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bioemerl  ·  3783 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hallucinatory 'voices' shaped by local culture, Stanford anthropologist says

This almost reminds me of the tulpa community. Group of people who try to create these voices in their head. Lots of cultural influence there.

seems more like heavy amounts of imagination to me, but here it is.

www.reddit.com/r/tulpas





OftenBen  ·  3783 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ok that is straight up 'stare into the void' stuff. I'm a 4chan vet, and I've seensomeshit.jpg. But that is terrifying. That's straight up encouragement of the development of alternate personalities, and I can see how this shit could lead someone to a psychotic episode/break.

bioemerl  ·  3783 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah, honestly I think it's mostly a community of "talk big, do little". Look around for a while and it seems that people are more keen on saying "i'm trying this" than "i have this accomplished"

It's only the ones that come in crazy that keep that way.

havires  ·  3782 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Sounds awfully like that "headmates" crap that Tumblr is the shitting ground of. For fear of getting sucked into the crazy click if you have nothing else better do to

* EDIT: THE TULPAS THING! Not this post. This post actually seems quite interesting.

bioemerl  ·  3777 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It is, minus the "my headmates are spirits that come to me in the night" ideal.

havires  ·  3777 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah... I'll respect that until it gets in my face and I can't get it out of there.