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 (SCID-D Interview, unpublished transcript)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

[sethrenn.livejournal.com]

Personally, I'm always surprised when a multiple system, or at least a large-population one, is able to get along without any kind of subjective space. I know it happens, but I have some difficulty imagining how a large number of people get along without at least envisioning a space to interact in.

What always amazed me was that it was frequently therapists who were urging their clients to make a 'safe place inside' or individual rooms for everyone-- hell, we've even known singlets who were told to make a 'place inside'-- and then, when it turned out to be very complex and elaborate (leading me to wonder if they were making or just discovering it), the same therapists started to get on their cases for 'fantasizing.'

And Julian sez: "The concept of a world inside your mind or a parallel world where one could live a separate life is extremely old and has been used by writers since before George Ganaway was a twinkle in his daddy's eye."

[pthalo]

Yeah, I don't know how we'd manage with out it. Imagine all of us trying to crowd into the body and share some pens with only two hands to try to have a group meeting! *chuckle*

[kasiya-system.livejournal.com]

We've had to create a galaxy map with various sectors and solar systems just to try and keep track of things. The solar system maps contain planet and moon names along with the name of the stars they revolve around. Some even have the names of the capital cities on the capital world within each system. Other space objects like nebula, binary star systems, gates, nurseries, tunnels, splits, holes, et cetera, are listed as well. We even have some roaming planets that don't belong to any solar systems, and living beings the size of small planets that get mistaken as such in sensors. That can be funny.

[jadedmosaic.livejournal.com]

When Tiea was giving birth to her second daughter the Midwife said "now would be a good time to go to your happy place inside."" now Tiea keep breathing stay happy like what is around you inside, take in the inside and inside and PUSH OUT " ha ha I always thought that was funny it was like how do you stay there and PUSH out here? cause Tiea really believed the Nurse and kept going inside too her happy place and that left Toni outside PUSHING. They still fight over who the birth Mom is Tiea or Toni there soo stupid! Elaine

[fayanora.livejournal.com]

It is my growing belief that Mindeodean (the name for my subjective world), at least in part, is actually inside of my soul rather than in my mind.