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This topic is something I wanted to explore for a while now. I just want to know how many people believe in them and if they do exist why?

Note the type of vampires I refer to are by no means movie stereotypes. Not undead, not fearful of holywater (though some pretend to be for fun), and not step in the sun and die.

Sanguines drink blood for energy. They are not to be akinned to blood fetishists although some people are both because it is said to bring up a feeling of arousal for the vampire.

Psychic vampires feed off of mental/emotional/spirtual energy. In many psychic defense novels they are portrayed negatively, but they always seem to state that most people are unaware that they are doing this and would willingly stop if they found out.

i believe in both

In my recent years, I've seen an upsurge of psychic vampirism. I was wondering if it had anything to do with the Veil dissipating.

Okay quick briefing on The Veil for those of you who don't know.
The veil is a type of barrier between this plane of existence and another. I guess you could call it the otherside? or the beyond? but the title really doesn't matter. The whole point is alot of people recently have been stating that they believe this barrier is beginning to break apart, hence the upsurge in paranormal and psychic phenomenon.

I've even heard that when it breaks down there might be a war our plane vs. theirs. Personally, I don't think it's going to happen although there's bound to be a bit of chaos and discord if the veil does come down.

I've got a thing for the sanguine sort of brand....I find them sexy... sweatdrop heart

There are many things in this world that we do not understand. To label something is to claim it predictable. Being, events, these things are mutable, and it is hard to say that something either is, or is not.

There are of course occations where either could be true. Fact is purely speculation, as much as we wish to believe otherwise. The only thing that is absolute is uncertainty.

We have a psy vamp in our Circle... :/ But it's a public, open Circle, so we can't kick him out. Which...has basically left us with no resort but for all of us to put up shields. I think he's getting the hint, but damn. x-x

It takes training and self-control... a bit of discipline. Just like anything else.

I don't believe in vampires. To me, and most of the world, vampires are undead demonic creatures. That's what they have always been.

It's only recently that people with a what could be a legitimate energy deficiency began to adapt the word for their own usage. While the myth of vampires has been around for centuries, "living vampires" have only been around since the seventies.

That isn't to say the condition hasn't been around longer. I'm sure it has, it just would have been attributed to witchcraft (particularly psys, though the small amounts of blood taken by the sangs would easily fit early descriptions of witchcraft) rather to the ten unappealing condition of being a rotting corpse. It wasn't until cinema vampires became sexy that the label was taken on.

Now, these guys can still call themselves vampires to their hearts content, but they shouldn't be all shocked and dismayed that people don't believe them. And they shouldn't get so persnickety when the latest goofy vampire horror film comes out and start listing why it's wrong all wrong. It's a label that's been around long before them, and that they, personally decided to take it on.

Now as to the conditions discussed, there isn't any tangible proof it exists aside from a laundry list of symptoms. The only thing I can think of that gets legitimately treated like that are various mental disorders, like my own manic-depression. So I can see why someone would rather stick a supernatural label to it. God knows, it would be easier for my ego to just say I'm not "chemically imbalanced" and instead claim to be a star child or an indigo, but the symptoms would still be there.