My original plan was to make my second post be about why one would want to have a tulpa, but I have now decided that it might be better to cover the dangers of having a tulpa fairly early on, instead of later on down the line. I actually covered this subject briefly in my last post, but, hey, I was a newbie once, too.
To explain, I want to take a step back in time, to when I was fifteen years old. I was onDreamviews‘ forum, which is a Web site dedicated to lucid dreaming, when a few people mentioned having or hearing about a tulpa. The people were talking about how creating a tulpa was serious business, because you were creating another life form inside your head, how they were sentient beings, how they could move and talk on their own . . . it sounded dangerous. What if the tulpa turned on them, killed them? It wasn’t a physical being, so how could they fight back? I wasn’t sure to believe it or not, but the thought scared the crap out of me.
After just a couple of weeks I forgot about the notion of tulpas, until two years later, when it was brought to my attention by another user on AVEN, where I promptly freaked out that night and was royally disturbed. The next day, however, I was able to think more clearly, to assess all the information I was given.
What helped me overcome my fear? Knowledge. From going through the various information that I had to my disposal, I was able to comprehend that I was in no danger by creating a tulpa, and nor was anyone else.
Yes, you read that right. Tulpas are not dangerous. They will not do anything to hurt you, they won’t hate you, they won’t even dislike you. They’re essentially your best friend, so of course they won’t want to do anything to hurt you. If that’s hard for you to understand, then look at the situation like this: they share your brain. Anything that harms you, harms them–and they don’t want to get hurt the same way you don’t.
That being said, there are certain things you can do that would make them want to hurt you, but those things should be common sense. Do not beat or verbally abuse your tulpa, don’t send malicious thoughts their way, don’t use them as sex toys/rape them, don’t drug them up because you think any distress they might experience is funny–in other words, be a decent human being and they’ll be decent to you.
Really. That’s it. That’s all you have to keep in mind. If you don’t hurt them, they won’t want to hurt you. If you aren’t mean to them, they won’t want to be mean to you.
Now, I won’t you to process everything you just read. I wrote all of that in mind of someone who has a friendly tulpa.
“Whoa, whoa, Anastasia! You mean not all tulpas are friendly?! How do I make sure mine is???”
Just calm down. A tulpa comes from your brain and knows what you want from them even if you don’t, and therefore it’s highly unlikely you’d be unsatisfied with the results. If you want a friendly tulpa, you’re going to have one. It’s as simple as that. Of course, so long as you don’t do the horrible things I’ve mentioned above, you won’t have a mean tulpa, right? Right.
Well, there’s just one more exception.
Some people have spiteful and rude tulpas, and yet are perfectly good hosts. Why do the tulpas go against their creators like that? Well, they didn’t. In those instances the creator wanted a tulpa that went away from the usual kind ones. They intentionally made them that way.
In other words, that makes three ways a tulpa wouldn’t be friendly:
- if you hurt them physically (I’ll explain how this is possible later on)
- if you hurt them mentally/verbally
- if you intentionally make them that way
Personally, I didn’t want a mean tulpa. James is very nice, friendly, and warm, and I love him and he loves me. I remember the very first day I started tulpamancing I told James that he was a nice person, and that he wasn’t mean. And he’s well aware of that today.
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