Subject: Daemons can be a thing in this universe
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Posted on: 2019-07-20 06:13:00 UTC

I should know, I've gotten to know mine.

Ok, now that I've done the clickbait, I should probably explain what I'm on about. (The below is all caveated with an "in my experience")

Basically, you can use the concept of daemons as a useful (and fun) brain thing. The overall idea (or at least how I think of it) is you personify the part of/voice in your head that's responsible for more rational perspectives on things, sudden insights, and so on as your daemon.

The advantages here are that mentally talking to your daemon becomes a good way to get a more detached reading on situations, start pulling yourself out of thought loops, and getting reminded you should do the thing. It's also just neat because you can have richer conversations with yourself (which make for good distractions on top of being fun).

Initially to the thing, you intentionally think at the daemon-y bit of yourself and notice what it thinks back. You then want to ask for a name, and might be able to picture a form of some sort (though that second part might take a bit). Eventually, you might start imagining your daemon being present beside you some of the time or things like that if you want to do that.

Since I might've not explained this too coherently, here's the very 90s website I got linked to when I was told aobut this stuff. You can probably ignore all the parts about how daemon forms are meaningful or whatever (I very much did), but it gives some good introductions to the concept.

Anyhow, I'm willing to take questions (or ask them of Ariel, my daemon)

- Tomash

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