A Comic about DID - Part 9 [OC]

[u/snuffypuff]

If you want to help playtest this mod, join our Discord! It features the creation of different "profiles" on one account which each have their individual skin, location, inventory, and their own keep inventory toggle.

You can download this without joining the Discord here, but keep in mind it's still in early beta so there will probably be bugs. The keybind for the alter menu is 'K' by default.

[u/AlphonseCoco]

If someone has asked this already, I'll look for the comment, but how does sleep work? I'm assuming biology functions as normal, so the brain needs downtime for maintenance. Does switching interfere or coincide with rest periods?

[u/Artistic-Golf-9493 → u/AlphonseCoco]

Some of our own personal anecdotes to add:

We tend to switch multiple times a day, and that doesn’t tend to stop when we’re asleep either. Sometimes one of us will wake up for hours and another alter won’t even know until looking at our watch’s sleep tracking (usually after wondering why they feel so tired). Some of us prefer different sleep schedules and we almost never wake up as the same alter that went to sleep.

Because DID is basically just an extreme form of PTSD (developed in early childhood), it can come with severe and/or repeating nightmares or other serious sleep issues as well.