Reborn dolls - harm or benefit?

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

In this article, I would like to express my thoughts about Reborn dolls, since this topic seems interesting and relevant to me.

From the beginning I will present brief information from the vastness of the Internet. Reborn doll (from the English reborn - received a new life, reborn) is a doll created on the basis of a factory baby doll (less often an older child), the appearance of which, as much as possible, resembles a living baby. The process of creating a doll is called reborn, and doll artists are called reborn. Reborns weigh and look like real babies. In their creation, natural hair or shaker, glass eyes, a special composition of vinyl and paint, as well as various fillers (weighting agents) for the body are used. Modern Reborns can contain "animating" mechanisms, with the help of which quite realistic "heartbeats", "breathing" and even speech are created!

The craft of making Reborns appeared in the United States in the late 80s and early 90s of the 20th century. The Internet has allowed doll artists and collectors to create their own online community. In 2002, the first "reborn" doll was exhibited on eBay. This expanded the Reborn marketplace, allowing artists to open online stores, so-called "children's" ones. In "children's" Reborns are not bought, but as if adopted, and almost never resold. The media contributed to the development of the trend in other countries and continents - Britain, Australia, Canada, Europe, Africa and Latin America. In this regard, magazines, books and organizations dedicated to the Reborn doll began to appear. In Russia, this hobby has intensified since 2008.

Reborns can also be made at home. To do this, you need a play vinyl baby doll, or a special kit for creating a Reborn. The paint is removed from the factory doll, and she re-signs. The workpieces from the sculptor (mold) are not painted, and already have their own physical characteristics - folds, nails, etc. The body painting is done in several layers, and the painted body parts are baked in the airfryer.

The sets of parts of the body of the future Reborn are affectionately called by some master artists "Frankenstein sets", and ready-made dolls are called "puppeteers". The arms, legs and head of Reborn in the package resemble a "dismembered" from Dexter Morgan from the US television series of the same name. Usually, all the "imperfections" of the baby's skin - rashes, scratches, as well as snot and drooling - are used by the creators in the form of painting to give more realism. Some craftsmen create their dolls using a photograph of a real child to reproduce his appearance.

The image of the Reborn doll, which almost completely coincides with the image of a real and individual baby, is able to evoke in its owner those emotions and feelings that he could have for a living child. I have repeatedly watched videos on the Internet in which the happy "parents" of the Reborns, with caution and care, corrected their thrown back head to their babies. Moreover, such "parents" buy them real strollers and baby clothes, suck on them and lull them like real babies! All this reminds me of the state of false pregnancy in bitches, when they take toys, lick them and try to feed them, as if they were dealing with puppies! I am interested in the fact that in the box with the finished Reborn doll there is always a certificate of his birth, which indicates the date of his birth, height and weight, as if we are not talking about a doll, but about a living child. I saw on the Internet bracelets of newborns, dressed on the arms of Rebornam.

As a rule, Reborn is not cheap, its cost varies from 5 thousand to many tens of thousands of rubles. Therefore, Reborns are not often bought as a gift for small children. Most often they are acquired by: either collectors; or single women with no children; or those who have lost a child and want to find a replacement for him; or women who have raised children and dream of nursing a child again.

What is the danger of Reborn dolls? At first glance, they are sweet and innocent, and unable to bring mental harm to their owners. But this is only at first glance.

Let's remember our old homemade dolls made from rags, straw, fur or string. The beauty of these dolls is that in their appearance there is only a hint of individuality, that is, these are dolls-images or dolls-archetypes - mother, girl, Baba Yaga, brownie, horse, etc. Such dolls are poorly personified, and they give the child the opportunity to develop his imagination while playing with them, to supplement their figures with the most significant details. When playing with Reborn, a child can hardly change anything qualitatively in his appearance (add or subtract). The maximum that he can do is take off or put on clothes on Reborn, as well as take a walk with him or feed him. That is, the child from the acting creator in the game becomes … the service personnel! Seeing a hyperrealistic Reborn in front of him, a child can perceive him not as a doll, but as almost equal to himself (brother or sister), but only dead. Consequently, the child may develop a detached or suspicious attitude towards Reborn. And if you also consider that mom bought Reborn for herself, then the child, most likely, will not be allowed to play with him. A child may be punished for damaging such an expensive toy that may make him jealous of Reborn or hatred of his parents.

Known models of sleeping Reborns (the so-called "scops"), premature and damaged (sick). Needless to say, their influence on the psyche of the owners, especially children, is unpredictable. In their subconscious minds, attitudes towards the Reborns can be formed: “forever premature,” “never get better,” “sick forever,” “never wake up,” which are essentially Thanatos according to Freud, in contrast to Eros.

With the rise of the Reborns' popularity, resonant programs arose in Russia and abroad, such as "Male-Female" with Yulia Baranovskaya and Alexander Gordon and the acutely social talk show "Ukraine Says" with Alexei Sukhanov "Vinyl Children". Interestingly, the viewer audience, opposed to the Reborns, expressed their opinion in a purely emotional way, almost without explaining it in terms of reason and logic. The fact is that science has described the phenomenon of the "Evil Valley" or the effect of the ominous valley. The essence of the hypothesis is that a robot or other object that looks or acts almost like a person causes dislike or disgust in human observers. In 1978, Japanese scientist Masahiro Mori conducted a survey examining the emotional reactions of humans to the appearance of robots. At first, the results were predictable - the more a robot looks like a person, the prettier it seems - but only up to a certain limit. The most humanoid robots in the future unexpectedly turned out to be unpleasant. This decline on the "sympathy" graph was called "Evil Valley". The reason may be that at a certain level of similarity between a robot and a person, the robot ceases to be perceived as a machine, and begins to seem like an abnormal person or a revived corpse, a cadaver. It is this effect that all those people who are disgusted with Reborns feel.

According to esoteric literature and the opinion of psychics, Reborn may well become a haven for a restless soul or demonic energy. Such a doll can have a negative mental effect on the surrounding space, up to the occurrence of a poltergeist. Hyperrealistic Reborn is able to overexcite the psyche of an impressionable child, which can lead to the development of phobic, anxiety disorders and sleep disturbances. I came across a user's statement on the Internet: “body minus soul equals a corpse”.

In fact, the "mothers" of vinyl "children" put their emotions and feelings into pieces of plastic, which is a transfer of the maternal instinct to inanimate objects, and can lead to the emergence of mental or hormonal dependence. The position of limited and infantile parenting in relation to Reborn is very convenient, since an undead child can always be thrown into a dusty corner if he gets bored. Collecting in itself is, according to the Eastern tradition, a departure to Maya and the multiplication of an illusion that leads to nowhere. It is no coincidence that many collectors have traits of pedantry and suspiciousness in their character, insensitivity to others, egocentrism and fantasy thinking, divorced from reality. Therefore, before you buy an expensive and fashionable Reborn doll, consult with family and friends, read the comprehensive information on the Internet, consult a psychologist or psychotherapist, in general, weigh the pros and cons. A thoughtless purchase of Reborn can wreak havoc on your life and harm your mental health.