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in anne rice's interview with the vampire, it is said that vampires feel the heartbeat of their prey while feeding. i think that this is quiet a nice experience....especially if the prey is someone close to you.

have anyone of you experienced this before? if yes, how did it feel?

dont take feeling so literally, the meaning is more like sensing instead of feeling

to a degree yes but it was on with someone i was really close with. It was actually a blissful thing to experience, as it almost felt as though our very souls were intertwining.

i dont know myself but i would probably be one hell of a rush

Well in Interview, they're draining the victims, not really casually sharing - so 'feeling the heart beat' would probably mean just that.

For example, when the jugular is cut, the blood comes in spurts do to the heart beating and forcing it out. That's probably what was meant. Altho since it's Rice, there was probably also the assumption of a connection there as well.

It depends on who you feed from..If it is a person who is willing then they do not pulse as fast as someone who is unwilling..

I like it..It makes me want more...

yes... it is more like sensing than feeling...

I would guess its more of a feeling, although as Nyx pointed out, Anne was probably speaking of the beat in the blood flow.

yes, but there is also that Sanguinary connection with those of who you feed from.

yes its more of reaction to the bite than a sense its the puncure of the neck

I too think that Rice was talking bout the pulse of the blood, but there is a connection when you feed directly from a person

It would really depend on exactly what perspective you view the question from. Being as Rice's novels deal with sanguine vampires that typically feed from the neck of their prey, that's the only angle I'm going to address.

With that, there are a few things to look at. First, if feeding from the jugular vein, the pulsing of blood from the would would not be from the beating of the victim's heart. Blood is forced through veins back to the heart by a muscular movement that occurs in the wall of the veins themselves. Then, there is the option of feeding from the carotid artery, in which case, the pulsing of blood would be very directly resultant from the pulsing of the heart.

Also, I believe it is most likely that the victim would be experiencing a fairly large release of epinipherine in their body, which would caust a dramatic increase in cardiac activity. The close contact that is likely to result from feeding from someone in that condition makes very realistic that one would be able to feel the victim's heart beating in the same sense as holding your head against someone's chest, or taking their pulse.

i think anna rice means more like sensing that actually feelling

Why couldn't you? When you take your pulse it's the feeling of blood pumping your heart. How many beats per minute?
I personally enjoy feeling the heartbeat of my lover as I lay my head against his chest... and I love feeling my own heart pound after getting physical.

it depends on where you feed from (neck, pulse etc) and then you can feel or sense the heartbeat

you are talking connections.Emotions.Not all are going to experience the same things the same way.Plus different vampires feed in different ways.Some are sang,some are psy,some are pranic,and thats just scratching the surface.yes,it does depend on the intimacy you share with your donor,(if indeed it is a donor!)but I think you get the point I'm making.

Carpe Nocte,
Taliesin Dubh

I have to agree to with the others as far as the feeling being a sence of mortality.

i concur with the others in that it is just a part that she put in the book so you could get a great feel of what she thought it was like!!! but it was superb writing!

I actually think the feel of the heartbeat is more of a connection to the person you are feeding off of...not a literal feeling,but more of a link to thier mind..thier soul if you will.

i would have to say yes, once, and it was intense and great, it was like we were one being, and thats all that mattered...everything faded away to nothingness, it was just us.

dont kow.. but i believe it would be a truly orgasmic experience.

tnx...your responses are realistic. especially those who said that it depends on where do you bite/puncture. i agree with you cause taking it from the scientific view, the blood flows according to the heartbeat. so you do fell the heartbeat in a way

I thought it was away of senseing what your prey or what feels like fear. its just a hunters way nothing more

its hard to say on this one cause it depends on where you bite at. for me i can feel their pluse when i bite on the neck wrist or chest. so true

its a nice feeling although ya dont always get it hehe if the prey is already dead :D

U guys have nno idea I is the greatest felling ever u can feel the love from htem for u!

For sanguine, they may be able to feel the heart beat while feeding as the pulse of the flowing blood, but I can't see how psi /pranic can feel it when they feed unless they are feeling the lust and love part of their feeding. Just my opinion.

when me and my girlfriend are being sensual and close, we can ALWAYS feel eachothers heartbeat. it makes us appreciate eachother and eachothers love and life even more

Its just a book, don't take it so literal.

True, though it's really hard to feel sometimes. You can hear their drum through their chest, their pulse in their throat, and, unless you are sucking the blood out instead of waiting for it to come to you, you can feel their heartbeat pushing their lifefluid into your mouth.

It may be possible but I think she was just being descriptive in her writing

My thought are close to what a few said before me. I believe it would depend on where you feed, such as the neck and the wrist you will feel the pulse...or heartbeat.

Only once. That was after making a game out of it though.

I agree with Bloodgod.

Sometimes it's your own heart that you feel, sometimes the other though.

If talking from the book's standpoint, I'd have to say true. What she is describing is an emotional connection...a link or bond between the predator and the prey. Beyond the book, I'd have to say false. The ebb of the blood would not be felt unless directly from and artery. Nasty business in that. vV--Vv

good point and id have to agree nautula.....ofcourse i agree with most things you say ^^;

it would be a hell of a rash if i could

hmmmm i stick to what i said before hadn *nodS*

yes.. it is more like sensing than feeling.

yes, and it is something when you can feel the heartbeat slow or even come to a complete stop.

i guess you could feel the pulse should you severe the aorta or another v large artery say the femoral a.

hm true?

DUC, I have to say that you make a very good argument, according to how your bite and where you bite.

i hope it's trye..

Well I haven't read any of the books but I don't think it is just a feeling or a sence but rather a combinatin of both. An act like that would heighten the senses of both and make each more receptive of the smallest change in either person.

If you think about it on a scientific level, Yes. The vampire feeds on an artery, right? So why wouldn't they feel their heartbeat. I mean, We can feel out own heartbeat.

Have yet to experience anything like that....

.....but wouldn't mind the chance to find out.....

I'm with Duc on this. Position, way of bite, etc.

But if you're into the moment I suppose there isn't a true or false. Since that's the original question here.

True, you can probably feel all sorts of things, epinepherine and adrenaline heighten all senses. Feeling your heartbeat the most natrual of all things in the human body would be one.

I would say its person to person, no black and white there.

Hmm, there are good points here. I suppose if you aren't feeding off of an artery, you wouldn't get the same feelings. I stand by my original statement though, that you do feel.

It may be just a book, but whos to say its false or true. If you haven't experienced it you shouldn't really comment.

You are taking the book a little too seriously, my pet. I would think that you should base the truth on your own experiences.

I agree.

when i said that i agree, i was saying my opinion not because the book said so......

hmm..
I normally dont like the sound of a heartbeat when I am hugging someone.
Ane since I absorb sexual, positive and negative energies, I have no need for blood.
however, when kissing someones neck and nipping it, I barly hear the pulse, but if I can feel it, then it is sort of a turn on, it's nice, really
However, hearing the heartbeat from hugging say, my family.. that irritates the hell of me.
Hearing a heartbeat in general calms me and somehow heightens my senses, and I feel stronger. Does that make sense..?

complete sence

sense*

At least some of you unederstand my complex nature...

shrugs* i am a very open person

True in a sense that as Nyx pointed out when ya hit a major artery it's gonna keep in time with the heart beat. Think of it as taking a pulse...to the "extreme".

Now if you take into consideration that a hand may be placed accross the chest of said "victim" and they are a bit "excited", then of course.

Don't believe me, place your hand over your own chest and feel for yourself.

Although there are many here who'd tell you I'm just "mad".

Have to agree with Ashkalon and Nyx on this one.

*looks at Ashkalon and smirks*

Call a Malkavian "mad??"

Imagine that.

Again, to be boring Nyx and Ashkalon have made the points for me, though I would say I can understand fully the way sexual energies work, for me that is a powerful exchange *smiles* I gain but so does any partner so alls fair....

As for Ashkalon being mad, a whole new thread there lol

Ive never had someone bite me and peirce the skin. Though I had one who did bite, rather hard.. and one point he tasted a little bit of blood. It hurt like hell, but it was a great turn on.
I have one who is dominant over me, and he knows where to bite, to activate the nerve endings. Of course everytime he bites me, I just wanna ravage him...
I wonder what its like to actualy have somone bite right into your flesh and peirce the vein.. hmm...
To me, biting and not peircing is more of a sexual thing.

I believe it to be true.

nothing we say is true if it was don't u think that everyone would carry a stake and a sword so there for it is not true! u guys r hella dumb!

I have felt that actually but you have no idea how wonderful it can feel to have that throbbing bilss between your lips.

perhaps it is statements like mine that seperate the men from the boys..
No one is 'hella dumb'
You are a mortal who poses to be in this lifestyl
Being a vampire is a lifestyl that cultivates your soul and connects you spiritually to everone else like you!
Some drink blood, some have blood fetishes, some have sexual fetishes and some actually absorb energy from others!!

wow, harsh

was I harsh? or was he?
hmm.. anyways I know I have a valid point.

I don't think you came across as harsh Siren. Of course maybe I have a different means of judging things then some do.

And no offence but "hella dumb" is really childish way of saying he doesn't agree with other peoples opinions. Sounds like something I would expect to hear in a middle school cafeteria or a gathering of illiterate 13 year old gang bangers.

at VampireSiren: you were and i dont argue that you have one or not

Pretty much I think it is just where you bite at

i think it would be cool

I believe, false.
Sounds romantic however.

if it is someone close 2 u than probbly can.

I can't draw blood from a person. I tend to lose myself if I am the cause of a wound. My body tends to act on its own...instinct if you will. My previous lover experienced this and I was told it became quite messy. I don't remember a thing, but apparently I drank more than my fill...

ah.
well thank you understanding that i hadn't meant to be harsh. and to the one following that statement, sorry if you feel that way.
"hella dumb" shoudnt be used in the english language.

to let me die: wat happened after you drank more then your fill if i may ask? as fot the 'hella dumb' thing....it should be used only in children's dictionaries

I think that if you are really close to the person, you will feel thier heart beat but if you arent that close and they are just another random person you wont...or thats how things are for me.....*giggles*

I believe it to be true, the skin twitching to the music of the heart...

oh splee!! true... mmm..blood!!
hee hee

Well, in Anne Rice's novels the sensing of the heartbeat was the way to know when to break off the feeding, as feeding from the already dead would injure the vampire. Remember when Claudia conspired to kill Lestat? She brought him children whom she had poisoned and were already dead when he fed upon them, thus causing his own, temporary "death".

However, I do feel when you are physically and emotionally close to another you are able to get a sense of the body's rhythm thus heightening the connection, as in tantric practices.

I've felt a heartbeat but I wasn't feeding on the person...I was just close to them.

I felt the pulse of my donor but I feel it whenever I feed.

my thoughts on this would have to be true by far...

It sounds like it makes sence.... I myself have never felt this... but that would be really awesome to feel that close to someone...

I know this isn't the same as "Interview With A Vampire" but when feeding off another's energy and they are feeding off yours, I have felt or sensed the racing of their feelings while this was done.
Now it could just be we were both really hot and bothered by what was going on with each other but know that was what we both felt or sensed with each other.

you dont even have to been feeding to feel a persons heart beat..you can close your eyes and concentrate..you can hear it without even touching a person..you can see the pounding of someones heart beat....
and yes..if someone is close to you..it makes the experience even more..emotional

i totallt agree with you siobhan. i also liked a lot the interpretation which icarus valencia made. she made it sound so exciting and romatic as well : p

Fuck sake, its living, of course it'll have a heartbeat, so yes if you're close to anything living you can feel the heart beating, jezuz, i thought i was dim!

Ok If Im gona be oneste... I don´t think that a person can fell it, if they do they must go to the doctor and cheek there ears for beping noices. Or they are just schitsofranics.

I adore the feeling... seeing as i'm choosey about my prey i choose those who are close to me

I have yet to experience something that intensly emotional.
Infact, the heartbeat of anyone, irritates me to almost the point of anget after only a few minutes...
I wonder what's wrong with me then..?

That is a very good question I think that it really depends on how close you are to the person, I myself have never felt such an experience

For a vampire feeding on some's life essence gives them a sense of euphoria..in that state I think they can feel anything......whether is real or not.

Hmm. I agree with the sensing of a deeper connection, but it would be nice to feel their blood in my mouth in time with the heartbeat.

well no i havent done that yet but i will i am not sure if i will like it but w.e

I have felted a heart from another person a lot of times. interesting what you people say in here

i have expierenced that and it is the most beautiful thing to me i feel very close to whoever i may be feeding on at the moment and i can feel and hear the heart beat and i just love it like i said i think its beautiful

I do not mean to be intentionally oblique but to me 'heartbeat' can mean several different things and to be taken as not so specific in context.

yes i have and it was very passionate but i fear i will never feel anything like it again

if your feeding from a main vain you would probably feel the heart beat as you would feel the pluse.. or at least thats how i see it

I am more concerned of the literal context... Wouldn't driniking that much blood make your body sick?
For some, it might not be true because they are used to it, but for someone with my senstive body and heightened senses, wouldn't it make me a bit sick if I did that?

I have never experienced such things.

Most havent.

I don't know about anyone else Siren, but personally when I take blood from someone I can only do so in small doses. I can take several times in a single session, but only a bit each time. Too much and as you stated I feel a bit ill. Usually nothing major though. I only had one occation where I had a severe negative reaction to taking blood from someone.

*looks at El*

Good to know I'm not the cause.

*grinz*

hmm...i never knew that taking blood from someone could cause a negative reaction....interesting

I have never felt any kind of heart beat, but I have felt the energy of excitment in someone I was with.

i agree with freak show, i have never fed from someone ..it must be exciting

i dont know

I agree with the ones saying true because you can feel the heart race as you feed at times however you do not it is as said where you feed from as well as the person your feeding from as well if there is a connection to said person of course you'll feel it..

I kinda feel it like I connect with their soul. It feels so good to me.

Uh..... no.... sounds cool though.

we sense the feeling with each other.. i think it comes because we are at such a bond that along with this we can also finish each others sentances..

its intimate and overwhelming.


daeg.

I have never done it. But feeling some ones heart slowly come to a stop would be a life time experiance and full fillment of never being emotional! And in the movie they dont feel the heart, they scensed it.

true i say....they know when they have to stop so the dont kill them, but turn them to vampire also...they wanna spread there race...not kill off there food

Interview with a Vampire is a fictious novel. Vampires do not kill to feed. So there is absolutely no truth in this statement.

couldn't be like a metaphor for the thrill of the hunt?

yes...when feeding we feel /sense the heart beat......it's protection so not to drink dead blood..

MMM I would love to hear the trembling heart of a man who is about to cum and then feast on his sweet passionate blood~Amelia

Well I guess it depends on how you are looking at this... If you are going by the book, and you are ok with the fact that you are bringing death to someone than I guess it could be a thrilling experiance. Because in the book they were aware of the heart beat as to not drink dead blood (always stop before the heart stops) If you were feeding on someone you cared for very much and their heart stopped I would imagine sorry and grief would follow as well. So I guess this is all in the opinions, and eye of the beholder.

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