How many tulpas/lovers do you have?

[TheGypsyBard]

I was only just recently (as in, a yesterday) introduced to Tulpas. I'm an analytical person, so the idea was absolute hogwash to begin with. My mind keeps trying to tell me it still is, but I want to try it. I'm working on Pinkie right now, had some conversations with her throughout the day, though they're very forced right now, seeing as it is new to me.

It just goes to show that you can't make presumptions. A critical point of view is always important, but it fails when one is guilty of ignorance, which is why knowledge and the seeking of knowledge is important to a critical thinker. I wouldn't be surprised if you said ghosts were hogwash, because there's no proof they exist and lots of other things could explain reported sightings, but thought constructs? There're lots of people out there who experience mental things in strange ways. Hallucinations! Dreams! It all attests to the power of the mind. It's certainly not beyond imagining that one who could control their senses, their perceptions, could do great things with their mental acuity...

This is precisely the basis behind my belief that this is not, indeed, 'hogwash'. I've studied psychology passively over the years, and as an effect I've noticed quite a few trends. The chief among these being the ability of the mind to impose whatever convoluted reality it wants on any particular individual. It does not take much to snap a person's fragile psyche like a twig, despite what many would claim openly. If this were anything outside the human mind, then yes, I would still consider it illogical. Seeing as it is, however, manifestations of thought, these constructs, are as real as any other physical entity.