#internal world

I imagine my brain, specifically the area that thoughts live, a bit as a river-leaden mountain. There is a main waterfall and river path, that's where the foremost thoughts are, and it flows voraciously. At the base of the waterfall lies a pool, this is where some thoughts get stuck and they spin, and roll, until they are reeled out. Some thoughts flow by too quicky to get stuck, they join the rest of the water flowing around and back through the mountain, until they eventually get stuck and are pulled out.

There are branches off the main river that feed into streams, ponds, and lakes. These are the thoughts that cycle but do not take up as much of the river, they will be fished out eventually.

To catch these thoughts, to verbalize them, is much like fishing. You try but you don't always succeed. This means you have to wait, to bait it, to consider it, until it comes back around.

Sometimes, the genre of thoughts creates its own pool. Depending on the type of thoughts, the landscape surrounding it changes some. Thoughts used to calm myself are kept in a pond within a meadow. The wind softly blows, the plants grow tall, but not hugely so. There's meadowlarks singing, frogs humming and crickets chirping.

Anxiety has a lake of its own, the trees are dark and hang imposingly over the water. Its dusk here, there's light but not enough to see properly. Its isolated, there's not much noise. The wind still blows but its not gentle, it rattles leaves at random moments, shaking the spine.

I suppose, the river traces the paths to the ponds and lakes. It is the road to the pieces of me.

I believe there is a ferryman, or boat, that helps me to cross the waters of my own self.

theyre constant stasis of being without emotion and only move to accommodate what i want

theyre not real people theyre imaginary Things in my head

general system Layer flag

System layers are generally defined as a, division of space within a system's* internal world that is more significant than that of just areas and locations. The divisions of layers is usually related to having heavy dissociative barriers between them, and/or most alters be unable to or have much difficulty traveling between them. Multiple layers are usually found in polyfragmented or Complex DID.

(*or subsystem's)

because we've been flags for different layer types, it made sense to make a flag for the general concept of system layers.

It’s normal for this to occur. It can happen for a few reasons, they don’t know time has passed because they don’t age, they aren’t fronting in a situation with people they know from their trauma, the outside world is too dangerous wo they are in denial (internal world is safer), they have been told the internal world is the real world, a lot of reasons.