co-consciousness - a questionnaire

1. Are you co-conscious with your alters when they are out front? Some or all? How fully co-conscious?
Co at times with all that I have met. I have time loss often with the same ones I can be co-con with.

2. Are your alters co-conscious with you when you're out front? Some or all? All so far that I have met can come when called and we can discuss things.

3. What percentage of time are you out or co-conscious with others? If I am out, I am never alone that I notice.

4. Was there a time in your life when you lost time and had no co-consciousness? Almost daily. I have also only been host for about a year and half and only existed a short time before that. I exist only to have come home and take care of my kids. Fixing DID is part of doing what is best for my kids.

5. Do you have any idea what led to the co-consciousness? Yes. Long Story
http://dx-dissociative-identity-disorde ... d-did.html

6. With a specific alter, are you sometimes co-conscious but other times lose time to them? Yes.

7. Do you have any suggestions for others on how to become co-conscious with alters? Accept them, don't judge, never get mad and love them.

8. Was there any relationship for you between hearing voices and co-consciousness with alters? No

9. Do you use co-consciousness to communicate with your alters? yes

katana wrote:brandic wrote:
I myself cannot add much to this, since I'm now under the understanding and belief that I do not have alters, but I just wanted to say, what a great idea for a thread! And really good questions. I look forward to reading peoples' responses.


If its not too personal a question, what led you to figure that out?

Katana, since I didn't want to take over the thread with my (very) long answer, I decided to start a new thread for people who are interested in hearing about my journey to figuring out I'm not DID. Here is the link:

dissociative-identity/topic76190.html

1. Are you co-conscious with your alters when they are out front? Some or all? How fully co-conscious?

I guess so, but I don't know really how fully. They aren't out front a lot. With X, who surfaces forcefully and suddenly, I'm sometimes there as a watcher, he's in lead for a moment, and then I'm immediately back in control trying to make amends.

2. Are your alters co-conscious with you when you're out front? Some or all?

I guess they are more aware of me than I'm of them. I don't know how much they watch me, or if they just sleep while I don't sense them around. What I described in the previous answer usually leads to co-consciousness with someone who is timid and gives me creepy feelings. It's difficult to tell more about it at the moment.

3. What percentage of time are you out or co-conscious with others?

I have no idea. My guess is less 5% so that I'm fully aware of them, and 30 - 70 % they're influencing me so that I don't notice, or notice only slowly or afterwards.

4. Was there a time in your life when you lost time and had no co-consciousness?

Yes. There are two episodes that I've been told about. One when I was six and another when I was 14 or 15. Then one occasion when I was 15, I had been drinking and losing time early in the evening due to intoxication (or, as I like to think nowadays, intoxication lowered my usual treshold to switch since I've been told I was behaving like multiple persons that evening and on some other occasions when I also lost time). But later that night when I was feeling already sobered up, I lost an hour with a friend who I didn't usually hang out with. At one moment I was eating fish (:lol:) with him in our house, and the next we were several kilometres from our town on a highway, hitch-hiking in perfect darkness and I was like WTF we are doing here, and he said it had been my idea.

The fact that I don't remember a lot of the things that other people remember, I've forgotten some people entirely and that all my life people have 'accused' me of doing or saying things I haven't done or said probably speaks for episodes of amnesia.
It also happens in small scale. Like yesterday when I was cooking I noticed that R was probably briefly there for several times and made independent decisions regarding the stove. Whenever he wants to cook with me I have to be extra careful.

5. Do you have any idea what led to the co-consciousness?

I have some idea and I've told about it extensively elsewhere.

6. With a specific alter, are you sometimes co-conscious but other times lose time to them?

R for sure.

7. Do you have any suggestions for others on how to become co-conscious with alters?

No.

8. Was there any relationship for you between hearing voices and co-consciousness with alters?

Not that I know of. I don't mostly hear voices when we're co-conscious, I feel their feelings and it's more like telepathy and being inside the same skin.

9. Do you use co-consciousness to communicate with your alters?

Yes.

10. Anything you'd like to add?

Not right now.