[OliverB]

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Does it happend to you?

[finding_my_way]

some, yes. i know what some of them look like, but not all.

[amandalouise]

no I never saw my alters in my mind, in fact this is one of the ways my treatment provider and I were able to tell when my problem was a dissociative one or a psychosis symptom of my other problems. when ever I could see "beings" with in or outside of me my treatment providers changed my medications and the problem went away, I would no longer see "beings" in my head.

my suggestion is talk with your treatment providers they will be able to tell you what this is with in you and get you on the right treatment so that it wont continue happening for you if it bothers you.

[TrailRunner14]

This may sound weird, but I'll say it anyway.

I don't really "see" them, but I can "feel see" them. I can't explain it because I don't have the words. It's more like a "knowing" of them and there is an image there that I can't really see. I feel it more than visually seeing it.

That may not make any sense at all. I almost deleted it, but it may make sense to someone else that "sees" this way.

[anais_anais]

Originally Posted by TrailRunner14

This may sound weird, but I'll say it anyway.

I don't really "see" them, but I can "feel see" them. I can't explain it because I don't have the words. It's more like a "knowing" of them and there is an image there that I can't really see. I feel it more than visually seeing it.

That may not make any sense at all. I almost deleted it, but it may make sense to someone else that "sees" this way.

I have the exact same thing, Trail

My T taught me to do this on purpose so that we could talk to them.

[amandalouise]

Originally Posted by TrailRunner14

This may sound weird, but I'll say it anyway.

I don't really "see" them, but I can "feel see" them. I can't explain it because I don't have the words. It's more like a "knowing" of them and there is an image there that I can't really see. I feel it more than visually seeing it.

That may not make any sense at all. I almost deleted it, but it may make sense to someone else that "sees" this way.

yes that makes perfect sense and what my system was like. those I had co consciousness with it was not a visually seeing them in my mind. it was just a "knowing" that they were there. then later on after I knew more about the alters I could, while using my normal imagination skills, form a mental image of them based on what i knew about them....

example Rainy disclosed she had light brown hair, round face, wearing a sunflower dress I found a photograph of me at her age and it resembled what she was telling my treatment provider and I. after that I was able to use my.......imagination... to form a mental picture of what she looked like. just like someone can imagine what a piece of fruit they recently ate, looks like in their mind.

but with out Rainy describing herself and with out using my normal imagination skills I could not "see" her. it was just a "knowing" that she was there.

[OliverB]

Originally Posted by TrailRunner14

This may sound weird, but I'll say it anyway.

I don't really "see" them, but I can "feel see" them. I can't explain it because I don't have the words. It's more like a "knowing" of them and there is an image there that I can't really see. I feel it more than visually seeing it.

That may not make any sense at all. I almost deleted it, but it may make sense to someone else that "sees" this way.

Yeah, it is exactly like that.

Thank you, I didn't kknow how to explain it better

see them all the time

[Solnutty]

Originally Posted by TrailRunner14

This may sound weird, but I'll say it anyway.

I don't really "see" them, but I can "feel see" them. I can't explain it because I don't have the words. It's more like a "knowing" of them and there is an image there that I can't really see. I feel it more than visually seeing it.

That may not make any sense at all. I almost deleted it, but it may make sense to someone else that "sees" this way.

Yes, same here. With one, Little, I do see a picture of what I looked like at age 5, like a photograph. Another sometimes edits pictures of our face when he's fronting to look like something he can 'live with' or relate to. But most of them I feel, and construct an image of them in my mind to help identify them.

Originally Posted by OliverB

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Does it happend to you?

This is a very hard question for us, because the words 'your alters' doesn't make sense or doesn't apply to us because we are all alters and have no mental image of each other....especially when each present. Just to even to try to picture or get a feel of an Other produces waves of anxiety and stress so much on the verge of physical distress that we avoid it.

Whoever presents doms the conscious...it's all theirs. The voices of Others are quiet like the sound on a tv turned almost all the way down, but loud enough to make out what is being said- at least for me it is. Some of the Others complain about how it's too loud.

This is so hard to explain, for in our mind our inner world is dark. The Others feel like completely seperate entities and our conscious is a room where the light stays on. Picturing a body share is stressing and still unacceptable.

I don't know if this answers any part of your question..."you" sounds like a central intelligence that I'm not sure that we have. Now I feel weird, again.

[Claritytoo]

I feel them when they are near the front. It's like a shift for each one. I have seen the two little ones sitting and the dark lady on a bench. Those are the only ones I have a mental image of.