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The Beginnings
Today marks the first “official” start of the Tulpa creation process.
Creating a consciousness from scratch takes some work. For instance, you have to not only be able to visualize the entire Tulpa’s form (right down to the smell and touch), but if you want something sentient, you also have to give it character; your mind needs to string up a personality.
An important part of creating a Tulpa would be establishing a base for the personality. Without the personality, your mind may not have anything to bootstrap for the subconscious. Obviously, like when visualizing the body, the more work you put into the personality the better – it’s also said to make the Tulpa become sapient faster. You can read the importance of the personality here.
I honestly haven’t decided on a form, gender, or name for the Tulpa yet, nor do I plan to do so at this moment. I wouldn’t want to let the personality be affected by the preconceived form. FAQ_man was kind enough to give his comments on the subject:
Also just my two sense when it comes to form finding as a whole. Most everyone has what they want in mind when they make a tulpa. I did, and so do most people. When it comes to what you want your tulpa to be, it’s fine to have a form in mind. But I think designing a personality around the form is when it starts to go a little far. You should make a personality as it’s own end before you think about the form. Like, say you want a big fiery demon of death. When you’re starting out on personality, don’t immediately think “Well she’s a big fiery demon of death, she has to be fierce and intimidating” because that’s letting the form affect the personality. Just sort of make a personality you know you’re gonna mesh with, and then work on the form afterwards, as sort of it’s own separate thing.
You can let personality affect form
You can let neither of them effect each other
But try not to let form affect personality.
I’m structuring my personality similar to how Chupi is doing it, utilizing several traits with the Big Five personality traits and the 16 Personality Factors, and I’ll probably be getting my traits from here.
My plan is pretty much to do no visualizations until I have the personality fleshed out. Once it’s done (and I want to allocate at least 10 hours to doing so, though I’m still putting a list of traits together), I’ll decide on a form based on the personality. Then finally, I’ll start my visualizations and tulpaforcing based on the newly designed form.
I asked FAQ_man about this plan, he said it sounded perfect so far; we’ll see how well it comes to fruition.