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It’s happening. It’s really happening. The tulpamancy community is getting a formal academic study by a cognitive anthropologist.

Crossposting:

Dear Tulpamancers, I am an anthropologist and researcher in transcultural psychiatry and cognitive science at McGill University in Montreal, and am very interested in the cognitive, cultural, ontological, and therapeutic aspects of Tulpamancy. Specifically, my research on the subject seeks to:

1) understand the collective and cultural mediation of shared Tulpa representations and experiences;

2) educate the scientific community and broader public on what Tulpamancy can show us about the workings of the mind and shared intentionality with mental agents, and;

3) explore the implications of non-disruptive Tulpa practice for mental health therapy.

I would be interested in speaking with experienced Tulpamancers about their experience. Next steps of the project might involve in person focus groups and brain scans, so Tulpamancer from the Montreal area are of particular interest. Participants’ anonymity will be guaranteed. Prospective participants may contact me at [email protected]

Thank you in advance.

Dr. Samuel Veissière

Write a story together.

Have them possess a body part and tap a beat together.

Stage a debate. Flip a coin to pick sides.

Read your tulpa a book.

Start a conversation with your tulpa. Each statement your tulpa makes has to be longer than the last one. See if you can get them rambling.

Try to make each other laugh.

Listen to music together. (hopefully you can find a common genre)

Sing a duet.

Write poems to each other.

Snuggle with them.

Explore their body (sexually or non-sexually).

Watch a bad movie and go Mystery Science Theater 3000 on it.

Collaboratively write the story of your tulpa journey so far.

Play a rhyming game.

Dress each other in fancy outfits.

Play 20 questions.

Tell your tulpa a story. Pause to answer questions.

Do yoga in wonderland with your tulpa.

Design a race course/obstacle course in your wonderland and have a race.

Watch some of your favorite memories projected on a movie screen.

Meditate with your tulpa.

Play Chess or Checkers.

Spar with each other.

Ask your tulpa to surprise you.

Go on IRC with their name and have them proxy/possess the whole time.

Have your tulpa pilot an airplane in your wonderland.

Play hide and seek.

Do art together.

Take online questionnaires. Compare results.

Possess each other fully and have fun :)

Obtain a Muse (http://goo.gl/WGBYHX) or EEG and do experiments.

Have your tulpa learn different things than you. (languages, hobbies, etc.)

Have a conversation with them out loud. (use a bluetooth headset)

Have your tulpa pose and draw them. (even if you can’t draw)

Write a long description of your tulpa and read it back to yourself as if it were a novel.

Imagine your tulpa’s respiratory and circulatory system

Play the black box game (http://community.tulpa.info/thread-forci…n-exercise)

Make your tulpa do math.

Hypnotize them. Have them hypnotize you.

Create a sensory bridge and have your tulpa taste various different foods.

Impose them beside you as you’re walking.

Smell your tulpa.

Alter the physics of your wonderland. Flip gravity, make an M.C Escher-esque space, etc.)

Have a possession fight over a finger or hand.

Learn how to lucid dream. Lucid dream with them.

Watch your tulpa go about their daily routine in your wonderland.

Imagine you’re both characters in an alternate reality. (sci-fi, western, fantasy, etc.)

Let go and try to experience an altered state of consciousness. Ask them to try guiding you.

Imagine you’re an inanimate object/tool/utensil and have your tulpa use you.

Practice vocal possession. Does your tulpa sound different from you? Can they also imitate your normal speaking voice?

Go on a date with them. (You don’t have to be in a relationship to go on a date ;)

Find 10 things different between you and your tulpa.

Take nice pictures, print them out, and impose your tulpa onto the picture.

Take turns picking a restaurant to visit.

Give yourself an alternate form for your wonderland. Let your tulpa change it.

Look at the clouds or stars and take turns picking out shapes that look like things.

If they sleep and eat, wake them up with a smile and breakfast.

Practice talking with fake accents.

Try science! Create a hypothesis, design a replicable experiment, and report the results, whether negative or positive, to the tulpa community!

Pick 2 new words in the dictionary and use them as much as possible throughout the day. (This is optional: http://youtu.be/gxMZgeBlqzQ, http://youtu.be/qKkkj1VgNus)

Play a physics based game in your wonderland, like marbles.

Have a who can be less competitive competition.

Have your tulpa interrupt you while you’re talking, like Dr. Evil.

Hug your tulpa every day. Send them feelings of appreciation and gratefulness.

I hope you guys have some fun times doing the stuff on this list. If you have any more ideas for things to do with your tulpa, ask me them and I’ll add them to the list :)