Moved To daemon-song

anything that treats it like… a healthy science experiment… over something personal or spiritual or “making a person”… yeah. i need a description of daemonism that follows that vibe.

just to ease them in. 

The mind is really powerful and a daemon is a powerful tool if cultivated. There is admittedly not much that I know of for reference from a purely psychological viewpoint. There are health benefits, growth benefits, and companion benefits.

Daemons tend to be dormant until needed or the time is right to cultivate. They are very similar to daemon software if thinking of the brain as a machine strikes your fancy.

They can analyze things from an opposite perspective or release frustrations to the world without any risk. That analysis or release will show you how you really feel rather than what you think you should be feeling. They are a way to get in contact with your subconscious and desires.

How about self-help and positive affirmations? Daemons used as a therapy technique is very common. If you read any self-help book you will start to see how easily the inner workings of a daemon match or work flawlessly with suggestions and techniques given. Your subconscious seems to have already been equipped and these people are telling you what you already know.

Then there are those who switch out with their daemons. Parroting or actually swapping between them and their daemon. Becoming your daemon is quite freeing for both parties involved. It helps get frustrations out or powers you through difficult situations or personal hesitations.

There are a few similar concepts, like the self-schema, that radiate daemon energy. But I’m afraid I don’t have those sources built up enough yet to share.

It’s more of a personal choice and a lifestyle, honestly, though the reason for people to start daemonism depends on the person. 

But I can assure you, it’s NOT a religion. It can be a spiritual thing, but again, that depends.

From my own personal experience, I started daemonism to cope with anxiety and loneliness, and having a daemon actually helps me with some aspects of my ADHD! 

I'll get that little guy tattoo

I'm still having problems with dæmonism.

I have trouble hearing them in my head, I don't know if it's Grimm or me. It feels forced and that Grimm doesn't have a personality sometimes since I don't know if I'm answering myself at times. And Grimm only seems to be there if I'm consciously trying. Sometimes I think it's because I have ADHD, like that's the reason I'm struggling but I don't know if the medicine helps me or not.

Sometimes I feel we need like a reboot.

And I'm also having trouble projecting Grimm in her forms. I don't know how it's supposed to be since half of time time, it's just me visualizing pictures of the animal and not actually Grimm. It's also difficult since for pretty much all of her forms, I've never seen them before like in real life and don't know their scale. Like I'm 4'11" and a lot of the images use like a 6ft guy.

But maybe also try putting aside time for shared activities where you can really focus on them, and them on you? Again, I’ve seen doing that in a sustained way really helping people; so if you have time for, like, half an hour every day or something like that.

Also have you tried writing back and forth to each other?

Sometimes it helps to define what part of you your dæmon is. Your intuition? Voice of reason? Shadow side? Fun side? Cautious side? Think of times when you’ve heard or felt your dæmon before, so you have something to root your understanding of them in.

We don’t project often, and when we do it’s often just a vague sense of where she is and what she’s doing. Find what level of projection makes you happiest. There’s no need to push yourself too hard.

Me looking at all the CIE posts

But then you’re actually like

Scyrus takes the form of a black wolf(dog). I haven't been actively talking to him long, so this is our only form for now. The concept of daemons really intrigued me. I didn't find out about daemonism from HDM, but instead from a plural community that I was in.

Sometimes

You’re not entirely wrong in that description, honestly! A lot of the time we even refer jokingly to our daemons as “imaginary animal friends.” It is a bit more than an imaginary friend, at least to me - Locke is imaginary in the sense that he exists only inside my own mind, but he’s still very real to me as a person, even if not entirely separate from me. It’s sort of like tulpamancy, if you’re familiar with that? There are definitely differences - daemons never become fully separate and autonomous by their nature, while tulpas are (from my understanding) intended to become fully autonomous beings, for instance - but there are also a lot of similarities.

There are only really two places that I know of to learn about daemonism: The Daemon Page (TDP, here) and the associated The Daemon Forum (TDF, here). You can also look through the tag “teadeef” here on Tumblr (used instead of TDF because apparently TDF is associated with something else, so “teadeef” keeps it separate), as well as the “daemonism” tag.

When i was 11 years old a book was given to me. It was called “The Golden Compass” and i devoured it. I read that book like there was no tomorrow. The world, the characters, the plot, and most importantly the heroine made my young self feel so empowered. It was no surprise that i “created an imaginary friend” after the concept of daemons. He was my best friend, he was actually my soul animated. Years went by and, unlike my other “imaginary friends” he did not disappear. I knew this was for life. When i was 19, more mature and as a practicing tulpamancer, i revisited the HDM fandom and realised that there are a lot of people who, like me, find comfort in projecting their daemon.

So this is the reason for this spread!

The questions are as follows.

1)   Is Dust flowing through us? Dust is the connecting link between human and daemon, the card won’t tell you about the amount of Dust, but more about your connections. Are you close? Are you drifting apart?

2)   Is our relationship balanced? There comes a few times when a relationship may have its bumps. Maybe the human is taking the daemon for granted, or the daemon sounds more like intrusive thoughts than daemon.

3)  How do we help our bond? This does not imply that you do not have a great bond already. The question will prove the balance, if it’s already here, and bring up a method to obtain it, if it is missing.

4)   Do i have to work on something? This is a question only for the human. Does the human have to be more sincere, or respectfull, etc?

5)   Does (D/N) have to work on something? This is a question only for the daemon. Do they have to listen more, or be more active, etc?

6)   Does our form match us? This is more towards the settled ones. It does not invalidate your form, it brings up methods or reasons to love your settled form

One last tip is the positioning. When i did the spread i had Denali sit in front of card 1 and i sat behind card 6 so to have the cards between us.

1. What are/do you think your parents’/caretakers’ daemons are? How do they interact with each other and with you? (if you don’t want to talk about them, then what about your best friend?)

2. What part of having a daemon would be your favorite?

3. What’s your favorite Daemon!AU and why?

4. Any celebrities you’ve got daemon headcanons for?

5. Any other friends/family you’ve got daemon headcanons for?

6. Something notable your daemon has said

7. What is your stance on Separation? Is it ethical? Worth it? Should only special people be able to? (the kind undergone by witches)

8. If your daemon is a _____, they have to be a _____. What would they be?

Mammal –> bird

Reptile –> arthropod

Arthropod –> mammal

Fish –> reptile

Bird –> amphibian

Amphibian –> fish

9. Invent a sport involving daemons, go!

Multidae moodboard for all my siblings out there!