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 ====== Redshift ======
-Redshift is a pervasive and far-reaching experiential phenomenon in our system that affects and/or describes the whole of its emotional functioning and [[:dissociative_mechanisms]]. The basic idea is that all of our suffering is caused by more of us getting crammed in here when there's already no room left.
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+Redshift is a pervasive and far-reaching experiential phenomenon in our system that affects and/or describes the whole of its emotional functioning and [[dissociative mechanisms]]. The basic idea is that all of our suffering is caused by more of us getting crammed in here when there's already no room left.
 The background fabric of [[headspace:Abyss]] is black, which makes it look black from the outside. But the inside is far from black, and far from empty. It's a pressurized vertical shaft in rainbow colors, starting at violet at the top, and redshifting the farther down you're squeezed, all the way down to violet again at the bottom.
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 Stable pressure feels like a general sense of intense malaise. When the redshift spectrum is in a state of stable pressure, we experience that pressure as just... bad feelings. Toxic sinking feelings in our chest. Shame. Grief. Anger. Paranoia. Longing. It all depends on what [[#color ranges|color range]] a headmate's pressure level is currently in. If they're near the same redshift position as a traumatic memory or an introject, they associate the bad feelings with that. Otherwise, they just associate them with themself. "I'm bad. All of these bad things have happened to me because //I'm// bad." Or with memories we're [[#tethering|tethered]] to.
-The only time redshift pressure is //increasing,// as far as I know, is when something or someone //new// is entering [[headspace:Abyss]]; that is, when I'm actively engaging my [[:dissociative_mechanisms]]. Everything and everyone else has to get squeezed down farther to make room. Stable redshift pressure is already painful and scary, but //increasing// redshift pressure is //abject mental anguish.// And //this// time, there's //blame.// When redshift pressure is increasing, everyone, including the newcomer themself, perceives the cause of the extreme agony to be the newcomer, and perceives the harm as intentional and perpetrated out of contempt, disregard, denial, ignorance, etc.
+The only time redshift pressure is //increasing,// as far as I know, is when something or someone //new// is entering [[headspace:Abyss]]; that is, when I'm actively engaging my [[theories:dissociative mechanisms]]. Everything and everyone else has to get squeezed down farther to make room. Stable redshift pressure is already painful and scary, but //increasing// redshift pressure is //abject mental anguish.// And //this// time, there's //blame.// When redshift pressure is increasing, everyone, including the newcomer themself, perceives the cause of the extreme agony to be the newcomer, and perceives the harm as intentional and perpetrated out of contempt, disregard, denial, ignorance, etc.
 ===== Tethering =====
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 ===== Color ranges =====
-Different color ranges in the redshift spectrum seem to have different intrinsic characteristic emotional states, corresponding to different stress / trauma responses. I think I've worked out that the //memories and headmates// accumulated in these ranges may inform how we //describe// the associated emotional states, but the //pure emotional// content of a color range does not vary over time nor with changes in [[#redshift pressure]]. The same color is always connected to the same feeling. Just conceptualized differently depending on who lives there right now.
+Different color ranges in the redshift spectrum seem to have different intrinsic characteristic emotional states, corresponding to [[theories:trauma/stress response types]]. I think I've worked out that the //memories and headmates// accumulated in these ranges may inform how we //describe// the associated emotional states, but the //pure emotional// content of a color range does not vary over time nor with changes in [[#redshift pressure]]. The same color is always connected to the same feeling. Just conceptualized differently depending on who lives there right now.
 ^ Color range ^ Emotional state ^ What someone here might think or say |
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 It also seems like from yellow back down around to violet, the farther down in the redshift spectrum you go, the more //fictionalized// you become.
-It's almost like memories remain //mostly intact// from violet down to green, with only //minor// [[:amnesia]], and then //past// that point they start getting //completely torn apart// by [[:dissociative_mechanisms]].
+It's almost like memories remain //mostly intact// from violet down to green, with only //minor// [[functioning:amnesia]], and then //past// that point they start getting //completely torn apart// by [[theories:dissociative mechanisms]].