Fronting in the Trinity

[pleiades-rising.livejournal.com]

I'd like to just rant a bit about how our system works ^_^; Maybe it'll be helpful to those just realizing that they are multiple or something. Maybe not, ah well.

Our inner world isn't really a concrete world. It's on a need-to-have basis. It's like a giant empty space that goes on for infinity that we can make anything we want appear there. Like if I'm in the mood to walk around a New York-esque city, it'll be there. But if I'm in the mood for a quiet outing in the middle of an up-in-the-air heaven kinda place, it'll be there.

We have what we call an "over the shoulder" where if someone is up front, someone else can sit "over the shoulder" and see what's going on. When one is over the shoulder, they can't influence the person fronting or control the body, but they can see firsthand the goings-on of the day. But that's never really necessary because we also have a center pool that contains all of our memories and knowledge we gain throughout our period of fronting so the next person to front can see what has been going on and can act upon it. However, when it comes to our own personal thoughts, those do not go into the pool, nor do our personal opinions. So Afiel couldn't go to the furniture store and pick out a couch knowing for certain that I'd like it, because that is only my opinion on things. The center pool comes in handy all the time, because one of us can't sneak out to the mall with all our money and spend it all, then say that the money just got lost :)

I've heard a lot of people here say they have a main meeting point in their "world" where they can go and talk to the others of the system. We don't have that. Our center pool gives us the information we need if one needs to tell another something else, and if one of us wants to talk, they'll come up and co-front and we can have a conversation using the same mouth (obviously we don't do this in public because it'd look strange and like a person talking to herself ^^;)

There are also times where we can get off the shoulder and directly influence the front. I guess that's what people call "co-fronting". For instance, I can be listening to music while Jenny types up a journal entry, or Afiel and I could be co-fronting while trying to decide on what sort of drapes we need to match the carpeting. There have also been times when two of us will constantly switch places every five minutes just to have a bit of fun and confuse our friends ^_^

I'm not sure if this is the way a "normal" system works, but it works fine for us. I was wondering how everyone else's systems work when it comes to fronting?

Niz of the Cephian Trinity

Comments

[pleiades-rising.livejournal.com]

Heh yeah, now that you mention it, it does kinda remind me of the whole "backseat driver" thing ^_^ Luckily, none of the others are really annoying so those of us in the front can get things done without being bothered :)

[l1b3r473.livejournal.com]

We can usually have many people fronting at once, but only one of us can control the body, but not the mouth! We fight over it alot, and end up saying weird things to people on the outside. xD But during important times, we usually let Beth take the front and the rest of us just sit inside and listen to what is going on, and if we're not entertained, we usually run a muck inside. ^^; Like now, we're all influencing this comment... it's hard to understand, but it works for us! It also makes our head hurt, though. ._.;

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

That sounds about how we run things, just different terminology.