the question was asked…how do I keep myself seperate? If I’ve got all these memories, and I don’t associate with all of them, how do I call myself a ‘dragon’ and not something like polykin or polymorph or things like that.



The answer is…I’ve taken years to seperate and remove and analyze. I’ve literally spent years figuring out what is 'me’ and what is 'not me.’ to the point where I can tell now when I get a memory, whether it belongs to me or to someone else.



When this all started for me, it was one big mess and tangle and confusion. I thought ALL the memories were mine. I thought I WAS the elf, I thought I WAS the wolf, I thought I WAS the Greater Shadow, I thought I was the Angel, I thought I was the tuatha de danaan, I thought I was the alien, I thought I was ALL OF THESE THINGS. I thought these were ALL part of me.



And then, one by one I went through them. I learned the memories, I divided them out, I analyzed and learned.



I discovered that I wanted to be an elf so bad, I was stealing the memories away from the person they truly belonged to. And in the end, I became her psychopomp and she is at peace finally, leaving me with memories of her world and her life and what happened.



I discovered I was mentally linked to another wolf, I could feel her emotions and her states of being. This being a wolf who is currently incarnated, who I used to speak to very often. She literally birthed the wolf that I became, so that we could be closer linked. And that wolf, while she still exists, is more of a manifestation, without memory. She’s a creation, a construct. She has no past.



I discovered that the Greater Shadow was a damaged being, and he was the one that I ended up having the most trouble with. We quite literally destroyed large portions of our own memories before we made peace and eventually, he was able to leave me. He was one that was living inside me, he’s the one that i actually learned to physically channel and he could interact with the world around him. I’ll tell his full story someday.



I thought I was the Angel for awhile as well. But she is her own person, she still comes to visit. She’s with the Greater Shadow now, they ended up together. And occasionally they visit. But they are their own beings.



And I thought I was the alien. But turns out, she’s from another galaxy/plane and didn’t know what she was doing, so things got muddle for 'her’ and for me. I call her female, but she doesn’t actually have a gender. She still observes from inside my mind often enough.



For me, it’s been a case of one by one by one going through and re-evaluating, re-examining, going slowly piece by piece and seeing what is 'real’ and what is not.



And what it has left me with is a deep feeling of self and an understanding of who I am/what I am at my core. There’s always more questions of course, but there you have it.



And little by little, I share the stories that I have inside me. I talk about their lives, so they are never forgotten. Because, they’ve all helped me become who I am.



My dragon changes. But she is always going to be 'me.' She’s been the Celestial O'ru, the 6-legged spirit-keeper, the eastern dragoness of the stars, the silver dragoness who lived along the red cliffs, the silver dragoness who took up service with elves, so many other things.



I am what I am.