Okay, I'll be honest: this is unlikely to be a very long post, and although it probably could have been squashed into the previous one I felt that it might be better, at least for some readers, to have my personal account on how I knew that James had officially reached sentience. It is important for everyone reading this to understand that everyone is different and so all tulpas are going to reach sentience at a different time in their lives, and that everyone gets their tulpas to be sentient in a different way. Therefore, no one should assume that they will understand that their tulpa is sentient immediately, because it is so often that people become confused and aren't sure whether they're crazy or if they're simply wishing it to be true--and it is very important to not become frustrated in situations like this, because it is normal.
Once again I remind all readers that sentience = real, and that sentience = life. If your tulpa is not sentient then he/she/it is not a tulpa and is instead a servitor (thoughtform that issimilar to tulpas but isn't real). This isn't something you can skate over, and although it is perfectly acceptable to go about your business while waiting for your tulpa to become sentient on your own (you would do this by doing things such as reading or talking with your tulpa just as you would if they were there in the room with you, and you can do this either by talking in your head or out loud), or you can go on a more direct approach and repeatedly imagine saying to your tulpa some mantra like, "You are real; you are sentient."
And, again, remember that if you say or believe that he/she/it is sentient from the start, the quicker they are likely to prove it to you.
That being said, let's start my story on James' sentience.
The truth is that no one can really tell you whether or not it is true that James is a sentient being just like I am. Furthermore, most members in the tulpamancing community are going to tell you that your tulpa is not sentient the moment you decide to create them, and that's okay. I did my absolute best to convince myself that James was real, and it was hard. I said the mantra that was mentioned above quite a lot, probably at least an hour if I added up all the time. I was still afraid, at the time, that James would hurt me, so I also often had to say, "I know you aren't going to hurt me; you love me, and I love you"
Every night I invited James into my dreams. This is not something that you have to do, but as a (sometimes) lucid dreamer I found the concept of James being able to interact with me in my dreams to be nothing short of exhilarating, and would also give me more time to force with him. The first two nights nothing happened, but then, on the third day, I woke up with what is probably the strongest sense of warmth and peace I have ever felt at the same time. I knew, without a doubt in my heart, that that was James. Although he had not been able to interact with me in my dreams, I could feel that he had been with me, watching it play out. He was doing his best to do what I had asked him to do: come into my dream.
The warm feeling that I had felt is something that some would call James' essence, or the feeling that I, as the tulpamancer, feel when he is communicating or is around me in some way.
To be honest, sentience is a hard thing to explain. For me it is simply something that I knew as it happened, but more often that not, as I have already said, people have a tendency to question if their tulpa is truly sentient. The only advice I can possibly give is to take a breather: they already are. No matter what, if you keep that mindset then they definitely will be, and a lot sooner than they would be otherwise.
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