How can I know how to do something if my learning how to do that is locked as a memory in the unconscious level of thinking which is what DID is - memories that have been stored separate in the unconcious level? LOL no I don't expect an answer and no Im not being sarcastic just posting from the top of my head so to speak.. now take that question and put it into the form of a memory.

A person with DID in school as a teen ager for example. Something happens at school that triggers the person. a trigger is anything that scares or upsets a person. The person is triggered right before going into art class. (this situation is hypothetical but the process that happens is real. I know fron finding drawings that I have a memory piece that draws so I am doing a hypothetical situation here to explain the process) So the person has been triggered ( lets make up a trigger - the person was told they have to draw in front of the class) because this scares and upsets the person they mentally start thinking of their mental safe place. Physically the body is rerunning a the memory content that is related to that trigger - a time when the person had to do something in front of the class. Because the body is on automatic rerun of the memory all the appropiate actions are carried out based on that memory that has already been stored. Mentally the person is in their mental safe place. what they are experiencing mentally is what their safe place is. for example my safe place la la land is a place of music and clouds a tree and fresh cut grass. This person has no idea what is going on in the classroom because they are mentally thinking about la la land. because the person is mentally in la la land what is happening in the classroom is stored separately as a part of the memory that is being automatically rerun and stored with that memory in the unconscious level. The class ends and the person at some point finally feels calm and safe and stops thinking about la la land and is mentally back to paying attention to the physical world around her again. later on someone asks her to draw something but because she wasn't paying attention in class to the point that she does not have any memory of being in the class that day she cannot draw the material that happened in that class that day. She has no memory of it happening so she cannot do something she cannot remember learning how to do.

It would be like you being asked to speak a foreign language that you had no memory of learning, like someone suddenly saying to you

j' temme le chat et vous?

and you are expected to answer that question. and yes to any french speaking people I spelled the word like wrong its been a good 30 years since my taking french class, Im a terrible speller in english let alone french.

the question I asked you if you don't know french - in this sense chat has nothing to do with talking to someone - I asked -

I like the cat and you?

and chat in this sense is pronounced as shat.

I did things I have no memory of doing and got yelled at for it but since I had no memory of doing things to me I got yelled at for nothing and I learned how to do things that I have no memory of learning how to do. So now as an adult I basically have to relearn how to do those things and a big part of doing that is finding the memories and the triggers so that I know how to do those things and can do them without being triggered.

yes it is definately worth it. I am relearning how to draw, and am having fun doing so and an added bonus there is a local gallery that takes survivors art and one original survivors art piece in this gallery sells for close to $100.00. I have been told my artwork is up to the galleries requirements and so on. And this is when I don't know how I do it. imagine what could happen if I was fully aware and can explain the situations behind the drawings and actively display and sell them at this gallery.

regaining memory recall? Definately worth aiming for and working towards. <font color="#AAAAAA"> </font>