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[linacrow.livejournal.com]

There's something that I've been wondering about for a while.
Well, actually 5 minutes but anyway:
Within our system we have different bodies, only one is human.
And when we front sometimes certain traits from our bodies translate into the main body. Like sometimes when I front I have a better sense of smell than the main body normally does, and sometime I see the world in the way my body sees it normally. We also expirience phantom limbs and such, and sometimes we can impose them on whoever is fronting(I'll never forget the time I imposed my view of the world upon the core....she thought she was high or something XD).Has anyone else expirienced this?
-Samara(formally the muse)

Comments

[stealthdragon.livejournal.com]

..I have a better sense of smell than the main body normally does...

I'd venture to guess that you're paying more attention to it than anyone else does.

Quincy is capable of making us/the body feel her wings, tail, etc. The parts that don't 'fit' inside of it.

- Kathru

[catskillmarina.livejournal.com]

There are sensory differences between us. I have seen someone
who has non-humans inside and noticed the difference.

[nancy-nensi.livejournal.com]

We're human, not otherkin. But there are definitely sensory differences between us. I've especially noticed it with tastes. For example, I like chocolate better than she does... because the taste of chocolate is different when she is eating it than when I'm eating it. If it tasted like that to me, I wouldn't like it very well, either! Somehow, the taste changes depending on who's eating it. It's not just that she doesn't like it as well as I do. The actual taste is different.
Same goes for other foods, too: differences in the flavor we perceive, depending on who's eating.

I have no problem believing that your sense of smell is different than that of the rest of your group.

-Nancy

[saturniakitty.livejournal.com]

Some of us are more sensitive to light and loud noises than others, but I think that's it.

[kyouketsusha.livejournal.com]

My other definitely has traits that translate through to the body, she moves much differently than I normally do, and at times is slightly hunched at the shoulders due to wings.

[tessagratton.livejournal.com]

There are extreme cases in which a multiple's body might exhibit signs of abuse when one person is fronting, and if a switch is successful, the bruises or burns heal at an abnormally fast rate, and in one case, vanished altogther. I wish I could be more specific, but Luc's the keeper of memories and this kind of academic stuff, and he's not here right now. If you're really interested I can ask him for the reference.

I know a lot of multiples don't do the alcohol thing, but when Maeve drinks alcohol, she has a much lower tolerance than Tynan. We've also noticed that even if we drink about the same amount and variety, take enough B complex, ibuprofen, and water, Maeve also is significantly more suseptible to hangovers than Tynan or Ter. It's interesting. But there's a lot of stuff out there about mind over matter, mind over body (in buddhism and suffism for example, I think - again, Luc's not here) and it makes sense to me that if a singlet can train his/her mind to better regulate his/her body, with multiples that kind of variance might come more naturally if you ahve different alters with different states of control or mentality. Make sense?

Wind/Devyn

[gryphons.livejournal.com]

for us, yes we experience it.. sometimes it's stronger than others.. and we've gotten quite used to most of it.. like feeling wings, tails, .. and other things.. even if it's just paying more attention with the differences in sight/smell/ etc.. it's still different for different people.. so why not for different people in one body human/otherkin whatever.

[weirdiguess.livejournal.com]

Phantom limbs is all we seem to have had here.

I second that 'better' is probably that you're more aware of it.

[linacrow.livejournal.com]

Probably, Samara is just a bit.....non-humble, yeah that sounds right.
-Lina

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

Nope.

[sethrenn.livejournal.com]

The best explanation we have ever read of how certain things seem to differ between us-- in this case the issue of pain tolerance, or tolerance of certain kinds of pain-- was basically "people think about the pain in different ways, so they perceive it somewhat differently."

[kasiawhisper.livejournal.com]

light brightness and tastes, but nothing specific with the body..

(sometimes a big horn will grow out of our forehead! LOL just kidding XD )*grins*

Amirah & LeAnne ;)