Who else wants a hug machine?

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I want a hug machine badly.... more like I need one....

One day I want to make this hug machine with a giant teddy bear, and teddy bear will wrap its fluffy arms around me...

I wish I have that now...

Really really really need hugs....

In high anxious state now... when I'm hugged, I calm down.... but when the hug is gone, I go back to the anxious state... just like now... and can't find a way out...

I wish there is someone here to give me a hug, i mean, real, physical hug...

I wish there is someone here to hug me to sleep, to sweet dreams.

I kind of like this idea but I would much rather have a partner instead. It would probably be easier to fall asleep with my arms around my parnter & my legs tangled up with hers's than a machine

ya i like humans too.... but when there's no human who can hug me.....

I'd like a real hug.

i once was a janitor for a department store, and one day i was in the basement with all the mannequins and sweeping the floor, and i was lonely, so i walked up to a mannequin and put my arms around "her" in an embrace, and i buried my head in "her" neck, and it reminded me of that study of japanese monkeys who were denied their mother's nurturence and instead were forced to seek succor from cloth mannequins. i felt like those monkeys might have felt. i want an animated mannequin that will hug me and say nice things to me. i can dream, anyways.

There was a film about an autistic lady who had a machine something like that........it was a contraption that farmers use to squeeze cows (or maybe calves), for some strange reason. She somehow discovered that she felt a lot better after a few minutes in that, so she had it converted for human use and used it regularly. I'll see if I can find out the name of the film.

Conceptually, I prefer hugs from the right kind of people, but that way it's difficult to get them when I want them. Either they don't want a hug when I do, or it's socially inappropriate, or (in the case of some past partners) they want to hug me when I'd rather not.......it's great for a few minutes but after that I get too hot and I start to feel trapped. A machine would solve those problems but there's something about the meaning of a hug from a real person, that I really go for.

@toughdiamond, the woman you're referring to is Temple Grandin.

Anyway, I would not dream of having one of those things. It's just sad. If I was hugged by a big machine I'd feel so bloody depressed. I think I'll stick with humans thanks.

ya, i was talking about the hug machine invented by Gardin Temple... but I want it to be a big teddy bear on there instead =P

Maybe you guys can hug me...but you are all too far away =(

melbi said that the reason she yearned for this is that humans aren't available 24/7
...anyway, it's not about being 'hugged by a big machine'
It's about receiving 'compression therapy' to relieve bouts of anxiety
I have undergone this therapy myself
and there is a definite short term relief

However, there is a definite problem, that such a solution, can be applied to a cow going through a compress to it's slaughter

and that such a solution can be so simplistically applied to a human being,
with all the complexity of imagination and intangiblility of the human condition that that
involves

... I came up against a brick wall, with regards to that

Squeezed out topic

I must be one of the few aspies who dislike hugs and squeezes/pressure. I prefer blankets.

It seems too creepy to me.