You are making perfect sense (((((((((Kimmy))))))))

When children are abused they imagine theirself out and away from the situation and basically says ok this isn't happening to me its happening to so and so (the best friend, family dog, another relative, the plant they are looking at whatever and who ever they have contact with during that time frame.)

I became the one safely floating in my la la land and thanks to my using my imagination the memory of the abuse became known as Katherine, mary and so on.

La la land = my imagining a safe place of floating away from the abuse while being abused became my escape.

La La Land is not a real place someone can get into their car and go to. It is my imagination that created la la land and allowed it to SEEM real and still does when I need it.

and my "insiders" or as I call them memory pieces - They are not flesh and blood real. They are only as real as I imagined them based on what I looked like at the age that I created them and or the people that were in my life at the time I created them using my imagination. They don't have their own brains and bodys to do what they want.

The dangerous situations were real But it was my imagination that gave a "name and body" to those dangerous situations so that I could continue imagining that the dangerous situations didn't happen to me.

Yup it sure is amazing to make that connection and realize that as children we sure were amazing and had a fantastic imagination, and using that imagination we were able to save our own lives and sanity when there was no rescue from outside ourselves available.

Once I made that connection I realized I actually had more control then I realized over how much I dissociate and so on.