trying to get something started for people with imaginary friends, paras without paracosms, inner and outer visualizations, etc
Didn't find what I was looking for in Immersive Daydreaming or Tulpamancy places.
And there's an odd concept floating around that making a non-sentient thoughtform = cruel or unethical? Which seems backwards, if someone doesn't want or isn't prepared for that, it's like getting someone a pet rabbit for Easter when they're better off with a stuffed animal.
And while looking I've found people who have expressed interest, so...
Imagimancy (?)
(eh-maj-eh-manse-see)
Trying to make a community/tag for people with non-autonomous (or fauxtonomous) imaginaries and thoughtform constructs, NPCs and such.
focusing more on visualization/imagination tips/talk, ideas for useful constructs, etc. No pushing people into making thoughtforms autonomous if they don't want to!
(currently very alterhuman heavy / ties to alterhumanity in general but isn't required or officially an alterhuman thing)
not trying to reinvent and re-label things, there's just a gap between communities here
Are we the only ones who have to maintain proper hygiene, diet and exercise even when not using the vessel?
It seems other Plural and System folk don't have physical bodies they must maintain I suppose? Like they're just metaphors or symbolic representations of themselves and not something that needs to be taken to the lou every now and again... Kind of jealous
Along those lines, are we also the only ones who don't communicate with each other back at the Hub, or with whoever is here, via "thinking", mental talk or otherwise telepathy? We have to actually, verbally, speak to be heard. Out loud. It's no different than talking to someone on this planet. I'm low-key jealous of others who can just... Be on the same page as others because they can mentally sync up.
These are polymind terms, and shattermethod terms.
GemShatter ; GemShatter is a shattermethod which describes a polymind or mind who came to existence due to seeing oneself as a gem who got shattered into shards, and seeing those shards as individually functional.
GemClusterShatter ; GemClusterShatter is a shattermethod which describes a polymind or mind who came to existence due to seeing oneself as gems who were shattered and put together as a Cluster Gem to work together as one but still being separate individuals within.
GemFusionShatter ; GemFusionShatter is a shattermethod which describes a polymind or mind who came to existence due to seeing oneself as a fusion of gems, and unfusing in realization.
GenderfluidShatter ; GenderfluidShatter is a shattermethod which describes a polymind or mind who came to existence due to oneself being genderfluid in some form, and then seeing those shifts of gender as minds.
AbrosexualShatter ; AbrosexualShatter is a shattermethod which describes a polymind or mind who came to existence due to oneself being abrosexual in some form, and then seeing those shifts of sexuality as minds.
InterestShatter ; InterestShatter is a shattermethod which describes a polymind or mind who came to existence due to oneself having multiple interests and seeing those interests as minds.
FuckYouShatter ; FuckYouShatter is a shattermethod which describes a polymind or mind who came to existence due to oneself shattering as a fuck you response to anti-polyminds. Might be considered a subterm of forceshatter.
RPShatter ; RPshatter is a shattermethod which describes a polymind or mind who came to existence due to any form of roleplaying by seeing the roles you play as your minds.
MaskingShatter ; MaskingShatter is a shattermethod which describes a polymind or mind who came to existence due to masking around others or in general, and those masks become minds.
(multiple experiences here, we just have no one to talk to about this)
We experience our headmates in a weird way. It's like they disappear once they have been identified, we can't access our headmates and when we hear someone they never know who they are, or if they should tell us. It's like we notice their existence to just be removed later. We have a collective sense of self, but we are also separate in our own ways. We have no clue how to identify each other anymore, we like different things, but we all say we like all of the things combined, just a little bit less or more whenever the front changes. We feel like a collective single identity, but multiple at the same time. We can't just express ourselves with "I'm a singlet" or "we are plural" for some reason It goes beyond that. We are both in our own unique way, and seeing others having identified headmates with different names and likes all figured out makes us... Desire the same. We have no clue of who we are talking with, but they exist here. We are a mix of a singlet and plural, both at the same time somehow, still have no clue what to call us. We have no headspace, it changes every time we try to create one, guess we have too many different ideas. We can't agree on any major life decisions, we want too many different things, and even when we try to mix them, there's someone that doesn't like it. We call ourselves plural, since it's a broad term, and we feel closer to being plural than a singlet, but it would be nice to know if there's some other plural that experiences the same!
Don't worry about putting more than one experience. It may be harder for me to read, but if it all comes together then it's no big deal :D
It's okay to not be very distinct!!! We ourselves sort of have the first bit depending on what flux of our plurality we're on!
I'll go ahead and mention that for a while my headmates were fine taking my name and going around with my pronouns, but now they really dislike it if I'm not out-- and whether or not that happens for you doesn't really change much about whether this is "actually plural". Fragments, facets, and even what could be considered a fully formed headmate can all just decide to not have separate identities or even just not share who or what they are.
Maybe read about median, plurallet, parasian, varion, plural-adjacent, singlet-adjacent, and mixed? Not all of them fit what was described, but they all have some amount of indistinct headmates on different levels. Some headmate-specific terms are facet, segment, and fragment. We recommend combing through posts on the median tag because a lot of median systems aren't far from your description :)
muichiro from demon slayer is an OSDD-1 disordered traumagenic who is plural adjacent
Muichiro Tokito from Demon Slayer is Traumagenic has OSDD1 and is Plural Adjacent!
Traumagenic refers to a system whose creation / origin is the result of one or more traumatic events. Often, these systems have lingering trauma, and may fall under a diagnosis like DID or OSDD-1
OSDD-1 systems lack some criterion of Dissociative Identity Disorder while still exhibiting alters. The most common types of this are OSDD-1a & OSDD-1b, missing the distinct alters and amnesic barriers respectively. However, OSDD-1 can include lacking both distinct alters & amnesia barriers, or other presentations of dissociative & disordered plurality
Plural-Adjacent describes an experience that is similar to plurality or almost plurality, but not- or the user does not want to label it as plurality
we updated the carrd to include terminologies. Most terms are borrowed from the polymind community with permission from its coiner. While some terms weve coined ourselves.
see the terms we made for seunusID below!
==General==
ID: A subpersonality with its own viewpoint, gender, pronouns, personality, thought voice, thought tone.
IDcollective/ Collective: A group of IDs or minds in a single body.
Cycle: an act of redistributing an ID traits into a new ID or Mind.
Inclusions: The characteristics or traits that an ID or mind has.
Separation: The act of separating the subpersonalities into their own IDs or minds.
Sub-ID: a traits of an ID grouped to form a new ID while keeping the existance of the parent ID. This may form an ID whos fluid in identity and may swap between identities.
TransientID: A temporary ID or mind that only lasts for a short time.
==Collective Origins==
Perse-: A prefix to tell from what or why an IDcollective formed.
Persecoping: An IDcollective that was formed to cope from trauma or a traumatic event.
Persecomfort: An IDcollective that was formed to comfort other IDs or minds.
Persefun: an IDcollective that was formed for fun.
Persevoid: An IDcollective who's origin is unknown.
PerseNOYB: an IDcollective who's origins is none of your business.
==Individual Origins aka Ego Type==
Ego-: A prefix that tells why or from what an individual ID or mind was formed.
Egocoping: An ID or mind that was formed to cope with trauma or a traumatic event.
Egocomfort: An ID or mind that was formed to comfort other IDs or minds. This can be to comfort a single ID/mind or many IDs/minds.
Egofiction: An ID or mind that was formed or is based off a fictional character/creature.
Egoanimalis: An ID or mind that is based off an animal.
Egolittle/egoteen: An ID or mind that is based off a younger version of an ID or mind.
Egoconcept: an ID or mind based off a concept.Egosong: an ID based off a song.
Egocolor: an ID based off a color.
Egovoid: An ID or mind whos origins is unknown.
==Cycle Types==
Cycle: an act of redistributing an ID or Mind's traits into a new ID or Mind.
Crebercycle: An IDcollective that frequently cycles or frequently creates new IDs or minds.
Raruscycle: An IDcollective that rarely cycles or rarely creates new IDs or minds after their initial seperation.
Nevercycle: an IDcollective that does not have any ID or minds added to their count since their initial seperation.
Trabeacycle: an IDcollective that is between crebercycle and raruscycle. where they may go on periods cycling/creating IDs or Minds frequent and also periods where they rarely create or cycle IDs or minds. It may also be that their creation/cycle frequency is in between rarely and frequently.
== Carrd link: ==
SeunusID is an therapeutic identity framework where the mind is made up of subpersonalities, each may have its own unique viewpoints, gender
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Afternote:
Were not very good at making terms but we tried our best to make it coherent :"D. Were kinda proud of the terms but we know theres improvements to be made. We just grabbed the prefixes and suffixes from latin tbh.
anyway yeah we borrowed from the polymind community (with coiner's permission) since seunusID and polymind are synonyms and can work with each other. Dunno if this can even be called coining post when some words here are common and self explanatory lol.
Theres more we want to explain with Sub-IDs but were not sure how to word it. so thatll be for later when we find out how to.
