What does it mean to you to be a real mermaid?

So everyone has their own beliefs, maybe you believe in mermaids, maybe you don't. We all have our own representation. Unfortunately we can't actually breath underwater or grow tails but we can dream. So were mermaids and merman, do you think of yourself as real?

I would think of myself of real because making tails and being in the ocean is my passion. I love being apart of this crazy world and teaching people about mermaiding. I love the ocean, it's like a second home. What's your representation?


The crash of waves and salty air are the signs of freedom

I forget who the artist was but he said something along the lines of, if you can make it, then it's real. I think we're real in the sense that this is as real as it gets :)

I always tell people that I am a real person that is also a mermaid. Ergo real mermaid. We make mermaids exist simply by being.

Mermaid/merman are, IMO, archetypes. Spiritual expressions/ non corporeal entities. Parts of who we are as beings are best expressed as mer.

As physical beings, yes we are real

I feel that what makes me a "real" mermaid is my real love for the ocean, for he mythology of mermaids, and the fact that every person who has ever seen me around water calls me a mermaid. Even without a tail, I'm a real mermaid. I believe in the actual existence of mermaids (the non-human variety, as I've seen one). I think they are a kind of faerie and don't necessarily have physical bodies like us—they have subtle-energy bodies— but can manifest themselves, and I believe in the magic and mystery that they possess as archetypes. For me, they represent a soul living between two worlds, which is something I feel I identify with.

Life on this planet began in the primal ocean. We are composed largely of water. So we are all mer; we all carry within us a genetic echo of the sea. Those of us here perhaps feel the pull of that tide more than some others outside our community, so we reenact our deep and ancient relationship with water. We are the physical manifestation of that very old and mysterious history.