[UA] The Demon / MPD/DID

[cd skogsberg]

John C wrote:

> >I think everyone should try and read up a bit on DID/MPD and tailor
> >demons on Multiple Personalities.

> >They are real and incredbly freaky in the High Weirdness/UA kind of
> >way.

> For freaky interpretations of MPD, check out _When Rabbit Howls_, by Trudy 
> Chase. [...]

> Chase notes at one point that she -- like other MPD sufferers -- has
> a lot of problem with machines, including (for example) watches.
> They tend to run fast, and then slow, and to stop function without
> any warning.  She suggests that, because of the extra mental
> activity that Multiples experience, they generate a weird sort of
> energy that interferes with mechanical devices.

> She also mentions going out to a club one night and being able to
> consume prodigious amounts of alcohol because each time one of her
> personalities becomes to drunk to function, another steps forward
> and takes control of her body.

> It occurs to me that one possible UA explanation for MPD is that the
> victims are living ghost traps -- when put under sufficient stress,
> they are able to pull a demon into themselves, and force *it* to
> deal with the source of trauma.

See also Tim Powers' _Earthquake Weather_, which has some of these
things explicitly occuring (and quite probably _Expiration Date_, too,
but I haven't read that one).

/cd
-- 
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                             -- Bill Garrett

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