I generally think in 3rd person 90% of the time its just automatic. if i am really focused on something then i will think in 1st person.
3rd person ex: Justin knows what he is doing. Justin can eat cereal for breakfast. Justin can do this. etc…
although I find when I am feeling better (less symptomatic) then I think more in 1st person.
If you think in 1st person, will you have more control over yourself? It seems like in 3rd person, you are just watching yourself living day-to-day.
That’s really interesting. Does it feel like you’re in auto-pilot?
Personally I settle between 1st and 3rd almost 100% of the time. It feels like I’m looking outward and inward at the same time. So lately I’m practicing switching between the two.
I’m also less sympotmatic when totally in the 1st. Just looking out, not worrying about anything else.
I’ve been having a problem with depersonalization and floating out of my body. I really hate that feeling. There have been some bad spikes of it this past year and I just can’t feel connected to myself. I do find… I think in 2nd - 3rd person during this…
The worst one… there is a guy who was dating my sis and I don’t like him. He came over and my sis invited him into the apartment and as he was entering… I was shutting the door on him… almost squishing him in the door.
I honestly felt like I was standing off to the side watching a me shaped someone else do this. I felt completely disconnected from myself or my actions.
“why is he doing that… it’s silly… stop him… make him stop that… don’t just stand there… make him stop it.”
I couldn’t get back into my body to stop it. Eventually I got the guy outside, locked the door and let my sis talk to him through the window. During these spikes of out of body… I do feel like I’m in 3rd person.
I thought everyone thought in 2nd person???
I used to have a voice that narrated everything I did. Jennifer is doing this… blah blah blah all day long. but it was a voice not an internal thought or self-talk.
I think in 2nd person. I always talk to myself, not often out loud but in my own head I’m having a conversation with myself. Often I’ll even think both sides of the conversation. Like: “You can do this.” “I don’t know, are you sure?” The voices are different for each side, too, generally one being deeper and more mature sounding, and the other sounding younger. I never really thought much about it, it’s just the way I think, but I guess I know that most people don’t think that way?
just happens, its like magic and idk where it comes from, maybe i am some sort of tantric wizard or maybe its just the way the wind blows the trees only it is a hurricane sometimes and the weather is changeable, you cannot see the wind but you can hear it and feel it and you do not know where it comes from, yes i would liken my brain to a small planet with its own weather systems lol so basically my brain is a planet.
Sometimes I feel like my brain is a toilet millions of people use. I’m listening to voices by godsmack. I don’t think there is a single positive influence of this condition inside my head lol.
I always use the pronoun “us” to refer to myself. Not because I think I’m royal or anything, but because I’m so many different people. It’s kind of hard to explain. Like I have all these different parts with different names and personalities, ages and even genders. So when I think about myself I generally say us or we, because I am many.
I know exactly what you mean. I say we often also.
I can’t think in my head unless I’m pretending I’m talking to someone. The content usually isn’t ‘up there’. I can think differently through talking and writing.
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just happens, its like magic and idk where it comes from, maybe i am some sort of tantric wizard or maybe its just the way the wind blows the trees only it is a hurricane sometimes and the weather is changeable, you cannot see the wind but you can hear it and feel it and you do not know where it comes from,
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Have you written any poetry lately. I don’t get around to the creativity section - wish it was a little more available. They seem to put stuff in there that doesn’t fit anywhere else. How’s school? It won’t last forever.
I like your description of your thoughts. I wish mine came that way.
thanks patchofblue, i have written a few poems on the creativity section of this new forum and i got some feedback which was nice i’ll try and find the link Shedding my skin and here is another couple that i wrote after my dad died A dads lament
i don’t think you should stop writing poems patchofblue i always loved to read your thoughts like that bc it was different and i liked it bc it was unique and good of course, this new forum is for lots of different kinds of creative pursuits so i don’t see why you shouldnt write here, i have been a bit lazy to be honest and i should write more but things have been a bit hectic lately.
school was really hard last thursday and i have had other things on my mind like the referendum and my eyes have been sore lately too which has been a pain, anyway maybe i should write about the referendum that has happened as it has been a big thing for me and making me a bit symptomatic sometimes.
How do you practise it? Any technique? I find it hard to switch, and if I do, it will take a long transition time…
Do you know why the persons inside are hiding themselves and let me take over the whole body?
They call themselves as ‘we’, but excluding me. What am I? What are they? And what is our relationship?
The way The Professor explained it (an older man in me) was that consciousness is made up of pieces or elements of different aspects of the personality of an individual. These “psychic elements” are gained, changed and lost over a person’s lifetime naturally. (Think of how a bunch of tiny animals make up a coral reef) For example the Professor represents the side of me that’s hungry for knowledge, versus Gladys who’s very controlling but mainly because she desperately wants people to be close to her and like her.
During everyday life, consciousness streams between all the various different psychic elements depending on who you are interacting with and what you are doing, thus explaining why people get confused when they seem to change throughout the day and don’t really know who they are. Most people do not recognize or properly personify these elements.
You are the product of all of them working together to provide a seamless conscious experience. I feel that in those with DID/multiple personality disorder, the trauma they undergo causes a fragmentation of that conscious process, causing a vying for control among all the different elements.
Basically just some of the stuff I talk about with my voices/elements, haha.
I go between first and third person. I like to spectate on my life sometimes. Imagining scenarios.