An example of a D-metric space is given, in which D-metric convergence does not define a topology and in which a convergent sequence can have infinitely many limits. Certain methods for constructing D-metric spaces from a given metric space are developed and are used in constructing (1) an example of a D-metric space in which D-metric convergence defines a topology which is T 1 but not Hausdorff, and (2) [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14]) have taken these claims for granted and used them in proving fixed point theorems in D-metric spaces.In this paper, we give examples to show that in a D-metric space (1) D-metric convergence does not always define a topology, (2) even when D-metric convergence defines a topology, it need not be Hausdorff, (3) even when D-metric convergence defines a metrizable topology, the D-metric need not be continuous even in a single variable. In fact, we develop certain methods for constructing D-metric spaces from a given metric space and obtain from them, as by-products, examples illustrating the last two assertions. We also introduce the notions of strong convergence, and very strong convergence in a D-metric space and study in a decisive way the mutual implications among the three notions of convergence, strong convergence, and very strong convergence.Throughout this paper, R denotes the set of all real numbers, R + the set of all non-