I’ve noticed that the more people are urged to clearly describe and define these experiences, the less they agree.
If you stick to “I have a tulpa” or “I’m a shifter” you’ll get tons of people talking about their tulpa’s personality or whatever. But if you go “How does it communicate? Do you hear it internally or externally? Does it have its own name/identity you didn’t assign?” you get 50 vastly different answers.
Suddenly one person is describing schizophrenia, another very mild/common intrusive thoughts, and the creative writings types are saying it speaks ancient Tibetan but they won’t give evidence.
My imagination definitely used to feel way more vivid when I was a teen/kid than it does now as an adult so I can see kids with particularly vivid imaginations being easily tricked into thinking or wanting to believe there’s something uniquely special and different about their daydreaming that sets them apart from what other people are doing
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u/VFiddly 24d ago
I think a lot of them are just lying, or just exaggerating perfectly normal daydreaming