How did you awaken as a Therian?

Question

(If you are not a therian or otherkin just keep moving)

I have recently awoken as a therian bear in a rather unusual way (while using chakra in a sparring match after nightfall and suddenly feeling overshadowed by an animalistic mind) and I'd like to compare my awakening with others. Please answer the following criteria:

1) What age were you when you awoke?

2) What were you doing when the awakening began?

3) Were you fully awoken immediatly, or did it slowly mature ?

4) What and when was your first therian experiance (shift)

Please answer! I'd really appreciate any help. And if you don't believe my awakening was true, feel free to speak your mind as long as you are polite about it.

Answer 1

1 -  14, though I was showing signs as early as 6.

2 -  Sitting in the school computer lab, typing an essay.

3 - At that point, I pretty much fully awoke yes (sense of "been there, done that", full phantom limbs, full mental shift (no "animal mind" and "human mind" .... just MY mind, only not seeing the world the same way)) but I would have had a gradual one had I not tried to be a "good christian" and thus repressed all vague feelings that my soul did not match the body I was in. Memories began surfacing after 4 years, due to my thinking I was bloody bonkers.

4 - Phantom limbs began immediately, stayed for years. My mindset is permanently in a mix of human/'dragon'.

Please spend some time making sure it wasn't a totem aspect you were feeling. To be otherkin is YOU being otherkin. Sensing a 'different' mind in control is not the same thing at all.

It takes months or YEARS to be sure one is otherkin. And even if you are otherkin, you may think "bear" now... but have it turn out to be bison, or chipmunk, or sparrow. Don't be quick to label yourself in any fashion.

Answer 2

hey im one two welcome friend:)

im part wolf part dragon and full romany

i was always attracted to wolfs and dragons and as a child i use them all the time but as i grew up and common sence took over my mind then i lost my true self but when i was i5 i was watching somthing about four dradon kings and ai was woken then and i could feel dragons blood running thro me, it hit me like a ten tonne hammer

and when my wolf woke i was in my in my early 20's as im 30 now but he was gentle in awakening but im more wolf everyday than dragon as he is harder to keep unwraps when i let that side loose

its mostly at night i let my dragon wild as its safer but im wolf momst of the time i get a quite few minites

i was took to some water falls somtime ago and i just couldnt help my self it was at night and my friend who was with me had a camcorda and as we watched it back it was so strage as my had changed and at times my whole apperance shifted into somthing else i did freck my mate out a little

im a white wind dragon called quion and a almost white wolf named matayo but now i feel at ease in my life and like i have come home and i have found peace with myself but im still fine tuning them and trying to keep them apart cus they just mess me up when they are together i turn in to a monster and i get drained to where i just want to sleep for days but i cant as i have 2 cats 2 dogs 3 kids and a loverly partner who trys to understand but he is in conflict with his otherkin at the moment its trying to come out now but he just keeps it surpressed as he is afraid of it but he will in time we all do anyway thats enough from me and blesed be!xx

Answer 3

I am a therian wolf. I was about five when I was awoken. I was lost in the woods that stretch a great distance past the property of my grandparents. Then suddenly I saw the world in a completely different way. I could see exactly where I had been, and where other animals had been. Okay, "see" might not be the correct word. I could "see" whatever it was that I was smelling. At the time I did not understand what was going on, but I did get myself back home. It was as if I was been pulled in the direction I needed to go. My awakening happened over the next year. I began to see better at night. In fact, now, I see better at night more so than I see during the day. I also developed a great sense of speed. My balance is not so keen though. And that's just another part of being a therian wolf. I don't know to many therian bears. So I can only answer general therian questions and support you.

Answer 4

Before i answer, i have a question for you, do u really believe what u are putting out for everyone in the world to see? If u dont then there was really no point to asking the question in the first place, and if not, well, to be blunt, the only explanations are that u had either experienced the effects of a VERY powerful hallucinogen that night, or that u have a rare psychiatric disorder known as clinical therianthropy.  I don't mean to poke holes in your character or tell u that u belong in the looney bin, but unless u are lying there are no other LOGICAL explanations.  Of course my odd use of capitalization is alluding to the fact that i do like to keep an open mind and postulate the idea of a supernatural explanation, however i am also a devout catholic and dont really believe in werewolves, otherkin, etc.