Questions

So I know that these questions have been asked and answered before, and I know that I have asked them before, but I have a lot of questions that I am not sure that I received answers for. Or at least I don't understand the answers.

First off, I don't entirely understand how you talk with an alter. I have known of my alters for quite some time now, but the only "talking" I have done with them is through paper or through friends. How do you Talk to an alter?

Second, what is the Inner world? I have read about it, but still dont understand quite what it is.

I see the inner world as a coping mechanism. I used to think I couldn't possibly have DID because I don't have an elaborate inner world; but one day it dawned on me that I was never even directly asked about an inner world in the SCID-D. It is not a "requirement" of DID and it is not something that every system naturally develops.

However, it can help to give you and your system a sense of safety, containment, order, and that is why many DID'ers if they don't have one, will try to create one, at the very least, a inner safe place. (It isn't just DID'ers who have an inner safe place either).

You've probably read that it can literally be a world inside of your head. Alters can have their own places to live, hang out, their own jobs inside, own families. It can literally be as complex and 'real' as the outer world to the alters who live there. My inner world is much less developed and very very changeable. I've had white rooms, red rooms, recently there has been an appearance of a "chokey" (a glass box for keeping alters away from the foreground) but if the chokey isn't needed then it simply just disappears.

I used to purposefully go inside to the "inner world" to talk to my alters. Things would be said to me there that weren't able to be shared when I was in the body, fully conscious. Introductions were made, that sort of thing. I haven't gone inside in a very long time.

Anyway, that was just a little ramble about your second question about inner worlds.

Bourbon

I guess I wont understand it fully until (If it happens at all) I get/develop my own inner world. I still dont understand how you talk to them though. If I dont have an inner world can I actually talk to them? LIke... Can you actually hear them talk? I have not met any of them myself, but I know that they are there because the people around me talk to them, and I can see things that they draw or write.

I can hear them talk. In my head, and outside when they are in the body. I am co-conscious and have little to no present day amnesia. But I've seen communication through amnesic systems being done by writing, videos, tapes... those sorts of things.