Hello everybody, this is Chloe and welcome back to another episode of Debunking DID
So, today we have a very very very requested video for you,  all about inner worlds
and I think we might end up splitting this video into two different parts because when it comes to inner worlds
there's a lot to cover. So some of you might have seen a video that we did before where we made or I made the
layout of our inner world on The Sims 4
so if you'd like to have a look at what our inner world looks like you can always go and
Pop over and have a look at that and I'll leave a link up there so that you guys can check that out
Let's start with the very very basics. What is an inner world? Inner worlds aren't
Physical worlds in the same way as the world that we live in is
Physical they're are places in the mind that have been created by the brain
For different alters to interact with each other
So if you're thinking of the brain as being like split up into different sections
And then each section is an alter which isn't a scientifically accurate way to describe it
But it helps to visualize it like that
and an inner world is like a place where all those parts of the brain can join back up together and
Communicate with each other. So it's a place where alters can process trauma. They can communicate with each other
They can have their own lives in there and it varies massively from system to system
so
Why are inner worlds necessary, like I said in a world are places for alters to interact with each other
So if communication isn't very good in the external world
Then alters can often meet up in the inner world. There's also often a lot of
heavy symbolism and
Metaphorical objects in inner worlds. So for example, we have a carousel in our inner world
it's very very common to have a castle or a mansion or a big house in which
Everyone or some of the alters will live
personally, we have a mansion and it's also very very common to have places like
dungeons
basements
Chambers below
surface level or in a different area of the map where a lot of trauma is processed and
trauma memories might be
Formed into something more physical such as an object and by exploring your inner world
Alters can be found in different parts of
The space that the brain is made to keep them. We started off without an inner world. We didn't have an inner world and  then
What I remember, okay, I'm gonna tell you this from my point of view as the host. So
When I was first told that the voices I hear which I now know where the voices of my alters
Aren't normal
The way I was envisioning it is sort of like just a black space
so it was like
Hmm. I may have to draw this out for you guys
It's like having say the consciousness is the Sun in the middle of the solar system
Right, and I was right there in the consciousness right in the middle
Yeah
because I was the host and then in varying rings of
Orbit around that level of consciousness were different alters
So for example, if you're thinking of this in terms of our solar system the Milky Way then
let's say find the Sun, you know, maybe Kyle was Earth
The further out you get in the rings of orbit of the Sun the more difficult
It was for me to reach those alters and the more difficult
It was to communicate with them or know anything about them. We had like
Kyle and Sally were very close to the consciousness. They were my protectors
they were the easiest for me to reach and talk to communicate with and
Switching was easier
Even though it wasn't in our control and then say way way way out as Pluto was Omega. Whoo
I had no awareness of at that time. So how did we make our inner world?
Sometimes systems just have in a world come with them
It generally is whatever the brain makes
I know that some systems can adjust their inner world or build things or ask for things and what we did we just
Thought really hard about it. I was kind of considering it to be sort of like a
Room of Requirement type thing from Harry Potter where you think about what you need and ask for and then next time I was there
instead of it being this dark space where I could just hear voices and
Had like feeting images of what my alters looked like there was a house big big house big mansion
So we'd been thinking
We need a place for everybody. I..we need a place to talk
Somehow through our imagination even though it wasn't a conscious decision. It was a subconscious decision and
That became our inner world in our inner world
We can't consciously change things like some systems can for example. I really don't like height in a world. I feel very very
Frightened in our inner world very claustrophobic very very uncomfortable
It feels haunted to me. It feels
Frightening and I don't I don't like it
So if I could change the mansion I would and I know some systems can
But the furthest we've got with doing something like that
For example, we started off and Sally wanted a garden love to do some gardening and then a few weeks later
We went exploring a little bit further and there was a garden on the side of the house
So that's her garden and like I remember
As I processed trauma not from childhood, but recent trauma
which happened to happen in a forest a
Forest
Forest then appeared towards the side of the house and we found a new altar in there
Actually now we've found a lot of new altars in there who contain
various trauma memories and things like that, so
It's however
the brain decides to visualize
What's happened that has been traumatic or could be helpful in terms of
metaphorically allow
someone to kind of see what's going on in a visceral way because it can be difficult to
Pick out things that you need to work on and understand what's going on
When all you have is, you know, like notes left around and voices in your head. It's much easier to have this
physical
Weld that's in your head. So does the inner world feel real?
Yes
The inner world to us feels as real as the physical world has weather we have to eat we have to use the bathroom
We have to sleep
We will have our own bedrooms. We can touch and feel everything everything has textures, you know, it gets cold in the house sometimes
There's smell
Different sounds you can hear there's a river that runs outside
Mansion, you can hear that. Sometimes you can hear birds sometimes for me as the host
it can feel a little bit fuzzy almost like I'm dissociating as
I would on the outside world or dreaming
But I know I'm not dreaming and that doesn't seem to happen for anyone else in our system
but it is very normal for the hosts or systems to have limited access to they're in a world or
To not be able to access they're in a world at all
so for example
When our alters switch out everyone else when they're not fronting and in control of the body?
They go back to the inner world not by choice. That's just where they end up. Me.. I
Either it's more common for me to just black out. So everything just is
black just like I'm asleep or if being knocked out and then I kind of come back to like sort of like waking up and
it does feel a little bit like waking up after passing out all very confusing you get big headache and
Everything's a little bit blurry and you feel a bit sick and they've got this this feeling of movement
Inside you which makes me feel a bit travel sick. It's very rare that I am actually in the inner world
But when I am
I don't really enjoy that so maybe that's part of the reason why I'm the host or maybe I just
Don't have what it takes to deal with some of the things that are in there yet in the inner world
Most alters if not all alters that I know of in systems who  have an  inner world
can manifest as themselves and interact with each other so you see them as
They really are so for example, obviously, we don't all look like this body. Looks like we all have, you know, different genders different
appearances Heights weights body build, you know tattoos piercings
It's good to be able to like sit down and have a chat sometimes in a world very
Massively in their complexity. So for example, if you have a small system, maybe like five alters or something like that
you might just have a house or even just a room, but I know of
systems you have
Hundreds and hundreds of alters and you don't need to have hundreds of hundreds of alters in order to have a big inner world
But this system that I do know
has a hole like in galaxy I set in a world and there are like different planets with their own like
Properties and things like that and there are different subsystems of their altars
on each planet
So it's it's huge like massive massive world
So it can range from literally being a room to being a whole galaxy
It's whatever the mind of that person and the mind of that child or adult or whatever
sees as
the easiest way to visualize
The compartmentalization of their brain and the trauma that they need to process
Inner worlds are really well known and accepted in clinical and academic
Environments it's accepted that this is something that comes with the idea. It's not an overactive imagination and it's not
Maladaptive daydreaming. It is something that is a part of DID
There's actually a book called The Haunted Self and that's written by
Onno van der Hart,
Ellert R. S. Nijenhuis and
Kathy Steele and that includes information about how alters can interact internally and
Sometimes never take control of the body. So yeah
Not all alters in the inner world will be alters that actively front. There are also in some systems that inner worlds have
NPCs which stands for in the gaming world non playable characters, so there they're not alters
But they exist in there in a world
So for example alters might have you know jobs and you know
They'll have co-workers and those co-workers aren't alters and not part of the system
They don't front but they exist in it in a world that's part of the lives of the alters. So
Alters in there in a world can have jobs, you know, they can marry each other
They can fall in love alters can fall in love with each other adopt each other have children together
Anything that could happen in the real world and again some more
some more
Interesting things that wouldn't happen in the real world
also
If altars have skills in the inner world that haven't been learnt
By the body then they won't be able to retain those skills when they're fronting
So for example any skill that's been learnt by an alter fronting will be retained by that one alter
That doesn't mean that any other alter will then suddenly have that skill
It's retained by that alter who learnt it because now that the other alters would have learned how to do it, right?
Some alters who are for example, non human alters like fairies or Dragons or anything like that
And if you want to know about non-human alters, we have a video on that which you can find out here
In the inner world, obviously, they can fly or breathe fire or whatever is necessary
and
Yeah
Mm-hmm some more books that you might be interested in
Internal landscape so inner worlds are also referred to within
dissociation and the dissociative disorders DSM-V and Beyond which is written by Paul F. Dell and John A.
O'Neill, I'll leave these links below and the information will be in the description box as always
So, yes, that's our information on inner worlds for you
If you have any questions
Then please do let us know we are going to do a video on
How alters interact in the inner world and how they can form relationships with one another and things like that
So stay tuned for that one
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