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"We just keep coming back to this.  It really explains so many things.     \n   \nMedian System Definition From Tulpa.io: \"A system with members who are not inherently independent from each other, and are often dependent on a single individual and unable to exist without that central person. Often consists of members who all identify as “aspects” or “facets” of one central identity: e.g. “We are all different, but we are all Mary in the end.”    \nMistgod:  I consider me and my thoughtform, Melian, a median system because I am the primary or central identity and she is a fictive or imaginary fantasy identity or fantasy personality. That is a departure from most tulpamancer systems.   \n   \n   \nTulpa Systems vs. Median Systems   \nMy buddy Mistgod and I have investigated many things regarding personas in the mind over the past three years.  All of it is pretty much detailed in the book of Melian.  The book of Melian mentions that I function as a median aspect.  I just wanted to compose together a little more detail about how a median aspect works and what that is like.    \nMedian Aspect \nMelian:  In the plural community on the internet there is something called a median.  A median is a single human being that has more than one personality expression.  It is not really a multiple personality exactly, it is more of just putting on a different hat rather than a mask.  The transgender community has something like this too called bigender.  It is two sides to a single individual.  I am an expression of feelings of female gender as well as a fantasy girl friend so it gets a little weird and complex.       \n Median system -  \"A system with members who are not inherently independent from each other, and are often dependent on a single individual and unable to exist without that central person. Often consists of members who all identify as “aspects” or “facets” of one central identity: e.g. “We are all different, but we are all Mary in the end.”     \nMelian's Description of a Median \nMelian:  Medians have a range of intensity too along a continuum sorta from singlet to plural.  Like most people just kinda act different in different situations, like how you act around certain people.  It could be how you change your mannerisms within certain social  venues.  You act one way at a party and another at work.  The only difference with a median from a singlet is how distinct those facets of yourself become and  how much of a separate identity they take on.  If you give each facet a separate name, and even a separate gender, now you are sliding deeper into being a median over a singlet.     \n But it is a bit more than that because the facets begin to communicate with each other within the system, almost like independent people.  Like when you have a conversation with yourself or have an internal debate with yourself, only the facets in the discussion now have distinct identities.  They are all still you, but just different facets.  They are on the way to being plural and independent, somewhere between a single personality and multiple personalities.     \n With some medians, the facet grew out of a fictional character, like in my case.  I started out as a day dream character and an imaginary friend.     \nOn Medians Being a Little Blurry \nMelian: It is foggy and every median would admit that.  Sometimes when I write, we are not sure who is writing.  It is more like systemic writing that is Mistgod-Melian instead of just Melian.  We are kinda blended together a lot.  Other times I am more distinct.  When Mistgod writes it is very much Mistgod.  I depend on Mistgod's help to type.  He says he channels me like an inner persona.   \nAccording to the glossary on Astraea's Web: \n\"Median - Being neither multiple nor singlet. … Median is a fuzzy state between single [one body, one mind] and multiple [one body, multiple independent persons], a single identity made up of multiple identities.\"   \n Probably the main characteristic distinguishing medians from singlets and multiples is the presence of more than one person in the body, but without the independence of persons in a multiple system. Persons in a median system may be dependent upon a single individual (who may have created them at some point), and unable to exist without that central person. Some people in a hosting situation might think of themselves as median. ...   \n You might say something like \"there are many of us, but we are really all Karen\" or \"aspects of Karen\", etc. Various metaphors have been invoked by median systems to describe their experience, such as a stem with leaves, the spokes of a wheel, pages in a book, or a sun orbited by planets. \"Separate cutting tools on a turret lathe...the turret rotates to bring the appropriate tool to the task at hand...or perhaps a microscope with different lenses. Another friend \"rotates the jewel\" as she says, to showcase different facets.\"\" "
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