multiplicity_archives | Entries tagged with midcontinuum

tigrin.livejournal.com

Out of curiousity, are there any communities out there specifically for median/mid-continuum discussion? I know there's this community and the plurality community, but the latter seems more focused on healthy/empowered multiplicity while this community seems focused on multiples (despite what the community information says).

maybe having a separate community for medians would be unnecessary, but I do feel like there are certain issues and topics related to being median that could benefit from its own community... I don't know, I welcome everyone's thoughts on this.

fayanora.livejournal.com

Okay, another debate we've been having in this system is over mid-continuum. We should mention off the bat that one or more of us (and most assuredly Tristan, aka "the core") may have something called Asperger Syndrome, which makes it hard for us to read people and understand them. Kind of like social dyslexia. Takes so much effort to us to mostly comprehend outsiders that too much and we get burned out.

Anyway, so the debate is: Are we mid-continuum? After trying to figure out before what the term even meant (check the archives, a post about "median") we were thinking we weren't. But then another system (dunno who) referred to mid-continuum as being like Ancient Egyptian Gods, where they could combine, ie Amun and Ra becoming Amun-Ra, and then split again.

We tried defining our state by calling ourselves a "society of telepaths" but we think that metaphor was incorrect. With all the thinking time we have at work, we've been ruminating over it and now we want to try to understand "mid-continuum" more. Please be aware that we need things explained as simply as possible, preferably with metaphors that most humans in this western society know, because common ground is very important in both understanding input from outsiders and explaining things to outsiders. Which is why we use metaphor and similie so much.

We want to understand this topic once and for all, so we can settle this internal debate about mid-continuum. Because Alexander and a couple others are holding out on saying "Yes we are" until we're sure we have it understood properly.

Blessings;
---The Fayanora System

appadil.livejournal.com

After seeing lots of reassurance lately on other posts that there's no such thing as a stupid question, I'd like to ask something I've been wondering about for a while.

And yeah, I know that it's addressed in various FAQs, but I have yet to find a definition that I really understood... so I was hoping that maybe someone here could help me find a definition that makes sense to me, so I can stop feeling stupid about it.

What, exactly, is a median, and what is it like to be one?

Thanks in advance to anyone who answers.

beandelphiki.livejournal.com

Does anyone have information about median/midcontinuum experiences? I've been searching, but am mostly getting the same short blurbs from page to page - the two links I've found that look like they might go to larger pages are both either down right now or totally defunct. :\

Also, I ran across something that suggested these terms are looked down upon in the online multiple community. Is this true? If so, why?

Thanks in advance for any help!

-Bean

vashti.livejournal.com

Hi, I'm new here, so please don't flame me too hard. :)

I have a question: is it possible to live as a functional midcontinuum system, without integrating? And if it is, where would I start?

Current Mood: confused

taka-kitsune.livejournal.com

My name's Ariel...
and I'm not quite sure what I am.

I don't know if I count as a "multiple" or not. Here's my attempt to explain what goes on in my head:
I have a lot of very distinct... personas? Is that the right word? They each have their own personalities, emotions, opinions, past-life histories, talents and moods. Even things like gender and (dare I say it) species change between people. Some of them even suffer from mental illness outside the whole.
Yet all of them are included within a single "I." When I switch "people," there is a "me" that is switching modes. I have everyone's memories, and the like, though the memories I naturally associate things with are the memories of the "person" I am at the time. I can usually consciously change between, but a lot of times it sort of shifts according to what's going on, or who would be the most interested in what's happening. Sometimes I don't really have any control at all over who I am.
Re-reading this, the words really aren't explaining it that well. I'm not exactly the most articulate of "us," but... well... I'm who's here.
So am I multiple? Is this a "system" even though there is only one consciousness? It's just hard to figure out, sometimes, how I can be so many distinct individuals, and yet all part of a whole. I don't even know what to call them.
us.
me.

Current Mood: hopeful

indigo-ashes.livejournal.com

I joined this community under the name charcoalrain last year but i never got up the courage to introduce myself.

My name is Ani and I am the main person here.

I would describe our system as median as opposed to just straight multiple, seeing as I am almost always aware of everything that goes on weather I am fronting or not. Although I have lost awareness of myself many times when the second most dominant persona (Okonamae (Switch)) was fronting.

The body is 18, female, short, brunette and french, living in central Canada.

I am 18 female etc...

I am the current evolution of the orriginal personality.

Now onto the others.

Like I said the other most active one of us is Okonamae Switch, I will most often refer to her as switch since it is her favorite nickname.

Switch is a pixie, age is subject to question seeing as she is very smart but quite young in action, she bahaves like a 3-6 year old most of the time but is deep and caring towards the people she cares about. For someone seemingly so young she is surprsingly adult.

I'm sure she'll introduce herself in a few days.

I have pictures to show.

( Read more... )

Switch and I aren't the only two inhabitants, infact the current number of persona's is subject to question.

I could (and have) write a ten page essay about us as a collective but I'll spare you that for now ;)

I'm tired so I'm gonna go join my love in bed.

Peace,
Ani & co.

Current Mood: curious

joyless-abyss.livejournal.com

I am unsure if I am Median or Multiple or not, but being the way I am makes me feels like this sometimes:- Like I am faking it. Like I am a singlet who sub-conciously longs to be multiple and has not only lied to others about this state, but to himself as well. Like I've tricked myself into believing I have many selves. Yet they all seem very real to me - but is that just because I have deluded myself well.

I ask myself these questions often. And I feel angry at myself. And confused. Angry that I could fake this, that I could be so disrespectful (IF I am faking) and confused because it all feels very real to me.

Sometimes months go by without one of my 'others' making an appearance to me, sometimes they just come to say something to me, and other times they are around more than I am.

Occaisionally I even conciously mould a new 'other' from the feel of a person I sense inside myself. Manipulating slightly their looks to suit myself. And quite often when a new 'other' surfaces, we have to actually discuss with this new person what they would like their name to be.

I also know that there are several others which we have been unable to communicate with.

I do experience walk-ins on rare occaisions.

I'm very confused here, and I don't know if we are Multiple, Median or just a deranged Singlet.

I apologise if I have used any terms which are not suitable. We're not quite sure which terms are meant to be used.

We appreciate any feedback if you choose to reply, and I'm sorry if this message is just a waste of your time.

-Andy and Amanda Shortland.

Current Mood: scared

joyless-abyss.livejournal.com

What is median and mid-continuum? I've often wondered about this, because I've heard that it is like multiplicity except centered a lot around one person in the system.

I'd like as much info on this as possible, and I'd greatly appreciate any help I can get on this.

-Andy.

Current Mood: confused

http://users.livejournal.com/_zephyra_/

Is there anyone else here who doesn't like this term very much?

I don't like the feel of it because "mid" sort of implies half-way to somewhere, which makes me question where the "destination" is: Multiple or Singular?

My Other (who has since gone quiet), didn't like the term for other, more mundane reasons. Continuum always made her think of Star trek, and the Q species.

We had been trying to come up with another term to use instead. We came up with Demi-being, Semi-being, and semi-plural, though I'm still working on finding the term that sounds right for us. Semi-plural feels best so far.