Well, join the others who believe in fantasy. No vampires, no werewolves, not on this plane. This is a very common question, and if you are here just for that, you might as well leave. Not trying to be rude, just really sick of this subject. Go for something reachable...
Re: I wanna talk to vampires By: Lark Moderator / Adept
Post # 11 Aug 31, 2012
Chris, you may know someone who believes they are a vampire...or would like you to believe they are one. But in truth they are no more a vampire than they are Mickey Mouse. Both are fictional characters and do not exist in real life.
They are out there...It is just it is hard to notice them because they are hidden with humans and it is hard to notice because they look like humans.....so if you look hard enough you will find them =)
OK I can talk with you, I am a real vampyr, and I am not evil, I use a few evil powers but I am not possessed by them, and I have a soul as well, anyways you can ask me anything you wish to learn about vampyrs, also I can teach you how to become a vampyr, also if I saved up some money maybe I could meet you at a convention such as anime convention. I would like to know you better first, and if, if we met I would like to meet at a public place just so that there's safety in case you wanted to kill me LOL! Because I do not know if you are a good person or not. Anyways talk to you soon, k peace out!
Re: I wanna talk to vampires By: Lark Moderator / Adept
Post # 14 Sep 01, 2012
For those who think that they are vampires, you're not...you're human. But you may have some psychological issues. Here's a description of the psychological disorder, Renfield's Syndrome which applies to those who believe they are vampires:
Clinical vampirism, more commonly called Renfield's syndrome [4] or Renfield syndrome, is an obsession with drinking blood; the phenomenon has not yet been categorized in the DSM-IV. The term "Renfield syndrome" was first coined (whimsically) by Richard Noll and is named after Dracula's insect-eating assistant, Renfield, in the novel by Bram Stoker. The practice has been covered in both psychiatric and fictional literature, as well as on television, where it was mentioned in an episode of CSI titled "Committed" (Season 5, Episode 21). It was also mentioned in episode 7, season 5 of Criminal Minds, titled "The Performer".
People who suffer from this condition are primarily male. The craving for blood arises from the idea that it conveys life-enhancing powers. According to Noll, the condition starts with a key event in childhood that causes the experience of blood injury or the ingestion of blood to be exciting. After puberty, the excitement is experienced as sexual arousal. Throughout adolescence and adulthood, blood, its presence, and its consumption can also stimulate a sense of power and control. Noll explains that Renfield's syndrome begins with autovampirism and then progresses to the consumption of the blood of other creatures.
The usefulness of this diagnostic label remains in question. Very few cases of the syndrome have been described, and the published reports that do exist refer to what has been proposed as Renfield's syndrome through the use of official psychiatric diagnostic categories such as schizophrenia or as a variety of paraphilia. A number of murderers have performed seemingly vampiric rituals upon their victims. Serial killers Peter Kürten and Richard Trenton Chase were both called "vampires" in the tabloids after they were discovered drinking the blood of the people they murdered. Similarly, in 1932, an unsolved murder case in Stockholm, Sweden was nicknamed the "Vampire murder", due to the circumstances of the victim’s death.
Sufferers of Renfield's Syndrome are overwhelmingly male. The disorder is typically sparked by an event in childhood in which the sufferer associates the sight or taste of blood with excitement. During puberty, the feelings of attraction to blood become sexual in nature.
Renfield's Syndrome typically follows three stages. In the first, autovampirism or autohemophagia, the sufferer drinks his own blood, often cutting himself in order to do so. The second stage is zoophagia, which consists of eating live animals or drinking their blood. Obtaining animal blood from a butcher or slaughterhouse for consumption also falls into this stage.
In the third stage, true vampirism, the sufferer's attention is turned to other human beings. He may steal blood from hospitals or blood banks, or drink blood directly from a living person. Some people with Renfield's Syndrome commit violent crimes, including murder, after entering this stage.
Though Renfield's Syndrome is newly named and has not yet been accepted into the DSM, it is not a new disorder. Noll noted apparent references to the disorder in German psychiatrist Richard van Krafft-Ebing's 1886 text Psychopathia Sexualis and speculated that Stoker may have been familiar with Krafft-Ebing's work.
