A Comic about DID - Part 9 [OC]

[u/snuffypuff]

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[u/grayblood0]

If you personality "A" goes to sleep but who wakes up is personality "B" and they are the entire day, next day or after that one you personality "A" wake up, you notice that 1 or 2 days have passed?

Or not that heavy time skip but just maybe an hour or two?

[u/fullmetaljar → u/grayblood0]

Not OP but had a friend with the disorder, and she would routinely check the time and date when she woke up because she didn't know if someone else took over while she was asleep. Both of the "main" personalities admitted it's the hardest part for them because they both would go to sleep expecting rest but the other might take over and want to live for a time.

Sometimes they'd just stay up an hour or so but they both knew they needed rest. I admit that it would be difficult to imagine being asleep for days or feeling like you have to share a body and take turns. It's extremely hard to sympathize to so she always had grace when it came to missing something because she was exhausted.

[u/Artistic-Golf-9493 → u/grayblood0]

Not OP, but if you’ve ever experienced “highway hypnosis” it’s often a lot like that for us. Sometimes it feels like coming out of that, like realizing that you’ve just driven the last few miles on autopilot and now you’re back aware of the situation; and sometimes it’s looking around and realizing it’s a completely different month or year than you thought it should be. Occasionally it feels like a clean handoff of “okay, I was able to ‘hear’ your last few thoughts before you switched out so I know how to continue with what we’re doing”

For a lot of people with DID, there tends to be a spectrum of how strong/severe switches are.

[u/Snowman640 → u/Artistic-Golf-9493]

That's a really good description for someone like me who doesn't have DID but is fascinated by it and would like to know more - cuz I have experienced scary lapses in memory from long drives and that freaky dissociation feeling that happens from it. It's only a crumb of what you experience but it's still a nice crumb to empathize with. Thanks for sharing!