When i talk about bodysnatching, i refer to the advanced in-person (or semi-in-person) identity theft technique of wearing someone's skin.

In myth and fairytales, the ability to body-snatch is typically reserved to cryptids or witches. In science-fiction, surgical methods are often used by alien lifeforms.

A new method introduced to the mortal realm in the 21st century is often referred to as "deepfakes".

The fine line between deep-faked and bodysnatched is whether or not the subject of the snatching is still alive.

We're going to see more of this in the years to come. Until mind-cloning or mind-content-extraction is a mature technology, it is for now, as a countermeasure, wise to exchange secret code-words with your near friends and family.

The superstition of the past will be the hyperstition of the future.

I suppose i was subjected to a test-run. In reality it was a figment of my cursed imagination. In the altered mental state known as psychosis, i saw a vision from the future. Even if i know it was simply a mirage, the plausability of it all made me realize: not only can it happen, but it will. Superstition? Hyperstition? Both? Cause and effect indeterminate.

Bodysnatching is a pragmatic strategy of deception. Its pragmatic utility makes it inevitable, now that it has become a possibility.

Are the people calling you on the phone really the one's you think they are? Can you confirm that they truly are who they are through a video call? What will give away the illusion? These are questions one must ask oneself and best circumvent if survival in the near future is to be feasible.

Imitators. The stage is already being set. Every user-focused platform with dynamic user-attention optimization systems ingrained in them harvest your informatic skin-particle loosh to regrow it into a new skin suit which is simply begging for someone to wear. A copy of, not only your skin, your likeness, but your essence, your mind. Mind-cloning is the next stage, which will make the illusion nearly inpenetrable. With your cloned mind, the synthetic skin suit will walk itself. Skinwalker factories.