Inner Worlds | Debunking DID Ep 8 | Dissociative Identity Disorder | REUPLOAD

[Music] hello everybody this is Chloe and welcome back to another episode of debunking did so today we have a very very very requested video for you all about inner worlds and I think we might end up splitting this video into two different parts because when it comes to Inner worlds there's a lot to cover so some of you might have seen a video that we did before where we made or I made the layout of art inner World on the Sims 4 so if you'd like to have a look at what art inner world looks like you can always go and pop over and have a look at that and I'll leave a link up there so that you guys can check that out let's start with the very very Basics what is an inner World inner worlds aren't physical worlds in the same way as the world that we live in is physical there are places in the mind that have been created by the brain for different altars to interact with each other so if you're thinking of the brain as being like split up into different sections and then each section is an alter which isn't a scientifically accurate way to describe it but it helps to visualize it like that and inner world is like a place where all those parts of the brain can join back up together and communicate with each other so it's a place where altars can process trauma they can communicate with each other they can have their own lives in there and it varies massively from system to system so why are inner worlds necessary like I said inner worlds are places for Alters to interact with each other so if communication isn't very good in the external world then altars can often meet up in the inner world there's also often a lot of heavy symbolism and metaphorical objects in inner world so for example we have a carousel in our inner world it's very very common to have a castle or a mansion or a big house in which everyone or some of the ERS will live personally we have a mansion and it's also very very common to have places like Dungeons basement um Chambers below surface level or in a different area of the map where a lot of trauma is processed and Trauma memories might be formed into something more physical such as an object and by exploring your inner World altars can be found in different parts of the space that the brain has made to keep them we started off without an inner world we didn't have an inner world and then what I remember okay I'm going to tell you this from my point of view as the host so when I was first told that the voices that I hear which I now know are the voices of my alts aren't normal the way I was envisioning it is sort of like just a black space so it was like H I may have to draw this out for you guys it's like thing say the Consciousness is the sun in the middle of the solar system right and I was right there in the Consciousness right in the middle yeah cuz I was the host and then in varying rings of orbit around that level of Consciousness were different altars so for example if you're thinking of this in terms of our solar system the Milky Way then let's say find the sun you know maybe Kyle was Earth the further out you get in the rings of orbit of the Sun the more difficult it was for me to reach those altars and the more difficult it was to communicate with them or know anything about them we had like Kyle and Sally were very close to the Consciousness they were my protectors they were the easiest for me to reach and talk to communicate with and switching was easier even though it wasn't in our control and then say way way way out as Pluto was Omega who um I had no awareness of at that time so how did we make our inner World sometimes systems just have inner worlds come with them uh It generally is whatever the brain makes I know that some systems can like adjust there in a world or build things or ask for things and what we did we just thought really hard about it I was kind of considering it to be sort of like a rumor requirement type thing from Harry Potter where you you think about what you need and ask for and then next time I was there instead of it being this dark space where I could just hear voices and had like fleeting images of what my alts looked like there was a house big big house big mansion so we'd been thinking we need a place for everybody I we need a place to talk somehow through our imagination even though it wasn't a conscious decision it was a subconscious decision um that became our inner World in our inner world we can't consciously change things like some systems can for example I really don't like art inner world I feel very very frightened in art inner World very claustrophobic very very uncomfortable it feels haunted to me it feels frightening and I don't I don't like it so if I could change the Mansion I would and I know some systems can but the furthest we've got with doing something like that for example we started off and Sally wanted a garden i' love to do some gardening and then a few weeks later we went exploring a little bit further and there was a garden on the side of the house so that's her garden and like I remember um as I processed trauma not from childhood but a recent trauma which happened to happen in a forest a a for a forest a forest then appeared uh towards the side of the house and we found a altar in there actually now we found a lot of new altars in there who contain various trauma memories and things like that so it's however the brain decides to visualize what's happened that has been traumatic or could be helpful in terms of metaphorically allowing someone to kind of see what's going on in a visceral way cuz it can be difficult to pick out things that you need to work on and understand what's going on when all you have is you know like notes left around and voices in your head it's much easier to have this physical world that's in in your head so does the inner World feel real yes the inner world to us feels as real as the physical world it has weather we have to eat we have to use the bathroom we have to sleep um we will have our own bedrooms we can touch and feel everything everything has textures you know it gets cold in the house sometimes there smell different sounds you can hear the there's a river that runs outside our Mansion you can hear that sometimes you can hear birds sometimes for me as the host it can feel a little bit fuzzy almost like I'm dissociating as I would on the outside world or dreaming but I know I'm not dreaming um that doesn't seem to happen for anyone else in our system but it is very normal for the hosts or systems to have limited access to their inner world or to not be able to access their inner world at all so for example when our alter switch out everyone else when they're not fronting and in control of the body they go back to the inner world not by choice that's just where they end up me I either it's more common for me to just black out so everything just is black just like I'm asleep or of being knocked out and then I kind of come back to like sort of like waking up and it does feel a little bit like waking up after passing out all very confusing you get big headache and everything's sort of a bit blurry and you feel a bit sick and you've got this this feeling of movement inside you which makes me feel a bit travel sick it's very rare that I'm actually in the inner world but when I am I don't really enjoy that so maybe that's part of the reason why I'm the host or maybe I just don't have what it takes to deal with some of the things that are in there yet in the inner World um most altars if not all altars that I know of in systems who have an inner world can manifest as themselves and interact with each other so you see them as they really are so for example obviously we don't all look like this body looks like we will have you know different genders different appearances Heights weights body build you know Tattoos Piercings it's good to be able to like s sit down and have a chat sometimes inner worlds vary massively in their complexity so for example if you have a small system maybe like five Alters or something like that you might just have a house or even just a room but I know of systems who have hundreds and hundreds of altars and you don't need to have hundreds of and hundreds of altars in order to have a big inner world but um the system that I do know has a whole like a Galaxy as said in a world and there are like different planets with their own like properties and things like that and there are different subsystems of their altars on each planet so it's it's huge like massive massive world so it can range from literally being a room to being a whole galaxy it's whatever the mind of that person or the mind of that child or adult or whatever sees as the easiest way to visualize the compartmentalization of their brain and the trauma that they need to process inner worlds are really well known and accepted in clinical and academic environments it's accepted that this is something that comes with the ID it's not an overactive imagination and it's not maladaptive daydreaming it is something that is a part of did there's actually a book called The Haunted self and that's written by Ono vanart ellot r s n nenis and Kathy steel and that includes information about how Alters can interact internally and sometimes never take control of the body so yeah um not all altars in the inner world will be altars that actively front there are also in some systems their inner worlds have NPCs which stands for um in the gaming World non-playable characters so they're they're not altars but they exist in their inner world so for example altars might have you know jobs and you know they'll have co-workers those co-workers aren't altars they're not part of the system they don't front but they exist in the inner world as part of the lives of the altars so altars in there in a world can have jobs you know they can marry each other they can fall in love altars can fall in love with each other adopt each other have children together anything that could happen in the real world and again some more some more um interesting things that wouldn't happen in the real world also if Alters have skills in the inner world that haven't been leared by the body then they won't be able to retain those skills when they're fronting so for example any skill that's been leared by an alter fronting will be retained by that one alar that doesn't mean that any other alter will then suddenly have that skill it's retained by that alter who learned it cuz not the other altars would have learned how to do it right some altars who are for example non-human altars like fairies or dragons or anything like that and if you want to know about non-human altars we have a video on that which you can find up here um in their inner World obviously they can fly or breath fire or whatever is necessary um and yeah mhm some more books that you might be interested in um internal landscapes so inner worlds are also referred to within dissociation and the dissociative disorders DS smv and Beyond which is written by Paul F Dell and John a O'Neal I'll leave these links below and the information will all be in the description box as always so yes that's our information on inner worlds for you if you have any questions then please do let us know we are going to do a video on on how Alters interact in the inner world and how they can form relationships with one another and things like that so stay tuned for that one but if you do have any questions please feel free to leave them below if I haven't answered you it's because either I haven't seen your comment because we're ging a lot now thank you so much for 50,000 subscribers I can't believe it I don't understand at all but I'm so thankful so if I don't get around to your comment I'm really really sorry and if another reason why I may not answer your comment is because it's already been answered in a video so if you do have a question feel free to ask anyone else in our 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