Hear me out
As you probably know, some real diseases and phenomena (rabies, tuberculosis, catalepsy, porphyria,...) are associated with the belief in vampires.
However, how would you explain the "social behaviour", like only entering if asked (other than the fantasy of an author)?
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The daytime/nighttime things aren't even inherent of introversion. I love going out at night because I hate being hot, which the sun will be if I went out in the day. Leaving the house isn't the problem. It's going where there will be people. Going to Walmart? Anxiety. Literally alone and lost in the woods? Nirvana.
Yeah, I was gonna say, I prefer night anyways, less idiots to interact with
I used to love going shopping at 2am at the 24-hour grocery store. During the day there are so many people around and you are never sure who the crazy ones are, but that late at night you know for certain because they are shopping at 2am.
when I was in college, there'd be a mad rush of people just before the 2am deadline after which alcohol could not be sold til morning. After 2am it was just people on drugs. I think most places aren't open 24 hours any more tho.
Even Walmart is better at midnight
I'd have to break in to find out for myself; they haven't been open that late or 24/7 in years out here. Got a Winco nearby; but god DAMN even at 3am it's packed.
I had to look up WinCo foods. The closest one is 12h away.
I can't imagine a grocery store packed at that hour. That is when my local stores have all the shelves apart and are repacking. My youngest seemed to never sleep, so we sometimes found ourselves out shopping at those hours. It was nice because there weren't hordes of people out. I'm guessing the difference might be that there were easily several other options within a 10 mile radius.
Fun fact, WinCo is an acronym for that states they operate in. Washington, Idaho, Nevada, California, and Oregon.
You know I've had fun making music in all five of those states, and been treated well in four of them!
Idaho?
And going to Walmart/grocery store at night when there are fewer people is quite well within introvert behavior
Maybe you are just vampire introvert
Yes, to be fair, this comparison is more about stereotypes. Introversion actually refers to the fact that introverts need less outside input to feel engaged/overwhelmed, which everyone deals with differently
Watch Call of the Night (anime), going outside at nighttime is actually introvert paradise (and vampires too)
Grocery shopping at night is so entertaining
The only entering if asked is autism and/or anxiety.
i'm not sure whether this is a real question or a joke but here's my take:
The vampires for one are a metaphor in the first place, and secondly they have been heavily "demonized" - i.e. made to look bad, partially because an enemy wanted to discredit them.
The stereotype of a vampire in the medieval ages was a person who (a) was highly intelligent and (b) often was a landlord or some other noble person having a castle and such.
Due to their duties (mostly organisatorial stuff) they had to be highly intelligent, otherwise they couldn't have managed to organize a society. So they had to study a lot, including reading and writing lots of literature, which was done indoors, so they became of pale skin and faint musculature. Subsequently, their body adapted and it became more difficult spending time outside, partially because the pale skin was more susceptible to the sunlight, partially because their eyes were adapted to rather dim light instead of the bright light of the sun, partially they weren't accustomed to the noise that is typically heard in the daylight (such as in villages where children scream and people work), so they preferred the quiet of the night, and so there was a stereotype that they would always be awake in the middle of the night, but not so much in the daytime, especially not in the early morning, when most people got to work.
I guess a lot of the rest is mostly due to authors trying to sell more copies and trying to overblow their point and make the story more exciting for the reader.
It was a genuine question, and I find your approach very interesting. It would be also cool to analyze how the stereotypes about vampires have changed in their portrayals in different historical contexts.
hooray, positive feedback :) thank you kind stranger
As a former pumpkin head, we only came out at night
Ah, I found one in Oklahoma