Living in dfferent time periods/eras/centuries

Is anyone from (or have alter) from a different time period? I at some times feel so nostalgic and sad/alone because I'm from the mid 1900's. I feel weird to wear "modern" clothing, I don't get the slang words people use and to make it the worse I'm not even in my home country. Is anyone else not from this time period? How do you handle the changes in society? Do you try and feel or dress or perform like you do in your era? Or do you adapt to the current times?

I usually dress as I always do but I admit I attempt to make it slight less obvious by incorporating some of the modern attire. I don't like it, but I dislike to draw attention to myself in a negative perception. At some days I feel dejected and alone in that no one can understand why I am the way that I am... excepting the elderly... But I am not old, I am young but simply stuck in my time period indefinitely.

Some days I am confused due to it. Anyone else in this conundrum?

Perhaps you'd like to look into the shamanic work of Robert Moss. He doesn't address this in the context of DID, but he does acknowledge the existence of different selves existing simultaneously in various contexts. We used to have an alter from colonial period in the northeast of the now-US.

I have an alter from I guess the Dark Ages. While I don't really care about Knights, Swords etc. He loves it and is fascinated by it. I would not like to live back then, but it might be nice to visit for a while. If I had protection and some sort of income for survival.

And I have an alter from some war WWI perhaps, so I love old war weapons and even own a couple. I actually used to think he was imprisoned or died while inprisoned and for some reason telepathically talked to me. It was a interesting use of my imagination when I was younger. Little did I know he was an alter.

Well, we're not fans of time-travel stories, because time travel isn't (yet) something that can happen IRL. This doesn't mean we don't appreciate history or sci-fi; we simply believe that for now, people can't travel backward or forward. So this is probably why there aren't any people from other eras in our system.

On the other hand, shawn (16/f) is somewhat of a 1960s hippie / flower-child, although she's just as much from the present as the rest of us. Her personality and style are rooted from her fondness for that era, but she has always lived in the present.

On another other hand , Charity is often emotionally stuck in events/feelings from 10, 20, 30, and even 40 or more years ago. For her, all dimensions of time exist simultaneously on an emotional level. She says that she feels that the past, present, and future are all one and the same to her. We have differing opinions on whether it's in her best interest view it this way.

Mary, Allegra, and others

EpicChild wrote:Is anyone from (or have alter) from a different time period? I at some times feel so nostalgic and sad/alone because I'm from the mid 1900's. I feel weird to wear "modern" clothing, I don't get the slang words people use and to make it the worse I'm not even in my home country. Is anyone else not from this time period? How do you handle the changes in society? Do you try and feel or dress or perform like you do in your era? Or do you adapt to the current times?

I usually dress as I always do but I admit I attempt to make it slight less obvious by incorporating some of the modern attire. I don't like it, but I dislike to draw attention to myself in a negative perception. At some days I feel dejected and alone in that no one can understand why I am the way that I am... excepting the elderly... But I am not old, I am young but simply stuck in my time period indefinitely.

Some days I am confused due to it. Anyone else in this conundrum?

I myself despite being born in the modern period of time don't feel from it but that's a different case.

The closest thing I can think of is when me and few other diplomats were doing a global diplomatic travel thing, my P.A Sean "Caution" Murphy (It's a very long story so don't ask....or do, I'm not cop) got hit on the head by a golf ball and instead of getting back up a man I'd seen in a picture earlier also called Sean Murphy replaced him. Except he was in full sepia tone and would shake about randomly like an old camera would, spoke in a really old dialect, smoked a pipe and stayed in his golf clothes which were from the early twentieth century. The other Sean came back a few weeks later and the other Sean was never seen again.

ShawTrav wrote:I have an alter from I guess the Dark Ages. While I don't really care about Knights, Swords etc. He loves it and is fascinated by it. I would not like to live back then, but it might be nice to visit for a while. If I had protection and some sort of income for survival.

And I have an alter from some war WWI perhaps, so I love old war weapons and even own a couple. I actually used to think he was imprisoned or died while inprisoned and for some reason telepathically talked to me. It was a interesting use of my imagination when I was younger. Little did I know he was an alter.

similarly my alter in question was in WWII and served in the military, so many of his clothes are from that era. he had a wife and daughter who were killed by soviet troops during the war and sometimes becomes very depressed over it. so I can understand your situation, although there are some differences. But very relative in any sense.

Hey that is pretty interesting. Yeah I don't know much about him, he was the first to speak to me, I knew he was in a war many years ago and by his clothes I knew it had to be early 1900's. He is imprisoned because he is dirty from battle and chained up by his hands hanging there with long hair in his face. I know nothing of his life before, and have even tried to free him from his chains, but he just wont. He gives good advice and would be what singletons call their inner self helper. All I really know about him is that he sacraficed himself in getting caught. Perhaps because he felt guilty for those he had hurt, he was too good at fighting and following orders. I don't know why really.

What is the purpose of your alter?

ShawTrav wrote:Hey that is pretty interesting. Yeah I don't know much about him, he was the first to speak to me, I knew he was in a war many years ago and by his clothes I knew it had to be early 1900's. He is imprisoned because he is dirty from battle and chained up by his hands hanging there with long hair in his face. I know nothing of his life before, and have even tried to free him from his chains, but he just wont. He gives good advice and would be what singletons call their inner self helper. All I really know about him is that he sacrificed himself in getting caught. Perhaps because he felt guilty for those he had hurt, he was too good at fighting and following orders. I don't know why really.

What is the purpose of your alter?

I'm not sure. sometimes he appears during periods of emotional distress, as he seems pretty stable mentally, so I suppose a protector role could be ascribed. sometimes when the host is going through a rough or extreme emotional distress state he'll take over for "damage control".
I'm not sure what brought about his existence, as a lot of his opinions and beliefs highly differ from the host or other alters. Mine also is very rule or order-oriented. So for yours, he is still currently bound or imprisoned? Sounds similar to mine in that he remains relatively clear-minded despite less than ideal circumstances or his situation.

We have a guy Jack who has memories of how things used to be for his family and it seems to match late 19th century Kentucky. He acquired the regional dialect of a childhood friend's grandfather, who would have been born in the 19th century, and formed or adopted memories based on how the grandfather described his own childhood. His way of speaking is now somewhat archaic because that dialect has changed in the 125 years or so since that grandpa grew up in an isolated, mountainous area of Appalachia.

I've considered having Jack talk to an academic researcher on American dialects but he's still a kid and it just seems wrong.

Johnny-Jack said:
I've considered having Jack talk to an academic researcher on American dialects but he's still a kid and it just seems wrong.

Would you consider approaching a researcher yourself with Jack nearby providing input through you? So it's less of an imposition on Jack himself?

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