Our system keeps running into situations where an alter will all of a sudden know/have access to information/topics/skills etc that they can’t explain how or when they learned this.

To make things more bizarre at least 1/3 of the knowledge is in area/topic an alter would not have much interest in, or certainly not enough to have the depth of knowledge involved.

The access to this type of information is often intermittent. Most times, at least during the initial access, we just kinda stumble into it through a conversation or whatever is going on. One weird thing is that trying to get access to that information again is intermittently successful at best. Like knowing where the book is in a library, knowing what the book cover looks likes, and yet when the book is opened it’s just blank page after blank page.

When an alter stumbles upon something like this it feels like a Neo moment from the Matrix “I know Kung Fu”!...and then- I don’t.

I will say that for each of us the experience seems very similar in that there are no autobiographical details or clues as to when it was learned and by whom, it’s just a data download. Sometimes we’ll figure out where it came from through that “pushing images” method of communication and it seems like for almost everything, the information can be linked to a known alter, which is pretty much everyone at some point or another.

What’s driving us up the walls is the inconsistency of access to the information, not being able to share or keep ot know it exists in the first place.

Lately it’s been more difficult/frustrating to not waste time (that we are aware of) relearning the same info another has learned, or on the other side of the coin thinking we don’t need to spend time knowing about this or that because we already got the neo download.. only to find out, say, at an exam that all I have is blank pages.

It’s quite possible we are now only becoming aware that we’ve been relearning stuff for the same brain over and over, as communication in general is fairly new.

Or it could be something non OSDD related that we all just happen to be experiencing.

So, the question is, does anyone else experience this? Is there a label or term that can be used as a shorthand or correctly?

Any tips if so?

On a side note- this seems to point to at least periods of complete, rather than partial Amnesia so maybe this could point towards DID rather than OSDD-1B?