#neuronarrating

[alyssasmaddworld]

that sickly sweet feeling you get when daydreaming a love scenario and it almost makes you a bit nauseated at how sweet it is >>>>>>>>

[caffeinated-eccentric-polymorph]

"Can you explain this gap in your resume?"

Oh yeah, I was busy overthrowing the government on another planet.

[expressionbean]

I've created an alterhumanity survey myself as a person who adores statistics and data science. I also just really like making surveys.

Please consider taking and sharing the survey!

Results will be made into an easily-digestible post with graphics after the survey closes.

[you-can-be-plural]

🔥 It's okay to want to be plural 🔥

[ 🔥 It's okay to want to be plural 🔥]

icon credit - also check out @created-system-hub !

Have you ever been curious about what it's like to be more-than-one? Have you ever thought that maybe it even sounds right, or like something you would want? Have you ever wanted to explore the possibilities of the mind, spirit, and identity? Have you ever wanted a companion that you're in this adventure with for life?

Well, it's a big decision, but a completely possible one! People have been intentionally becoming more-than-one in different ways for a very long time, and giving names to these experiences for at least decades. This is a blog about how you can explore the possibilities and get started safely!

Not many people know that plurality can be a positive and invigorating experience! Start considering sharing your life with another today.

👥 What is Created Plurality? 👥

[ 👥 What is Created Plurality? 👥 ]

Created Plurality - Pluralpedia

"Created refers to systems which formed purposely for any reason. [...] It includes all forms of intentional plurality: consciously exploring gateways, opening oneself to spiritual formations, thoughtforms, etc."

This can be through a wide range of psychological or spiritual/metaphysical means! Created systems can be as simple as a sapient imaginary friend or as complex as communication with countless spirits.

Beginner FAQ - always adding more!

🖌️ Major Created Plural Subtypes! 🖌️

[ 🖌️ Major Created Plural Subtypes! 🖌️ ]

Keep reading for more!

{ Subtypes labeled 🔵 are more psychological-leaning, Subtypes labeled 🟣 are more metaphysical-leaning, Subtypes labeled 🔴 have no lean }

🔵🟣 Thoughtform - An umbrella term used over many psychological & spiritual communities for any type of autonomous entities manifested by thought. Can be collective or singular, psychological or metaphysical. Very broad term, good source encompassing multiple definitions pending (Similar to: tulpamancy, parogenic, willogenic, faciogenic, senpiamancy)

🔵 Tulpamancy - "A tulpa is an entity created in the mind, acting independently of, and parallel to your own consciousness. [...] You’ll create a tulpa by imagining a person in your head, and treating them as a person. The exact mechanism is unknown, but as you give a tulpa attention, and believe it can be a sentient person, it will grow into one, and act independently of you." [alt primary source] (Similar to: thoughtform, parogenic, willogenic, faciogenic, senpiamancy) (Mostly psychologically-leaning but some metaphysical tulpamancers exist!)

🔵 Parogenic - "Parogenic refers to systems or headmates that were created using thought-based or metaphysical means, usually deliberately." (A broad term that is used as both an umbrella and a specific origin. Similar to: tulpamancy, thoughtform, willogenic, faciogenic, senpiamancy)

🔵 Willogenic - "Willogenic describes a system that was purposefully [...] willed into existence." (Similar to: tulpamancy, thoughtform, parogenic, faciogenic, senpiamancy)

🔵🟣 Soulbonding - "Soulbonding is an intense connection someone feels to a character, which results in that character becoming a presence in their mind, a soulbond. Soulbonder refers to anyone who gains soulbonds, and may be considered a kind of host. Soulbonds may be described as headmates based on characters or real individuals, and may be viewed as walk-ins from another world that existed independently from the soulbonder before arriving, or hold the metaphysical belief that they did. It may also be used to refer to a fictive that takes a separate sentience, especially among writers. It can also be a connection one feels to a fictional character to the intensity that they appear in their headspace or as an internal voice." One of the very first created plural communities. Soulbonders tend to separate themselves into two categories, psychological and spiritual. (Similar to: Pariogenic, Primagenic, O-System, Charagenic, Gateway) [Pluralpedia link]

🔵🟣 Dæmonism - "Dæmonism is the practice of communicating with one's internal dæmon, a thoughtform representation of one's subconscious, inner thoughts, or soul given a sentient form. A dæmon commonly takes the form of an animal, inspired by Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials novels. A dæmian is an individual with a dæmon presence which they are aware of and communicate with. The terms "dæmian" and "dæmon" typically indicate a creator / created or discoverer / discovered relationship. [...] The term dæmonism may refer to the community, the practice, the presence of a dæmon, or the act of a dæmian communicating with their dæmon." [pluralpedia link]

🟣 Metagenic / Spirigenic - "Metagenic systems are ones that formed with metaphysical or spiritual origins not necessarily tied to any religion or practice." / "Spirigenic refers to systems that were created for or through spiritual means, with an emphasis on religious spirituality." (Umbrella terms for many different types of metaphysical plurality)

🟣 Possessive (system) - "Possessive systems are ones that formed through long-term spirit possession. Both the spirit and the host benefit as part of an agreement." (Similar to: spiritual soulbonding)

🔵 Blueprinted - "Blueprinted is a term [...] in which headmates are first created as dormant and entirely blank fragments who then are (usually) given a separately prepared set of details to take upon, which typically furthers them into a more developed headmate. Sometimes, blank fragments might be brought out of dormancy in an unaltered state, left to develop further on their own. A set of details given to a blank fragment in blueprinted (sisa)systems is often referred to as a blueprint. The process of giving a blank fragment in a blueprinted (sisa)system a blueprint is often referred to as instructing." (Other info for developing fragments: TBF)

🔴 Catharigenic - "A catharigenic system is one whose origin is caused by the natural/unintentional creation of new members. This is meant to be an option for [...] plural folks who were unintentionally created, but still fall under ��Created” in some way." (Often used by unintentionally created members of all stripes!)

📝 Created Plural Microlabels! 📝

[ 📝 Created Plural Microlabels! 📝 ]

🔴 Addgenic - "Addgenic refers to systems or headmates who [either]: Wish to become the largest system they can be, wish to become a larger system in a controlled and healthy manner, wish to become a larger system, but uncontrollably, [or] are obsessed with becoming a large system, which leads them to intentionally create headmates."

🔵 Archogenic - "Archogenic is an origin term that may describe a headmate's or system's origins as being created by an artisan, or constructed in a similar manner." (Similar to: tulpamancy, thoughtform, parogenic, willogenic, faciogenic, senpiamancy)

🔵 Borarogenic - "Borarogenic is an origin for (sisa)systems or headmates created out of boredom. It is under the parogenic umbrella."

🔵 Charagenic - "Charagenic is a system origin where a system is formed from creating and using characters. The characters can be used for art, writing, roleplay, or any other activity that involves using a character. These characters are typically introjects in the system." (Similar to: soulbonding, O-System, Primagenic)

🔵 Comfortgenic - "A comfortgenic system is one that created their headmates, specifically for the purpose of someone's comfort. It may have been for the host, someone outside of the system, or another headmate."

🔵 Crispgenic - "Crispgenic is an origin for those who willed headmates into existence aggressively. It's a term made to replace willogenic for those who feel like it's a softer term. Crispgenic can also be used for one who turns delusional attachments into headmates to help recover from the delusions."

🔴 Déagenic - "an origin term for members who were created or willed into existence in some way or other, whether intentionally or not. It was coined as an alternative to [other created terms], and can serve as an umbrella term, similarly to created."

🔵🟣 Dippigenic - "Dippigenic is an origin term for headmates who formed when their system intended to create a new member, but they ended up appearing spontaneously before any conscious effort was made. Dippigenic headmates may be considered quasi-spontaneous and/or walk-ins." (Similar to: Kiagenic, catharigenic)

🔵(?) Faciogenic - "Faciogenic refers to a subsystem made up of created [...] thoughtforms." (Similar to: tulpamancy, thoughtform, parogenic, willogenic, senpiamancy, archogenic)

🔵 Firpergenic - "Firpergenic is a -genic term that refers to a system (or subsystem, layer, ect) that formed because of imagining oneself as a system, or from referring to themself as multiple (ex: saying "we" even though they're a singlet / don't have a subsystem)." (Similar to: willogenic)

🔵 Imaginagenic - "imaginagenic is a system origin where a system forms from either imagination play or roleplaying." (Similar to: soulbonding, primagenic, charagenic, O-System)

🔵🟣 Kiagenic - "Kiagenic refers to a system [.../etc] formed out of chaos/pre-existing or primordial potential energy for existence, brought or manifested into existence or awareness via gentle nudging of unconscious processes. Kiagenic is distinct from parogenic in that it is not a conscious process with directed willful intent, though it can have more minor conscious elements. The term can also be used as an origin term for “accidental [created] systems/members”, who arise from deliberate action, but not intent to become plural/create system members." (similar to: Subliminalgenic)

🔵 Narrogenic - "Narrogenic is an origin term referring to a system forming from a singlet talking to themselves and gradually grew more and more separate until it felt like they were talking to an entirely separate entity. While this may apply to just the first headmate, it does not have to be restricted to them, nor does it have to be applied to all headmates." (This method is commonly seen in parogenic, willogenic and tulpamancy systems)

🔵🟣 O-System - "An o-system is a system where the headmates are original "characters" who, once created, took over their development and introduced themselves, their backstory, and more. They tend to have their own headspace that relates to their backstory and life, and they tend not to be able to fully front, but can mask themselves onto other headmates from different system origins as a way to connect with the outside physical universe/world. While many systems can have headmates who felt to be or originally were "original characters", omates are not headmates in the same way that headmates of other system origins are. While they have sentience and their own lives and personalities, they do not exist within this universe to any degree except that osters have brought them in via creating them here. They exist in their own lives and backstories, often expressing those lives in alternate headspaces. Omates can develop and jump from an ostem to another system and gain more connection to this world/universe." (Similar to: Soulbonding, primagenic, charagenic)

🔵🟣 Pancreated - "Pancreated is an origin for (sisa)systems/headmates who were formed by all created origins."

🟣 Pariogenic - "Pariogenic systems are systems mostly made up of walk-ins and/or soulbonds."

🔵🟣 Primagenic - "A primagenic system is one shaped around an original universe the system created through writing, art and other creative mediums. The members may be based around characters and/or concepts in this universe, and the innerworld is shaped around the original universe." (Similar to: Soulbonding, O-System)

🔵 Pseudogenic - "A pseudogenic system is one that: a) A system created by them faking a system to the point the system became real. The system should acknowledge that them faking was wrong, but can't deny they are now actually a system. b) A system created by the self. Another term for parogenic. c) A reclamation of a term used against them."

🔵 Senpiamancy - "Senpiamancy is the practice of creating headmates through various techniques. A headmate created through senpiamancy is called a "senpia". The term was created as an alternative to the term tulpamancy and specifically denotes a person who believes the creation of their headmates is due to psychological reasons, whereas tulpamancy can refer to people with both metaphysical and psychological beliefs." (Similar to: tulpamancy, thoughtform, parogenic, willogenic, faciogenic, archogenic)

🔵 Subliminalgenic - "Subliminalgenic or subgenic systems originate through the manifestation and reinforcement of subliminal stimuli." (Similar to: Kiagenic)

🔵 Willopartnergenic - "Willopartnergenic is a term that defines a headmate specifically and deliberately formed for a headmate in their partner system, as opposed to natural and sporadic formation. The formation of willopartnergenic headmates should always be consensual with the muse in question and with the intention to be handled in a healthy way. Willopartnergenic may also define headmates who were fragments or already forming which were helped along with the aid or given purpose of a muse."

🌱 Created Terms Related to Mental Health 🌱

[ 🌱 Created Terms Related to Mental Health 🌱 ]

🔵 Alzgenic - "Alzgenic describes the process of a system or a headmate being created due to suffering from usually Young Onset Dementia. This could be due to forgetting details about themself and therefore creating alternate versions of themself causing to form a system or new headmates. Alzgenic is in relation to catharigenic as the creation is oftentimes unintentional."

-🔵 Artifigenic - [Abuse & programming TW] "Artifigenic describes a system or sisasystem that was intentionally created by one or more abusers. It is inherently traumagenic or stressgenic in origin."

🔵 Crispgenic - "Crispgenic is an origin for those who willed headmates into existence aggressively. It's a term made to replace willogenic for those who feel like it's a softer term. Crispgenic can also be used for one who turns delusional attachments into headmates to help recover from the delusions."

🔵 Cuilform - "Cuilform or cuilformed refers to systems or headmates that were created as a result of or during psychosis. Because of this, cuilforms are typically also psychosis holders. Cuilform headmates, or cuilforms, may identify with additional origin terms, depending on the context of the psychosis. Cuilform is not exclusive to those diagnosed, formally or otherwise, with any related mental conditions. This term can be used by any system regardless of origin. Cuilform references cuil, which refers to cuil theory. This defines a cuil as a unit of measurement denoting one abstraction away from reality. In the context of psychosis and headmates created through psychosis, cuil can measure the severity of the psychosis in either the positive or negative symptom direction."

🔴 Maliciogenic - (intra-system abuse TW) refers to a headmate, subsystem, or otherwise that falls under created [/etc] umbrellas, but specifies that they were created by another headmate with malicious intent. For example, it could be that said headmate decided to create another headmate/subsystem/etc in order to cause uncertainty or instability in the system, or with the intent to harm the system or those within it in some way.

🔵 Naiagenic - "Naiagenic is an origin term for headmates formed, intentionally or not, as a direct result of a manic or manic-like state. It is not exclusive to those diagnosed, formally or otherwise, with any related mental conditions. This term can be used by any system regardless of origin."

🔵 Paragenic - "The term paragenic describes a system's or headmate's origin as having been caused or influenced by Maladaptive Daydreaming Disorder, neuronarration, immersive daydreaming, or other similar neurodivergencies."

🔵 Parotraumagenic - "A parotraumagenic system or headmate was created to deal with trauma; for example, to ward off loneliness during bullying, or someone to do tasks the host was unable to do due to triggers. Typically, said creation is a conscious decision."

🔵🟣 Pariotraumagenic - "Pariotraumagenic is an origin that means having come from both trauma inside and outside of the system. It can be considered a combination of traumagenic and pariogenic or walk-in. There are a variety of ways that a pariotraumagenic member could join the system. Examples include: a person or being being brought to the system from another timeline to help with trauma, a person or being joining the system to escape trauma in another timeline, a person or being, being a walk-in, who was altered by the system's trauma upon joining, or someone walking in who is not yet fully formed." (Similar to: Traumaform)

🔵 Temagenic - [System/Member Death TW] "Temagenic (from Greek "τεμάχιο" [temáchio] meaning "fragment, scrap" ) refers to a system that came about through the prior dismantling of one or more systems. It may occur any number of times, including indefinitely. This deconstruction may come about willingly or involuntarily due to external trauma, inter-system conflict, or a system's host or another headmate in a position of power stepping down or being forcibly removed from their position. It may or may not include the death of one or more headmates, particularly the previous system's host(s) though this is not necessarily a prerequisite. It may also include deconstruction of social norms in the place of or alongside social structure, particularly for systems whose origin systems have no fixed hierarchical establishment."

🔵 Traumaform - "Traumaform refers to systems who are created through thoughtform and traumagenic origins. This can be due to trauma causing the system to split headmates intentionally to deal with said trauma, but also can happen as a result of involuntary splitting due to trauma. While this can be seen as a partially endogenic term, this origin results from primarily trauma. Despite this, systems of any origin can use this term." (Similar to: Parotraumagenic)

🔗 Terms w/ Created Connections! 🔗

[ 🔗 Terms w/ Created Connections! 🔗 ]

🟣 Anamriel - "Anamriel is a system identity characterized by the deep-seated feeling that two or more of its members are, or were at one point, a soul of their own, housed by and sharing one physical form amongst multiple potential soulforms. Soulform in this context refers to a member of a system or individual who holds the belief that they are, or were, their own soul to be their personal truth with no physical evidence to prove it either way." (Similar to: soulbased, possessive systems)

🔴 Catharigenic - "A catharigenic system is one whose origin is caused by the natural/unintentional creation of new members. This is meant to be an option for [...] plural folks who were unintentionally created, but still fall under “Created” in some way." Often used by unintentionally created members of all stripes!

🔴 Codegenic - "A xeno-origin relating to code. [/] An origin for a system or headmate that was coded into headspace (for example, created by a coder). Can be considered a created origin. This term is not related to any form of organized abuse."

🟣 Gateway - "A gateway system is one connected to other worlds via portals or gates that are experienced as real and external to the system, body, and brain. The body may be experienced as a gate itself, leading to one or multiple worlds besides shared reality. A gateway system may not have an innerworld that is experienced as internal to the system.[ The term co-location similarly describes an experience of living several existences in different realities, connected by gates."

🟣 Soulbased - "Soulbased refers to when a system's plurality is affected by their soul. Whether it be having multiple souls, their soul splitting into pieces, etc."

🔵🟣 Walk-in - "Walk-in is a word that has different meanings in different system communities. A common definition refers to a headmate who comes from elsewhere in the inner world or another world other than shared reality. This phenomenon or manifestation most commonly occurs within gateway systems, or similar types. The term may also be used in tulpamancy or thoughtforms to describe a tulpa that was not created by the host and appear fully formed. There are many different explanations for why this can occur among tulpamancers and some don't consider them tulpas at all."

🔥 Tag List 🔥

[ 🔥 Tag List 🔥 ]

- You can find all posts about a certain type of created system under the label name.

- #positivity - for created system positivity!

- #resources - for created system resources!

- #beginner help - questions from beginners or for beginners!

[kiruliom]

ah the vicious cycle of "I feel like I dont have a place in the real world so Im spending most of my social energy daydreaming" but that leads to me losing my place even more in the real world

[moonpool-system]

reminder that we love and support selfshippers, self x character ships, and (specifically romantic, but all) self love - we love selfcest, autosexuality, intra-system relationships, fictive/nonfictive relationships, reincarnations that love each other, fictionfolk shipping themselves, cupiosexuals, fictosexuals, people with F/Os, neuronarrators that love their paras, and more! I could go on and on. It's okay to love who you wish and it's really cool actually. Keep loving yourselves and keep loving what some consider impossible and fictional. Keep being a contraction to the commonly established concept of romantic love

[wonderlightdaydreams]

Alterreality Coining Post 2.0

On August 9th, 2023, I posted “AlterReality: A Coining Essay”. The purpose of that post was to coin a term that describes my personal experience while getting out my thoughts on metaphysics, imagination, and perception in writing. However, due to the personal nature of that essay, I wanted to make this post in collaboration with Lav (@WinreyPlace) and others to clearly and plainly state what alterreality is. While it is a broad term, there are limits to what it does and does not include.

As defined by someone else in the alterreality server: “Alterreality is a process of creating one’s unique sense of reality via imagination and belief. It can be described as a lifestyle or a philosophy, with one central idea: what makes something ‘real’ is nothing but the belief that it is real.”

Another definition Lav gave was “imagination as a lifestyle”. Alterreality can also be interpreted as daydreaming or imagination-based fantasies overlaying or interacting with consensus reality.

What alterreality covers:

Many experiences of those in the self-shipping community, such as going on dates with your f/o in the “real world”

Adding a fantasy narrative to your life (i.e. tests at school becoming monster fights) as long as you choose to believe in the fantasy narrative as part of your perceived reality

Many experiences are classified as roleplay, again, as long as you choose to incorporate the roleplay into your perception of what’s happening in your own life

What alterreality doesn’t cover:

Involuntary spiritual, psychological, or metaphysical experiences 

Any alternative reality experiences you were born with or had awakened within you

Identifying as something while living a non-altered life (i.e. if you’re wolfkin and you are going to mundane human school while only experiencing that physical reality, that's not alterreality)

Manifestation and law of attraction concepts. Alterreality, while it interacts with the shared reality we all experience, doesn’t change its course; instead it builds onto or reframes it. Alterrealizing should not and does not make struggles in consensus reality disappear or cause the universe to provide a more positive life. 

In short, alterreality has three aspects: intentionality, imagination, and belief. Alterreal experiences are incredibly varied and diverse; however, they all require these elements. 

Now, with the above fully explained, let’s understand the why and how. Starting with the why.

There are infinite reasons as to why one would alterrealize their own life. I do it because I find mundane existence to be boring, and I want to engage with something that is beyond mundane human life without believing in anything, particularly spiritual or supernatural. Any reason is a valid reason to create alterreality. You can do it for fun, as a coping mechanism, to connect better with your alterhuman identities, because you love fictional characters or worlds, to help you understand complex things better, as a tool of exploration, personal growth, and creativity, and so much more. You don't even need to have a why at all! There is nothing wrong with fucking around and finding out with your life :3. 

In terms of how to do alterreality, I repeat, there is no one way. I’m still figuring out all the ins and outs of doing it myself. But my best piece of advice is to give yourself permission to fully live inside of whatever fantasy narrative you choose to and let yourself believe in it. This can sometimes be a demanding or difficult process, especially if everyone and everything around you is conforming to consensus reality, but just like they find meaning existing in consensus reality, you are allowed to find meaning existing in alterreality! Another way to phrase all this is to just “fake it until you make it”. Ask yourself questions like  “What world or narrative do I live in?”, “What form does my alterrealized self take?”, “How would I act and speak in my alterreality?”, “What would my tasks, goals, or challenges be?”, and things like that. If you cannot do something in shared, mundane reality for whatever reason, make-believe a reason why you cannot do it in your alterreality too! As you develop your alterreality and discover what works and what doesn’t for your brain, you’ll find it will come more naturally to live out your imagination-fueled life. 

This world is in desperate need of whimsy and wonder. While there are various ways to make your life more whimsical, there are not many that involve actively living a lifestyle of fantasy. In a world where time is a finite resource, where the “have-tos” outweigh the “want-tos”, and where playing pretend is shunned once you age out of childhood, alterreality is a way to live in the physical realm, while embracing the fantastical. So, what are you waiting for, step into a world of your wildest dreams!

[foleys-help-blog]

Tips for handling a daydream block

It happens to all of us at some point, and it sucks. here are some tips on how to deal with it from my experience.

There can be different or causes to it. First, you have too many thoughts. Whether it's because you have a lot on your mind, because you're stressed, or whatever other reason, if your brain is too full, it can be hard to daydream. Second possibility: your brain feels exhausted, empty. You're tired and it's hard to think, period. Third, you're just out of ideas!

✦ If you can and like to meditate, meditation is one of the best ways to calm down your thoughts and give your brain some respite.

✦ Napping can help rest too! Depending on the person, this might not help if you're in the first case though - I know it doesn't for me for example.

✦ If you lack ideas, look up some prompts, or maybe get into a new series or book! You need to feed your creativity, along with letting it rest.

✦ Do something else! Go for a walk, do some coloring, try a new art form, change up your habits! This can both help you get inspired and rest your creative muscles.

✦ Chat with other daydreamers! Whether it's gushing or venting, not feeling alone is a great help in feeling better

Now, while those are great to help getting out of a slump, sometimes only time will truly get rid of the block. In the meantime, there are ways you can stay connected to your paras and paracosms!

✦Make playlists your paras would listen to ✦Make moodboards ✦If you've written or drawn things related to your daydreamns, look at those ✦Make your paras a list of books they've read, would like to read, would dislike, etc! This can work with hobbies, movies, cartoons, food,… ✦Create a timetable of a typical work/school day of your para if it applies ✦Make jewelry for your paras; you can wear it to feel like they are with you or to think of them. ✦Make collages or art inspired by your paras, paracosms and daydreams! It can be super abstract! ✦Create outfit boards for your paras ✦Make memes about your paracosm ✦Try a meal or snack your paras would like! ✦Fill in personality quizzes as if you were your paras

Rest well, and happy daydreaming friends! 🪁🌟🫧

[dolleriumfluffle]

Daydreams, Ghosts, and Plurality - Experiences of a Dreamway System

I think, in writing this, our goal is just to give a glimpse into our personal experience with identifying as dreamway, and how deep of an impact being neuronarrative has on our plurality. We saw a post about someone wanting more plurals to just write about experiences - so, here's some of ours, to share about ourselves, to ramble, and in hopes that someone might connect.

Our first ever signs of plurality as a child were through daydreams.

For as long as we can possibly remember, we've been traveling. Even as a very young child we lived a constant life of daydreams, of worlds we could disappear into in our head - and, more importantly, the people we met in them. Some of them were fictional; the fairies of the Pixie Hollow movies and the cures from the existing Pretty Cure seasons, both things we grew up with and deeply loved. These were perhaps our first experiences of walk-ins, as they would appear in and leave our daydream worlds as they pleased. Others were self-made, and would continue to appear with us until we had our first syscovery - a grey kitsune and an angel, who would protect and care for us on our journeys.

Our daydreams have always had a spiritual component, one that we would never really understand until we became an adult and learned about astral travel. We continually had spiritual beings appear to us in our daydreams, such as yokai like the kitsune and fae-like beings - and, most concerningly to others, dead relatives of ours and friends. We once told a schoolmate in elementary school that we had seen her grandma who passed away a few years prior. Her deeply superstitious mother proceeded to tell our poor aunt that she believed we were cursed.

We used to journal to each other as a child, writing to each other by name and creating journal entries in the form of letters. People, including us, dismissed it as an overactive imagination. However, it felt so fulfilling to us to write about our day and know that somehow, the people in our daydreams would see it, and sometimes even write back.

As we got into our teenage years, we began to be aware of these daydream characters as more than just daydreams - they were alive, they existed separately and had their own thoughts and feelings. We confessed to an online friend at the time that we had "people in my head" that lived in "my own world", which would eventually lead to our first syscovery. This initial group is who we sometimes call "the original 12" - a series of 12 system members who have been around since we were very young, appearing as daydreams until we realized who we really were.

We were very confused about our origins at first. We hung out in tulpamancy groups for a brief time, wondering if this was maybe how we had come about. However, we soon realized it just didn't resonate, so we moved on to some general endogenic groups and forums. We really appreciate the people we met during this time, who were kind to us in a period where we really had no idea what was happening with us.

Having a headspace always came very naturally to us. We never really understood how to describe creating and interacting with one, because to us we had always been daydreaming about ours. It was an incredibly in depth other world with its own rules, its own people, its own life. Even before we knew the extent of it, daydreaming had a huge impact on how we interacted with each other and how we navigated our own plurality.

After some very stressful life events, the coming awareness of our amnesia, and a while with a good therapist, we were diagnosed with HC-DID.

This led to a long period of self hatred and fear, where we were less sure than before about our life and each other. Thankfully, with the help of therapy and finally having a good support system, we were able to recover from this part of our journey. However, even after this we still had a strong sense that there was more to our origins.

This was when we discovered the term dreamway and the origin paragenic, which hadn't yet been coined when we had our first syscovery. Suddenly, everything made sense! There were people like us! Our daydreams, paracosms, and paras were an essential part of our system, and this was a known experience.

We're extremely grateful for that discovery. Our paracosms are an inherent part of our headspace - many of our introjects used to be para versions of fictional characters. We are able to travel freely between them, continually encountering new people, new worlds, new lives. There is a strange spiritual component to them; we've often heard people say that "paras usually know they're in a daydream," and this isn't true for us. They exist autonomously of our daydreams about them, almost as if they really are in another world, unless they get pulled into the main system and gain awareness of it. Similarly, we can use our headspace for spiritual means, using daydreams and astral travel to encounter entities of all kinds.

We feel greatly at peace with ourselves having discovered daydreams and connected spirituality as an essential part of our system and its origins. There is a lot of joy to us in being mixed origin - in knowing that even there our initial splits were due to programming, there is so much more to us, so much that has in fact helped us cope and stick together since that initial split.

At the end of the day, we want people to know that being mixed origin can be amazing, and can be an essential tool to a system's growth. We hope maybe other neuronarrator plurals or plurals with MaDD may see this and relate, and also we just want to spread more posts about joyful in depth system experiences. Thank you for reading!

[soupofcryptids]

I am a multiverse traveler. A cosmic explorer. I seek out beauty in all worlds, I am the keeper of magic knowledge.

I am the universe creator, from my mind come forth worlds of mystery. I am master of imagining.

I am entity of all dreams, swirling color. Dreams of chaotic beauty spill from my eyes.

I am the wanderer

[obnebulant-mogai]

Made my own version of the Malagender (link) flag because the one I found didn't really resonate with me!

[Image ID: A flag with five equal horizontal stripes. In descending order, the stripes are navy blue, light blue, blue white, pink, and light purple. End ID.]

[alyssasmaddworld]

im not sure how to talk about my para's! i have (what seems to me) an extremely elaborate blanket paracosm that is constantly being re-written and adapted-- both present and future. it's hard to even begin explaining the plot especially when i've got multiple subparacosms happening that are so similar just slightly different deviations or alteration to the main plot line.

theres SO much going on in my head.

[caffeinated-eccentric-polymorph]

I've not found any yet so here's my shot at one right before October starts!

💭 Daydreamtober 💭

(or really daydream[insertanymonthhere])

Honestly this is just the same as any other art challenge: write, draw, collage, do whatever you please! Skip prompts, mix them, finish late, start early, as you wish! Just have fun and don't overwork yourself 💟

The tags: #daydreamtober #daydreamtober2024

The prompts:

❂ 1 - Home

❂ 2 - New meeting

❂ 3 - Secret

❂ 4 - Feast

❂ 5 - Smoke

❂ 6 -Travel

❂ 7 - Dreams

❂ 8 - Letter

❂ 9 - Chase

❂ 10 - Confession

❂ 11 - Fear

❂ 12 - Monster

❂ 13 - Trap

❂ 14 - Injury

❂ 15 - Family

❂ 16 - Old friend

❂ 17 - Justice

❂ 18 - Hobbies

❂ 19 - Comfort

❂ 20 - Fight

❂ 21 - Rest

❂ 22 - Self-care

❂ 23 - Dating

❂ 24 - Distrust

❂ 25 - Flowers

❂ 26 - Cycle

❂ 27 - Yearning

❂ 28 - Doubt

❂ 29 - Love

❂ 30 - Haunted

❂ 31 - Celebration

Divider by @/cafekitsune

[sophieinwonderland]

On the topic of long-term systems: I only really discovered enough about the plural community to understand I had a place in it in 2023. But I'm a median system with origins in neuronarration, and recently when I was going through my stuff I found a document I saved with information about maladaptive daydreaming - and the 'date modified' of the file said 2012.

In 2012, I was only familiar with the very shame-based term 'maladaptive daydreaming' - I don't think 'neuronarration' had been coined yet - and I wasn't aware of the connection between neuronarration and plurality. But I was already using a LOT of mental health strategies based on making use of my headspace and my median systemhood, enough to know that the neuronarrative cognitive behaviours were really not something to just get rid of, they were a strength. The plural community has an understanding of how headspace tools can be used for mental health, so having the terminology to find this community has felt like coming home. But clearly I've been living in this way for at least 12 years.

Thanks for the addition! Glad you've been able to find language and a community suited to you! 😁

[starsloom]

my cod oc, eva<333 [jɛvə]

thank you girliepop for being my self insert in cod neuronarration i love you very much

[the-capricorn-system]

guys convince us to not make a daydreamer-culture-is blog. we have 50+ blogs we dont need another.