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Yes! I could have written your post. I have complex PTSD, but not DID, and I have the same experience regarding traumatic vs. non traumatic memories.
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I used to write letters to a friend like that, describing myself or my activities in the third person. But no, my memories are in the first person.
I was wondering if anybody else experience this. Almost all my memories are in third-person view, like I'm watching someone else. This pertains to recent and distant memories as well as traumatic and non-traumatic memories.
I do see me as a child in childhood memories, too.Interesting, in my case it is first person but it is me as a child
My first person memories all include sensory info. Which I might not have remembered, except I just sat here running randomly scattered memories in my mind from the past 3o years or so, flicking back and forth between a few hundred of them for comparisons sake... and the ones I pushed from 3rd-ish to 1st? YOWCH! That f*cking hurts! Nope. 3rd person, 3rd person was the good choice, I’m with you on that one brain. My bad. Sorry. I knew this, it’s not the first time I’ve “discovered” it, but I tend to forget it. Of course, I had to push a few dozen into 1st to really verify my findings, and every single one is awash with sensory info. Not just pain, but all 6 senses. Still memories, not flashbacks, but far more vivid/complete than I would want to automatically recall, if my mind has a better choice available. As it does. With the free-camera 3rd person view.Interesting. Personally, I was wondering if it has to do with dissociation i.e. depersonalization.
Same- i thought anyways....Almost all my memories are in third-person view, like I'm watching someone else.
But this.... not sure. Never really thought about it before. Always just assumed everyone had visual memories in third person but I guess not. Not all people have visual memories- my understanding is it's a scale between visual and (however else people recall info) mine is all visual, mostly third person. So for me i think its more just this...Personally, I was wondering if it has to do with dissociation i.e. depersonalization.
For me, I just don't recall memories from a first person perspective
Same- i thought anyways....
But this.... not sure. Never really thought about it before. Always just assumed everyone had visual memories in third person but I guess not. Not all people have visual memories- my understanding is it's a scale between visual and (however else people recall info) mine is all visual, mostly third person. So for me i think its more just this...
And since I've been thinking about it now - i think mine can switch back and forth in the same memory.
My flashbacks have also been in 3rd person I think.
My trauma memories also usually have some sensory stuff attached regardless of view point.
yeah definitely they switch between 1st and 3rd but i still think they're mostly 3rd. I've run through a bunch of non traumatic ones as i was typing all this and i would say 90% start in 3rd.
damn- this is confusing.
i think, honestly, it just has to do more with how you store and recall memories vs dissociation etc.
do you feel disconnected from your memories? non-traumatic ones as well?