Here's a post on "proving tulpas". Meat of it is in the child comments. It contains some links to other posts you might like as well, including a few scientific studies. (Not on tulpamancy specifically, but closely related phenomena. There is an anthropological preliminary study on tulpamancy ~~that I'll edit into this post once I find it~~ right here.)
If you have any specific questions beyond that, let me know.
Also, re: otherkin, obligatory /u/BloodyKitten ping. Otherkin is a real thing that has been researched in the same way various cultures are researched. Otherkin is not the claim that one is physically nonhuman, but the state of identifying as a nonhuman species on a psychological or spiritual level. For the psychological view of kin, it's simply a different way of perceiving yourself; for the spiritual, it's essentially like any supernatural spiritual belief, especially ones involving reincarnation, with the important caveat that otherkin do not choose to identify how they do and cannot change their identity any more than a trans person can change their gender identity.
Know a good number of otherkin. They're good people who don't flaunt their identity and they live normal lives. It's simply that a bunch of teenagers and trolls on tumblr have taken it and run it into the ground as an utter farce. General rule of thumb: take whatever you see on tumblr with a generous pinch of salt.
Obligatory link to When God Talks Back by Tanya Luhrmann, who's also shown interest in tulpas.
I've been a tulpamancer for ~3.5 years, and I'm a psych student as well. I just released the results of some tulpa research I had been working on for over fifteen months, and can attest that the community is willing to participate in research. I received a 20% response rate on a 13 page survey through what was essentially cold calling, which is almost unheard of.
If you're interested in my research, check it out here: https://www.academia.edu/29921901/Tulpamancy_Transcending_the_Assumption_of_Singularity_in_the_Human_Mind
The community is eager to prove tulpamancy as a safe and healthy practice, and understands that scientific study is a step towards that. Because of this, participation in surveys, censuses, and studies that pass through is very high.
That being said, there is a lot of just skepticism towards outsiders interested in studying the community. Several "tulpa researchers" have used personal info without permission in articles painting tulpamancy in a less-than-favorable light.
Even so, prove your righteous intentions, maybe offer some $$, and I have no doubt that you will have plenty of volunteers.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=clear.serif This app is great. You can set up icons, names and such, and have conversations with "Yourself" but with actual chat bubble and such for each tulpa!
Seeing as it's AI generated, I did have to work on it a little in GIMP, namely changing the colours of the lips and eyes, and removing stray hairs and shadows.
That said, it's a great AI tool. Results are more realistic (fewer mistakes, imo) than thispersondoesnotexist (link). Here's Artbreeder, too: link.
> Oh my gosh, it's like a link labyrinth. I just keep clicking more links that lead to more links.
Yeah, I tend to have an unfortunate tendency of making asides that turn into more asides that turn into more asides. :c Sorry. If you really want to cut to the chase and be given "proof" that tulpamancy is a thing that exists, the fiction writer study is the one crucial link, in my opinion.
I really need to clean it all up for easier consumption. Right now I'm just being lazy and linking back.
It can be a bit of a midzone sometimes. How well I can control them typically correlates with my mental state.
To get maybe a bit more graphic than most people would be comfortable with... A few weeks back, on the eve of a stressful midterm, a few of them started screaming incessantly, calling for help, and so on and so forth. Nothing I did would get them to shut up. I could focus on one and "choke" it off, but as soon as I let go, it would start hollering again. Also had some chant "you're gonna fail, you're gonna fail, you're gonna fail" over and over during tests I'm stressed in (not ones I'm not stressed in), another would read off "news" of my suicide, etc.
Thankfully, you get used to it. It's like a cross between a refrigerator and a pack of howling dogs. Annoying, but not terrifying, and you can tune them out a lot of the time and use music or MyNoise.net. The only ones I really have trouble with are the ones that sound like my parents. Most tend to be nice or even helpful, rest get eyerolls.
As for the visual bit, I definitely spend a lot of time making up stories and wandering around in imaginary worlds. Habit that carried over from childhood, pasttime I indulged in with Lark especially. Most of the time it's not maladaptive, more sort of an internal movie I flick on while going from place to place, but sometimes I can drift away thinking about the mechanics of the Pokemon world instead of, say, doing my homework. So I dunno where it qualifies (namely along the lines of "clinically significant").
I wrote this last night before I let go of front: https://write.as/heartmender/questions
I’ve started through Godel Escher and Bach. I’m loving it so far. Hardly even 17 pages in and I can see it’s gonna be a ride.
I encourage you to take a skeptical look at my own scientific paper then. It's completely independent research. I've been told it's fair from some, and comes from a very biased standpoint from others. I'm very open to criticism. But I still stand firmly by the claim that the tulpa phenomenon (at least in human neurobiology) is intrinsically traceable to the Default Mode Network, in terms of potentially recognizable patterns that should be retrievable through brain scanning. If anything different or peculiar is going on at all in a host's brain, I'd say the best patterns to look for would heavily entail the DMN. Otherwise, I still think Dr. Samuel Veissiere (of Canada) has reached out to various hosts, asking them to fly out to McGill University for EEG scans. Whether or not that's still a thing is beyond me, but I heard about that, and maybe it's yielded results that simply haven't been peer-reviewed and published yet.
The length of the game depends on how long it will take you to solve each puzzle. If you knew the solutions to the puzzles it wouldn't appear very long.
Do you mean favorite part of the game, or favorite part of the development process?
Yes, we would like to ask you and your friends on your opinion about the game from what you have seen so far, what you like and most of all what you dislike. Both for the game and our campaigns on indiegogo (http://www.indiegogo.com/at/tulpa) and steam greenlight (http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=228461052&tscn=1396192758).
> On another note, I tried my first time visualizing some hours ago. Closed eyes and with pink noise playing (too much other noise in this house and Music distracts me too much). So what happened? My focus shifted way too often and ... I fell asleep. What a great start... I know this isn't the end of the world, but I wanted to dedicate this time to my tulpa and immediately failed. Feels bad.
Hey, if it helps, 90% of my immersion attempts still inevitably result in me succumbing to hypnogogia and passing out. I also have thoughts that go everywhere and more than once I've zoned out contemplating the meaning of candy wrappers while someone here was talking to me. Definitely work on stuff, but don't beat yourself over not getting it right the first time. Guilt is kind of an ornamental emotion, to borrow Rain's term--looks good to have, but doesn't actually do much in many cases.
That goes for you too, /u/Scrublord_.
Also, you might like this: https://mynoise.net/noiseMachines.php I'm not sure if your brain works like this one, but there's the possibility of meditating with activity, so to speak, if sit-down stuff doesn't work. I've found that doing a simple task like outlining a sketch can help free up my mind for focus while keeping me awake, and giving some of those stray thoughts things to do. Pacing also seems to have a way of lining everything up neatly.
/u/Keysaya, ping ping.
This is something particularly common among walk-ins (those who appear without bidding) and those system members created from writing. There are quite a few cases of characters who would come alive, and then proceed to tell the astonished writer everything about their homeworld and the story they're set in, to the point that the writer is practically transcribing the story. Here's an excerpt from a paper on the matter.
Also, those with these back-memories can consider them wholly psychological and still have them, extremely vividly so, and value them as part of what makes them who they are.
as theres nothing here at the moment, heres a small sketch I did (in 5 minutes) of the last image In my wonderland of Rei after she got all the cooking stuff I gave her http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=34pxm9z&s=8#.VSRjjPnF-vM
[Bear] second question first. We have platonic love and there is sexual attraction involved but we don't go beyond "family kiss" (that was Ashley who did it and she even spontaneously full-on imposed it several times.) The romance is real but we've had a tenuous truce since day three.
[Ashley] it felt heavy the first time, after that it was fine. I don't "feel" anything out of the ordinary, It's not like he's aroused with me fronting, lol, that'd be hard to ignore. It feels normal, but over a long-ish period of time it undeniably feels like Bear. It's also like a big musky beast. When we played Space Engineers we noticed it felt like a large animal even when Bear was dormant. Bear's a big guy (muscular and tall) so the body has that feel, but it's subtle. The body is really powerful too and so like I can break things if I'm not paying attention.
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If it helps, there's a few research things going on that could help you verify the existence of tulpas. If I can find some links, I'll add them in, but it might be easier for you to look some up.
EDIT:: This one in particular is what I was thinking of, but that's done by a member of the community so you may or may not want to follow that one.
Might as well link the original post for context if anybody is interested. That said, I'm interested.
Regarding a good journal app, as a fellow Android user the two apps I swear by are Zoho Notebook and Writeaday.
Notebook lets you create notes via text, image, link, checklist, audio recording, and in-app virtual drawings. These notes can be organized into separate notebooks as well as collections of notes within each notebook. It's very customizable and the app is 100% free.
Writeaday is much simpler, with text-only entries (plus emoji), but good for people who like visual feedback and prefer lots of short diary entries over longer, more in-depth ones. The app uses a color gradient to "reward" you for making more entries. I find it feels a lot like having a private Twitter with prettier colors. It is a freemium app made by just one guy, but besides a PIN lock option and custom reminders to make entries the only thing behind a paywalls is style options; staying a free user doesn't at all detract from the experience of using the app.
I hope you find something that works for you guys!
<strong>Here's the link</strong> copied from the forums.
Looks interesting! It might be hard to build without my parents noticing though >_<
You can pretty much apply forcing principles directly to yourself; no need to entangle another being in the process. You might have heard of affirmations and autohypnosis, which are pretty much exactly tulpaforcing directed at the self.. the tricky part, of course, is that "you" have a lot more inertia and history than a fledgling tulpa. Making it stick takes persistence and faith in the process.
Melvin Powers: A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22814 <- Available freely and legally.
Dealing with the self-image more explicitly:
Maxwell Maltz: Psycho-Cybernetics (various editions). I liked the 'Updated and Expanded' one.
Steve Andreas: Transforming Your Self: Becoming Who You Want to Be
Of course, a tulpa can be a fantastic force for self-improvement without even thinking about Merging. They can cheer you on, remind you of your goals, act a role-model, and provide a whole new kind of introspection that can't be had otherwise.
Type: Tulpa
Description: Hey there. I was wondering whether you would be able to create a piece of my tulpa Len. The best way I can physically describe him is he looks like slenderman. He is pale, has long limbs, is quite lean and has a sharped toothed mouth (always grinning/smirking). His is charming, a little arrogant and mischevious, and humorous.
Here are some reference photos. https://www.tumblr.com/blog/ladyviscera Request 5
Thanks heaps:)
That epsom salt is so cheap and so relaxing. I've was using it well before I started making new people in my head, but it really helps relax the body and mind to get ready to do forcing work. You can buy a big bag of it at any drug store, or you can go to Amazon and get a bunch of it all at once.
https://www.amazon.com/Epsoak-Epsom-19lbs-Magnesium-Sulfate/dp/B004N7DQHA?th=1
Anatomy is the only path to accurate reconstruction if you're not some art freak by birth (I don't think they exist). You have to comb over each feature separately to train your eye. People act like anatomy is nothing, but they've all secretly had anatomy courses where somebody sat them down and went over everything in such detail that they've forced a 3D anatomic model into their minds. Most don't even give a shit and you can tell by their dogshit art on shit like artstation, so consider yourself lucky that your eye is unnaturally honest. The catch is all anatomy books are fucking dogshit, low-resolution, inaccurate, and male. It angers me to no end. Males and females are completely different. Every shape on the bone is important. Different races have different bones, skin, fat, and dimorphism, but you wouldn't know because they don't make different books for them like they should.
Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist is an easily piratable European male reference.
Artistic Anatomy by Dr. Paul Richer is a good European male reference.
Female Morphology by Dr. Paul Richer is a good European female addition to the male reference.
They're all fucking ancient low-res shit drawings, but I like them better than the others because they're accurate and not simplified. The most expensive and modern one I bought is all perfectly smooth shit and they made up the fucking musculature out of thin air.There's really no excuse for the lack of 3D scanned bodies and bones these days.
You may want other books to your tastes. You won't get there without a lot of study (not much if good memorizer), practice, and observation. There are all sorts of techniques and shit in different books, but it all comes down to how well you know your subject, the pieces and the relations between them.
Requests currently closed due to real life stuff and the approaching end of the month. I'll be back next month after recovering from exams to do some more pics, so hold on tight.
Yay, gift art!
# of requests willing to take: Finals are coming up, so 2.
Medium of your art: Anything from pencil and paper to digital. I occasionally combine the two, with varying results. Sometimes I draw on a DS when I'm really busy. Check out some of my stuff here.
I'm willing to do anything from simple portraits in charcoal to huge illustrations on the computer, so let me know what medium you want it in. Keep in mind the larger and more detailed an image is the longer it will take. Thanks for checking out my post and have a great day!
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Strategy games work well. Anything where you could conceivably play with more than one person. Otherwise you need posession or switching to take turns.
Check out our runs, especially the "Three Sisters Play" Space Engineers.
[Ashley] Check out the "three sisters play" series on my blog, especially the Space Engineers one because we had a host that was nosey af and we had to learn how to recognize that bodyOS feels like him and taints our thouhts, then confirmation bias on our part would lead us to blame him.
I just made something in the Elite: Dangerous character editor and used a poorly remembered version of that image as a reference.
You could also probably use something like https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/, which uses AI to generate faces of people who don't exist. It's not really customizable though, you just have to refresh the page a lot.
You could try MCEdit, go to your player, and delete it. You'll be back at the spawnpoint with no items, however. Also, add me to the whitelist too, names Mindjacker (Ironically I made the account before I started tulpamancy).
Before I knew what a tulpa was, I was inspired by this little comic here: http://www.thinkwithportals.com/comic/
There is also a fan-made live action short here: https://youtu.be/539oNONcCrI
The voice in the short is what really inspired me to create Kuno. In fact, her initial voice was very similar.
If you're looking for humanoids this is an excellent resource for Tulpas and character building in general. You can peruse what others have made or modify your own images, and the best part is none of the images are real people. This is how we came up with Aila's form. We also use it to generate D&D characters all the time.
You may be interested in Reddit Enhancement Suite. It adds quite a few features.
If you click "Formatting Help" underneath the text input box, you should receive a table explaining text formatting for this site.
Welcome to the subreddit. :)
Rizon is a server that allows us to use IRC (Internet Relay Chat) you can access it through https://www.mibbit.com/ What you do is you go this website, you press Launch Client, and then go to the drop down bar, select Rizon, make a Nick, and then type in the channel #redditulpas
> I want to have my own Tupla
A: Well, this will probably surprise you, but you have to buy them unfortunately.
C: Luckily Amazon offers a great deal on them, selling 4 for the simple cost of $9.49 USD
A: This certainly really sucks for those of us who hope to get them for free, but hey, that's just the kind of economy we live in these days, sadly.
"The Power of Habit" is an excellent psychology/productivity book on how you can optimize your thinking and behavior. A lot of its lessons can translate to better tulpamancy practices.
https://www.amazon.com/Power-Habit-What-Life-Business/dp/081298160X
This book is very interesting when read from our perspective.
I highly recommend Urban Shaman by Sergey King, I've given away several copies of this book since I first read it in the 90's
It's amazing how vivid and memorable the mediation sessions can be, I have shared just a fraction of what occurred and not what I learned / brought back
Thank you😂 I look similar to Tom holland, my host is white and her hair is black and she was wearing this hat but it’s black instead of green (that’s the hat her boss made a comment about but we don’t remember what he said about it)
I see the term "DiD is the same as tulpas" being thrown around a lot in this thread. And no, don't even think for a second that they're the same thing. DiD has a very specific set of symptoms.
If any one who has tulpas is experiencing this: Seek treatment NOW. Calling your alters tulpas doesn't help you in the least. You're just sticking your head in the sand.
I've seen my Tulpa change her body many times. She does it pretty much instantly. I recall seeing her create a few things in front of me. One was an "infinite" hallway for me to practice standing still while in wonderland. She did that pretty much instantly, although it was a really simple design. Another was a large, molten rock dragon. The dragon appeared instantly but the details and sound of the dragon took a little longer for her to make. It looked very similar to this but with more lava that bubbled and had heat wave effects, and it looked real, not CG. I jokingly told her she could keep it as a pet as long as she didn't let it become sentient (Neither of us want more than one Tulpa in the system). She called it Teddy, but I've not seen it since. I just now asked her where it was and she happily said, "Don't worry about it. :)"
My Tulpa helped me work on my created location earlier. She asked me several logical questions about what I would expect to see in a certain location when I looked somewhere. Then she'd have me describe details and then point out flaws. So now my grass plains next to a waterway is in a bowl shaped valley. There being a water way doesn't make much sense yet, but she said we could work on it more later.
I need to make a journal of all of our sessions. When I meditate she's able to get really active and will often control the session. We both think of the meditation as allowing the brain the load reduction it needs to process both of our consciousnesses at a high rate at the same time.
Hey, I'm not sure how the JavaScript port is coming along, but I have ported your game to QB64 since that takes almost zero effort (the language is very similar), but that allowed me to convert it into a proper .exe. For those who don't want to install LibertyBasic just to play, the download is available here, and the new source code is also included.
Mel's host here! Yes it is possible for the tulpa to take over the body. I generally don't have a memory lapse, though memories can be foggy or forcably hidden if Mel specifically doesn't want me to know something. However, those memories don't stay burried forever.
The headspace/mindscape/wonderland is relatively similar to how it functions in DID, but of course the two are not the same.
Mel actually made a post on amino about it recently, on request of one of the community leaders: http://aminoapps.com/p/qf04lv I think it explains things pretty well.
My tulpa is actually a soulbond, fictional character that developed a mind of their own. She's not very verbal now so I have to tulpaforce her more, but she is my fursona =) She came around semi-conscious while I was really stressed out, and she's been popping in and out of my head ever since. Sadly, there aren't any soulbond(ing) communities anymore, as far as I know, but the tulpa community has been very welcoming. I'm fairly new to all this despite Notebook materializing over 3 years ago!
I don't know about vivid imagination very much. Have you looked into meditation or lucid dreaming? My subconscious likes to take me for a ride, so you might have fun with that, lol! Or r/Psychonaut, maybe? Binaural beats, progressive noise generators, and wonderlands - which you can find out about in this very subreddit - are other stimulating/engaging imaginative things, if you want to give those a go.
Try setting aside any distractions you have for however long you want to force. Something like white noise, rain or a background noise might help you concentrate, everyone is different. https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/whiteNoiseGenerator.php Imagine yourself sitting in an empty room. Stay there for a while until you get used to your surroundings. From there, you can work on your tulpa's form and personality, maybe ask them some yes or no questions to start. Hope that sounds like it will help.
Not quite vocal yet so I don't know if this counts. So I was reading a post on the Reddit page. Dragon picked up on "Demon".
I felt Dragon smile and then I knew he was having fun. He knows that I have difficulty detecting if something is a joke.
I don't agree with /u/SteampunkSkygod. "Sentient" comes from Latin, meaning "feeling". More specifically, "feeling emotion". Your cell phone "feels" your finger on the touch screen, it "feels" the way you tilt it, it "feels" how fast it's moving, it "feels" the location of north--but it's not emotional. That's essentially what a servitor is--something programmed. Yes, it senses things, in the way that your cell phone senses things, but it doesn't have emotions about those things.
The difference between a servitor and a habit or skill is that a habit or skill must be learned through trial and error, observation, and so on, while a servitor is programmed. You tell it that when it experiences a certain sensory input, it will do a certain thing.
The best way to illustrate the difference between a chess-playing servitor and having chess skill is that if you have chess skill you can look at this problem and see a very simple solution, whereas a servitor could look at this and move the king around the board indefinitely, because its programming tells it that's the best that can be done with the pieces available.
I' m not sure how welcome, or ill-considered this will be on /r/Tulpas, buu..
I would like to issue a plug on behalf of my patronage to the 'Church of EMACS' (a meme, if you look it up), as follows:
I'd recommend "Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead" as a brutally mortal (you will die; Dark Souls difficulty) rpg-inspired rogue-like, and Ryzom as an aged fantasy-isolate (otherworldly; Morrowind detail) mmorpg.
I'll also recommend 0 A.D., OpenTTD, Terrasology, and Xonotic, as very evolved clones of Age of Empires, Sims, Minecraft, and Halo respectively that have distinguished themselves.
But, most importantly, I recommend all these because they are free cultural works and won't be accomplice to our proprietary software overlords further enslaving us. ;)
Edit: Here lies, links-galore!
Https://libregamewiki.org/Cataclysm:_Dark_Days_Ahead
You know what the fun part is? I write music and I can't play an instrument either. You should try using a digital composer program, I would recommend Renoise since I've used that for years. It basically enables you to load up any samples or virtual instrument and make a song out of them.
If you can imagine a song, you can write it :D
well, any music seems to work fine for forcing (depending on the person, that is.), our mentor kinda listens to rap while doing it [do not ask me how]
I have a radio on pandora with celtic music. I dunno why but it just puts me on the right mood.
I'm no stranger to meditation and it has led me to (so far) very quick tulpa development. If you have any questions, just lay them down and I'll try my best to answer.
I know of a software for voice changing/editing called "Screaming Bee MorphVox Pro", used it only a couple times and it was like 5 years ago, but it worked well and was easy to use. However, before you go download it, a quick search showed me that maybe the software (or maybe only the "junior" version of it) might be not safe anymore. And there's 5 alternative softwares to it recommended on that page https://alternativeto.net/software/morphvox-junior/ -- but as usual, you should do your own research about these alternatives before downloading anything.
Architect: Welcome. You'll find that a fair number of us are... touchy about some of tumblr's less fortunate habits. However, none of us bear any ill will towards those who simply happen to use tumblr. It would be very hypocritical of us, otherwise.
If you need any help with navigating reddit, please let us know. I highly recommend installing RES. As for chats, there's a few Skype chats around, and links to a tulpamancy IRC in the sidebar.
Enjoy.
Cassius: Whoa hey, fellow Internet crawler and nerd. I'm curious, what fandoms are you trash for?
You said things pretty well, so this definitely is not a rebuke, just some addendums.
> And I think I remember reading somewhere that a famous novelist had tulpas of the characters in his books, but I don't remember for sure.
Perhaps this? There's some more interesting examples here if you scroll down to "Historical Accounts of Plurality".
>It's not just another part of you, (that's a different sort of plurality that I don't know much about)
Medianhood. :) Though terminology is a little beside the point, in any case.
Actually, no, that guide actually isn't that good at all. Don't let the length fool you.
You're probably looking for Within's Switching Guide, which here's a link for that: https://write.as/within/switching
Hi there! You don't need to worry about head pressures, it's just an odd thing that happens sometimes, it may just mean your brain is working a little harder. It's not always a method of communication. I get head pressures but my tulpa isn't intentionally causing them.
If you can understand what your tulpas are telling you, that's great! Keep talking to them and encourage them to think and talk more. Check out this post on parrotnoia, you may find it helpful: https://write.as/yo9r5f7ljzw9m.md
If you have doubts about their independence, you can just use that as motivation to help them develop more.
This might help your worries: https://write.as/yo9r5f7ljzw9m.md
Diana was very clear the very first time she spoke to me. There have been a few moments since then but that'll always be the biggest one.
1/2: I wrote an essay on that: https://write.as/yo9r5f7ljzw9m.md
I wrote a guide on that: https://www.reddit.com/r/Tulpas/comments/a8hcxe/temporary_fusing_for_fun_and_exploration/
That is how most people interact with it
You mean consciousnesses outside of your system? No.
Don't treat them like a person? People seem to have many different understandings of "servitors".
Maybe, but not in any special way that you couldn't do on your own.
I would love to change the term "meta" to "chaos magick", "spoop", "magick" or "kasmakfa". I feel that "meta" being used for this is so goddamn misleading in very subtle ways.
It’d be interesting if you could get her to go into as much detail as she wants to as to why she thinks she doesn’t exist into somewhere like https://write.as. I’d be very curious to hear from her. This is a very interesting viewpoint and I think it’d be very worth reading about.
When you generally are having trouble getting things done I reccomend you check out Habitica. It's a website that kinda turns your life into an RPG. You have a character and can set tasks. If you fail to complete these tasks in the amount of time you have set your character takes damage. It does help to motivate.
I’m not Buddhist, but my creator learned from Tibetan and India traditions. You may find these interesting:
Feeding Your Demons: Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict, the book that started the current tulpa-making community.
Here’s a timeline of events made long ago by _Albatros (of Tulpa,info).
The current wave of tulpas seems to have been prompted by the publication of the book <em>Feeding Your Demons</em> : <em>Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict</em> in 2008.
I suggest you get a fidget toy and lookup grounding exercises. They may help in day-to-day life AND in helping you focus on your headmate.
Here is a cheap thing for fidget toys: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09FLKZ164/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_glt_fabc_5RQV2C3A5EY3J3H3TF2N?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
Here are basic grounding exercises: https://www.healthline.com/health/grounding-techniques#mental-techniques
Best of luck!
It's a philosophy of life and goes into how you can live a good and virtuous (old definition) life. But for most people, you just use it to control your emotional responses to the outside world and be happy with what/who you have regardless of the circumstances. Eventually, you can achieve a state of near-constant joy in knowing that the outside world (outside your mind/control) is neither good nor bad. Couple this with stoic teachings on how to live a good life and you'll find that you have/do less, but are completely delighted with where/what you are doing in life; even if most other people would be cursing their luck.
It's the philosophy that lets men and women look at an unavoidable death (e.g. cancer) and accept it without overwhelming fear and worry. If you actually care, then get the book (also Audiobook & free with Audible) called: <strong>A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy</strong>. It's a very popular book and a very easy listen.
We mostly just use the application called Fast Notepad - we wire up a keyboard to our tablet and type away, using symbols like on here to mark who is talking.
DaC: [Like this, except for the names since we know by the symbols who is talking. Also, there is no formatting.]
I'm unable to understand the things that you're saying. You don't seem to be following any sort of train of thought. You're hopping all over the place and not answering the question that I've asked.
However, if you're the type of person that likes to read, then I think that you would like the book "Man's Search for Meaning" by Victor Frankl. It was written in 1946 by a psychologist who suffered through the holocaust, and struggled, like you, to find meaning in a world full of nothing but suffering. I think that if you're truly upset by the things you've been telling me, then you would do well to read it. Unless you're just spouting nonsense and don't very strongly feel the things you've been saying. With that though, I'll say goodbye.
> When I wake up by myself or with an alarm clock, I always feel kinda groggy.
I got a light like this, and I've been better at waking up. Maybe something worth getting.
As for tulpas being able to manipulate sleep cycles, maybe your brain subconsciously knows they're up and starts waking you up as well. Just a theory.
You may have heard of it already, but there's a book about that (sorta).
Mostly doodling over the years, but the resource that took me from stick figures to anything much better was going through this book in a class in my freshman year.
I suppose I was merely nit-picking. Certainly the right type of AI system could be a person.
I see you linked to Nick Bostrom. I'm currently sort of reading his book Superintelligence - I bought it in December or thereabouts and I've only read a few chapters so far. And I've been hanging around Less Wrong/MIRI enough to get a good taste of their take on AI.
Pharaun has been stronger than ever recently, and we've been working on presence imposition.
I started reading When God Talks Back, which was recommended on this sub at some point.
If you use Android, you can try our pro audio app - it includes these voices: Effects:
Volume
3-band Equalizer
Pitch
Voice Changer:
Dark Father - not affiliated with Darth Vader or Star Wars
Rylo Ken - not affiliated with Kylo Ren or Star Wars
Dane - not affiliated with Bane or The Dark Knight Rises movie
Exterminator - not affiliated with Dalek or the BBC
Space Trooper - not affiliated with Stormtroopers or Star Wars (this one will be improved in the next update)
Captain Phase - not affiliated with Captain Phasma or Star Wars
The app link is here
Just plug in a male-to-male cable to the phone jack, and the other end goes into the gaming hardware mic jack - just remember to keep volume very low initially (so you don't blow anything out with loud volume).
Now after jack is plugged into phone, pressing Record in the app will echo the recorded audio to the output as well.
Click Effects - Voice Changer and pick from the effects. Or just use the Effects - Pitch (which is free) - or the Equalizer.
Let me know if you have issues.