Facepunch Anonymous Confessional: More Things Better Left Unsaid
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[QUOTE=ROFLBURGER;47122620]It's Schizophrenia.[/QUOTE]
Considering he came up with, and decided to have an imaginary friend, i don't think he is schizophrenic. He sounds like an extremely lonely person who needed a friend.
It's definitely not shizophrenia but it is a delusion nonetheless and you should always be aware of that.
Oh and to the poster above, it is not made up. The concept seems to stem from Buddhism, CG Jung talked about it too calling them "thoughtforms". I think it's an interesting concept although I wouldn't want one myself.
[QUOTE=creative;47122672]Considering he came up with, and decided to have an imaginary friend, i don't think he is schizophrenic. He sounds like an extremely lonely person who needed a friend.[/QUOTE]
well if he firmly believes a bioshock character communicates with him daily, i'd say it's not just down to loneliness
maybe not schizophrenia but still on the "wacko" spectrum
it sounds like you need to be fragile enough to mentally will your own brain into snapping itself in half. no one normal and well-adjusted is ever going to try and make one and succeed
Personally I could see myself getting a tulpa if it meant it would be willing to act as a model for drawings and such, being able to transform shape at will. Would be pretty cool to have a "live" model that can turn into a skeleton or a monster, whenever I'd need it. Buuut since they might not be up for it and it would probably be a pain to start making a tulpa (especially when my reasons are as shallow as this) I don't think I can actually do it.
[QUOTE=Bordellimies;47122891]Personally I could see myself getting a tulpa if it meant it would be willing to act as a model for drawings and such, being able to transform shape at will. Would be pretty cool to have a "live" model that can turn into a skeleton or a monster, whenever I'd need it. Buuut since they might not be up for it and it would probably be a pain to start making a tulpa (especially when my reasons are as shallow as this) I don't think I can actually do it.[/QUOTE]
there is literally, figuratively, and metaphorically no good reason to try and create a tulpa
It takes serious talent to make something imaginary tangible. If I try to imagine, say, a cup, on my desk, I have to pretty much stare off into space and even then, it's just a memory. I can never see it, I can only remember seeing it.
[QUOTE=Bordellimies;47122891]Personally I could see myself getting a tulpa if it meant it would be willing to act as a model for drawings and such, being able to transform shape at will. Would be pretty cool to have a "live" model that can turn into a skeleton or a monster, whenever I'd need it. Buuut since they might not be up for it and it would probably be a pain to start making a tulpa (especially when my reasons are as shallow as this) I don't think I can actually do it.[/QUOTE]
You don't need a "tulpa" for that, many people imagine characters and spend years developing them. The difference is that they know the characters aren't real. If you need your character to be more realistic in your work, study more art.
[QUOTE=joshuadim;47122527]are tulpas real things?
or are they just some creepypaste fake shit?[/QUOTE]
The idea of "tulpas" specifically came from a religious background. Buddhism, I think? I'm not a religious historian here, but my understanding was that monks would extensively meditate on deities and spirits and such, and because they did it so much, some monks would begin having hallucinations of seeing and hearing them. The wiki says that these monks would then have to discover and accept that these phantoms were only figments of their imagination. If they failed, they would be considered a failure, and would be forced to live with these uncomfortable visions for quite a long time (possibly forever), never truly being able to distinguish between reality and fiction.
Basically, people who are prone to dissociative disorders could fracture their personality by obsessively fantasizing over a make-believe entity. How common it actually is, I dunno. It seems pretty likely that most of this modern tulpa stuff is probably bullshitted for a laugh, because it's kind of a goofy fuckin' concept; obsessing over your video game crush until you start having hallucinations of her visiting you is equal parts hilarious and pitiful.
Regardless, if anybody actually [I]is[/I] experiencing these hallucinations then they should immediately seek psychiatric help, because this is literally a dissociative identity disorder. Constantly living in a state where you can barely distinguish reality from fantasy is fucked up, and could easily get in the way of actually living.
i'm not gone, i just don't post or visit ever. i fully support BDA taking over for this, and i've forwarded the few remaining confessions that i hadn't bothered to post.
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1-3 are lost to the sands of time
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[B]SHOULD HAVE SAID ALMOST KILLED SOMEONE, didnt actually kill anyone [/B]
i knew about tulpas but I never knew that you could get two. I mean, that must be a lot of mental work and obsession right? Christ. Thats like taking care of a whole family in the Sims, and I can't even take care of 2 people
I remember reading a tupla story where a guy would sometimes go out to a dinner with his tupla; and order two deserts. Then he'd remember (or she would remind him) that she isn't tangible, so he would have to eat two sets of deserts on his own; while seemingly holding conversations to himself.
Tuplas sound like a neat concept; but the mental and social ramifications from even thinking about trying to create one scare me.
We just talked a lot about dicks, let's not talk about tulpas too much thanks.
[QUOTE=SgtTupelo;47124644]We just talked a lot about dicks, let's not talk about tulpas too much thanks.[/QUOTE]
it was the topic brought up by the confession?
As someone enrolled in college with the intention of becoming a therapist someday, these "tulpa" cases are as curious as they are frightening.
I wonder if any studies on this kind of thing exist. I'd like to see the long-term effects of this. Of course, finding a person with a "genuine tulpa" who is willing to admit it and submit to psychological studies would be like winning the goddamn lotto.
Maybe I should ask my professor if he's ever heard of this kind of thing...
[QUOTE=Native Hunter;47124372]I also killed a kid when I was three,[/QUOTE]
There's probably a sad story to this, and Native must have regretted it...
[QUOTE=Native Hunter;47124372]because [B]the fucker[/B] wouldn't let me play with his transformer.[/QUOTE]
wtf
[QUOTE=Native Hunter;47124372][B]I also killed a kid when I was three,[/B] started choking him because the fucker wouldn't let me play with his transformer. I should also mention at this time my parents wondered if I was autistic (I'm not)[/QUOTE]
What the fuck is wrong with you?
[QUOTE=Native Hunter;47124372]I also killed a kid when I was three, started choking him because the fucker wouldn't let me play with his transformer. I should also mention at this time my parents wondered if I was autistic (I'm not)[/QUOTE]
Things that never happened
Can all people who 'confess' in this thread non-anonymously for attention go get banned? Thanks.
I have to watch my sister break the flesh and drink the blood of a tulpa every fucking Sunday. Imagine that, an entire institution dedicated to forcing a tulpa on the masses.
My only source on information about tulpas is an episode of X-Files where a guy brought a tulpa back from Nepal and it took the form of a monster made out of compost and killed people for not maintaining a perfect house.
So I'm no expert, but it would be [I]awesome[/I] if tulpas were more like that.
[QUOTE=Eonart;47125891]Probably not a good time to say this, but some of you probably remember that I was the first one to come out with the tulpa shit. They're out now though since I realized they were a contribution to my depression rather than helping rid of it, and after clearing my life of that shit I started to feel a lot better about myself.
I'm not friends with the confessor but I still keep contact with one person who has them just because he's a good friend, but we only ever talk about them briefly every once in a blue moon whenever he's had some sort of accomplishment involving them. As far as I've seen, his life hasn't really been affected by having them and you'd probably think he was a normal person as well if I showed you our chatlogs without knowing about it.
As long as it positively affects your life, I don't think it would be a serious detriment since monks had them to reach a higher state of enlightenment, a very highly positive and clear state of mind. I'm not endorsing it (especially after my time), but as Raxas said there should be some professional study into it, just to be sure.[/QUOTE]
except as BDA posted they were a side effect of trying to find higher state of enlghtenment and they had to get rid of them
[QUOTE=nerdster409;47125980]My only source on information about tulpas is an episode of X-Files where a guy brought a tulpa back from Nepal and it took the form of a monster made out of compost and killed people for not maintaining a perfect house.
So I'm no expert, but it would be [I]awesome[/I] if tulpas were more like that.[/QUOTE]
What about that one SCP that's about the tulpa taking the form of a demented tibetan monk who moves around at superspeed and originally belonged to Steve Jobs
I had never even heard of a 'tulpa' until now. It's kind of horrifying.
[QUOTE=Linkuya;47126163]I had never even heard of a 'tulpa' until now. It's kind of horrifying.[/QUOTE]
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The real horror story is imagining yourself end up like that
It's quite interesting. Could they theoretically be used as "that one friend who knows all the facts"?
I miss 1 rib in the right side of my body :(
[QUOTE=cartman300;47126703]It's quite interesting. Could they theoretically be used as "that one friend who knows all the facts"?[/QUOTE]
No. "They" only know what you know, because "they" are you. It's just a hallucination coming from a damaged mind.
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