myth's Belated DMSI 3.1 Journal

[myth]

Prologue: Externals, part 3.

Physicality from platonic females

1. Preexisting DMSI? Yes.
   
2. While listening to DMSI? Yes.
   
3. Difference in frequency so far? Roughly the same.
   
4. Difference in quality so far? Occasionally more intense. Slightly longer duration. Increased user involvement (autopilot? meet them halfway?). Platonic disclaimers are about the same, if more indirect than direct.
   
5. Before/during preference so far? Conditional. Greater chance of third-party confusion/competition/disqualification.
   

The so-called "celeb effect"

1. Preexisting DMSI? Yes.
   
2. While listening to DMSI? Yes.
   
3. Difference in frequency so far? Increased parallel impact.
   
4. Difference in quality so far? Free stuff and discounts often, but no more than previous. Servers fighting more often and more insistently (and with more competitors) over who gets to serve me. Increased address by name. Greetings becoming more parallel where they used to be serial or even singular. Cashiers start up lengthy conversations, relying on their co-workers to handle spillover.
   
5. Before/during preference so far? During. Mostly, this is more of a volume or surround-sound change than a reality change. TBH, though, I never really saw this as celebrity, just as being friendly, familiar, memorable, and triggering of others' familial instincts.
   

Comfort levels of others

1. Preexisting DMSI? Yes.
   
2. While listening to DMSI? Yes.
   
3. Difference in frequency so far? Increased parallel impact.
   
4. Difference in quality so far? Trustworthiness seems to be increasing, even with strangers, although that may be partly a result of being more trustful (healed). Friends increasingly seek my advice and listening skills to the point of fighting over who gets to unload on me. Stories are often either repeated to me within minutes of themselves (and questions within minutes of me having answered them) or assumed to have been told to me in the past when they hadn't been.
   
5. Before/during preference so far? During, up to the point of inconvenience. Again, more of a volume or surround-sound change than a reality change.
   

Compliments from others

1. Preexisting DMSI? Yes.
   
2. While listening to DMSI? Yes.
   
3. Difference in frequency so far? Uptick in unexpected sources and types.
   
4. Difference in quality so far? Somewhat higher in praise. More forthcoming and direct. Any self-deprecation is immediately shut down (rather than allowed/tolerated/ignored/debated) by others, which helps reduce the tendency to self-deprecate. Less user argument/more user gratitude and acceptance of compliments.
   
5. Before/during preference so far? During. The current user response is one of my primary goals for running DMSI. The responder behavior, while only slightly different from previous, helps support the newer user response.