★ Serial Experiment Lain Shrine ★

Serial Experiments Lain has made me the woman-dogirl hybrid that I am today, and I mean it quite literally! I am obsessed with this anime and video game so much that every piece of technology is somehow Lain-themed! Whether it's every desktop/phone background since my discovery of this show, stickers, or references, Lain has consumed my life! Why is this the case?

Lain really related to me on a deep metaphysical level with the trauma and feeling a sense of dissociation throughout my young childhood. While I only discovered this anime well into my transition, it really connected with me, reminding me of when I was 14, like Lain! My childhood was consumed by the internet, “The Wired.”

Whether it was forums, image boards, Reddit, darkrp gmod servers (XD) I was on the internet connecting with people and losing myself to the internet's machinations. Granted, I was heavily medicated and abused at the time,somy only escape was the internet, which is not that crazy of a story. Though the themes of the Knights and lain splitting personalities in the wired and in real life really connected with me!

And the video game really made me feel I was back in my childhood therapist's office, and I was zoning out and enjoying the escapism that being doped up on medication could afford. Not to spoil the ending, but Isometimes wish I could have “escaped” as Lain did during that time, and it really struck a chord. _

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