#innerworlds

We feel that these two disparate experiences are similar enough that they feel like cousins. It's enough that when we Willows go headhop into Jas's body in the innerworld as a ridealong, it feels overwhelming but also not that far off from our own. And when she fronts here, the words at least make her feel a little less cutoff from a sense she's always had.

If she REALLY focuses, she can see a LITTLE bit of auras in our body. Just like how we can, if we REALLY concentrate, see a few words here and there in Jas's body.

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Due frammenti d’anima, due istanti sospesi.

Nel primo, uno sguardo allo specchio svela la fatica di nascondere ciò che riaffiora.

Nel secondo, il gesto di dare diventa peso, e il nutrimento si tinge di sacrificio.

Sono volti che non parlano, ma raccontano tutto: il silenzio di chi tiene dentro,

Innerworld or headspace is figuratively the place where alters go when they aren't fronting. The word innerworld speaks for itself: a world inside ourselves.

Does every system have an innerworld?

No, not every system has one. Some systems may just communicate directly, speaking to one another.

How does an innerworld look like?

Every innerworld is unique and can vary in size and complexity. Some systems may have a big house, some a city, some a whole world or even a universe. Every kind of innerworld is valid as there's no “right” way to have an innerworld.

Is having an innerworld always a good thing?

While it can be an amazing part of being plural, having an innerworld can sometimes cause trouble or even trauma, as it can mimic the outside world and all kinds of things can happen.

If you have any questions, you're welcome to leave a comment. Just be nice and respectful.

They are not always voluntary constructs, nor is it easy to "change" what happens within innerworld. Someone with a stronger imagination may find it easy visualize such large scale places, but they can appear randomly and in reference to alters and trauma.

They are not an exercise because not every system consciously makes it. They just happen to exist in order to house parts that don't front or need to step back from front.

They are often very real to the brain due to the nature of systems. If alters look a certain way in innerworld or have memories related to innerworld, then innerworlds are as real as that aspect of systems.

Haha, no worries Anon!

Innerworlds are not a system thing. Singlets can have innerworlds; it’s just a way to visualize your thoughts and such.

My innerworld was developed via some dissociation and latching onto a comfort media at the time (which is now a trigger for us). We visualized our parts in that space, and had an entire hierarchy even! (Don’t worry — it’s gotten much better since learning about DID and doing some work with our parts). Back in high school, before realizing we had DID, we just figured that these people I daydreamed of were just My Emotions. Sierra was the Perfectionist, Wade was my Depressed Self, Numb was my Unfeeling Self, Sie was my Inner Child, and so on and so on and so on.

(Ironically, calling ourselves “parts” once we did research and learned we had DID and tried people based languages for so long… actually helped us move away from that mindset a lot! Sie isn’t my Inner Child Part, she’s the part of me who didn’t get to be a child, and that influences her personality. Make sense? Idk! Lol)