I do not believe that fictional characters can somehow come to life and enter people's minds ^.^
Soulbonding is a confusing, but interesting topic...
Personally, I think reading/writing/playing games/tv etc can 'trigger' the coming out or the development of a multiple.
Like, my girl Wendy...she is five, and obsessed with Peter Pan. She does not know her real name but picked Wendy for lack of one, and pretends she comes from NeverNeverLand just because she likes it. We have both done some searching however and we have a theory that she might actually be Kiana, a character we wrote in a sci-fi rpg. In her case, even though I did not notice her till after, I think her presence was felt by the subconcious, and we patterned a character after her - not the other way around.
In the same way, I think fictional characters can appeal to multiples that have not announced their presence or feel isolated so have not come out much - the body experiences one life, one set of experiences. Yet all those inside - we know that the body's experiences and life do not necessarily represent our own.
So when we come across a character that matches our feelings, or use our impressions to make up a background, in a sense our personality gains an identity to go along with it.
It does not mean that Cloud has jumped out of a video game, but it could mean that Cloud's pas life experiences make more sense than the body's in the formation of personality.
Which brings up a philosophical question - are fictionally created experiences any less real to a person than memories crafted on physical experience? A memory is a memory. If I remember climbing a mountain, is it any less real than a friend's memory of riding a bike? Both are in the past.
The society we live in is very big on one mind, one body, one personality, one set of experiences. Yet it also holds to a school of thought that our experiences make us who we are, more than any internal factors.
Yet here so many of us are - many identities, one physical body - human memory is a complex entity. If our experiences shape who we are, than it would follow somewhat logically that different people would have different experiences.
I think in the case of 'soulbonding' - people just find another person whose experiences and possibly personality seem to empathize and connect with their own.
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Soulbonding is a confusing, but interesting topic...
Personally, I think reading/writing/playing games/tv etc can 'trigger' the coming out or the development of a multiple.
Like, my girl Wendy...she is five, and obsessed with Peter Pan. She does not know her real name but picked Wendy for lack of one, and pretends she comes from NeverNeverLand just because she likes it. We have both done some searching however and we have a theory that she might actually be Kiana, a character we wrote in a sci-fi rpg. In her case, even though I did not notice her till after, I think her presence was felt by the subconcious, and we patterned a character after her - not the other way around.
In the same way, I think fictional characters can appeal to multiples that have not announced their presence or feel isolated so have not come out much - the body experiences one life, one set of experiences. Yet all those inside - we know that the body's experiences and life do not necessarily represent our own.
So when we come across a character that matches our feelings, or use our impressions to make up a background, in a sense our personality gains an identity to go along with it.
It does not mean that Cloud has jumped out of a video game, but it could mean that Cloud's pas life experiences make more sense than the body's in the formation of personality.
Which brings up a philosophical question - are fictionally created experiences any less real to a person than memories crafted on physical experience? A memory is a memory. If I remember climbing a mountain, is it any less real than a friend's memory of riding a bike? Both are in the past.
The society we live in is very big on one mind, one body, one personality, one set of experiences. Yet it also holds to a school of thought that our experiences make us who we are, more than any internal factors.
Yet here so many of us are - many identities, one physical body - human memory is a complex entity. If our experiences shape who we are, than it would follow somewhat logically that different people would have different experiences.
I think in the case of 'soulbonding' - people just find another person whose experiences and possibly personality seem to empathize and connect with their own.