Can you "see" your insiders???

I am wondering if everyone can "see" their insiders?

I don't have very strong visuals of them. I can "feel" them and know who they are and when they come closer upfront.

I know some of them have certain hair/eye color but they seem to run away and not give me a true visual or are fuzzy, blackness or nothing visual at all....

What's it like inside for you and your insiders???

I never see them in front of me or anything, but I know what their self-image/body perception is (it helps that we're always co-conscious).

some of us can see each other, but in our minds eye, which then projects the image into the physical realm.
we're very good at visualizing things though. we've always been able to flip and manipulate images in our mind's eye.

Thats actually a very good question. At first I thought of course we see them. But thinking more into it, we only know what 2 wear, we found out 2 have brown hair when they were searching online to buy a doll like them. We're rubbish with faces, we can't see them but yet we know their emotions.

I think the best way to describe it is like a dream. In dreams you see and focus in on the main facts - who it is and what they are doing, yet you can't see more details of them, or of where you are, that is fuzzy or blank....and sometimes they seem to be in black and white until it is necessary to know details of the colour.

I have a handful of alters who I can see clearly. Like my 4yo little boy looks like a cherub and a 6 yo little girl who looks like she's playing dress up in old lady dresses. Another alter looks like a colorful little fairy. In the book "amongst ourselves" it suggests that you make a self portrait of each alter and that helped. My little ones really enjoyed it.
I have a few alters who are just shadowy shapes.
Some of my alters freak out when they look in the mirror but I don't know what image they expected to see.
The rest of my alters I don't see clearly, I just hear them or know they're there.

Inside our inner world most of us can see each other with at least some clarity.
Sometimes some alters manifest in the outside world. I know they're alters and I know they don't belong to the world around me, but it can be distracting sometimes cause it can be sudden.

This is really interesting to think about. As far as seeing with my actual eyes? No, never. But on the inside. That's a different matter entirely. In our system there is small 'room' or window where conversation and/or co-consciousness happens. If an alter is in there, it's a very clear picture in my mind and an easy face to face. If they aren't there then I just see what I remember.

I'm still figuring out where each part of me ends and another one begins, and I'm still figuring out what to make of the gaps in my memory (which as far as I know are not frequent anymore) and of confusing reports from other people about things I supposedly have said or done. So I don't know yet what kinds of memories, objective or emotional, are still waiting to be recovered (including possible self-image(s)).

I remember a dream I had when I was little, where I was looking at myself from the ceiling, and I saw myself waking up. Except I didn't look at all like my (physical) self, and somehow I knew my name was Daniel (which doesn't sound familiar to me). I remember "my" physical features in that dream very well. Whether that kid in the dream survived as a part of me that I'm not in touch with, I simply don't know. Though I remember the dream vividly to this day, which is unusual. I can't feel any emotions about it anymore, but I remember I used to take comfort in the memory.

I'm generally only good with "abstract imagination" on one hand, and "concrete recollection" on the other. I don't recognize my physical image as my own, and I have no well-defined image for any of my parts. Any self-image I have is dependent on "recognizing myself" in pictures I see, like the ones I use as avatars here on PF (usually singers and musicians, and sometimes fictional characters).

(For future reference, the image below is my current avatar: Faith, from Mirror's Edge).

I take it you mean "imagine" "visualize in your minds eye" etc. rather than hallucinate. (I have never seen anything that wasn't there at any point in my life.) - I may be fragmented but I'm not psychotic, lol.

Each part of a person can have an idea of how they'd like to look (the same way whole people can.) When a person comes in more than one piece, those differences can become defining aspects of identity for each part. - I guess the same way how a person chooses to present them self to the world and tries to look can be one important part of identity to a whole person. You can imagine how it can really piss people off when there's a lack of internal agreement and only one body...

*brb - stewed apples*

I know the details of how everyone looks, body type, eye and hair color (or in the case of Ashar, the original fur colors). Some of that has come from self description. Images aren't very clear when I try to focus but they are there mostly. But I only got the details for how Edward and Sphinx look from Max, who seems to be able to see others inside in a way that's unique.

I've gotten quick flashes of how some of us look when they've thought about their own appearance. This happens sometimes when the body is accidentally viewed briefly and in confusion they picture what they "should" look like. I can pick up others' emotions but not their thoughts, unless they put them into concrete phrases or sentences. I can pick up images that are focused on, including a self image, but not as clearly as looking at a photograph.