The Indigo Network is a plural collective, meaning we are many people in one body. We experience ourselves as different states of consciousness with separate, individual concepts of self. We communicate with each other through thoughts and feelings. Our relationships with each other could be compared to people sharing a floor in a college dorm. Some of us are best buds, some of us have never spoken to each other. Added bonus that we can read each other's minds and there are no secrets between us.

If you've never heard of plurality before, it might sound hard to believe. But it's probably more common than you'd think. Brains are basically super advanced flesh computers running software that we don't fully understand. They somehow generate consciousness, which is a complete black box to us. Who knows what the limits of their capabilities are when it comes to the conscious experience? Plurality sounds weird/out there/unlikely to many people because it's not really talked about in modern western culture. (And it's not talked about because it's seen as weird. Self-enforcing cycle.) Hopefully we can play a part in changing that, however small the impact of this site may be.

FAQ:

How did you become plural?

We don't know for sure. Plurality is often associated with trauma in childhood, but we don't have enough evidence to conclude whether that's the case for us. Our general theory is that it developed as a coping mechanism for adverse experiences throughgout our life, and came fully into use in 2018-19, when our mental health was at an all-time low. For years before that, we'd had "imaginary friends" who seemed to have minds of their own and felt very real. We'd experienced things like suddenly having different prefernces, feeling like a boy but only sometimes, buying clothes and then not knowing why we liked them the next day. But in the summer of 2019, we started experiencing becoming different people in a way that was hard to ignore. We were in turmoil for quite a while over what was happening with us. We felt like we must be making it all up, even though it seemed so real and uncontrollable. Seven years later, we're much more stable. Being plural doesn't freak us out anymore, and we've stopped obsessing over whether we're "real" or not.

Do you have Dissociative Identity Disorder?

We're not diagnosed with DID or any other disorder associated with plurality. We most likely wouldn't qualify for a diagnosis because being plural doesn't cause us major distress or impairment, and doesn't come along with any other serious dissociative symptoms.

Is this a spiritual/mystical experience?

Not for us. We don't have any spiritual beliefs. But plurality can be spiritual for some people.

Is this a delusion/related to psychosis?

It wouldn't be acurate to call it a delusion because it's a strictly internal experience with no evidence contradicting it. (A delusion can be defined as a false belief about external reality that a person has despite definitive evidence to the contrary.) Our belief that we're plural makes sense based on our internal experience of being more than one person. Plurality can be related to psychosis sometimes, but we don't experience any other psychotic symptoms, so there's nothing to suggest that's the case for us.