Abigail is a nice name hun. It seems like the names just come to me. I ask "what's your name?" And wait for them to tell me. The fuller personalities have their names. Some of the more timid ones we work it out by collaboration, but for the most part it's told to me. Of course I asked them if we can start calling them by their job name to help relieve the confusion of cross referencing name to a job, most of them agreed. Only the littles and teens have to have names because they don't exactly work.
For me to decide if it's my imagination or not, I've noticed that imagination takes personal effort and I feel like I'm in fantasyland, but everyone seems to be conscience of it and everyone's a critic and voices their opinion.
My alters tell me they appreciate me treating them like people, because they are. So for the littles, I try to keep a clean mind. All this is actually going to make me a really nice person if you was to think about it!