#system map

[system-of-a-feather]

Alternative System Mind Mapping Method for Communication

[DISCLAIMER: This is not a professional or scientifically or anything really backed method, this is something coming solely from peer / personal experience.]

In regards to an anon ask earlier, I was thinking about it and one of the ways we've approached improving communication - particularly internal - in a way that is a lot less prone to flooding or dealing with trauma or anything too overwhelming - is by approaching it following the concept of Memory Webs

I haven't read up on them recently, but "Memory Webs" were a thing that our AP Psychology teacher in highschool made us do because the AP Psych test was term / jargon heavy. Memory in the human brain has been shown to be HEAVILY associative and the ability to remember and connect things tends to rely on following a "web" of connected topics, ideas, concepts etc from one idea to the next.

So in our AP Psych class, she gave us these GIANT books for Vocabulary Webs that we had to slowly work on, each of which required 6 other vocab words / related concepts, a summarized definition, and an image to represent it. By doing this, you added 6 cues to recall the word (increasing the chance you'd remember it), a visual cue, an episodic memory of working on it, and a definition - all in all improving how connected the word is to other concepts in your brain and making it easier to recall it.

I personally like to look at DID and our parts in a similar manner sometimes where the large issue is that a lot of the nodes in the web of associations are either disconnected or connected through a hard-to-find and/or small chain. In that sense, parts struggle to be held together because they are not associated concepts. It's hard to reach other parts because the dissociative walls (which in our unsubstantiated opinion is less a 'wall' and more so a lack of reinforced neural connections, so I would call them dissociative caverns) keep associations from forming

As a result, alternative to more traditional ways of mapping your system and parts, a method I've liked to internally visualize systems and navigating system dynamics is through a memory web manner. (I actually have never done it physically cause the Ray part of my brain - also the most prominent part writing this rn - rarely liked to front if he didn't have to and did a lot of stuff internally)

Here's a bit of a breakdown using six of our parts if any of you want to try it out.

We personally like it because it strips a lot of trauma and stress off of it and makes it a lot more of a positive and present engaging activity. For the purposes of this, I'll be using the free online app of Milanote cause we've used it before for OC associative webs and I think it'll do fine enough. (Honestly it actually might just be a good way to log alter information now that I'm looking at it if you are at a place in recovery where keeping track of that physically helpful)

So we can start by dropping down the parts we want to include in the form of boards

So from here, we have a bunch of disconnected parts. However, we find that a lot of these parts have things that mean a lot to them, that illicit a strong emotion or reaction from them.

Some parts may lack it more than others (often in our case trauma holders and/or trauma locked parts) and that's okay and to be expected. This is a visualization method and if there isn't much connecting a part that is 100% okay.

For demonstration sake, I will now add bubbles around each part of things that were pretty early apparent that each individual liked.

Also for the purposes of how I know our system works and how I plan to do this, I am actually moving Riku to the center and you will all see why Riku is such an S tier center point with this model

So you can see some connections forming.

Some key things you can take from this visual that also applied to earlier stags of how we connected

Lucille and Riku are and have always been pretty darn connected, they go back as one of the longest duos and were split almost as a pair to deal with academics

Chunn and Ray have a very shared interest of "I don't want to do anything leave me alone"

XIV literally was just a piece of shit early on and didn't have any immediate HARD connections with anyone largely because he never was interested in actually engaging in things he liked in a positive way as his "favorite emotion" at the time was "being pissed off"

Lin - an originally trauma stuck / loop - is very very poorly associated with anything that isn't overtly trauma related (and that is saying something cause Vocaloid is trauma related) and thus has very few connections to other parts

So looking at this though, there are a few things that have some similarities between parts. What you can do is make plans to try to foster the interests that you do have and try to generalize it a bit more to also encompass what interests other parts have. So lets engage in hobbies a little more - explore a few concepts that mean a lot to parts independently - and find some more generalized version of those hobbies

(forgot to add easy listening to Ray's and "only wearing monochrome*" to XIV's earlier) (*there are a lot of nuances and caveats)

Damn, look at that. It's messy and ugly to have in a 2D form. I absolutely hate it, this would be so impossible with our whole system. But HEY, it's very connected - and that's the goal.

Compared to the previous one, you can see how easily it can be for one part's interests to start to drift into another. Because they are largely and strongly associated features to each part, they are a lot more accessible when engaging in their shared / associated connections and interests which makes it easier for the them to stay together near the front, stay associated with one another, and work with and communicate with one another.

Of course anyone following this blog goes "Where tf is Birds" and that I left out because it would ruin the point of the web as it actually is one of our traditional "you are around the system a lot? okay pick a bird" which serves to 1) be a fun system culture thing 2) be a means of welcoming a part in and 3) helps establish a foundational connection; we do the same with music but with music its a lot more elaborate and I probably wont explain it for other reasons.

But overtime, by fostering interests that were already present and encouraging parts to broaden and generalize their specific interest a bit, you end up with a lot of overlapping associations that can greatly improve internal communication, co-fronting ability, and just general fluidity and easy of moving around the brain web.

It becomes a good way of trying to figure out what you can do to encourage and help build connections and associations between parts by seeing where things are similar / could have more overlap (combat and martial arts, different types of fashion, different types of music, different appreciation for arts, taking over the world, yada yada yada)

And you wanna know the coolest thing? When you step back from the whole web you can see certain things appear that stand out the most and have some of the most connections.

If you ever intend to go to Final Fusion, those are the things that will likely be the most prominent traits of your whole self

For us? [REDACTED BIRDS for the point of the demonstration], Music, Fashion, Taking over the World, Recovery and Healing, Buddhism, Martial Arts, Arts in general - they're all some of our largest traits that persist in almost all forms as individual parts, partially fused parts, and fully fused parts.

And the BEST part? Doing this didn't require us to touch trauma at all.

Of course in recovery that will come up cause PTSD doesn't ask permission, but its a very low stress way to help improve internal communication and engagement with one another.

#actuallydid #dissociative identity disorder #resources #advice #internal communication #integration #feather's unsubstantiated theraputic tools #unsubstantiated advice #alter: fei #final fusion #functional multiplicity #wishiwashi recovery #system mapping #system map #mind mapping #mindmap #recovery #healing #alter: ray #<- heavily authored by that part of this brain #system dynamics

[stone-cold-groove]

American Airlines system map - 1939.

#airports #vintage illustration #vintage aircraft #aircraft #commercial aircraft #civilian aircraft #airplanes #vintage airplanes #passenger planes #airlines #airliners #american airlines #airline route maps #vintage maps #route maps #system map

[pluralprompts]

Prompt #405

System A has decided to sit down and map out their system! But as they work on their system map, they notice that there seem to be a lot more headmates listed than they thought were in their system. As in, enough that System A is confused as to where all these headmates are coming from. Sure, they expected to hear of a few more headmates than they already knew about, but this...?

This looks like a whole sidesystem.

#pluralgang #plural system #plurality #pluralprompt #prompt blog #prompt #system map #large system

[our-inspire-verse]

Made a new system map! It may not fully make sense, plus it was kinda hard to format and make it look nice, but this is pretty close to accurate!

#innerworld visuals #system babbles #osdd #actually osdd #plural #system map #system stuff #system mapping #actually multiple #actually plural #plural positivity #plural posting #mind mapping #chart #graph #informative #system list #bro its literally a solar system with gravity everyone affects each other #science #psychology #update

[the-rest-is-silenc3]

Systems/Plurals

#system #plural #fizzy plural #fizzy polls #pluralgang #plural system #plurality #multiplicity #multiple system #median system #pluralkit #tupperbox #twinote #lighthouse #did osdd #osddid #system mapping #system map #system documentation #plural poll #plural polls #system poll #system polls

[sundropglass]

hey look its a system map \o/ 

#pls dont reblog #system map #personal diary #dissociative stuff #yes i did make this bc chime did and i thought it was sooo sneat and wanted to share bunny lore w them #chime said the first system looks like the wheel thing in howls moving castle and it just clicked something in my head #like yes I did base a lot of my inner on the howls moving castle movie huh #the first system is made up of mostly clearly defined parts #but the bunny dosy and mr h clusters are all subsystemy stuff #and then the second one is just the tip of the iceberg i feel

[man-worm]

Huge shout out to my friend Olive for making the system map for my coming narrative crusade! The Scylla System looks great, with my favourite celestial body being New Gork City.

#40k #narrative crusade #system map #orks #dark krakens #word bearers #gene stealers #New Gork City! #I’m Krump’n ‘ere #warhammer 40k #warhammer

[systemserendipity]

We made a system map! Kinda lol~ it's a portion of it anyway, enjoy map-makers and system architects alike lol

#system map #system introduction #system intro #map #pro endo #mixed origin system #endo friendly #neurodivergent #endo pride #didosdd #endogenic safe space #neurodivergent pride

[unwelcome-ozian]

could someone be programmed with alters based off of biblical characters? for example, the kings david and solomon, their sons, their wives, etc, and other key biblical figures like moses, abraham and sarah, etc? how would this work, without a map of the inner world? i'm trying to figure out my system. i think i may have spiritual programming. thank you!

Yes, spiritual programming can use biblical characters.

The map of the inner world is for the programmers to identify where parts are and the structure of the internal landscape.

There are many systems that don’t know the landscape and mapping of their innerworld. This keeps parts in their area.

Oz

#answers to questions #spiritual programming #internal worlds #system map

[brainslostposts]

🌊⚡☄🔥🌌✳💤🐾🖤🌙🌠❄🍥🍃🍂

#+🍂🌙 #system map

[critterbitter]

Tis the season on Twist Mountain! Elesa, from Sinnoh, happily tromps around in the cold. Emmet remains undefeated champion of snowball fights. Ingo shivers his way across the clearing.

Look at em go!

Masterpost for more pokemon!

#unova has a rotating weather system and i love it #when its winter snow blankets certain routes. freezes puddles and changes the map. #and sinnoh’s snowy year round #idk i think elesa would like the snow #emmet thrives year round he’s a hardy lil fellow #ingo does best during summer like some sort of helioptile soaking up the suns eays #pokemon #sketchbook #art #submas #nimbasa trio #myart #fanart #pokemon ingo #submas comic #pokemon emmet #pokemon elesa #twist mountain #litwick #dwebble #tynamo #blitzle #vanillite #vanilluxe #cubchoo #cryogonal #durant #zangoose #sentret

[system-of-a-feather]

Thank you for making that post on how you do system mapping. I've wanted to do it for a long time, but trying to sift through and identify things about specific alters, and even just trying to identify connections was really intimidating and perplexing. The way you do it seems really good, and extremely viable to try.

Yeah we've had a lot of struggle with it a lot in the past - especially when I (Riku) have done it cause trying to focus on what alters are subjectively "closer" and what their role in trauma is and their role in the system and their unique specific relationship with certain parts and and and and and and (etc) just is a lot of information to try to map and web at once.

These days I've largely given up and went "Ill trust the gatekeepers and parts who are paid a higher wage than me (/joking) to keep track of it" which like... when we were writing that we were in a fully fused state which like.... means I got to internally "see" what they see when they look at the system and I was just like HOLY SHIT THIS IS GOOD.

From what I can tell / assume from my little time seeing how Ray looks at the system I think there are different visualization types for the system that he kind of operates with depending on what aspect of system dynamics he's working with and that one is specifically made to focus on connectivity of parts and increasing communication / bridging parts to one another.

It's kinda funny cause in a way Ray like, doesn't really operate any of these in an actually psychologically informed way, cause he just kinda created these webs cause he's just stupid hyper organized like that and **really** likes system team management (like hes usually apathetic about most things, but he has a few things he very strongly yet quietly finds himself deeply engaged in- actually why am I explaining how Ray has a special interest and is autistic when we all are like this in our own way Ill just up now) so its just how he visualizes the system when making decisions and plans for parts. He doesn't really intentionally think about how psychology works or anything and he just organizes what he sees in ways like that

And so when were a fused whole, I'm like thinking about psychology and hypotheticals and theoreticals and a lot of stuff that takes theory and expands it and so I see that shit and I'm like "OHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHH RAY YOU GENIUS THIS ACTUALLY ECHOS THIS AND THAT THEORY AND CONCEPT OF HOW MEMORY AND THIS AND THAT AND THIS AND THAT YOU ARE SO BIG BRAIN SLDFJLADF" and hes just like ".... why did we settle in a fused state and why did I let you see my HUD (/hj)"

..... unironically me being hype about this awareness lowkey I think made our fully fused state fall apart (partially also due to time cause its been a couple weeks) but XD Fair and WORTH.

(Ray rarely uses this blog unless he is actively peaked on a topic or In A Mood to Ramble, but he's.... for a lack of words to describe him and cause we've had it as an inside joke, Dr. Strange vibes and so its very fun and easy to mildly annoy him)

#alter: riku #alter: ray #alter: fei #gatekeeper stuff #gatekeeper #system mapping #system map #ask #asks #fusion fuckery #wishiwashi recovery

[teamunee]

bingmaid

#the system has a gift for sqq #maidhe has been on the mind #luo binghe #mxtx svsss #svsss #luo bingmei #scum villains self saving system #tested a few drawing techniques! #this is gradient mapping with my regular round brush #bc it gives him a rounder cuter vibe

[pvrrhadve]

i love you libraries i love you overdrive i love you libby i love you free and accessible audiobooks i love you listening to books at 2x speed for $0 while walking around in circles or cleaning or creating scrumptious little handicrafts

#furthermore i love you library systems that have huge digital libraries AND offer free digital cards to anyone with #a Completely Genuine residential address in that city which you Definitely Did Not just choose at random off google maps #also i love you myanonamouse ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[our-inspire-verse]

Dm and ask to Add me on Simply Plural! I literally just spent 3 hours adding and filling out different members.

#system babbles #system journal #system art #system stuff #system map #simply plural #osdd

[mapsontheweb]

Legal system in Germany before the unification of civil law, 1895.

#maps #legal system #1895 #germany