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Ok, I've been feeding this way for years but I have a question....

After I feed from some, I pick up a few little personality trait of theirs. I dont relise I'm even doing it until someone points it out. It usually goes away after a few days.

This happen to anyone else?

though this has not happen to me. i have heard of this. i think u are picking up on there traits because u draw from the rawest part of there physic so u would get some of there traits.

what traits do you actually pick up ?

Its like any intimate link between two people. Such intimate contact causes the souls to become partially connected for a period.

like I'll say things I normally wouldn't say or I walk different. One time, I was flirting with everyone. I don't flirt. My friends would not stop laughing bout that one.... -_-"

i figured that was why it happened. but i dont really know anyone else who that happens to. the few vampire friends i have in real are all psy so that never happens

its kinda annoying sometimes actually

Maby because of the intimacy or trust, there has to be a touch of that.

since the feeding from blood is, for me, so intimate... and you're feeding from other's life, if i can call it that way, it's very likely to get some of that person.... what happens to me is more related to mood changes...

i can absorb a bit of anger most of the times...

I only tend to pick up small things.. and only for a few hours. The one I do the most is the desire to be around people. My friend that allows me to drink from her is a vveerryyyyy social kinda person. Where I am the kind that would rather be left alone. But for a few hours after drinking I tend to want to be with people. So she has learned to tempt me with a drink before taking me out somewhere lol.

Like others have said, it creates a very intimate bond. You can acheive the same effect from being around someone you've come to love for a while. I've picked up my partners walk, my foot turns once and a while, strangest thing. Maybe this just creates the bond faster?

The few times I was fortunate enough to feed in that manner I also seemed to pick up some minor traits (such as eating certain foods that I wouldn't normally, using certain words/phrases that I don't normally say, and once I even picked up the hint of an accent!).

That's very interesting. I have to agree with what everyone else has said. Blood is the very essence of who someone is. It only makes sense that by sharing it you share who they are if only for a while.

To be honest I can’t say that I have ever felt as though I had picked up another’s personality traits but I did notice that if they have been drinking I would react to the alcohol.

I think RaineVampire’s post was interesting about taking the trait of anger specifically. I wonder if there could be more to that than the feeding itself. I wonder if that could be from subconsciously looking for anger to feed off of.

I'm not a sang vampire.
However, think about it...blood fuels life. Without blood, we'd all be dead. We'd have no remnants of personality. Maybe, while acquiring the blood you also acquire some of their energy, which causes you to act differently.

its their essence that goes in you then once its eleminated in your system, then you resum to be yourself.

i have not had this with blood but when i feed on one person psychicly i have a tendency to pick up some of their traits, like if they have an accent i start speaking with an accent, or if they have a particulair mannerism i pick it up for awhile.

I pick up on personality traits too, but I think it's because i'd only feed on people i've known for a while, and I tend to pick up on people's traits anyway if I spend enough time on them. Perhaps thats why you're doing it.

If I may, correct some of the posts with my own.

As Carsho and a couple of others have stated, the intimacy is a bit involved, but I will better word said statements.

Whether it be Sang or Psi, the relations are the same, it is not nessessarily the intimacies or the closeness involved. The characteristics you gain from the feed, is the energies from said individual to where you gain some of what their personality is like.

Such as if you "feed" from an angery individual, you inturn would have a bit of anger within you, or sadness from a depressed individual. this is all quite normal I assure you.

Unfortunatly it comes with the territory if you are that aware of your surroundings, as most do not realize, most just do not catch on to said emotions.

I do hope this information helps in the long run.

Thanx much everyone! I am actually happy to see I'm not the only on who this happens to. I knew I wasn't but still.... its nice to see the results. ^_^

I agree it is intimate.
I disagree with picking up traits. We have never had this occur and We have never meet anyone, who has.
Grounding and shielding come to mind!
To pick up emotions is one thing, but to pick up traits is SILLY!

As an empath and a psy/sang, I have to tell you that this is not at all uncommon. Like everyone has said, what you are really feeding off of is the person's energy, and as such, for a time a part of them merges with a part of you, and you become one (the same kind of energy exchange experienced during sex). So you may very well pick up traits, and if you have the same donor for an extended period of time, these traits may very well become semi-permanent.

well pending on where you look.
say white wolf they have a derangement in the larp rpg
called sanguinary animism and what it does is exactly as you describe
(outside of dork talk)
blood is a power substance its what gives us all life so it would not surprise me for those highly subseptive to such things wouldnt suprise me on certain behavioral patterns being picked up