on “directional presence”
we tend to have a remarkably easy time telling who is fronting or present, because it is a quite tangible direction-based system that we feel in our head, as surges, twinges, and jabs — it’s difficult to describe, but all noise has motion to us, so perhaps it’s a form of synesthesia?
regardless, recently i attempted to make a kind of “map” of where our presences range from:
the circles indicate the general presence of the part, while the “tails” indicate the motion they are prone to taking.
my own, for instance — purple — tends to gently ease up and out from the centre in rolling waves, perhaps slightly to the left at times — (although now that i think on it, this is very rare).
green’s is quite centrally at the “north” position, but if she’s fronting her presence can become “central.”
orange, the host, tends to be very central, but can be pulled deeply southward if he is not fronting.
white, in the south-east position, tends to stay in that area and creep closer when he is more present.
red is one of the most erratic, coming in in sudden spear-like jabs from the west-southwest.
with this sense of direction, it can be very easy at times to tell who is thinking of what. of course, any of these can be absent at any time, or sporadic; and in green and i’s case, it can be somewhat difficult to parse at times, especially given that we tend to appear together. i think all parts can be central at times, too, but this is not the norm.
i’m sharing this as i’d like to know if anyone else experiences the presence of parts in the same way — it’s something that we have been very curious about since we started to pay mind to it. otherwise, i am deeply curious to hear of any other sensations or ways of sensing presence people feel.
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