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 Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 7:47 pm
This topic may be a repeat, but I hope to bring something new to it.
For those unfamiliar, Human Living Vampires (or HLVs for short) are humans which for some reason or another need to drink blood or take in energy from other sources besides food. Many theories abound as to why this is, everything from vampires being a subspecies of humanity to it being a leaky soul or broken chakra.
I, personally, used to identify as an HLV. Why "used to" you may ask? Well, I found a way to fix it in myself. At least one other person has tried the method I used and found it unsuccessful for whatever reason. Whether I am totally cured or I have only stifled the need to feed is something I don't completely know yet.
My theory as to my own experience as an HLV has to do with the spiritual affecting the physical. I had the suspicion that whatever was causing it had to be in my energetic body as there was nothing physically wrong with me; no anemia, diabetes, porphyria, Willi-Prater disease, etc, etc. So then, based on my study of martial arts and alchemy, I started Qi Gong and to my surprise, my symptoms disappeared.
This brings me to the possibility that perhaps the reasons behind why two people are vampires are unique to each one. A combination of factors. I, personally, feel that spiritual advancement essentially nulls the injury to the spiritual body that (to me) causes vampirism.
So I guess the point of this topic is: What do you think about the phenomenon of Human Living Vampires? What do you think causes the condition, if it is in fact a condition and not entirely in the mind of the vampire? Do you think that all vampires share a common cause for their vampirism? Do you think a single cure would work on all vampires?
Should vampirism be cured at all?
This is a huge can of worms that I'm hoping you guys can discuss at least a *little bit*. xd
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Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 12:04 am
I don't think it is "vampirism" necessarily. I think it has more to do with a deficiency on multiple levels. When you can achieve balance in your life, it is said that you should not be dis-eased. I think this works the same way. I'll provide more when it isn't 2am.
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Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 6:21 pm
Lila Malvae I don't think it is "vampirism" necessarily. I think it has more to do with a deficiency on multiple levels. When you can achieve balance in your life, it is said that you should not be dis-eased. I think this works the same way. I'll provide more when it isn't 2am. I tend to think the same way about it, actually.
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Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 8:39 am
The reason it may have been successful for you and not so for someone else could simply be a mental thing. Pessimists don't think they can succeed, so they don't.
I'm really not sure it's possible to stifle the need to feed. I imagine it'd be something like going on a diet, where it can be restrained for a while, but when the opportunity comes up, the urge will return with a vengeance. How often do HLVs usually feed?
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Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 6:41 pm
ShadowKuroKarasu The reason it may have been successful for you and not so for someone else could simply be a mental thing. Pessimists don't think they can succeed, so they don't. I'm really not sure it's possible to stifle the need to feed. I imagine it'd be something like going on a diet, where it can be restrained for a while, but when the opportunity comes up, the urge will return with a vengeance. How often do HLVs usually feed? In integral part of the process I used is that you have to want to be cured in the first place. Most HLVs, regardless of what they might say, cherish the sense of identity that being a vampire gives them. They may say they hate it and try to get rid of it, but if their heart isn't completely in it then they're destined to fail. And how often an HLV has to feed depends upon the individual. For some it is every few days, for others it may be every few months.
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Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 7:42 pm
vampires can be helpful cleaning up extra energy or blood, but then there are some who are just plain mean....i ran into one of those, he offered me beer at a RenFest, but as soon as he did that and my shields slammed down, keeping him out for sure!
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Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 4:36 am
I don't believe it's a physical need, but a mental one.
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Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 3:34 pm
Elora and Delphi I don't believe it's a physical need, but a mental one. Not exactly. I could be considered a HLV because sometimes I drink the wounds that bleed. And when the blood reaches my mouth I instanly feel revitalized. So, if you think I am a HLV, I won't deny it!
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Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 2:40 am
Elora and Delphi I don't believe it's a physical need, but a mental one.
thats kinda what i always believed, but a close friend of mine is a 'vampire' and i have noticed that she gets weaker without feeding. as far as i know she's never tried to cure herself, but then again, i havent spoken to her much about it, so maybe she has...
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Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 12:52 pm
There are good vamps and bad ones. Just for the record I myself am an energy vamp. I've done some research, and there seem to be at least three different causes for it. Well the energy vamp at least, haven't really looked into blood vamps. One is "curable" so to speak, while I haven't found anything in that way for the other two.
There are also people who think they're vamps but aren't such people are usually deceived into believing they are vamps by real vamps. They feel drain (by the real vamps) and then when they get away from the vamp. Then their energy refills, but they think they're feeding off other people.
Being a vamp isn't necessarily a bad thing either, it has it's upsides. For example, vamps tend to learn how to manipulate energy more easily and quickly.
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Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 1:14 am
if you stand to a side and think about it for a while, vampires mostly have been classified as the bad ones, but i like many others believe otherwise. Vampirism has many sources and the apart from the mental conditioning or perhaps the likening itself, there are medical conditions that resembles vampirism, i have heard of many myself.
In the past people with Anemia have been linked to vampire attacks due to the low red blood cell count, then followed by Catalepsy, where people were presumed the 'living dead' It causes a loss of voluntary motion, a rigidity to the muscles, as well as decreased sensitivity to pain and heat. A person suffering from catalepsy can see and hear cannot move. Their breathing, pulse, and other regulatory functions are slowed to the extent that to an untrained eye, it would seem as though they were deceased. This condition can last up to days, Upon recovering from their catalyptic state, the person would try to dig their way to the surface. Many myths may have arisen from this single condition alone.
Porphyria is the very last one, this has been the stem of many vampie myths alone... A victim of porphyria cannot produce heme, a major and vital component of red blood. Today, this disease is treatable with regular injections of heme into the body. However, as little as fifty years ago, this treatment was unavailable and the disease unknown. In the past, a porphyria sufferer would show symptoms that include:
Extreme sensitivity to sunlight
Sores and scars that break open and will not heal properly
Excessive hair growth
Tightening of skin around lips and gums (which would make the incisors more prominent)
This disease would likely cause the victim to only go out at night, in order to avoid the painful rays of the sun. In addition, while garlic stimulates the production of heme in a healthy person, it would only cause the symptoms of porphyria to become more painfully severe. And of course, human blood is one of the best places to get heme in abundance, hence the occasional motivation for blood and the thirst for it. But as you can see there have been many excuses for vampirism, and many believe it to be a disease but personally, i'd prefer to think along the sides of conditionings in the minds of us humans...
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