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 (SCID-D Interview, unpublished transcript)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

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[fayanora.livejournal.com]

My internal space I've had all my life, LONG before I knew that my imaginary friends became real people in my mind once they were created. It's significantly more than a few rooms, though. More like hundreds of universes, each as rich and complex as the last ones. There's the Dark Playground, which I am only now fully exploring; there's The Eternal Prairie; Traipah, which I think is a remembered place; and many more.