DID Dreaming

I had a dream, and I think in that dream I met my personas, and it all took place in this little campy gay Market called Gay Mart in Palm Springs California.

There were eight different people in the dream that I was all interacting with and two people that I really couldn't see and the feeling that I got from each one of them was like I knew them.

We were all talking about just different things that were kind of relevant in one of them had a different personality, but it felt like my Altars. 

Have any of you ever had dreams where you think you've interacted with your Alters or met them?

Responces

"Meeting alters within dreams is extremely common as you all tend to melt away those barriers that exist during waking. Last dream I had I saw some alters in a city and they got so mortified being seen I woke up instantly."

"I used to be pretty diligent about dream journaling pre-covid, and there are a lot of dreams that show different signs of being a system or involving multiple known alters in the system and stuff when looking back over them. even one dream where a switch happened in the dream, as in one of the alters in my system, with the dream being in her self-image body rather than my IRL body, and something which was gross and triggering happened so she threw someone else to front in her body to handle it, then switched back after it was over completely blacking that part out this morning E was fronting, then had a dream that body was my IRL body, but it was very specifically stated A was fronting in it as part of the course of the dream. then after E woke up, she was kinda worried if she should consider if she actually switched with A and A was fronting instead of her at that point."

"The404System does a lot of work in the dreams. The internal helper showed an apocalyptic dream recently just to remind me that the best food is whatever we can and will eat.

A previously dormant previous host show does some EMDR type stuff in the dreams, reminding everyone that our abuser may have been scary, but now they're a dopey failed muthafu**er who literally can't touch us.

We get a lot out of dreams, but remember dreams are your subconscious processing information. The information is information, it hasn't necessarily been fact checked etc, so working on communication while awake has been the saving grace for us. Dreams are confusing, its much easier when a part can tell you why that dream happened."

"I miss being a part of my dreams. 😭 I used to have really vivid dreams, and I'm sure my alters were the ones there with me, but I haven't gotten to see/remember dreams in a long time. It's probably a decade or more. I just thought I was always too tired to remember them, but truly, i think bc the version of me then was so distant from the past versions that they(I? We?) Were cut off from remembering dreams. I assume we still have them. We just don't retain anything when I wake up.

Tbh my dream memories are more clear to me than my actual lived experiences memory 🙃 even tho it's been so long. I'm nearly sure my "inner world" was built during dreams."

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