LaDamaX · 8 answers · 5y

How and why did you pick your Retro screen name?

I'm not sure which is my screen name, "Inhahe" or "ColorStorm" (they're both names I have on here). Here's my answer for Inhahe from Kiwi:

Back in about 1993-1994 I would spend all day after school on a free multi-line BBS to chat with people.. but to use it for free you weren't allowed to have an account, so you had to enter any username you wanted every time you logged on, and if the lines were full it would drop you off every five minutes. So I'd constantly be calling back and coming up with a new, random screen name just to express myself/show off my creativity. Well, actually I'd had a few that I often used. One day I got tired of using all the ones I'd used before so to pick an entirely new one
I just pulled three random syllables out of the air: in, ha, and he, then put them together into a handle. I kinda liked it, it really seemed to fit me so it stuck. To me the energy is kind of like that of a happy dog. BTW, it's pronounced in-hah-hee, not in-hah-hey as so many people think.

And here's the answer for ColorStorm.

Back in 1999 I had been talking to this (pretty) girl a lot on the phone, and one night I started to believe she might actually want to be my girlfriend.. I'd finally have a girlfriend. I couldn't stop thinking about it and then the emotions/thoughts got so intense that I started thrashing around in bed.. then I felt my third eye *pop* and at the same time, even though my stereo was off, I heard my speakers make a loud "PPPPPPPPPP" sound. Then I started getting powerful visions and one of them was a huge angel, like two-thirds the size of the Earth (not shaped like mankind's archetype for the angel), and it was made up of thousands of differently-colored points of light.. I effortlessly came up with a name for this entity, "ColorStorm" and since then I've used it in a few different places, though I still usually use "inhahe". I think I used ColorStorm on the first *spring site because I didn't want my family looking up "inhahe" on the internet (everyone I know knows that I'm Inhahe) and seeing some of my answers on Spring. Though I also remember signing up using my Facebook account and it automatically gave me the name "ColorStorm" followed by about 5 digits and then on later *spring sites I just used ColorStorm so that people would recognize me, so I dunno. The reason my Facebook username is ColorStorm and not inhahe is that somebody had already taken "inhahe" on facebook. IIRC it was somebody I knew but I'm not sure which person. Btw, after the visions I became psychotic for a few weeks and had many very interesting, intense, spiritual and psychic experiences during that time. I also ended up in the mental hospital for the first time, and I've been there three other times since.. if I don't take medicine for a few months/years I eventually become psychotic, ever since that first time in 1999.

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