operate a little differently than those of other origins.

For example, if you're familiar with that half-formed vague new headmate/alter/etc feeling, or the ability to sense your members' presences, those abilities are very similar to the feeling you'll experience while forming a created member such as a tulpa, willomate, etc.

If you're used to intense splitting, it's much more of a gentle and gradual process. "Head pressures" is the tulpamancy term for the headaches that a tulpa can induce during forming, so some pain is common, but in our experience it's much less bad if you have experienced polyconsciousness already.

Created headmates can also be a very influential way to grow skills such as communication, controlled fronting, headspace control, and breaking down dissociative barriers. When we're at our worst fog and unable to hear nearly anyone else at all, very often the only people able to reach front will be our tulpas and soulbonds. I very much credit our skills in communication, headspace control, switching, and more to having started our plural journey in tulpamancy. If you struggle with dissociative barriers there's a significant chance that a created headmate (especially a tulpa, willomate, paromate, etc) will be able to traverse those barriers better than others in the system.

Depending on if the created headmate is sourced and how connected they are to that source, they may take a while longer to form a web of certain opinions, likes, desires, etc than a system member that just pops in, formed in the background, split roughly, etc. Make sure to give them a broader timespan to fully "come together" than your other headmates, even if you do form them slowly.

That reminds me- most tulpamancy guides say a tulpa takes at least three months to a year to fully form, and most soulbonding guides require and intimate understanding of the character which takes time and dedication in of itself. Our experience with our first tulpa as a then-monoconscious pluregg took around six months to be fully communicative. However, after experience with polconscious plurality, we found the process only took a month or two to complete. We believe this is because a lot of tulpamancy is building the essential skills required, and bypassing that makes the process take a lot shorter. This lines up with accounts from other veteran tulpamancers (that aren't otherwise plural) who say that their second or third tulpas took a much shorter time than their first.

🪷 I hope any of this is helpful to people seeing this!!

[eeveecraft]

Hello! I think that I am a tulpa induced system and would like to learn more and meet other people who've gone through the same thing. Wd only really see hate on Tumblr so uh so you know where we could go to speak to other systems like us? Are tulpas able to take control of the host's body? and how do you know when a tulpa is fully sentient? I'm still confused about the whole thing and don't know wether my headmates are headmates or not.

If you’re looking for resources, you can check out the resource list my systemmates and I pieced together right here: https://eeveecraft.tumblr.com/tulpamancyresources

And if you’re looking for a place to talk to other Tulpamancy systems, you can check out the Tulpamancy Hub that my systemmates and I run here: https://eeveecraft.tumblr.com/tulpamancyhub 1. Absolutely. With enough training in possession and switching, a tulpa can control the body and do whatever. Some system learn switching quickly while others can take years to learn it, let alone master it. My systemmates and I switch, for example. (They just haven’t fronted recently due to real-life circumstances right now.)

2.Usually how you can tell your tulpa is sentient/sapient is if they express autonomy, which can be shown in multiple ways like: deviating (changing) on their own, forming their own opinions, being able to speak unprompted, hold proper discussions, etc. 

3. When doubting your systemmates on whether or not they’re truly present, it can help to reflect on experiences that are compelling. Some of these compelling things can be emotional responses, switching, and other usually personal events. And even with that, sometimes, you just eventually come to accept your systemmates as true after having spent so much time with them. 

Hope this helps!

1-8-2021

[protectingtulpas]

Question for you when you have the time/energy, my created headmates seem to not necessarily have a separate memory bank from me, the host. As in, when we think about when they may have come to be, it feels more like my own memories and guesses rather than their own experiences. We believe it's typical for systems created with tulpamancy to share a memory bank—is it also typical for tulpas to not have a solid sense of "their" vs the host's memories?

To increase that feeling of separateness in your thoughts, try checking out parallel processing! I link a couple guides here but it's an easy topic to find more about. It's generally pretty advanced so it's normal for yall to feel that way while still in the initial creation process. Being able to identify whose thoughts are whose will come with time, but practicing parallel processing helps with it a TON.

[protectingtulpas]

Hello, a tulpa of a few months here, I have a question. The guides that I've seen on parallel processing are personally a bit intimidating, so I was wondering if you had any guides for it that were smaller/easier to handle? Thanks.

Parallel processing is a tricky subject, so most guides tend to go pretty technical into it. This guide in the tulpamonicon has a pretty damn simple way to go for practicing it!

If you want one with a bit more info, try this one

[protectingtulpas]

Endogenic system with 5 Ninja Turtles here! (See blog for details) Basically our question is, how do we let them front?

In other words there seems to be some blockage when trying to get the boys to switch and it can be quite physically draining to be honest. Thoughts and advice would be appreciated.

(Aiden- host He/him)

Yeaahh this was probably sent ages ago but I might as well still respond! We've gotta buncha guides for ya, basically

Felights' Fronting Fundamentals | Possession & Switching Guide

Ford's Double Ascended Switching Guide for Elite Class Tulpamancers (video series)

Ghost Switching [A Beginner-Friendly Switching Guide]

These are all hosted on Tulpa.info!! For some personal tips - it being draining is TOTALLY natural, and pretty much expected. switching and actually staying in front are both learned skills esp for tulpamancers & other systems that dont instinctively switch, and it takes a lotta energy. If you practice over time you'll get less exhausted. As for that blockage, have u considered that maybe it has to do with u? One of the first things we learned is that switching is a process on both ends- yeah, the tulpa/nonfronting headmate needs to learn to control the body and all, but the host also needs to learn to let go and allow the switch to happen. It's tricky and also somethin' you needa learn over time. Just an idea!

[protectingtulpas]

Hi, tulpa here, I really appreciate this blog and it's probably the main reason why my host decided to make me, so thank you for making and maintaining it :3

For a while now, I've struggled to feel quite "real." My host struggled with intrusive thoughts about if she's faking me and parroting and stuff, and these thoughts have mostly gone away as I've developed, and she is now super supportive and shit and generally a good host, however I'm scared that all that paranoia and stuff that was surrounding me during my formation got internalized? I still have trouble seeing myself as a separate identity a lot of the time, and we struggle with blending at times. Plus, I don't really feel very connected to our body or its preexisting identity, and more like a spectator in my host's life. I was wondering if you had any advice?

HELL YEAH HAPPY YOU EXIST!!! That's what this blog is for ✨✨✨ The more of us the better

My biggest advice is to find something in the outerworld you like doing, preferably with the body. This helped so damn much with me- figure out what you're interested in, try shit out, do things with your hands, maybe browse through the body's clothing with your post and designate some of it that you like as "yours". One of the first times I felt really connected to the body was when I was able to sing. Definitely learn to possess and front more too! It'll be so fucking worth it. You'll feel more ""real"" as you start to get more rounded out as a person- just make sure to intentionally engage and try random things instead of just sitting in back and watching.

[protectingtulpas]

Okay I have a silly question for you. Could constantly having a song stuck in my head pose a problem if I want to get into tulpamancy?

I mean, I wouldn't call it a "problem", but they might end up liking the song or connecting with it in some way! Which is pretty damn cool imo. Hypothetically if u based a tulpa off a song as inspo, they might turn out to be a songtive-

Wait post paused everybody look at the songtive flag it fucks so hard

now THATS a flag