Top Five Signs You're A Sci-Fi Addict
Science Fiction Addiction Demands An Obsession More Than Most Pursuits
Warning: Fully absorbing the science fiction genre can be dangerous to your free time, sleep patterns and overall finances.
Takeaway - Science fiction addiction can cause friction.
Sci-fi boasts a power of the imagination which transforms you into an obsessive future spanning addict. And your disposable income may start going toward amassing a pricey prop collection. No worries though, it has to happen and no power on Earth can stop it from happening. In the end, you’ll be all the better for this spacey, speculative obsession which has overtaken your biological neural net.
If you think it’s all about The Comic Book Guy action figure collecting, geeky convention goers flashing a Vulcan salute or cozy cosplay performers, my randy robot lover, think again. Sci-fi isn’t just for the casual fan who loves Star Wars or Star Trek, or for that matter, adores the Stargate universe. The sci-fi mutant bug can get under the skin of anyone, and stay put like a cybernetic implant programmed to control your every synapse and enhance your neurological impulses.
You Dream In Sci-Fi
It’s the twilight place where it all begins. If sci-fi is about anything substantial, or sociological influential, it’s the place where dreams live and soar up into the stratosphere. It’s where dreams take flight.
You know the score. Don’t dream it, be it. You’re living the dream. Always.
Dreaming in sci-fi isn’t just about laying your head down on the pillow and letting those creature sheep lull you into the next alternate reality or dimension. Sci-fi daydreaming is especially the mark of your science fiction addiction.
You Dress In Sci-Fi
Are you a flashy fashion plate from Alpha Centauri? Perhaps you’re always dressed up in Cosmic Casual Wear. Or maybe you simply enjoy giving yourself a Martian Makeover. Sci-fi fans dress uniquely to say the least.
You set sci-fi fashion trends.
You’ll find yourself buying boatloads of theme t-shirts. Your wardrobe will be overtaken by Enterprise warping hoodies or Darth Vader replica costumes. It won’t be exactly pretty at times, and it certainly won’t be cheap, but it’s the personal expression of your obsession being revealed to an admiring, though perhaps still cautious world.
You Work In Sci-Fi
Laboratory worker? NASA engineer? Brain surgeon? Yeah, those high tech, scientific grounded workplaces are obviously brimming with sci-fi fans, but the most mundane of environments also counts members of the sci-fi cult.
You make robotic work seem even more neurotic robotic.
Sci-fi people take even the most boring task and infuse it with awe inspiring secrets of an ancient alien civilization. Going to the beach isn’t just for getting some relaxing rays or splashing around like an idiot, third rate Aquaman, it’s entering into the lost city of Atlantis and communicating with the swarming USO’s (Unidentified Submerged Object) guarding the empire.
You Speak In Sci-Fi
Gort! Klaatu, Barada Nikto! - The Day The Earth Stood Still
You know you don’t need a universal translator to understand your fellow sci-fi lovers. Like you, they speak in alien tongues plucked from a thousand different solar systems - or maybe a few cool phrases from TV shows and films.
You speak in tongues heard on countless worlds around the galaxy.
When you encounter a like minded life form, there’s no need for words - telepathic communication, astral projection or soul transference will work just as well. Opening up hailing frequencies is as natural to you as transporting site to site.
You Love In Sci-Fi
My love has wings, slender, feathered things
with grace in upswept curve and tapered tip
"Nightingale Woman" poem by Tarbolde, on the Canopus Planet.
Lovemaking is reserved for our most intimate desires. Let’s face it - sex not only sells, but it’s something we all happily partake in, however seldom or lacking in quality. Cough,Cough. Sexual fantasy doesn’t always include emotional love, but a sci-fi angle and good old lust can definitely go hand in hand.
You sexy sci-fi siren attract the sexiest sci-fi souls.
Like our favorite holographic EMH Doctor (Robert Picardo) serving aboard far flung Starship Voyager might say, it’s inherent in your DNA to love tales of strange new worlds and civilizations. All the better if these adventures come with a sexy partner to play with or even couple long term for many a moon. As is the case with so much in life, sci-fi is best savored and shared with the special loving people in your life.