Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-10581381-20181104041616/@comment-37627195-20190217073123

An interesting theory I came up with today:

As everyone knows, I LOVE to watch all those paranormal encounter-type stuff on YouTube, TV, and SiriusXM radio. Most of my time is spent reading/watching content related to all these crazy "creatures" people believe they saw in the past. But at the same time, I don't believe those things to be true at all.

Well as of recently, I've been hearing weird noises and occasionally seeing even catches glimpse of weird creatures similar to what is being described in the video. Do I believe that the monsters/aliens those videos describe are actually coming to haunt me in real life? No, no I don't.

I think it's because a lot of times whenever someone constantly reads/watches horror/paranormal activity-related content (like I do a lot), they start to hear and see weird creatures because their mind is obsessed with odd and creepy things so it starts to form those concepts into tulpas. For those who don't know what a tulpa is, it's basically whenever someone's obsessed mind turns the thing they are most obsessed with into what appears to be an actual living being.

Because of the scientifically proven concept of the human mind's ability to create tulpas, I'm starting to wonder if perhaps most of these "paranormal encounters" people love to talk about so much are in reality, just their minds coming up with all these seemingly real weird creatures. That actually makes a lot of sense when you think about it.

The main reason I am starting to believe that theory is because of a certain observation I made. Most of the encounters people had during childhood involved creatures resembling childish things such as puppets, toys coming to life, clowns, giant teddy bears, cartoon characters, anthropomorphic animals, etc. I've read many accounts of people claiming to have spotted Sesame Street-inspired creatures alone. Why is that? Because Sesame Street is probably the number 1 most popular kid's show ever.

On the other hand, most of the things that adults experience are much more evil, scary, and generally more mature in nature. Stuff like legitimate demons with red horns, zombies, skinwalkers, succubus (sex demons), and Slender-Man tend to be what most fully grown people see whereas most children see things of a more cute and innocent nature.

Perhaps my tulpa theory is correct.