I really do talk to Martha a lot. I have no idea who she is or why she is in my head, or why she is able to fucking respond to me and converse with me.
But, yeah the rest. I only can communicate with Eifel if i[m like deathly ill, that’s the only time she’s around.
Christopher is in darkness... Martha showed me him but, he doesn’t say anything he’s just always asleep. Dormant. Not sure what he has to do with anything but.
All three of these are related to childhood stories that i heard growing up, so it makes sense. My sister used to tell me about a woman with dark hair named “moaning Martha” who lived in our bath tub. Saying she had died in the house. I guess, maybe in order to conquer my fear of this imaginary horror story she told me to freak me out, i would have conversations with her when I was in the bath alone, to feel less scared and. Now she’s always around, if I’m scared. Like, I can talk to her.
Eifel, I realized, comes from a blanket i had as a child that had lots of fairies on it. I also had a book about fairies as a child, and watched a movie about fairies as a child so. It probably came from a combination of those things. I would dive off into fantasy lands at a very young age, with these “fairies” I don[t remember why, when, or what I imagined but, I do remember little glimpses of like, sitting on a bed and looking at the book and just like, imagining this whole world of fairies. Normal kid imagination stuff you know... playing. In my head. I think it was an escape. And i remember like, being really sad one time because i was really sick, and laying on the floor crying. And i saw the fairies on my blanket and started like, imagining them as real talking fairies that were 3D. And I guess it comforted or distracted me as a child from, how ill i was feeling and sad or worried about it i was?
(I got sick a lot as a child like, deathly ill multiple times... that in itself was kind of traumatic. I lost the use of my legs at one point and didn’t know if i would get it back for a prolonged period of time. I was also told once I had 24 hours to live. There were times i was so ill I was wavering in and out of consciousness or covered head to toe in rashes, or times i passed out in a pile of my own vomit and was hospitalized (which i blacked out the memory of) and also typical shivering head to toe from high fevers and such.)
Christopher comes from a story i heard when i was really young, and he is the, visualization of, the sleeping man from a children’s rhyme or story song thing about the guy who sleeps and snores during the rain and then bumps his head. I have no fucking idea what that ones about but, i do recognize that he most definitely *is* the sleeping man i imagined when we sang that song, as a child.
My aunt taught me this song and told me to sing it when i was scared of the rain and alone, because for some reason I was living with her (i was too young to know why) and, she left me there alone in her apartment. I don’t remember the details of everything that happened but. I remember there was this man asleep in the bed... yeahhhhh I don’t wanna talk about that anymore but. You get the picture, what happened there.
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Anyways, the rest that i described have only like “fronted” during very high stress situations. Like I have to be pushed to my limit, beyond what I can handle, and then.... yeah. It happens. I *will* be talking in a different accent. It will freak people out. And I’ll be acting very, bizarre. Not like myself. All of them are usually very angry when they are fronting because, whatever triggered it out.... was uh.... intensely emotional or like, an “emotional button” was pressed. It’s not like they just come out to have tea and a chat. They came out to protect me, and bark at someone who is, crossing a line.
And then after they do their thing and the threat like, is no longer present and everything is calm, i will just drop like instantly. Like if I’m standing I will literally sit physically on the ground, or even retreat to a corner, or a nearby bathroom. And I just like, put my head up against a wall or in my lap, because it can be kind of overwhelming the whole dissociation process “switching out” it’s not, easy. It’s like someone is flushing my head. Like a whirlpool is opened up and draining everything. I dunno, it’s really, you dont’ feel well when it’s happening like, you feel very sick, disoriented dizzy. Sometimes, quite panicked. The feeling of dissociation and detachment, derealization, etc it is all coming on too strongly and it hits you too hard and it just, is panic inducing because it’s so much it just, feels terrifying.
It is *not* a pleasant thing. But yes, it has happened. And then, yeah, I usually completely pass out. After having some overt, like over the top display of emotion as some weird whimsical, like, SOMEONE ELSE. Entirely. And then when i wake up I’m calm and baseline. Me. Normal. Boring me. And I’m like what the fuck just happened. And i feel *reallllllllly tired* like.
But yeah this happened in the car once which was an interesting experience (someone else was driving don’t worry). Because, I thought I could resist the passing out thing like, i thought maybe i was deciding to do it because i was tired, but- no, i actually can’t. Is what I’ve found out. I was trying to stay awake but i started trailing off while i was talking and just like, passed out sitting up. After one of this crazy explosions of someone else fronting for a minute. And yeah, like the dissociation set in to a point iw as so confused i couldn’t like, see properly. Everything was just really distorted feeling and craaaazy mashed up. And yeah i trailed off in my sentence like i started sounding drunk is what my mom said and she said, ‘are you ok?” And i was like... wha-... wha.. whats..hope..i dont know...” and like fell asleep sitting up. My chin just like dipped into my chest and i was out like a light.
When i woke up i was like uhhhhh sorry about that. I dont know, what’s wrong with me. An they’re like “its ok... youi can just rest if u want.” And I’m like “yeah I’m really tired” lol and we haven’t talked about it since but.
There’ve been other instances of it. It’s pretty rare because it does have to be set off. But yeah....
Like, times where there is a complete amnesia barrier, and I can’t remember what happened because I’m not co-con aka, not witnessing whatever is happening consciously. Um.... it may, happen more than I know, obviously because, this is like... amnesia but. I truly have no idea the extent to which it takes hold in my life. How would i.
But, I do know once i was writing on my laptop, just like now. Sitting in front of it typing, and i was like, journaling about time i spent in Mexico, and the whole ‘rape’ thing came up in my mind and.... boom. Gone. Lol, out like a light. I have absolutely no idea what happened. I just remember getting really tired and sick and dizzy feeling, as i was typing and then like, i put my forehead down. I thought i fell asleep. But, it turns out during this time, i had a conversation with my mom apparently. What else did i do, i don’t know. But, yeah, i talked to my mom... agreed to make plans with her for later in the evening. The only reason i know about this is because later on, when i came to. I was staring out the window and it was now dark all the sudden and was like woah, what time is it. And i looked at my clock and i was like what? 6 hours went by? Wtf? And then i hear my mom coming toward me- she came in the door so, that must of been what “woke me up” or “snapped me out of it?” And she was like, ‘hey u ready to do that thing we planned on doing” and I’m like what thing lol and shes like\... basically reminding me of the conversation we had like 30 minutes ago or something and I’m like oh god.... i have zero recollection of that. Weird. And shes like well do u still wanna go and I’m like.... not really I’m like *super* tired. I was too tired to go anywhere, as i usually am after some sort of significant bout of dissociation, and.... i was really confused. Because i thought i had written several pages. In my mind i had. But when i “came to” the pages were literally BLANK. And then i laid down and went to sleep lol cuz i was too tired to like, be conscious anymore lol
that’s usually how that goes.
But yeah, it’s very rare That things are like, that severe? Or there is complete amnesia barriers or “no time has passed but actually tons of it has in the blink of an eye wtf” moments.
It did happen once at work as well recently, in the months i spent working there. I have no idea why this time, where as the other times i can recall dissociating i remember why and what triggered it and it makes sense. In this case, i have no idea, i dont remember whatever it was that triggered it but I completely blanked out, standing at the cash register, staring out the window. When customers were trying to order from me. It felt like the blink of an eye but it was long enough for.... the line, behind the customer in front of me to grow longer all the sudden and, for the person in front