I also do this with some songs (or the songs from movies will loop in my head which will cause certain emotions and thus certain alters will respond. I will also do this with movies - or I don't know which comes first; I'm in a mood and choose a DVD that will increase the mood, or I am in an altered state and that alter will choose a triggering movie.
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Originally Posted by amandalouise
example one song repeatedly caused me to dissociate to the point of switching into an alter. upon further investigating this with my treatment provider it was discovered a favorite relative of mine who had died used to play that song. my mind would dissociate when ever this song came on the radio or I played it because I was feeling all kinds of heavy/hard to handle emotions/memories of that favorite relative. once we discovered this, this song no longer caused me to dissociate/switch into that alter.
maybe even though you are purposely playing this song with the express purpose of causing yourself to dissociate (feel numb, space out switch into an alter) maybe unconsciously you are triggering a painful memory/painful emotion /painful event that your mind has dissociated from your awareness because you could not handle it. if this is the case you may end up doing more harm then good. I know some people who purposely caused their self to remember things/trigger dissociating and the result was devistating. some some hosts and alters ended up suicidal, psychotic, those alters who's job, purpose reason for being was to protect the secrets and make sure the "do not tell" rule was followed ended up trying to kill /punish the host and alters that were triggering /trying to force things to go faster then they (the host and internal system could handle)
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