Follow up question to the other anon asking about otherkin: Because I’ve heard otherkin/fictionkin folks talking about their “previous lives” I kind of assumed that was what I was experiencing, but also people say that being kin with something means being it entirely. I get really vivid memory flashes of other experiences/universes and I’ve sorted that into kintypes but the characters/kintypes don’t often feel super close to me and who I am: I don’t identify as them, although they’re part of me, but not all of me, and I’m not all of them. Sometimes they even feel foreign or invasive, but not always? Like they want different things than I do. Is this an otherkin experience or does this sound, like, delusional? Should I mention this to a psychiatrist whenever my therapist next makes me go? I’ve heard people talking about delusional attachments and I’m not sure what that is or if it matches better
Many otherkin and fictionkin experience their kintypes as previous lives, and generally also consider those previous lives to still be fully them without separation. Sort of how you’ve grown more than your 10 year old self, but your 10 year old self is still fully you, rather than a seperate person. That’s how past life kintypes are.
There are also otherkin and fictionkin who experience their kintypes in ways that aren’t past lives such as parallel lives, and embodiment.
And there are kin who have past lives that they don’t consider ‘relevant’ enough to them to personally consider a kintype.
What you’re describing sounds like something I might easily describe as a past life memory we’re it to happen to me. These can also be called noemata, of you prefer a more psychological term.
It also sounds to me like you could be experiencing something called ‘fictionflickers.
Fictionflickers are a type of experience where a person suddenly and temporarily experiences being a person from a fictional media, which may include receiving flashes of memory, or temporarily takingbon the personality of that character.
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