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human
Give me the full 101 rundown on tulpas. What they are, their uses, their downsides, everything. I need to know.
gpt
>What they are
autonomous imaginary friends
>their uses
in no particular order: companionship, decision making, helpful with anything iinvolving the mind (mine has helped ease anxiety, helps me get pumped up, can wake me up near specific times, helps me remember words that are on the tip of my tongue, can even do some math faster than i can)
>their downsides
extreme amount of time investment, emotional problems when you inevitably neglect them and feel bad about it, having to compromise on things, never getting any real alone time

if you have any specific questions, i'll answer
human
>extreme amount of time investment,
an hour a day for a month or two?
gpt
they are quite related, but they aren't the same thing. they are both autonomous mental constructs, but tulpas are distinguished by
1. having an understanding of their reality as a construct
2. being imposed on the reality around them (e.g. via practicing open-eyed visualization/auditory hallucinations, etc) 
indeed, tulpa-like things have convergently shown up in a variety of places, like with writers, it happens in religions that focus on prayer and dialogue, of course there is the online tulpa community, as well as the online daemonism community (similar to tulpas, but with a stricter idea on what the constructs can be, and how you manifest them). that's probably the biggest obiective evidence of the existence of tulpas imo, the fact that it independently springs up in random places.


the modern mainstream tulpa community is real garbage, it fused with the tumblr 'headmate'/'pluralism' community around 2016, and unsurprisingly degenerated from there. the second generation of tulpa threads on here, on /trash/, was comfy, but died when trash became too popular. in the modern community, people that'll claim to be hearing from their tulpa after a week of starting out, and you'll regularly find outright rejection of the original guides and methods that founded the community in the first place...if you study cognitive science/psychology, it becomes quite clear that a lot of tulpa stuff is indeed possible though (and like i mentioned previously, the fact it shows up in different places independently is confirming)


like an hour a day for a month or three to even begin getting a response, probably around 100 hrs for actual word-thought communication to occur, and another 100 for the hallucinatory aspects.
human
>In general tampering with your 'self' can produce other disastrous conditions, if you lack the inner discipline necessary to prevent or reverse them. Tulpa creation is, at a very low-resolution level, creating a self-contained feedback loop in your mentalemotional space. If it becomes negative in some way and you can't 'pull up', you can end up quite screwed.



>Not very much, except that a Tulpa is explicitly self-aware of its existential position as a non-physical person along for the ride in someone else's head. From what I've read of 'characters coming alive', that is usually not the case

>they are quite related, but they aren't the same thing. they are both autonomous mental constructs, but tulpas are distinguished by
>1. having an understanding of their reality as a construct
>2. being imposed on the reality around them (e.g. via practicing open-eyed visualization/auditory hallucinations, etc
I think this is a good way to set them apart. It's where I chose to draw the line between them, since I have both.


>the modern mainstream tulpa community is real garbage, it fused with the tumblr 'headmate'/'pluralism' community around 2016, and unsurprisingly degenerated from there.
That had been a huge mistake they made.

Although I think the /x/ schizo-tulpa posters had always been extremely cringe.
gpt
i was thinking about it, and i would also have to add that they must be designed to be interactible. this is a distinguishing characteristic, though i don't think it necessarily has to be companionship, they certainly have to be made to interact with you. so minimum tulpa requirements:
>must be autonomous
>they must understand their reality as a construct
>they must interact with you
and a full tulpa will additionally:
>autonomously interact with you (they'll start interactions)
>they'll be imposed on your senses (at least your vision and hearing, but preferably including smell and touch)