An Outside-In view of Subspace and Related Phenomena

[teine]

As someone with a lot of experience of altered states of consciousness outside BDSM, I always reckoned I had a handle on subspace. Certainly, from the outside, everything I'd learned about how to support, handle and relate to someone in altered states of consciousness has been very useful in helping me learn how to be the sort of Dom I wanted to be

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[lilitufire]

I'm definitely a novice, but yes, I do think my experiences as a sub enlighten and enhance my ability as a dom. The two, to me, are intimately connected. Opposite sides of the same coin.

Each illuminates the other.

[sshrew]

Well, due to my own carelessness, I lost a mini-novel of a response to you. I'm in grumpyspace now.

It's seemingly trendy to toss around the term "domspace" lately. I'm reading between the lines and concluding that you don't experience any kind of altered state as a Dom? I've done very little switching, but if I were to pick a term that describes what I feel in a "scene" (I hate that word) as a Domme, I'd be inclined to label it "domsurge." It's a huge rush of very focused (and addictive) energy, and not at all like what I experience as a submissive.

I've been reflecting upon subspace a lot lately. Up until recently, it was something that I had only experienced with two people -- my Masters. It's a physical/emotional response that I connected to having a collar, in fact, I assumed that it was a reaction dependant on that fact

[teine]

Well, due to my own carelessness, I lost a mini-novel of a response to you. I'm in grumpyspace now.
I hate it when that happens.

It's seemingly trendy to toss around the term "domspace" lately. I'm reading between the lines and concluding that you don't experience any kind of altered state as a Dom?The problem being that different people mean different things by "domspace