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Here's to headspace exomemories!
In complex dissociative disorders, headspaces/innerworlds are often defense mechanics a young child comes up with to feel safe. But, for you, it might just be somewhere to hang out with your headmates! Both are normal experiences, and should be appreciated!
Shoutout to:
Funny headspace moments, like inside jokes and such
Violence of some sort, whether "cartoonish" violence or real violence (we have experience with this, shoot us an ask if you're in a similar situation or need advice)
Sad moments, like headmates going dormant
Happy moments, such as getting to hug your loved ones
Anything else I missed!
Headspaces can be full of whimsy, joy, grief, and every emotion in between. Take some time today to appreciate yours, too, if you have one!
Stay safe!
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#multiplicity#plural#pluralgang#plural affirmations#actually multiple#actually plural#did#requests#did osdd#headspaces#tw dormancy#dormancy mention#headspace#innerworlds#innerworld
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All About Headspaces!
We thought it would be a good idea to write a post on headspaces (or inner worlds) as we understand them. This post will contain information that weβve learned along with our personal experiences. No two headspaces work the same way, and no two systems will experience headspaces in a similar fashion, so donβt be alarmed if your systemβs headspace functions differently from what we describe in this post!
What is a headspace?
A headspace (or inner world) is an imagined, fantasized place that exists within a personβs mind. Headspaces are not exclusive to systems - all sorts of people can build or create their own headspaces. Many created systems or paromancers may call their headspaces βwonderlands,β but theyβre in essence the same thing. Any system member can start the process of visualizing a headspace, and as other members are included and collaborate together, their headspace can grow to involve the whole system and become a place of solace and rest.
The creation of mental βsafe spacesβ is often used in therapy for treatment of anxiety, PTSD, and other mental illnesses. When feeling overwhelmed, it can be immensely beneficial to have a gentle, peaceful place in your mind you can return to in order to calm down and relax. Headspaces are a skill taught in dialectical behavior therapy, and many therapists may incorporate building headspaces into their patientsβ treatment plans.
Who can have a headspace?
Nearly everyone is capable of building and maintaining their own headspace! The one example we can think of for individuals who may struggle to create a headspace are folks with aphantasia. Since headspaces are visualization tools, those who are incapable of visualizing places within their mind might find themselves unable to create a headspace.
You donβt have to have DID in order to create a headspace, you donβt have to be a system, you donβt have to be traumatized or even struggle with mental illness! Headspaces are for everyone, regardless of ability or state of being.
Are headspaces the same as paracosms?
In our experience, if headspaces and paracosms are not the same, they are incredibly similar. Both are imagined worlds that exist within the minds of the people who create them. Our paracosm exists as a part of our headspace, and many other folks may find their paracosms are similarly connected to their headspaces!
Are headspaces physical places?
No, headspaces are imagined or fantasized places and only exist within the minds of those who create them. While experiences within the headspace may seem quite vivid or feel visceral and may even have physical consequences and effects on each individual, events that take place inside the headspace are not happening in a physical sense.
Some systems with particular spiritual beliefs may understand their headspaces as physical places which exist in alternate dimensions or somewhere else in the universe. While these individuals are deserving of having their experiences heard and taken seriously, most headspaces in fact do not function in this way.
How can I make my own headspace?
To start, try to find a calm, quiet environment where you can be by yourself for a while. Close your eyes, and try to imagine the first piece of your headspace. This can be an area like a beach or a meadow, or something simpler like a plant or a piece of furniture. As you imagine this space or item, ask yourself questions like:
- What does this place or object look like?
- What does it feel like? If I imagine myself touching the object, or the things in the place around me, what textures might I encounter?
- What does it smell like? What does it sound like? How does it make me feel?
Envision using all 5 of your senses to imagine this place or object. Once you have a pretty good idea of what it looks, feels, smells, and sounds like, spend a little time just sitting in your space or with your object. Then, take a break from visualizing. Later, come back to it and try to imagine everything exactly as you did before. By leaving and coming back to it regularly, you can help ensure your headspace can somewhat exist even when youβre not actively thinking about it!
If you need help finding inspiration for your headspace, you can turn to image sites like Pixabay, Unsplash, or Pinterest to help you discover what helps you feel calm and safe. If you have access to other members of your system, perhaps consult with them to see what theyβd like to have in a headspace and what you could create that would help them feel safe and comfortable.
Once you are able to comfortably and reliably access the place or item youβve created, feel free to repeat the process to add to your headspace! Our system created our headspace in this way, and by this point it is a vast world full of different areas for our alters to exist in when theyβre not fronting. But it started with one room - a living room with quilts tossed over couches, rugs all over the floor, and big, bright windows with sunflower curtains. Gradually we added rooms, then an outside, turning it into a treehouse, and just kept expanding from there!
Wrapping up
We know this post doesnβt go into much detail, but we hope this is useful to folks as a bit of an introduction to headspaces, what they are, and how to go about making one! Weβre including some links below to posts and articles about headspaces and inner worlds - hopefully they can help even more! Best of luck to yβall with your endeavors to create a headspace that fills you and your system with peace and comfort!
^ this link uses βtulpamancyβ language - our system has switched to βparomancyβ language, which is less racist and less culturally appropriative! the guides on tulpa websites are still quite useful, but we wanted to include a disclaimer on the terminology.
(Image ID:) A pale orange userbox with a cluster of multicolored flowers for the userbox image. The border and text are both dark orange, and the text reads βall plurals can interact with this post!β (End ID.)
#headspace#headspaces#inner world#innerworld#safe space#inner safe space#wonderland#long post#note: the current fronters did not write this post#but we are more than happy to answer questions about headspaces to the best of our ability
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Inner Worlds: A System Forum
This is a system forum with more of a focus on inner worlds and emphasis on system member individuality.
It's meant to be a space for systems to communicate and connect with one another while building themselves up in the process, as well as a space to discuss some of the stranger aspects of being a system and being a person in a system.
#systematicpride#pluralpride#actuallymultiple#multiplicity#plurality#plural systems#multiple systems#headspaces#inner worlds#gateway systems#soulbonding#alterhuman#fictive
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Reblog this if...
You think syscourse hurts the entire plural community more than it helps anyone.
You think traumagenics and endogenics both deserve their own separate spaces/terms in addition to spaces/terms for all plural kinds.
You think that while there are certain requirements for DID/OSDD/UDD, the concept of plurality as a whole is nuanced.
You think all plural people and systems should respect each other.
You think using "singlet" as an insult makes no sense.
#we're trying to find people to follow#plural#plural community#plural positivity#plurality#plural posting#endo#endogenic#endo safe#pro endo#traumagenic positivity#traumagenic safe#syscourse#headmates#headspaces#alters#did#osdd#udd
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Started making these info tiktoks about our headspaces a while ago. This one is about The Control Room and The Cafe
#actuallydid#dissociative identity disorder#headmates#did community#did discussion#actuallydissociative#headspaces#inner world
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Available Headspace Areas to Mention:
School Area
Stage Area
Street Area
Wonderland
Empty Area
Evil Fairytale Realm
Sheepie Kingdom Castle
Surrounding Village
(Some areas are based off of our favorite COPYRIGHTED game. Can you guess it? Later, you will know.)
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a nighttime routine
#adventure time#fionna and cake#betty grof#simon petrikov#sharing a headspace with a deity infused with literal chaos and destruction isnt the most comforting place to be#its lonely and vast but it still manages to be suffocating#but hey at least she can live in that fantasy
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don't go
#shuake#persona#persona 5#persona 5 royal#p5r#had to go back to the headspace i was in during 2/2#its so bad guys#akira kurusu#ren amamiya#akechi goro#happy 2/2#enkidoodles#they can have their melodramatics... as a treat#akeshu#tried a new brush yey#goro akechi#the simulation is breaking down bc they dont hug in canon ahahahhahahahhhhhhhhh
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so listen i fucking hate landlords but! i think we gotta stop making fun of landlords for "passive income" and stick to focusing on the way they, you know, get that income by exploiting people, by withholding the basic human right for shelter from others.
people love to be like oh landlords dont do any actual work like the rest of us, but like? a lot of disabled people cant do "actual work" either. people hate us because we collect ssi (if we can even get through those hoops) without working "real" jobs or creating any value that capitalism cares about. some of the stuff ppl say abt landlords sounds exactly the same. landlords DO suck but the way some of yall talk about them rlly shows that youre still stuck in a capitalist and christian and ableist mindset, where you think everyone should struggle to justify their existence, their right to food and shelter, their right to survive.
personally i think we should ALL get passive income (universal basic income <3) because we have inherent value regardless of how much we work. we just shouldnt impoverish our fellow people to do so!
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our system just realised the other world we live in that runs parallel to this one, that we sometimes see happening in dreams, and in that one sometimes see this one in dreams. and the world both parallel worlds can access during sleep too, a liminal space where there are 2 or 3 entities we see as what is called "supernatural" or "higher planes" in both worlds, taught us a ton of things that kept us alive and safe, but otherwise is a space where we can create and do anything, it resets each time we go to it, we will use it to create super fun and super useful things, or we'll use it to play with energy and see how it can be manipulated.
but that might literally be two headspaces. and we didn't realise it because they both are such intensely real places we just assumed we happened to remember unlike others about there being multiple worlds people live in.
our whole system has rotated in and out of wondering if that makes us psychotic, even though it does no harm to us or others, it is just a side effect for our life. it does have the negative impact of us not being afraid of death - in our mind, this world would just be restarted.
but if it's just a headspace. that feels so damn real. we don't have access to it while we are awake at all. it's totally cut off other than remembering basics about it. we remember more about the liminal space than the other world.
but if it is. that explains why our therapist wasn't extremely worried about it. because we told her about it, i think, and mentioned worrying that it was a psychotic belief to see it as real.
but if it is.... we can't change viewing it as an extremely real and important place, it doesn't explain how we will meet people irl and realise we already met them in the other world, no one is exactly the same, but our memories from the other world of them DOES impact our view of them in both worlds, it doesn't explain the fact that 2 or 3 entities literally taught us shit we had no other chance of learning because of how severe the neglect and abuse we endured was. none of the entities were in human form - if we asked, they showed us a semi-human form, but they were spirits, semi invisible moving colours with variation in how they showed shape.
one of the entities taught us how to manage stuff internally. how to sense people's emotions. how to predict their actions. how to see the reasoning for other people's actions, reactions. basically increasing how observant we were. validating our anger.
he was the first one we met. he taught us how to learn from the people outside where we had a bed to sleep in by watching. he's the reason we learned to identify quickly, whether someone was going to be an asshole or not. he's the reason the adults, when we were young, were terrified of us. he's the reason we always spoke truth and that terrified those who were trying to keep power over us. you can't successfully abuse someone who knows how you abuse. he's best seen as this orangeish colour, but closer to purple/brown, depending on the time. he didn't take any particular shape. sometimes he was like rain, a hug, a memory-form, but most often fog.
the next entity was either the same as the last in different coloured form, or was separate. this one was what is now our favourite colour, blueish green, like tropical ocean water.
they never had a gender. it's her fault we have such a complex system of managing everything going on. they worked with the green one, to fix every suicide attempt. i dont know much else of what she did, but I know she taught a lot of us a ton of stuff that is inherent in everything we do.
the last one is the green one, but it's more of a greenish blue, just more like light swamp water. she almost always is the one that's interfered now when things need to be fixed, when we need to know something new.
all of them come from this higher entity, they've never stated what or who that entity is, and they've never said if it's one or multiple entities. for a long time when we were really young, we assumed it was the Christian god. as we found our way out of that religion, we found that we saw that higher entity more like a "source" entity, where life comes from.
all 3 (or 2) of them have confirmed numerous times, they've all been assigned to keep us alive and survive. some of our attempts to die were actually us being angry at them for not helping, because we knew it would be a way to get them to step in that night. we have this saying inside of "if you're going to let us suffer, I'm going to make you suffer too". sometimes they DO say something like 1-3 words in response to us asking something internally, though their communication feels way different than our internal telepathy.
but we've never seen anything with anyone talking about THAT complex of headspaces. about being explicitly taught major skills for emotional intelligence, recognition of emotions in the self and others, without the experience and learning when awake in this world.
even worse, we've never seen or heard about any systems exclusively accessing their headspace during dreams. our real headspaces, the ones we know are headspaces, they are specific locations we've lived or been a lot, we can change doors in nightmares if they are there to escape into one and get out of the nightmare.
if those worlds are just super complex headspaces, at least we would know why others don't seem to know the other worlds they are in. because others might just not actually live in multiple worlds.
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Aubrey>:(
uhmm helloo!!! This is my first post here, but i also have a twitter: weew_tomee /just saying (βββ)β―
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Here's to systems who have different views of their headspace/innerworld between different people!
Sometimes, innerworlds can be perceived differently from headmate to headmate. So here's to:
Headmates who see their headspace more vividly than others
System members who have access to areas the others don't
People who can't access their innerworld for whatever reason
Those who don't have a headspace to begin with
Sysmates that live exclusively or primarily in their headspace
Those who have their personal areas, such as their own room, or somewhere they can do their hobbies
The ones who have fluctuating, inconsistent, or nonexistent internal appearances
Systems who have a paracosm as their headspace, or in addition to a different innerworld
Those who can only be interacted with by certain people (we have someone like that in our system!)
And anyone else I missed!
We think it's super cool that every system has their own experiences with their innerworlds, and we love hearing about them! Please drop us an ask if you're in the mood to share something about your headspace or related exomemories!
Have a great day, everyone!
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#multiplicity#plural#pluralgang#plural affirmations#actually multiple#actually plural#requests#did#did osdd#headspace#innerworld#headspaces#innerworlds#inner world#inner worlds#paracosms#paracosm
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nose scrunches & bunny teeth >α΄<
for @jkvjimin β‘
cr. namuspromised, qdeoks
#btsgif#dailybts#btsedit#userbangtan#jungkook#bts#bangtan#userkelli#usersky#usersan#usermaggie#tuserandi#*jk#*comp#*gifs#hi pat <3#so I tried my best to find some time this weekend to make you a little something#it's NOT your christmas gift though!! just something to bridge the time until I find the headspace to start on that#until then I thought that this might be able to put a little smile on your face -#a little homage to your super cute googie nose series!!#and I also noticed that you like to call him bunny so there's his cutie patootie bunny smile as well#thank you for being my light on here I love you soooo much my darling
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Systems and pluralities of Tumblr, we have a challenge for you!
Make a map of your headspace/wonderland using emojis, then share and describe it!
Singlets can participate too if they have cool mental spaces they would like to share.
Weβll go first:
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Our wonderland/headspace is a prairie surrounded by a starry void. Around the edges of the prairie to protect people from falling off is a ring of tall snowy mountains. In the middle of the field is a group of houses where our collectiveβs human members live! Some notable landmarks on the plane are the flower tranquil flower garden protected by a rock wall, the bubbly creek that leads to Otterβs pond, and a beehive for our co-host Bee! On one side is a pine forest where one of the trees is always decorated festively. On the other side is a bamboo forest that holds tricks and traps and puzzles! None are dangerous, of course, just something for our most intelligent member to do when they are not in front. All in all the place is sunny and warm and full of life both from our plurality and not.
We canβt wait to see what other pluralityβs look like!
#plural#plural community#plural positivity#plurality#endogenic#endo safe#endo#plural posting#plural pos#plural pride#headspaces#headspace#headmates#headmate#alters#wonderlands#challenge#traumagenic#traumagenic safe#not syscourse#pro endo#pro endogenic#proendognics#pro endos#pro traumagenic#did#did osdd#osdd#udd
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whadya mean he didnt tell you he loves you??? his eyes literally went soft when he looked ur way...
#bg3#wyll ravengard#tav#wyll x tav#paladin#baldur's gate 3#voltaical ocs#bishop#wyllll baby you are my ANGEEEEELLLLL#this scene rips my heart out i replayed it a few times to figure out some dialog#AHHHH i just wanna wrap wyll in a blanket and tell him how much i love him ;_;#also its sooo interesting that you need to persuade him to kiss you. i didnt do that in my original playthrough#cause it felt out of character for bishop#but it rlly plays into the headspace wyll is in like he feels so undeserving of love and affection#that hes not even THINKING of having a romantic moment with you#youre the one who has to bring it up#also im so sorry about my shit handwriting i am too lazy to redownload all my fonts onto my new computer and am enjoying lettering by hand#even if its atrocious
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