#monocon

[monocon-culture-is]

monoconscious culture is that i feel so sad all the time and i know what it feels like to be happy but when i was happy that wasn't me, it was another person.

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[moonpool-system]

ok but i feel like so many more people would understand the jist of monoconscious vs polyconscious systems if we analogized it to, say. Videogame POVs. and stay with me here because it's kinda like this; if you're polyconscious, all your members have different points of view, and switching feels like changing whose pov is using the *body's* pov. Y'know, the traditional concept of "switching places". But when you're monoconscious and switch, the POV is still the exact same- YOU have changed in essence, but the point of view is still the same as before. That's why I say it kinda feels like shapeshifting. I wonder if this all makes it easier to conceptualize? It's the difference between "POV: Headmate Red of the Rainbow System watches his headmate front while in co-con" and "POV: all the headmates of the Rainbow System, experienced at different points in time"

feel free to add on with any other thoughts. this is a shot in the dark

[plural-culture-is]

more a question than culture, does anybody else here feel like their brain is being squished? like were monoconsious, and when multiple alters are front it feels like our eyes are being oushed up against almost/pressure moving in our head. if were blurry and straining to stay present is physically feels like were locating that feeling in our skull

basically, is this normal lol

we feel a pressure in our head sorta like that! anyone else?

[shell-culture-is]

shell culture is the lack of privacy (though for us this is also a monoconsciousness thing)

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[twelve-nights]

is it bad i'm trying to "spilt" our consciousness

we're just monoconsious and we kind of rather it be split mono if not cepha

[feathersamongthestars]

👏That 👏 explains 👏 every 👏 thing 👏

[dustskullv]

Friendship Loses for the System Ask Game?

YAYYY THANK YOU !!! :DDDD

🤼 - does your system have a pair of arch nemesies?? absolutely on sight for each other?????? are you the foe??????

> host and facsimile, though facsimile is Way Ahead of host on this front. she even made a whole art about strangling them lmao. the dedication.... host just avoids her a lot so it's not Nemesis nemesis . but its the most mutual dislike we have here

tbh id say the rest is more one sided. we have mal who hates the host, we have loop who hates moondust, we have something who hates the host (again). host is the most hateable guy here i guess /silly

[carnage-sys]

Thinking about early in our syscovery [not necessarily a solid moment, we kinda knew for a few years but there was a point where we Knew] the ways we were so pressed to label ourselves partially cause we were so relived to finally have explanations and terms and some sense of not being alone in our experiences and partially cause we felt like we needed to be able to defend our existence. Which has the obvious negative drawbacks and I wish I could take back how much we've said so we could be a little more private about some things but on the other hand a lot of how we ID'd at the time was definitely a byproduct of us kind of first getting used to our own existence and all kinda properly meeting ourselves for the first time and it's interesting to see remnants of that process in our old labels

[steampunk-raven]

on one hand i completely fit the diagnostic criteria for DID, and there is no other diagnosis that could explain it better based on the current criteria. On the other hand I don’t fit into the research done that isn’t part of the criteria (think like the attachment theory stuff, for example), nor do I relate to some/many of the experiences we see other systems having. so like. what do we do now.

[invisibleoctopus]

me struggling with the concept of self love because i dont feel better when i tell myself nice things in flowery uwu language. well i tried being aggressively nice to myself like 'oh fuck off you know youre better than a piece of shit stop devaluing yourself' and stuff like that.

[monocon-culture-is]

Monoconcious culture is "HOLY SHIT IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW!!!!!!"

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[kiruliom]

wow I never felt guilty for being near front before considering Im one of the facets with a gore-focused interest.

how the fuck do I even feel bad at all when the front seat is taken by Figure what...?

[je-doute-donc-je-suis]

Gods dammit, opened our plural notes, and there's someone who fronted and left short notes of thinking they were someone the 4th of this month. We have no memory of this

Looked into pluralkit and there's no front during those days, or a new member entry

They didn't dig down enough to identify and add themself to the app. And the notes are way too short and vague for us/me (whoever or whatever the fuck i am) to make that entry for them

We don't know who they are, and they don't know either. So they probably won't be able to read those and think "oh that was me" the next time they front

Hell, i could be them right now...

[lycheedoe]

It's so weird being a monocon(I think that's the term) system or a system made up of mostly passive influencing cause I can feel the anxiety of anti social alters even if I don't necessarily feel that way.

Also we have a balancing issue or some of us hold that symptom. I call it a system since I don't believe it's a physical thing, it's more so psychological I'm pretty sure with the equilibrium and whatever. So since I'm usually in front I notice that I'll be fine walking on flat ground, but then a few moments later I'll feel that I'm super off balance and I can't really fix the feeling.

Idk if it's passive influence or if someone with the balancing issues is co-con. Idk being a system is so weird but I love it just as much.

[the-mechanisms-system]

I love that feeling of high-strung exhaustion from an ongoing days long episode of near constant mid level panic that makes you tense and flighty and leaves your body wrung out after long enough of all your muscles clenching themselves as tight as they damn well please without your input :)) /heavy sarcasm

[thestarlingpack]

Plurality is so diverse. Like

No idea how many headmates you have? Know how many headmates you have? Only have a guess of it? Cool!! Monocon? Polycon? Etc? Cool!! Your system is made out of imaginary friends and/or imagis?? That's awesome!! You don't have sentient headmates but you still consider yourselves plural? Cool!! You have sentient headmates?? Cool!! You have commutation? Cool!! You don't have commnication? Cool!! And so so much more. Don't feel bad for being plural.