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Originally Posted by ThisWayOut
Haunted by this. Can't place it or make sense of it, but it won't leave me. Connected to the above

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I know its confusing and a bit scary to find art/crafts work around that you may not remember. Many of my alters were artistic too. what helped me to understand their creative expressions is knowing that its a normal thing for people to use art as a form of expressing their thoughts, things they have gone through, their dreams even just messing around... for example if I had found what you posted for me it could mean many things like... maybe an alter felt tired or felt that I the host was tired and needed sleep. or that they had read a book where the character in the book was a child in pink pajama's, or it could mean they drew a picture of their doll in pink pajama's, the picture you posted is well designed , well beyond the capabilities of a child below the age of a preteen (children dont learn proportion /uniform drawing of the body parts where the head size, neck size shoulder size, arm size, leg size, position sizing, shading..... before jr high.) so if this was something I had found around my home I would have said wow thats a great job some 15 yr old on through adult did. then I would have searched around my home looking at movies, books, tv shows, photos of me as a child,...to see if there was something this artwork was based off of or was it just something I had made up using my creative imagination...or was it a school assignment that I had forgotten about (as an adult my family would know that information, moms and relatives are notorious for saving artwork from their children and then later handing it over to the one who made it, I have artwork around my home that I made in each year of my school and church years that my family members have saved for me through the years.)....it could even mean I bought it somewhere at some bazaar, fair, thrift shop or what ever because at the time I had liked it...
my point is that if this was found in my home it could represent any number of possibilities related or not related to my mental disorders so I would just look at it as a piece of creative artwork, until the memory of who and who helped that artwork to come into being was more clear. for me it wouldnt be anything to work myself up into major worry, panic, anxiety.
my suggestion if this continues to bother you share it with your treatment providers or ask others around you if they know where it came from, someone a teacher, friend, family therapist is bound to know where that beautiful piece of art came from.
As for your first post what does it feel like to connect/integrate/become co conscious which ever term you are most comfortable with...for me it felt interesting suddenly I just knew things I hadnt known before, was able to do things I hadnt been able to do before, remembered things I hadnt remembered before. and after living a whole life time as a person with alters and to suddenly the silence was a welcome relief. and it was a bit scary because I could no longer depend on spacing out and becoming aware to find the problem had been resolved. now if I space out the become aware what ever problem caused me to dissociate still isnt solved because theres no alters to take care of that problem for me now, since I am integrated I now have all the knowledge/memories and have the ability to solve my own problems and just like normal people do I have to do that. its gets a bit frustrating and sometimes I do miss having that ability to dissociate and become aware after the problem was solved but over all I love being integrated. I am so much more stable, happy and have the combined abilities of all that my alters were.