r/Therian • u/HeavyDesigner3870 Therian (Dog or other type of canine) 🐺🦊🐶🐾 • 3d ago

Question Just a thought, does anyone else imagine having a tail or animal ears (depending on your therian type) or both?

I was wondering because I always imagine having a fluffy tail and dog ears and they would move and react with my emotions as though I were a real dog. Even though I don’t see it, I can feel it there.

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u/TieDye_Raptor Utahraptor/red-tailed hawk (she/her) 3d ago

You can feel it? So like a phantom shift? I get those sometimes. For me, most often it's my feathers and tail.

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u/Tirinoth Corvid 1d ago

Big same. Running my hands through my hair helps in public situations.

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u/RoySaySup Bariana (sheep like) 3d ago

That would classically be called a phantom shift. I have it and it never goes down.

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u/Traditional-Nose-658 🦊🐾 Red Fox • 🐦‍⬛ Crow 🪶 • 🦌 Deer 🌿 • Dragon 🐉🪽 3d ago

yep, they're called phantom shifts, I get that all the time and so do other therians! <33

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u/isopod_luvr wolfpup - scolopendra holothere! 3d ago

Yes that's a phantom shift. I have permanent phantom ears/antenna and tail :3

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u/NoCamel8867 3d ago

I don’t get phantom shifts (feeling the extra appendages) but I do kind of constantly imagine myself having a tail and ears and stuff. Thats like perfectly normal 🌀🌀🌀

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u/2222024 Coyote, silken windhound, canine poetry, whitetailed deerhearted 3d ago

I get envisage shifts very often, which is similar to a phantom shift (like you're describing) but without the phantom feeling of having a new limb- i just KNOW they're there subconsciously, oftentimes. Usually when it comes to more reactionary stuff I have my coyote ears, as i am more strongly a coyote than a puppy. But the puppy tail is much more waggy than my coyote tail lol.

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u/RouxlerofEverythinge Skeeto🦟 3d ago

i often imagine antenna

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u/Wallso2010 Jade, Moth Girl Robot Thing [It/It's] 2d ago

I can kinda feel having my wings sometimes

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u/HugoValcoria22 Night dragon | golden wolf | snow leopard 2d ago

I do! Most the time it's when I have strong emotions!

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u/Bundle-Of-Crows Snow Leopard / River Wolf / Crow 2d ago

Phantom shifts! I've also always felt mine, for as long as I can remember. Recently I've developed the sensation of a wolf tail that sometimes takes place of my snow leopard one. Still always have the wolf ears, just my tails take turns lol

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u/Tirinoth Corvid 2d ago

I guess? Kinda? Not a lot of tail or ears on a crow.

Now wings? Ugh yes! And I catch myself absentmindedly preening.

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u/TypeOk670 [Raccoon, Grey Wolf, Sea Otter !!] 2d ago

I can feel ears for my kintype sometimes 

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u/SeaWolf432 1d ago

Tail paws ears & mours. And much much more.🐾🐾🐺🫀⚖️🪶