Rapid Switching

[redrainstorm.livejournal.com]

When in a chatroom with alleged multiples, they seem to switch very quickly between their mates. In one comment they're a little, and two seconds later they're a big, and three seconds after that they're an "angry alter", etc. For many reasons other then this though, I believe they're faking. But just wondered if this is possible for others.
I've tried to have my group better at rapid switching where we can switch out quickly and be completely separate while fronting because I think it would benefit certain situations, and I can't do it that fast.
Cofronting is even difficult... Our thoughts are kind of meshed... Or come out as one thought between the two of us. But they don't come out "I want to go!" "Me too!" All in one blurb.
I was wondering if people can truly switch as fast as these people in the chatroom do, because we can't do it even when trying!

Comments

[pengke.livejournal.com]

I would say probably not. If someone were physically switching over control of the body that rapidly, everyone's thoughts and responses would end up kind of meshed together. At the very least, your thought processes would get confused from being interrupted constantly. It's like playing one of those rapid exchange word association games where by the end you're going so fast that no one can keep track of who went last and which person said what. The responses would end up being more uniform if they were changing as rapidly back and forth as you're describing.

That's not to say that they're physically switching control of the body. Dictating to one person typing makes it very easy to go back and forth between speakers, especially if the typist isn't participating in the conversation. It's also pretty easy to go from dictating to someone to physically typing yourself and then back again. It's just not one second this person, next second a different person, oh look the first person's back. There's flow.

They could be faking sounding like the little or the angry alter; possibly because they think they need to be distinct to be taken seriously or the typist is trying to recreate how the person is speaking.