How 'alive' do you treat your doll?

I talk to my doll no more than I talk to other inanimate objects, but we do watch TV with them.

 

Well...SeNii gets up and goes to bed at certain times...and I carry him around like a baby ((heh heh. carrying a HOUND as if he were a baby...yeahhh))...I do talk to him, although more so when I'm by myself. Then I talk to everything >< That's probably because I'm autophobic more than anything though. We have a ton of fun though My closest friends pretty much see him as a human too ><

 

I'm a bit of a daft eccentric already, and I ramble to myself and inanimate objects (Sometimes jewellery work involves a little too much swearing at things-that-move-while-trying-to-solder...). I don't have a doll yet, but seeing as he's a character from my writings, I already envisage myself rambling to him too.

Probably when I get writer's block, hahaha.

But heeey. I'm an art student. We're allowed to be crazy, right?


I kid, I kid...

 

*snerk* You should only worry if you're talking to yourself while you're alone and someone else answers you.

Back on topic, I'll talk to just about anything that will listen to me. Why should a doll be any different?

 

I don't really talk to my doll -- sometimes I shout out her name... but more so to tease my boyfriend, who is sitting next to me. ... Thinking about it, I think I talk to my cars more then I talk to my doll.

 

It isn't that I treat my doll as if he is alive, it is more that I treat everyone alive as if they're made of resin.

 

I'll talk to the dolls as I'm dressing or posing them for a photoshoot - particularly if they're being "unco-operative"! But mostly I'm not even aware I'm doing it; it's on a par with talking to one of the cats really - about one step above talking to myself (and yes, I do that too, particularly if there's no-one else around - a left-over from far too many years spent living alone).

Now, if one of them were to answer back...!

Apart from that, though, despite the fact they're "only" dolls, I don't like them to sit around naked and/or wigless, and if I'm taking them out somewhere, they have to be dressed appropriately for the weather - it would bother me a lot to take one of them out clad only in T-shirt and jeans and bare feet, for example, on a bitterly cold snowy day.

A couple of years back, the Chinese owner of a restaurant I went to often with one of my dolls told me that in China, it's considered to be extremely lucky to treat a beautiful doll as though he or she were a real living person, because then a spirit might choose to inhabit the doll and bring you good luck in return for treating its "shell" with reverence. She and her staff were always highly delighted when I brought one of my dolls with me and sat him or her at the table with me, and if I came without a doll they would ask where they were and how they were doing.

Regardless of whether you believe such stories, it is hard to deny that some dolls in particular have a very definite presence about them.

 

Well, I refer to them as my "kids." How is that for a start? LOL! I also talk to them and about them. Mind you, I'm also someone who talks to my hair when it is irritating me, the computer, the car, the house...you get the idea. Ok, I guess I'm someone who just talks to those things around me. Although, I don't ascribe personalities to my hair, the car, or the house, (the computer is just out to annoy me). It is definitely different when I talk to my dolls, I don't know why. <shrug>

 

Both me and my SO are into doll collecting, and we think of them as our babies, so yes, we do treat them as slightly more than just pieces of plastic or resin.

Sometimes I answer for my dolls, and occasionally I do ask them something just off-handedly, like, "So, Ell... do I put you in this skirt or not?" If I knock one over (it's only happened once, thank God!) I'll apologize to them and maybe give them a kiss on the head. Or I'll steal one of my SO's and stroke their hair and call them pretty or something.

I don't hold entire conversations with them, though... but even if I did, it's not like I'd expect them to answer me. I see no problem with talking out loud to yourself or anything that can't answer you, though! I do it all the time. In fact, sometimes it helps me organize my thoughts

 

I talk to my dolls, refer to them as my kids. I tell them goodbye when I go somewhere, and "Hey kids I'm home." when I get back. I don't think its weird, because I do the same thing to my cat and rats. I don't expect answers back. Also I apologize when I knock em over or if they fall, when I stick em with a straightpin when I'm using them as a modle for their clothing. It comes naturally to me.

 

man, reading this post made me feel so much better about my own random mumblings~
Although while I'll yell at the toaster when it burns my toast and other random objects, I don't think ive ever really spoken to a doll~
then again, I haven't got a BJD yet~!
they are so life-like, so who knows what'll happen once i find one.
thats a scary thought...

 

Heh, I have always had a bad habit of giving inanimate objects souls in my own mind >_< It doesn't really matter what it is, I talk to them in my head or out loud when I forget myself. Often I can be in a toy store and if I find some teddy bears have fallen over I cuddle them, right them and apologize that I can't bring them home and assure them a sweet kid will soon adopt them >_>.
I do admit I give too much life to anything around me. I inject human sociology into anything around me, be it objects, bugs, animals, trees etc. I've done it all my life, and I think it's just the way I am. So needless to say, yes I treat my doll extremely humanly. I don't talk to him out loud much, because I had to quit that habit, but I do throw random lines at him pretty often. I also scold him when he tries to take a dive down from the table or such, heh... If someone more level-headed and down to earth had watched me around my doll I think they'd give me a straight jacket or at the very least raise their eyebrows preeeetty high.
But yeah, at least it's not as bad as when I was a kid... Then I'd start crying in hysteric fits if I thought I had displeased one of my dolls/teddies/etc and they were angry with me >_>

I just can't seem to think of inanimate objects as inanimate objects o_O It just seems so wrong to me on so many levels.

 

well, ive learned recently, that when your dolls are all you have... you tend to look at them as more than dolls....

i often find myself straightening a wig with a loving smile or making sure that Grey has enough of my blanket too when we sleep, making sure Luna keeps her legs crossed when she sits... no one wants to see her world....

my dolls and i... especially with Grey... give each other talks through facial expression and just simply being there....

I don't have to make my dolls come to life... everyone who has come by my dolls, even those who don't understand at all and are creeped out by them, know that there is life in them and that its just a matter of time before Grey and Luna stand up and slap them in the face ^.^*apologizes for the rozen maiden reference*

heck... these dolls can even save lonely lives... like my own...

 

I have a bit of a habit of personifying things, so I'll probably talk to them a bit, watch movies with them, have one on my lap while I'm on the computer, etc. >w<

 

as a writer i have a very wild imagination...plus i have conversations with my cat... and i can remember back when i was little i would converse with my dolls so it's no biggy for me really... I do find my self talking to Tarquin more then i do to Keiichiro or Alessandro... of course i don't do it while my family is in the other room or else i'll be made fun of more then what i already am but yeah if i'm alone or we (the boys and i) go out to a friends i will say something now and then to them... and after seeing toy story it's kinda hard not to get that idea out of my head that they are kinda alive in a way... as part of my researching for my stories i read about paranormal and occult subjects and i've come across actual stories here and there about dolls being possessed or having a life of their own so who's to say really... anyone putting all that time into making the doll down to the owner who dresses and cares for the doll is giving it small amounts of life so yeah they're alive in a way... i mean rocks are inanimate but who's to say they aren't alive it's the same with plants they're in animate but they're alive to an extent... any who i know this sounds crazy but i'd much prefer the company of Quin,Kei, and Alley to that of people because i know my boys won't say cruel things to me or judge me because of how i am or what i look like or who i am... i mean Quin has his own myspace how bizarre is that....

 

grey and luna have myspaces too lol

 

No more weird than four of my dolls having their own LJs....

 

I talk to Loric and Giovanni all the time, usually to ask them if they like the thing I'm making for them. I know I feel bad if I don't play with them often, like I'm being a neglectful parent, or something to that affect.

 

I feel rather bad if i don't play with cain often, and i talk to him a lot.

 

When I was young, I believed that inanimate objects had feelings. (I was REALLY young. >.>) I guess it stemmed from that, because now I'll hold small conversations with Skylar.