27-Year-Old Admits She's Human But Doesn't Identify As One: 'Spiritually I Am A Wolf'

A woman appeared on British television to explain that she may have a job and pay taxes like anyone else, but spiritually, she identifies as a wolf.

The 27-year-old transgender, Naia Ōkami, based in Seattle, spoke to hosts of the U.K. daytime television show, “This Morning,” and said she knows she has the body of a human being, but she often barks and howls because she believes she is psychologically a British Columbian wolf.

"I don't physically believe I am a wolf. It's more a spiritual and psychological identification as a wolf, like I'm totally aware I'm human ... but by the same token, spiritually I am a wolf," she said on the show, as quoted by LADbible.

"I think a lot of people have a misconception that I think I am physically a wolf and obviously I don't. I have a serious job, I pay my bills and taxes; this is just how I spiritually express myself,” she added.

Ōkami said she began understanding her identity right from when she had dreams in her childhood.

“It started with dream shifting,” she explained on the show. “That is when I had a dream of myself as a wolf and I could view myself in some of these dreams. I could see myself as an observer, in some of these dreams I was acting as a wolf. I went from that to looking more about actual wolves, real life wolves. The more I looked, the more and more I began to identify in that way.”

Ōkami learned how to embody her inner "wolfness" and let the animal out of the woods as the years passed. Nevertheless, she tries not to howl in public.

“When I was in high school, I was a lot more shamelessly expressive," she explained to the hosts. "I would vocalise, I would howl, that is how I express myself. Nowadays, It's a little different...If I'm at work or in the grocery store, I'm not going to bark or howl."

Much like wolves in the wild do, Ōkami revealed that she, too, goes out on hunts and chases after her prey. But her preys are the child predators and traffickres she pursues while working for a nonprofit organization, according to the New York Post.

“One of the things I do with a nonprofit is investigate trafficking and child predators,” she said on the show, “and I always make the joke that as a wolf I’m hunting my prey.”