Please forgive my blabbing, but I'd like to share what my experience of co-consciousness is like for sake of clarity. It does not mean cooperation. It means that I am aware of an alter or alter. Sometimes I experience it like I am sitting in the back seat of a car while someone else is driving. Sometimes it is like watching the body being hijacked and I feel like I am behind a transparent wall, watching, but unable to change what is happening. Sometime it is hearing a thought in my head giving their opinion. Sometimes it is hearing arguments in my head between alters. I am not able to read my alters minds, nor have I met them all. As I have said before, we are in the beginning of our therapeutic process. And there is a spectrum of systems, each one being different. Perhaps in yours, Amanda, co-consciousness was a great leap forward in healing. For me, it has not been.