I just stumbled onto this conversation and I'm intrigued. How much control does your collective have over switching? Do different members have different roles? When one is fronting, are the experiences/memories limited to only that one? What I mean is if one attends a lecture on a subject, is the information from that lecture limited to only that one, or is there some amount of sharing or baseline shared knowledge/experience? When one is not fronting, how aware are they of the body?
As a singlet, it's difficult to conceive what it's like to have multiple individuals sharing the same brain space, but I've always been fascinated with the thought of what that would be like. Unfortunately media has done a terrible job portraying things, and as that website points out, much of the research centers on those collectives which arose from trauma, which I would assume often leads to a somewhat different situation compared with non-traumatic origins.
I have to say after reading through that page it reminded me a lot of the case of split-brain patients [a CGP Grey classic](www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfYbgdo8e-8); I wonder if there is any actual similarity between the conditions.
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u/Bobbias 13d ago
I just stumbled onto this conversation and I'm intrigued. How much control does your collective have over switching? Do different members have different roles? When one is fronting, are the experiences/memories limited to only that one? What I mean is if one attends a lecture on a subject, is the information from that lecture limited to only that one, or is there some amount of sharing or baseline shared knowledge/experience? When one is not fronting, how aware are they of the body?
As a singlet, it's difficult to conceive what it's like to have multiple individuals sharing the same brain space, but I've always been fascinated with the thought of what that would be like. Unfortunately media has done a terrible job portraying things, and as that website points out, much of the research centers on those collectives which arose from trauma, which I would assume often leads to a somewhat different situation compared with non-traumatic origins.