@alyx @Wormwood @nosleep but mostly if you make them for yourself there is a lot of meditation and mental effort that goes in to it. you have to practice a lot of visualization and focusing exercizes to do it. tibettans used to make them as a sign of how pro you were if i recall.

although occultists kinda used them for more utilitarian tasks than ponies

@Wormwood @alyx @nosleep napoleon hill wrote in think and grow rich about his attempts to make tulpas of rich americans where he visualized a council of like, tomas edison and abraham lincoln and shit. it worked for a while but he later complained his council started arguing too much and went off the rails.

this same problem happens to fiction writers too actually

@icedquinn @nosleep@neckbeard.xyz @Wormwood
>utilitarian tasks
Like what? Doing your imaginary laundry? Like you're literally creating a split personality for yourself. How's that useful?

@alyx @nosleep @Wormwood memory golems.

@icedquinn @nosleep@neckbeard.xyz @Wormwood
So is the tulpa supposed to magically remember everything perfectly, while you're too lazy to put in the effort to remember yourself?

@alyx @nosleep @Wormwood someone i used to talk to tried to make one to tend to his memory palace. i never really had the patience for that kind of thing.

@Mote @alyx @Wormwood @nosleep butquinnblob but in real life

@Mote @icedquinn @nosleep@neckbeard.xyz @Wormwood
That's what it sounds like indeed, but would that actually work if you're actually of sound mind? This goes back to the Christian saying "fake it till you make it". But does it actually work though? Especially to such a degree to self induce schizophrenia?

@alyx @icedquinn @nosleep @Wormwood While the op story sounds fake, this one I attached sounds more like someone forcing themselves to be mentally ill. I'm thinking that if you're already predisposed to mental illness you might be able to.

@Mote @icedquinn @nosleep@neckbeard.xyz @Wormwood
>have you tried turning it off and on again
That made me actually lol

@Mote @alyx @Wormwood @icedquinn @nosleep glad I'm not the only one who remembered this