my memory pieces don't feel the health problems I have in the present.

They are pieces of my memories of the past that were separated and stored that way. And when I get triggered by something in the present to the point where I go into my la la land, I am physically on autopilot rerunning the memory pieces.

For example if I wasnt sick when the memory piece known as Mary was separated in the past, then today when I get triggered into the Mary memory piece I am not sick.

Totally thows a firend for a loop cause I can one minute sound all stuffy headed from my alergies here from the dogwood tree in the front yard and the next while in a memory piece my stuffy nose is clear because where I grew up there were no dogwood trees. She says sometimes thats how she can tell when I have switched form the here and now to talking to her as Mary, Katherine and so on. Now in the present I am allegic to peanut butter but I wasn't as a kid so if I eat a peanut butter sandwhich in the present I'll break out in a rash. If I eat the peanut butter sandwhich while in a memory piece I don't break out into a rash. When I broke a bone in my foot I was still able to walk on it because I just went to la la land. When I got hit by a car as long as I stayed in la la land and left my friend with my memory pieces I felt fine even though I tore the ligaments and stuff in my knee from the fall. When I go to the dentist I end up with about 5 novacane shots because I will get the shot then the drills and so on triggers me into memory pieces. Each time I switch memory pieces since I didn't recieve the first novacane while in each of the memory pieces its like I never got any novacane shot.

When I am in memory pieces I can only do the things that are contained in that memory piece. This comes in real handy like on days like today. I have a sore throat. So every time I wanted a break from it I just went into my tunnel area or la la land.

But I can now tell when new memories are coming up. It took a few months of keeping track on some of my charts that I keep but eventually a pattern showed through. I don't get too keyed up my reactions are more in my sleep schedule starts changing because I start having nightmares that I can't remember when I wake up, and the harder flash backs start coming, and they increase for a few days until they settle in and just keep coming until I figure them out.

With the flashbacks I found a pattern in them also - I start getting a dizzy foggy feeling kind of like that feeling you get when you hit your funny bone (elbow) a minute or two before they hit.