| The Psychic Vampire By Umbra Tyrannus |
| Before you begin reading, I would like to set any suspisicions about me to rest. I have NEVER [done the following]: flew at night, biten someone's neck (well, not for the purposes of drawing blood, heheh), or turned into a bat. I do wear black, and I guess my skin is a little more pale that it should be, but other than that I'm pretty normal from a physical view. |
| A psychic vampire is just that; I vamp energy. A lot of psychics consider this something of a crime, but my stance on that is that energy is all around us; I rarely from a person, and when I do, they've usually done something to provoke me. |
| However, I do believe that one should vamp responsibly; if you take enough to kill someone or even seriously injure them, you be incredibly weak to need that much. Most of the time I do well on my own energies and I often take in energies from the air around me. I especially enjoy storms because those combine my two elements, air and water, and it's kinda like rejuvination. Psychic vampires reall aren't all that different from anyone else except perhaps a little more persuasive. |
| Do you have to die to become a vampire? No; anyone that can control energy can vamp it, making them a potenial vampire. The only way I can ever really say I have died was a death of the psyche. This occured nearly a year ago and it was the result of a tragedy which I really would rather not go into. A psychic death is often realized when one temporarily loses all sense of feeling. The most bizarre aspect of this is that I would often sit around and realize I wasn't really breathing anymore. To "die" and still be hanging around is horrible, and it takes some real mental work on yourself to get back to normal. Luckily, I've almost pieced myself entirely back together and I can whole-heartedly say I am better for having had the experience. |
| My advice to those looking to become a psychic vampire is don't; if you can work off your own energies, great, because using the energy of other people and things can and will become something of an addiction after prolonged use. This can really mess with your personal life because you start getting attached to people you barely know because they have a lot of energy to throw out. I don't regret what I am; I just don't recommend it for anyone actually "seeking" [to be] such a thing. We're not the Princes or Princesses of darkness, and we don't look all that scary. No Dracula here. |