Hello again! I was just wondering if your headmates have their own dreams when the physical body is asleep!! Like can one headmate be dreaming only to switch to another?? (I’ve personally had this happen more recently and I’ve had it happen several times before, but sometimes I’m not 100% sure if it was pure switching or if I was dreaming and then dream me just started acting like a headmate/ declaring that they weren’t the host.) Thank you so much!! -Jess
Hey again Jess!
This is an interesting topic, and I’m willing to bet you’ll get a different answer with not only each system you ask, but likely each headmate. When Cobalt was main front, she would have likely answered that dreaming didn’t seem to be affected. At the time, she would have believed it, and that was her experience. Not sure if she would still say this, since I haven’t checked in with her in a bit. Maybe I can talk her into responding to you as well!
What I can tell you now that I’m main front, is even when Cobalt was in front when falling asleep and ended up dreaming, each of us have had our own dreams and such as well that she apparently was not aware of. There’s a group of us that seem to dream together, and the others seem to dream by themselves. My dream group consists of myself, Ruby, Lav, and sometimes Meadow. We have at least two external people we often see on the dream side of things as well, so that place is a bit weird to begin with.
On a you-didn’t-ask-but-i’ll-share-since-it’s-on-topic note, my partner system has noticed quite a bit about us when we’re sleeping. One major thing to note is that our body temperature changes dramatically while we are sleeping, and it has ended up following a pattern of who was in front. Cobalt, Meadow, and possibly Cerulean are furnaces in the night, while Ruby is much cooler to the touch if they’re sleeping. Meadow also tends to sleep on her stomach and take up the entire bed if allowed. There are at least two people who snore, but most of us don’t, and at least one person has a habit of sleeping with our mouth open so when we wake up, our mouth is all dry. We also don’t always end up staying in front when we sleep. We flip all around from person to person some nights, and other nights I’ll stay locked in place.
I ended up started in on another tangent, but I’ve realized I’m answering a different question, so I’ll leave that to its own post. 🐝
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