Internal space

[spookshow-girl.livejournal.com]

I found an excerpt from this book on the idea of "internal space". So it would seem it's not nearly as unheard of as people would like to imply.

Patients may report an internal architecture inhabited by alternate personalities, as in the following example:

All of the parts inside of me have rooms. Every room is different. My room is at the far end and there's more space between my door and the door next to me. Diana's room has walls made out of mahogany. She has three big huge windows and she looks out onto a garden. Um. Julia's room has bunk beds in it and a rug on the floor and teddy bears and dolls and stuff like that in it. Every room is different. (SCID-D Interview, unpublished transcript)

--Me

Comments

[arhuaine.livejournal.com]

I had an "internal space" LONG before I knew there was anyone else sharing it with me. It started off as just one room, looking a bit like a cosy library in an old English house. As the years went by, my view of this place expanded, and now we have the whole house, (like a big English country house) complete with a couple of dozen acres of garden and parkland.

I also know at least one person who has such an internal space but is not, as far as anyone knows, multiple.

[pthalo]

ditto!

[jadedmosaic.livejournal.com]

Me too. I thought I was alone, till other geeky teens joined me , now its cool, although I dont recall inviting gthem to my world Thnx Elaine

[echoesnspectres.livejournal.com]

Yay for inner libraries!

[jaga-system-.livejournal.com]

I second that...third that...fourth that....

Three cheers for Libraries!!! Three cheers for BOOKS!!!

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

AMEN!

[jadedmosaic.livejournal.com]

hey your icon chic just winked at me yep she jsut did it again!! ha ha That is so sweet I want a winking icon? I want for people to se what I look like .I need a icon darst yep she winked again this si freaking me OUT! Too COOL Thnx Elaine

[jadedmosaic.livejournal.com]

sorry I type wierd when being freaked out