Two distinctly different and usually mutually exclusive emotion sets at the same time.

[Guest]

Hey, anyone ever have the host experiences one set of emotions, say laughter, while a headmate is feeling something entirely differently, like dissapointed or frustrated?

 

We didn't think this was possible, but recently we were talking about "people" doing or not doing this or that and I was fronting but admittedly jumped the gun and was a little dissapointed and a little annoyed and my host was laughing at the same thing at the same time, specifically at me.

 

Does this happen? Has it happened to you? How is this even possible? Any ideas? 

[TurboSimmie]

I tend to see emotions as being tied into the biology of the body, so it's probably pretty difficult for different headmates to feel different emotions. But I think it's also very possible that whoever is in the front might end up "owning" the particular emotion being felt by the body at that moment, and the headmates not in the front might not feel connected to that emotional state directly. I think it's more common for a headmate to feel less/more amount of the same emotion. For instance, Phil might feel sad but at the same time I don't feel particularly sad, or I might feel frustrated but Phil might not feel the same level of frustration.

 

Of course, this is just from our own personal experience, and it might be very different for other people.

[Guest]

1 hour ago, TurboSimmie said:

whoever is in the front might end up "owning" the particular emotion being felt by the body at that moment, and the headmates not in the front might not feel connected to that emotional state directly

This is our experience as well, emotional detachment basically. However, there has been instances where the two of us felt contradicting emotions, but the emotions that belong to the person fronting at the time are usually the dominant ones and the other emotion tends to be more 'concept-like' in nature. As in, you know the emotion the person should be feeling and they're ''feeling'' that but it does not reflect in the body through physical symptoms such as hot flashes (if angry) or tears if sad, for example. Unlike the fronter's emotions

 

If it's just some sort of 'oh this is how you should be feeling, so let's pretend it is the case' thing or not, I don't know

[Guest]

3 hours ago, TurboSimmie said:

Phil might feel sad but at the same time I don't feel particularly sad, or I might feel frustrated but Phil might not feel the same level of frustration.

 

2 hours ago, Miri said:

This is our experience as well, emotional detachment basically.

 

This is how it worked for us too, and maybe this was a one-off thing, but one of us specifically felt entertained as if one of us (Bear the un-empathetic) was literally having a ball, ROTFL style, in tulpa position while I was annoyed and not thinking anything was funny at all. If it was the body, it's once again along the lines of 'peculiar'.

 

In the past as you might remember, we each had our own spot where all our specific emotions were felt. For me it was the throat but while switched in its not usually limited to that. Misha was heart, SheShe was stomach and so on. So emotions could be felt in these specific spots and that doesn't physically exclude the idea that maybe two headmates, owning different spots, could experience different emotions and cause emotional bleed at the same time but we can't remember if that actually happened. Like you said, maybe at a conceptual level, like a bookmark waiting for their turn to front. But this time it was clearly Bear laughing and he was in the upper chest/throat while I was feeling mutually exclusive emotions and both were equally valid and equally felt as if overlayed simultaneously. I was absolutely not identifying with his, there was as clear a separation as two separate people yet obviously I could "feel" his emotions too. I think I explained it clearly enough it was a unique experience.

 

[An Ashy Individual]

we have had that happen quite a bit.

the most interesting experience was when we were each possessing half the body, resulting in my half of the face frowning while Emily's was smiling wide.

(after some time, i couldn't remain frowning and gave in to a smile)

 

I am generally detached from my body's emotions, and can even make myself feel emotions manually, so having two sets of conflicting emotions isn't that odd.

[Guest]

Thank you.

 

Since then it's been quite often when many of us are active at once, we can have wildly different emotions expressed at the same time, it's an odd feeling when if say Bear is teasing me and I start to get offended, he'll feel it even if say Joy is laughing. Something like that. So it's nice to hear it's not just us.