[Gallowsraven]

Please don't hate me? I kind of am, in a way . . . but i take energy mostly from sunlight so . . . yh put me in strong sunlight in summer and i become the energiser bunny on sugar lol ^.^

And you're right, Wicked, many of us don't and then, suddenly, we do. We call those who don't know "beacons" because others who are aware just sort of gravitate to them. Those vamps then help the beacon become aware.

A vamp awakening - aka becoming aware - will suddenly take in a great deal of energy all at once. I had the misfortune to do so on the college bus back home, on the motorway! Not fun. Didn't crash, luckily. But my sources were emotional and photo (light). Emotions still but more the light, and being aware means i can control it. I graze if there isn't enough light, which means six out of twelve months, and i suffer S.A.D. like crazy. You know, a little here a little there, and always from big crowds. We think that's where my empathic abilities have come from, that and "psychic puberty".

Some people reckon it comes from not being properly grounded, but i am. It's more like . . . for some reason you just start having to take in energy from your surroundings. I'm not really sure, i just know i am and i do.

Ok, odd post is gonna end now. I think i rambled . . .