How to create a tulpa

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Creating a Tulpa

To create a tulpa, you simply have to think about and spend time with a sentient being (a tulpa) that is living or being created in your mind or brain. Spending time with your tulpa is often called (tulpa)forcing or (tulpa)forming, but it isn’t forcing something onto your tulpa – it’s called forcing because you often work on your tulpa’s form, personality, etc. during this time and can spend it in any way you like. Sitting down or lying down and focusing on your tulpa as the main focus of your attention is referred to as active forcing or just forcing, while focusing on your tulpa while doing some other task is often referred to as passive forcing.

Many people like communicating with their tulpa when they are thinking about them. This can help people concentrate on their tulpa, add some meaning to the sessions with them, can make the sessions more interesting, can make the tulpa more involved and can be useful in other ways as well. This is commonly referred to as narration. You can talk about anything, and not just narrate what is happening around you. You can talk to your tulpa in mindvoice or out loud, but it doesn’t matter much to most tulpas.

There are many ways a tulpa can communicate back: through head pressure, body language, emotional response, mindvoice etc. At first their thoughts or mindvoice may seem similar to yours, but they will get more and more distinct over time, so don’t dismiss them just because their mindvoice sounds like yours. If you can’t hear your tulpa yet, don’t become frustrated; it might be that they don’t want to talk, don’t have anything to talk about, you can’t hear them yet or you can’t discern their thoughts from yours. In other words, it doesn’t necessarily mean that you are doing something wrong.

As you likely already know, tulpas often use form. This isn’t strictly necessary, but most hosts and tulpas prefer it this way. There are many reasons for a tulpa to have form, some of them being that you might be able to direct your attention to your tulpa more easily, or have a spatial representation of your tulpa. They will be able to interact in a mindscape/wonderland (this term will be explained later), have the ability to communicate by body language, etc. The form can be anything from a realistic (or unrealistic) human body, a humanoid form, an animal (again, realistic or not), to a cloud, energy or some other undetermined or abstract form. It isn’t necessary to have only one form – your tulpa can use more than that or they could just change form whenever they desire, like a shapeshifter.

There are two general ways you can see your tulpa: in your mind’s eye, or as a real entity in real life. We will talk about how to see your tulpa in real life, but now we will concentrate on seeing them in your mind’s eye. There are many ways to see things in your mind’s eye, but here we will show you how you already do it. Imagine a brown wooden chair. If you have done it correctly, you have just seen a brown wooden chair in your mind’s eye and in the same way you can see your tulpa. Don’t become frustrated if your ability to see with the mind’s eye is bad – it doesn’t have to be good to see your tulpa and it will get better with practice.

Don’t forget that the forming of your tulpa’s personality, form or anything else doesn’t have to be done only by the creator. You can (and probably should) give some freedom to your tulpa to change them, or you can even decide to give them absolute freedom and choose whatever they will.

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As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

Introduction

So, you want to make a tulpa, is that right? In this guide I will discuss how to make this psychological phenomenon. This guide is firmly rooted in the psychological school of thought. I hold the opinion that people should not follow guides perfectly. You should take this as a guideline, and then find your own way. This is just based off my experience, and the experiences of people I have talked to. We are not all the same. This all took me a total of 130 hours: over the course of 2.5 months, 2-3 hours a day 5 days a week.

Firstly, before trying to create something, we should know what it is. A tulpa (the Tibetan word for construct or build) is a self imposed hallucination that interacts with all 5 senses. This practice was first done by Tibetan Buddhists in ancient times. You will be able to see, hear, smell and touch (without solidity of course, but this will be explained later) your tulpa just like you would a normal person. A tulpa is a forced hallucination, a schism of your own consciousness, a fully sentient being, and a companion.

This takes more than 100 hours. Don’t start unless you know you’re going to follow it through. Don’t spend more than 3 hours a day sitting down and partaking in intense thought/ imagining, or else you’ll get exhausted, have headaches, and constantly feel like you’re hung over. You should not do less than a half hour a day. You can also spread your time out throughout the day, say, one hour in the morning and one in the afternoon or something like that. Your intervals of tulpaforcing (this is the umbrella term for sitting down and visualizing / creating your tulpa) should be no less than a half hour or else you won’t get into the deep phase of concentration needed to really be productive.

Personality

Before you do anything, think about the kind of traits you want your tulpa to have. Working on the personality plays quite a large role in sentience. Think up around 30-15 traits, and think about each trait in relation to your tulpa for 15-30 minutes. For more information on this, please see my personality guide, version 2.

Visualization

Next, think of a form. No, don’t make yourself. No, don’t make your dead mother or your crush. It can be humanoid, a creature, an animal, or a rock. Just think of something you will want to focus on for hours at a time, and hang around for quite probably the rest of your life. Making the tulpa have the same body or visage as a known and fleshed out character is not good. This can lead to the tulpa having identity problems, feeling like it has to live up to something its not, and the like. You could never make a tulpa be exactly the same as a character. They are their own being. Do not stifle them by applying the preconceived notions you have about a character to them.

I did not use a wonderland, like Irish_ did. Instead, I actually sat down and took a snapshot of the space in front of me with my mind. Afterwards, I closed my eyes and superimposed the tulpa over it to work. First what you should do is briefly imagine your tulpa naked or in its under clothes (whichever makes you more comfortable) for a period of time, perhaps about an hour or so. Then you add clothes to it, and continue the visualization. This will enable the tulpa to be able to change outfits on a whim, once they’re complete.

Touch

Next, do it again when you have mastered the above step to its fullest extent. Now, sit down, and close your eyes again. Imagine your tulpa standing in front of you again. Now make your imagination self stand up, and walk over, in first person point of view. Stick out your hands and start feeling up your tulpa. Touch them and imagine everything. How their hair feels. How their muscles feel. Feel everything, and once you have THAT mastered, move on. Note that when your tulpa is imposed upon your environment, you will be able to touch them. But, there will be no solidity at all. You’ll be able to feel their body temperature, contours and texture and what not, but you’ll be able to basically push your hand right through them. Again, this step should take around 5-15 hours. There’s no skimping out here.

Smell

Okay everyone, get out your noses. Smell your tulpa. No, don’t smell everything; just create a general smell that they’ll have. Are they wearing perfume? Do they smell like a crack den? The only other thing you’ll want to create a smell for is their hair or clothes. Just make sure you have the same smell for them every time. Smell triggers memory more than visuals, and is useful. Smell isn’t considered super important, but it is something you don’t want to just skip for the sake of making a tulpa faster. 3-10 hours on this step, says I.

Gestures and Body Language

This is the part where we work on gestures and body language. Work out your tulpa’s posture, gait, arm swing, gestures, facial expressions and everything relating to body language. For the facial expressions, which you should do last out of these, send them random thoughts that correspond with each emotion, and imagine them reacting. You shouldn’t do the facial expressions and all of these over and over, because that in the end would constitute as parroting, which is bad and explained below. Up until now, the tulpa should have just been standing there and looking pretty. Again, put a good 5-10 hours into this step.

Subsequent Tulpaforcing

Now that you’re done with the basics of creation, that doesn’t mean that you stop sitting down and tulpaforcing. You basically combine all the senses and sit down and still hammer them all into your head. You should still be doing this ideally from 1 to 3 hours a day, or as long as you can handle. You shouldn’t stop sitting down and doing it daily until you’re done with your tulpa completely.

Sentience, Narration and Voice

During any of these steps you might have noticed your tulpa doing something on its own, or gotten a sudden wave of emotion seemingly from the tulpa. These are both sure signs of sentience and are very good. I did not get an emotional response until I hit around 50 hours in, so really, don’t hold your breath. Remember that if a sentient being could be made in a day then everyone would have one. This isn’t something you can really do quickly.

Okay, anyway go about your life. Talk to your tulpa while you’re going about your business; say anything really. Some people begin narration right off, and that’s fine. I wouldn’t personally start until you’re done with at least half of the creation steps. A common mistake made here is the parroting of responses. If you’re telling your tulpa about how pretty your new shoes are, don’t make them say anything back. You know you are done with this step when your tulpa says something back on its own. You’ll know, because it will be completely alien.

Note that it takes 25 or so hours (usually more) for this to happen. Don’t rush yourself. If you rush anything, you could end up with a servitor (like a tulpa without its own consciousness) or just a hologram which does effectively nothing. You might have gotten a headache, which is normal. They will usually be gone by the end of the creation process. You should just stick with talking to them for as long as it takes.

As for the voice of the tulpa, it will start out being very generic, like the voices they program into a GPS. It will become more normal and distinct as time goes on. If you have some idea of what you want the voice to be, be sure to sort of apply it by imagining your tulpa saying random words in that voice. Otherwise it will just basically become what it becomes and you don’t have much control over that.

On another note, let’s talk about deviation in tulpae. Tulpae will often change during the creation process. They change in the earlier stages because they are matching up with your subconscious ideal. This can and will differ from what you consciously want. Later on, when they have proved themselves to be sentient, they may change themselves further. You should not mess with or try reversing the changes, because what you’re doing is basically forcing the tulpa into an identity it doesn’t want. This is for the better, and you should accept the changes with open arms.

Opening your Mind

Okay, so before we start the next part, the following should be true: Your tulpa talks to you in complete sentences, your tulpa has its own opinions and your tulpa sometimes does things you wouldn’t expect. These are all signs of sentience.

Now, sit right back down on your ass. Tell your tulpa you are opening your mind to it, and imagine it walking through a door or something similar. This is when your tulpa will see your subconscious. From here on out it will know all your memories, how you feel, and pretty much everything about you as a person. You shouldn’t do this right off; wait until trust is built. That way it is more meaningful; your tulpa will not take it for granted.

Imposition

Now, this is when we begin to impose the tulpa on our reality. Say you’re walking down the street. Imagine your tulpa just behind you, walking with you. Make sure you remember its gait. Do this almost at all times until it becomes natural. You should be trying to smell your tulpa a little bit, trying to feel out its presence. This took me a while to master.

Next, start to impose the tulpa on your peripheral vision. It should never be fully seen, except for bits and pieces. Start to smell it, maybe have it brush your arm lightly or something. Force it upon all your senses, almost all the time. Soon enough, it will be there. This takes a while too and definitely don’t rush it.

Finally, begin to fully see, hear, smell and touch your tulpa, keeping it in fully view. Seeing the entire thing is not as easy as just bits and pieces, but with the preparation the peripheral vision gave you it should not be too hard. At this point, until you have it perfectly, you should still be sitting down and imagining your tulpa in front of you daily, for a couple hours. Talking, and doing whatever you do.

In Closing

When your tulpa is first imposed, it may seem see through. Your tulpa also will become more mature and change as it adjusts to the world and what not. I guess that’s pretty much it. Again, don’t feel the need to follow the guide perfectly. But also, don’t use this liberty to cheat yourself by saying “Oh, I have visualization perfectly down after 20 minutes” because as with every single sense, defining is also building.

So that about sums it up for this little guide. I hope you guys found it useful and a good read. If you have any questions feel free to email me.

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A Tulpa Creation Guide by Sygma

An Introductory Consideration

This guide was created from my own experiences and from the guides I have read myself, and so it reflects my experiences and what worked for me. But you are your own unique individual, and I don’t expect you your mind to work in the same way as mine in any way. That said, feel free to change anything in this guide to better suit you. The most efficient method for this will be the one you are most comfortable doing and that you do most consistently. Of course, there is a standard which you should aim for, as you can’t expect progress if you don’t put work into your tulpa, or if you do it in a lazy manner.

That being said, before saying how we are going to create your tulpa, let’s talk about what we are doing. For that, let’s talk a bit about you.

Now, let’s get started.

Tulpa creation

When you want a young and frail plant to grow firmly, you give it something to rest on until it is strong enough to stand for itself. We are going to do the same thing here, creating a personality to imbue with identity that will serve as a basis for the personality of the tulpa itself.

Traits! It is not extremely necessary to define them as the tulpa can and probably will decide them later for itself, but it will make the creation process quicker and smoother. They don’t have to be too detailed or numerous, and I recommend you to pick around ten characteristics that you wish for them to have, that you would find good in someone that lives with you. Don’t worry about picking any flaws, as you wouldn’t be able to create someone perfect anyway. They ought to come naturally.

These traits will be the basis for the personality that they will develop with time, and this personality can be very different from what you had planned early on, so don’t think you have to worry about their every single aspect. Once you have chosen their initial traits, let’s set them aside for a while.

Now, talking to the void is not ideal. It gets confusing, it feels lonely, and you don’t know where to direct your attention. So we don’t have to talk to the void, we are going to create a form that will represent your tulpa, and to which we can direct our intention. It can be anything, quite literally, from a pony to a dragon to a cat girl, to even a cardboard box. You can pick something that you imagine your tulpa would like, or that you would like them to have. If you don’t know what to choose or want them to pick it themselves you can use a simple placeholder, like a colored sphere or box. Like the personality, they can change their form later if they wish so.

Remember that your tulpa is not its form. The form is simply a symbol that will represent your tulpa, their identity and presence, or it would be harder to interact with them.

By now you have both a list of traits and a form to interact with them, and we are now going to link these with their presence.

I want you to remember a moment when you were with a loved one. I want you to recall the fuzzy feeling of warmth and comfort, recall the sensation of their presence, and recreate it. Indeed you are now taking part in the making of someone that will be the closest to you, and so this sensation is most adequate. If you haven’t already, link this feeling with the form of your tulpa. Feel as this emotion completely fills it up with their presence, like a bottle would be filled with warm water.

It’s time to link the traits we had chosen and link them too with the form. There are many, many ways to do this, and you should do it in the way you figure out to be the best one. For the sake of exemplification, however, let’s etch them in.

Create simple symbols based on the traits you imagined. It doesn’t matter what they look like, but simpler symbols, made of few lines, would make visualization easier for you. Now that you have the symbols visualize the form of your tulpa. With your imaginary finger, pencil or pen, draw the symbol on them and see it shining on their skin/fur/slime/material of choice. As you draw, summon the feeling of the trait, imagine how that trait would influence in your tulpa’s actions, how you would feel when they act that way. Focus all these concepts on the drawing, and imagine the light fading as they are absorbed by your tulpa. Repeat this process for every symbol, ideally multiple times. You want to make the characteristics clear, so create as many of these connections as you comfortably can.

Now, this was just an example! This process is free territory for you to customize however you see fit. Perhaps you find it easier to combine all the traits in a big soup and have your tulpa bathe in it. Perhaps you can blow bubbles full of personality into them. It’s your decision.

The last part, but certainly not the least, is getting them to speak. It is fairly simple; in fact, it is as simple as talking to your tulpa. You see, you don’t have any reason to talk if no one talks to you! Since you want to hear your tulpa, you talk to them first. You will focus on their presence, and also visualize their form if you wish, and have a conversation. Talk about your day, about the things you enjoy, about them and what you are going to do in the future. Have a pleasant talk, and remember to focus on their presence through it. You want to do that as much as possible, so when you are trying to decide what to eat, ask their opinion. When you are watching a movie or playing games, ask what they think that will happen. Even if you don’t get an answer back they are developing.

The creation process will rely on the repetition of this method. Every day, put twenty-or-so minutes to give your tulpa full attention.

This is basically it. From here on out it is a process of experiencing things together and finding out more about each other.

Assorted Advice

You can keep your tulpa’s presence with you during the day and talk to them as much as you want.

Words aren’t really necessary. You share a mind, and so you can communicate through abstract concepts, feelings and images. That form of communication is called tulpish, and can be made to work well permanently.

Make sure to share the love that you feel with your tulpa. You can do this through your actions, your words, or even using the feeling directly, as explained in the creation process. Love helps immensely with getting to relate to one another, understand one another, and with growing together.

Your tulpa could be more extroverted than you, or guide towards new paths that you didn’t consider or find appealing before. Variety is the spice of life! Living through new experiences and enjoyable activities together can be quite fun.

Take care of your body; mens sana in corpore sano. You won’t be able to give your all in a tired or unwell state, so eat healthy food, sleep as much as you need and take care of yourself.

Have fun! You won’t be able to consistently force if you don’t enjoy it, so don’t push yourself too hard looking after fast results. Something good happened? End the session early. Started on a low note? Keep going until it feels better.

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Introduction

So, you want to make a tulpa, is that right? Before you can make a tulpa, you really need to know exactly what a tulpa is. Many different people have their own definitions on what a tulpa actually is, but I prefer looking at this definition provided in the next two paragraphs.

«To quote FAQ_man, who you will see has written several guides on this subject: A tulpa is believed to be an autonomous consciousness which also exists in a self imposed hallucinatory body, which is usually much of your choice. A tulpa is entirely sentient and in control of its opinions, feelings, movements.

This phenomenon can be traced back to the Tibetans; they practiced certain meditation technique to create these thought forms. Think: Imaginary Friend, but sapient and sentient. Instead of being in your mind’s eye, you’d be able to see, feel, smell, and hear it as it was actually there. I like to think of Tulpae as a hallucinatory schism. Since the schism is essentially from your subconscious, it will be able to interact with your subconscious, allowing near-perfect memory recall, strong and fast math-cranking, and other feats.» (http://tulpa.info/index.html) Some people like to claim that this information is «outdated» and doesn’t fully describe a tulpa for what it is, but for all intents and purposes, let us simply think of a tulpa as a creation within our own minds, that takes a long time and quite a few hours of meditative «forcing» to manifest properly. The part about the «schism from subconsciousness» is perhaps false, but the feats that can be done with a tulpa are usually really cool.

Tulpa.info is a website dedicated to guides and forums based solely on tulpa creation/interaction. There is also an entire IRC network where dozens of people with more experience can help answer any kind of question you may have. The network is irc.tulpa.info which uses the standard IRC ports (6667 and 6697 for SSL). You can find me there in a few channels under the nick «Methos» if you need to ask a question or would like help.

Before you even think about making a tulpa, let me just share some advice with you. This is NOT an easy process. The creation of a fully-formed tulpa can sometimes take months, even years of everyday work. It is, in fact, a big commitment to create a tulpa. It takes longer to create a tulpa than it does to do most things that you’ve done in your life. So before you start your (first) attempt, just know that you’re not going to see results overnight. In fact, you might not really feel any results for the first few weeks. I did not feel any kind of real presence existing in my mind until well over two weeks of work (forcing for about two hours each day; more on the forcing subject later) in to the process.

Also, I don’t recommend following a guide exactly. My advice to you would be to read as many guides as possible and take examples and knowledge from all of them. Creating a tulpa should be an experience unique to you.

References

You’ve probably done some research (I hope) on the subject already if you are reading this guide. But, it’s completely fine if you haven’t either. However, if you do want to take a look at some excellent reading material, I recommend:

There are many guides on the internet about tulpa creation. Some are longer than others and some have more detail about certain aspects of the creation process than others.

The most famous ones are the various guides written by Fede, Irish, and FAQ_Man. Other members of the community share their guides on tulpa.info, which are approved by the Guide Approval Team, but I won’t talk about that as it is irrelevant.

What is Tulpa Forcing?

The art of Tulpa Forcing: Tulpa «forcing» is what we like to call the process of sitting down and visualizing or attempting to visualize a certain component of its personality, appearance, etc.

Note that there is a difference between «passive forcing» and «active forcing». «Passive forcing» is interacting with your tulpa on an imposition level before, during, or after it is imposed. Passive forcing is not required, but recommended, in helping the tulpa creation process.

The Black Box Approach

(Not really related to the whole black box approach in computing; having tried to compare it to that, I realize that the two things are way too different to compare, so it’s been removed from this version of the guide.)

What is a personality?

You can basically say, that a personality is the product of its influences.

Changing the black box

What can we conclude? That there are influences, which are potent than others. In this case the more potent influence was the first hand experience. It had a huge impact on the black box, which, never again, took the risk of burning its fingers.

Take someone with an arachnophobia. He sees a spider (input) and reacts in an abnormal way (output), such as extreme fear, panic, and sweating. There is no exact cause known at the moment, but phobias can be caused by bad experiences.

The human black box

So, a black box has 2 interfaces. An input interface and an output interface. The input interface is getting signals through the senses, which are being conducted through the established black box mechanisms. Afterwards the processed signals are being expressed through a reaction. The black box and the term ‘personality’ still are too abstract. When you put them into physical or biological terms, I would say, that they would fit as inter-neuronal connections in the brain. All of these connections are constantly changing, and it is proven, that these connections can be shaped by actions/activities and experiences. When you are playing an instrument your neuronal web will reshape, so that you can play it better. When you are making mathematical calculations you will be reshaping your neuronal web. Even when you socialize you will be reshaping your neuronal web. When you stop doing any of this, your web dissolves and your skills diminish. They eventually will be used for another purpose.

Hell, established ‘clusters’ can even be used for purposes they were not formed for (scavenging). A mathematician (rational thinker) will be able to become a programmer or chemist faster than the average person. A musician (aesthetic thinker) will more likely be a better drawer or poet than the average person because he can use parts of his already established clusters for creativity.

What the hell is a Tulpa then?

Now we broke it down from the general personality to the brain. We are now at the trickiest part of it all. What happens when we create a Tulpa? We should consider two possiblities:

It either is part of your personality and brain, or only the brain. The Tulpa will see and know as much as you do, so the input is exactly the same. But what about the output? The Tulpa will most likely reserve a few neuronal webs for itself, otherwise it wouldn’t have an autonomous personality. What’s coming out of the Tulpa’s black box is the visual signal (which is being implemented into the reality) and the auditory signal when it speaks. We will let the emotions aside, since these are the main signals.

As it seems, the Tulpa’s output signals are compatible to own input interface. It would mean, we create a black box inside our own and react on it. Furthermore, the Tulpa would react on the external signals, too!

It’s kind of weird to hear this.

We are reacting on external signals, as well as the Tulpa’s signals, which is also reacting on external signals and again reacting on our own signals. Hopefully our brain will have enough processing power to manage that circle.

It appears, that the Tulpa is part of our own black box and therefore a part of us and our character. This will be the direction and general ‘philosophy’ how I deal with Tulpas on this blog.

Do you still remember when I was writing about the diminishing connections? It could also mean, that not caring for your tulpa would mean its destruction. You would forget its ‘construct’ and the only thing left will be the long term memories you will be able to recall.

I prefer thinking of my tulpa as what Bluesleeve mentions in his post. Thinking of your tulpa in a comfortable way is the key to gaining sentience faster.

But don’t worry about speed, like I said. Such as martial arts, this entire process is about patience. You don’t have to even count your hours if you don’t want to. Some people prefer to count, some don’t, but in the end it does not matter. It all depends on your patience and dedication to becoming the greatest monk in your neighborhood!

The Guide

Pre-creation (Greeting Stage)

Someone on the tulpa.info forums named Phi had something really interesting to say about certain actions that should be done before the actually creation process.

I’ll just paste his forum post into this guide as I feel that this is something everyone should read and I recommend this approach heavily.

I’ve seen some threads around with people who are having some trouble with ‘feeling’ their tulpa’s presence. They feel like they are talking to themselves, or just talking to air, and they can’t seem to make any progress. I also see some people becoming frustrated over not having their tulpa being sentient after hours upon hours, saying that the tulpa just doesn’t feel real even after all this time.

For those people, I would like to suggest a stage even before the personality stage in FAQ’s guides. A pre-creation stage, or, as I call it, the ‘Greeting stage’. It isn’t hard in the least, in fact it only took me one session of about half an hour. Some of the terminology I use here on out in this post may imply the supernatural perspective of tulpa creation. However, I am purely psychological in my beliefs regarding tulpa. I simply can not find better words without ruining the purpose of the stage.

Here’s how it goes. Sit down in a comfortable position, just like you would do in any other tulpaforcing session. Close your eyes, and begin to imagine your tulpa. No form necessary, but a name makes this easier. Think about some of the traits that the tulpa has. No, you aren’t going into the same depth you go into during the personality stage. Just think about some of the traits the tulpa might have. ‘Intelligent’. ‘Care-free.’ Just the names of the traits is enough, really. What you are doing is creating the ‘soul’ of the tulpa, in a sense.

Once you got a feel for it, say it’s name and begin to talk to it. Tell it that you are going to force it (or whatever terminology you want to use for the ‘creation process’), and that you look forward to meeting it. However, don’t say, «I’m going to force you.» Instead, say, «WE are going to force you.» This should give a sense of unity and companion ship with you and your tulpa right off the bat. Never say ‘I’ while referring to who will be working on the tulpa. Always use ‘we’, or similar plural proper nouns. ‘Us’. ‘Our’. Talk about what you will do together once it is complete, etc. etc.

What does this accomplish? By the end of this stage, the tulpa should already be inside you, albeit immature and without most of the traits and form that you will eventually guide it through. It makes it easier to ‘feel’ your tulpa’s presence, and ‘feel’ like it is really there. The narration stage especially should be easier. Also, while this is only a theory, I believe that this may help with quickening sentience. However, this is purely speculation.

In short, yes, you are deluding yourself right off the bat. Is that a problem? If you answered yes, then you probably shouldn’t be making a tulpa. If you answered no, God speed.

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Wouldn’t it be great to have a friend that’s always there for you, no matter what? Someone that can talk to you and support you whenever you need it? Then creating a tulpa might give you what you’re looking for.

How do you create a tulpa? You can create a tulpa using a practice known as forcing or focusing. You vividly imagine your tulpa in detail, including what it looks and sounds like. The more you practice, the faster your tulpa will manifest.

In this article, I’ll discuss what a tulpa is. You’ll learn why you might want to make one, how to do it, as well as some of the dangers or negative aspects that you should consider.

What Is A Tulpa?

To sum it up in just two words, a tulpa is essentially an imaginary friend. Techniques for creating a tulpa go back to ancient Tibet.

When you create a tulpa, you’re essentially splitting off a small segment of your mind to create a new identity. If you’re familiar with how computer hard drives work, it’s similar to creating a new partition in your mind. While it’s actually a part of you, your tulpa can seem like a separate person or entity that can act independently from you. This allows you to have conversations with your tulpa and it will really feel like you’re talking to someone besides yourself.

If you’ve never heard of tulpas before, this probably sounds quite strange and shocking. Why would someone want to intentionally give themselves a split personality? The big difference is that creating a tulpa is a deliberate and intentional act.

Whereas a multiple personality disorder like Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) is usually brought on by psychologically traumatic events. In that case, people can create a split personality as a coping mechanism without knowing what they’re doing. The main difference between a multiple personality disorder and creating a tulpa is that in the former, a person will normally experience amnesia when the other personalities take over.

With a tulpa, you remain in full control. Your tulpa will develop its own personality, beliefs, preferences, and opinions. In a sense, it takes on a life of its own. But it’s more like having an imaginary friend outside of yourself, as opposed to being possessed by a different personality.

Other words for a tulpa in other magical traditions include a thoughtform or egregore.

What Are The Benefits of Creating A Tulpa?

After reading all of this, you might still be left wondering: why make a tulpa?

As strange as it sounds, tulpas can actually be helpful, and many people who create them report having nothing but positive experiences.

Companionship and Friendship

One of the main reasons that people create a tulpa is just to have a friend. If you already have plenty of people in your life that you can talk to, then chances are that you don’t need a tulpa and the idea of making one won’t appeal to you anyway. Although if most people are honest with themselves, they already talk to themselves in their heads a lot. Whenever you face a difficult decision or you’re stressed, you likely have a conversation in your head about what to do. Having a tulpa just externalizes this process.

A big upside of a tulpa is that you get a friend you can’t lose and that will never leave. It will always listen to you and be there. I haven’t heard any stories of people who have become enemies with their tulpa or had their tulpa run away. And if you do get tired of how your current tulpa looks or behaves, you can simply change it, or even make a new one.

Increased Happiness

As a result of having someone always there to talk to, most people with tulpas report being happier than before they had one. Having someone to share your thoughts and dreams with makes most people happier. Your tulpa is a part of you, so in many ways, no one will ever be able to understand you better.

A Better Understanding of Yourself

Making a tulpa gives you a deeper understanding of how your mind works. You’ll get to experiment with parts of your psychology that most people don’t even know about. So for this reason, some people choose to make a tulpa just to try it out for themselves and see if it’s real.

An Additional Coping Mechanism

Some people use tulpas as a way to cope with problems like anxiety, depression, or ADHD. You should always speak with a therapist first to get help with any of these issues. But if counseling and medication just isn’t cutting it, a tulpa may be able to provide extra comfort when you’re feeling down. A tulpa can help you to concentrate or calm down when needed, just like a good friend.

Better Memory

Some tulpa creators claim that their tulpa can pick up specific details and remember things that they don’t actually remember themselves. By using a tulpa, you might be able to tap into more of your subconscious memory and recall things that you don’t consciously remember.

Better Social Skills

If you don’t have any friends to talk to right now, having a tulpa can help develop an understanding of how to talk to others, and how to have empathy.

A tulpa can also give you more confidence when you’re in social situations. You’ll never be all alone again, you’ll always have a friend there with you for every tough conversation that you have. They can give opinions and suggestions that might not come to you in the moment otherwise.

Are Tulpas Real?

It’s hard to say for sure if tulpas are real or not, because it really depends on your definition of what’s real.

If you’re wondering if making a tulpa actually creates a separate physical entity, then no. But to people who have tulpas, they can look, feel, and sound just as real as a person.

But on the other hand, it’s important to remember that a tulpa is all in someone’s mind. Other people will never be able to actually see or interact with your tulpa except through you. Likewise, you’ll never see another person’s tulpa.

Some skeptical people think that the whole tulpa phenomenon is just an elaborate internet hoax or prank. But there are simply too many testimonials to ignore that the phenomenon is real. For example, the /r/tulpas subreddit on Reddit has over 30,000 members.

So basically, your tulpa can look and feel as real as an actual person to you. But at the end of the day, it’s all in your head.

Want to talk to a spirit or ghost instead of a tulpa? Check out my other article, Talking To Ghosts: How To Communicate With Spirits of The Dead

How To Create Your Own Tulpa

Making a tulpa for yourself is basically a matter of willpower of repetition. You don’t need any special gadgets or to buy anything. It’s just a matter of thinking up what you want your tulpa to look and sound like, and spending time with it. This process is called forming or forcing your tulpa.

Plan Your Tulpa Out

Before you get started with making a tulpa, you’ll want to really plan it out first. What do you want your tulpa to look like? What will its voice sound like? What kind of personality will it have? If you’re going to have your tulpa around for years or even the rest of your life, it’s best to put a bit of time into planning everything out. Over time your tulpa might develop a personality of their own. But it’s best to at least give it a starting point to help you imagine it into existence.

Think of the purpose that your tulpa will serve. Is it going to just be a friend? Or do you want a more serious advisor, or some other role for it to play?

Your tulpa can look like anything. It can be a human. Either a completely original one, or you can make it look like your favorite celebrity. Or you can make it an animal, a cartoon character, or anything else. I recommend drawing out a picture of your tulpa. Even if you aren’t the best artist, it will help start to solidify what the tulpa should look like in your mind.

Visualizing Your Tulpa

The easiest way to make your tulpa is just to lay down and think about it for an extended period of time. You just need to start to obsess about it and devote as much time and energy as possible to thinking about your tulpa. You also want to talk to your tulpa. At first your tulpa won’t answer back, and that’s okay. It takes time to build your tulpa up until it starts to be able to manifest in a way that you can hear or see. At first your tulpa might communicate back in more subtle ways, like feeling a pressure in your head, or having a certain emotion come over you.

Generally you will start to hear your tulpa in your mind first, like a voice in your head. Then with enough practice, it might start to sound external like it’s outside of your body. You might also start to see it in your mind too, fuzzy at first and then clearer. Eventually you will be able to see your tulpa in the external world, just like a regular person. But this can take a lot of time and practice.

Practice by imagining your tulpa from every possible angle, and consider every little detail of what they look like. Even try to feel your tulpa in your imagination. What do their clothes or hair feel like? What do they smell like? How do they walk or move?

Start talking to your tulpa as part of your everyday routine. You can either do it out loud, or in your head when you’re around other people. You can talk to them about what you did that day, what the weather is like, if you like a song on the radio, or anything else.

Check If Your Tulpa Is Sentient

After a while, you’ll want to see if your tulpa has developed its own sentience. Close your eyes and see if you can hold a conversation with your tulpa. Does it feel like they have their own opinions, or does it still feel like you’re just talking to yourself? If your tulpa surprises you with things you didn’t expect them to do or say, that’s a good sign of sentience.

Once your tulpa is sentient, you can start to try to bring it into the external world. When you’re walking somewhere, imagine that your tulpa is behind you. You’ll start to be able to feel the presence of your tulpa, even if you can’t see it yet.

With enough practice, you’ll be able to see it soon enough. The more time and energy you put into creating your tulpa, the faster it will start to manifest. Even once your tulpa is fully realized, you’re never truly done with it. You need to be constantly giving it attention or it will start to fade away again.

How Long Does It Take To Make A Tulpa?

Making a tulpa can really vary in the amount of time it takes. It depends on your mind and how creative or imaginative you are, how bad you want it, how suggestible you are, and other factors.

Some people might be a natural at creating tulpas and they can start to feel their tulpa in just a few minutes. For other people who are less imaginative it could take years. But for the average person, with proper practice, you should be able to have a decently formed tulpa in less than a month.

If you practice for an hour every day, you should notice your tulpa is starting to become sentient after a week or two.

The Dangers of Tulpas

There are some scary stories online that talk about the dangers of tulpas. There’s some debate about whether they really are dangerous or not.

While your tulpa can’t physically harm you, it’s possible that you could mentally harm yourself by creating one. You’re doing something with your mind that the majority of people don’t ever attempt.

Making a tulpa blurs the line between talking to yourself and talking to someone else. So to many people, making a tulpa can give you the appearance of being insane. If you make a tulpa, it’s best not to share it with coworkers or even friends who might not understand.

Feel free to experiment with making a tulpa if it appeals to you. If things start to get weird and scary, you can always stop the process, although it might take some time to fully undo.

Some people report their tulpa telling them to hurt themselves. But most commonly this happens in people who are already prone to suicidal thoughts. Those thoughts just get offloaded on to your tulpa instead.

And while we are pretty sure that tulpas are just in your head, you can’t 100% rule out that they are actually real beings like demons that you’re simply inviting in to your head.

Want to learn more about demons? Read my article Are Demons Real? (What You Should Know About Demons and The Devil)

If you have fear or uncertainty about creating a tulpa, it’s best not to do it. Those negative feelings can make the tulpa turn out negative if you aren’t careful.

You should also avoid becoming dependent or relying on your tulpa to feel better. While they can help with depression, anxiety, bipolar, and other conditions, they can’t cure them.

I would also caution against making your tulpa look like a real person, either living or dead, or even fictional. Using a non-human tulpa helps to prevent you from mixing up your imagination with reality. Otherwise you might start to really believe your tulpa is a real person. Plus a tiny cartoon tulpa just has less potential to be scary than a human-sized one.

Reasons Not To Create A Tulpa

There are plenty of good reasons to try making a tulpa. But there are some good reasons not to as well.

If You Get Bored Easily

Making a tulpa shouldn’t just be a fad or a fun trick for you. It’s more like getting a pet dog, and it’s something you should be committed to taking care of for several years.

If you get bored easily, then don’t make a tulpa. You might get annoyed of how they sound or act, or just having them constantly around.

For Sexual Reasons

While you can see, hear, and smell your tulpa once they become solid enough, almost nobody is able to actually feel their tulpa. So if you’re planning to make a tulpa to be your romantic companion, it’s not going to happen. It also just doesn’t seem very ethical.

To Become Super Smart

When people hear that their tulpa can often have a memory of its own, they might think of exploiting it to turn their brain into a supercomputer with a dozen people thinking at once.

But even if you have a dozen tulpas, you still only have one brain. You might feel smarter, but in reality you’re probably just splitting your thinking processes between all of the different tulpas and yourself.

In Place Of Therapy

If you have any mental problems, it’s best to consult a doctor, psychologist, or therapist about it, instead of trying to solve it yourself with a tulpa. Tulpas can actually make mental disorders worse if you aren’t careful.

How To Get Rid Of A Tulpa

Unfortunately, if you go to the effort to create a tulpa, getting rid of it isn’t something that can just happen overnight.

Over time if you stop paying attention to a tulpa, it will gradually start to dissipate. But the more effort you’ve put in to manifesting it to begin with, the longer it will take. If you’ve been forcing your tulpa for months or years, then you will have a while to wait before it’s completely gone.

The simplest way to get rid of your tulpa is just to neglect it. Don’t talk to it, don’t think about it, and stop interacting with it altogether. Of course this is easier said than done. If your tulpa is developed and has its own personality, it might not want to go, and can become quite distracting.

Some people also try visualizing their tulpa in front of them, but trapped in a white bubble or some other type of shield. When it’s inside, it can’t interact with you or talk to you. Or you can try to imagine it stuck in a sort of frozen stasis.

Don’t let your tulpa drain your energy. Check out my article What Are Psychic Vampires? (And How To Defend Against Them)

Conclusion

A tulpa is basically an imaginary friend that you can make for yourself, just by thinking it into existence. There are some benefits to making one, like improved happiness and confidence, and having someone to talk to.

Making a tulpa is basically just a process of thinking about it and imagining it over a long period of time, until it starts to become real.

Tulpas might have a bit of a dark side though too. Make sure that you consider all of the potential dangers and reasons not to make a tulpa before you decide to try it for yourself.