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Do "you" identify with one entity, as is often reported among tulpamancers, or do "you" stand apart from them all? When you hear one or another of your internal

Do "you" identify with one entity, as is often reported among tulpamancers, or do "you" stand apart from them all? When you hear one or another of your internal voices, or become aware of an entity's thoughts, is it from the perspective of another, perhaps depersonalized agent observing the rest? Do "you" have equal access to all entities or is it more accurate to think of yourself as one among them with a privileged perspective? Thanks in advance for any insight you might be willing to provide. I hope these questions are not too invasive, your comment is of great interest to me.

y-c-o-m-b 4y ago
Good questions and no they're not invasive, so no worries. Each day (and sometimes each interaction) the person acting as "me" is just one of the entities taking over, so effectively there's no central "me" at all if that makes sense. Today it's introverted family-man, but if we attend an event in the evening for example, the more social personality takes over and listens in on the conversations from family-man and others. Let's say the social one is currently active and sitting at the bar with friends having a great time, the family-man will say "we should text our wife and let her know we'll be home late" to which the social one may respond with "nah, we'll do it later" or "yeah that's a good idea, we'll do it now". EDIT: to answer your last question about "equal access", we share thoughts and deliberate, but one can't exert control over the others nor forcefully take over. The active person at any given moment depends on the outside environment and what we decide is best for the situation, so it's kind of a democratic process; not sure if that can be defined as equal access or not.
- markk 4y ago
  This is interesting. So is the person writing here is one of these personalities? Or are "you" watching one of these personalities writing? If the former, are there any personalities that are not aware they are one of many?
  - y-c-o-m-b 4y ago
    The person writing here is one of the entities/personalities yes. We're all aware of each other, so that's what makes this different from DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder) or at least it was different back during the initial diagnosis of schizotypal personality disorder in 2001.
- nier 4y ago
  Did you do training to have your parts communicate with each other? I tried imaginative meditation with the goal of for example bringing my collective to sit around a cosy campfire, become friends and ask for each other’s advice. But in my case I always had a strong sense of a single me and only recently discovered that due to stress or an overwhelming feeling of happiness one part of that whole becomes very dominant. In that regard, what you describe as an entity taking over sounds very familiar to me. I want to get better at integrating my personas and am wondering if meditation is the only way forward. Any tips?
  - y-c-o-m-b 4y ago
    Meditation can help ... or it can make you psychotic. Tread carefully. Might be best to speak with a therapist on this before you experiment. What finally brought peace is acceptance and the idea that it may even have advantages in some situations where things might be too stressful for one personality to handle, but another one can take the reins and steer us through the situation more gracefully.

y-c-o-m-b 4y ago

Good questions and no they're not invasive, so no worries. Each day (and sometimes each interaction) the person acting as "me" is just one of the entities taking over, so effectively there's no central "me" at all if that makes sense. Today it's introverted family-man, but if we attend an event in the evening for example, the more social personality takes over and listens in on the conversations from family-man and others. Let's say the social one is currently active and sitting at the bar with friends having a great time, the family-man will say "we should text our wife and let her know we'll be home late" to which the social one may respond with "nah, we'll do it later" or "yeah that's a good idea, we'll do it now". EDIT: to answer your last question about "equal access", we share thoughts and deliberate, but one can't exert control over the others nor forcefully take over. The active person at any given moment depends on the outside environment and what we decide is best for the situation, so it's kind of a democratic process; not sure if that can be defined as equal access or not.

markk 4y ago
This is interesting. So is the person writing here is one of these personalities? Or are "you" watching one of these personalities writing? If the former, are there any personalities that are not aware they are one of many?
- y-c-o-m-b 4y ago
  The person writing here is one of the entities/personalities yes. We're all aware of each other, so that's what makes this different from DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder) or at least it was different back during the initial diagnosis of schizotypal personality disorder in 2001.
nier 4y ago
Did you do training to have your parts communicate with each other? I tried imaginative meditation with the goal of for example bringing my collective to sit around a cosy campfire, become friends and ask for each other’s advice. But in my case I always had a strong sense of a single me and only recently discovered that due to stress or an overwhelming feeling of happiness one part of that whole becomes very dominant. In that regard, what you describe as an entity taking over sounds very familiar to me. I want to get better at integrating my personas and am wondering if meditation is the only way forward. Any tips?
- y-c-o-m-b 4y ago
  Meditation can help ... or it can make you psychotic. Tread carefully. Might be best to speak with a therapist on this before you experiment. What finally brought peace is acceptance and the idea that it may even have advantages in some situations where things might be too stressful for one personality to handle, but another one can take the reins and steer us through the situation more gracefully.