Yeah, I know, dumb thought, but who's actually thought about the fact they can actually feel where the location of their thoughts are?

When you think, you can genuinely feel like it's coming from the centre of your head. Weird. :bugeye:

Yeah...it's like when you stub your toe, it actually feels like the pain is coming from your toe...spooky.

Yeah, I know, dumb thought, but who's actually thought about the fact they can actually feel where the location of their thoughts are?

When you think, you can genuinely feel like it's coming from the centre of your head. Weird. :bugeye:

You know what anybody else would genuinely feel?

How do you do that, by feeling the inside of their head?

When you think, you can genuinely feel like it's coming from the centre of your head. Weird.

You can? Are you sure about that? Or have you just been conditioned to think that way?

Baron Max

Maybe it's because most of our other major senses are located on our head: sight, sound, taste, smell, touch (although this is freely distributed all over as well). So, it makes sense to us that our thoughts most likely reside inside our head as well.

I'm sure the number of people that think / feel their thoughts emanate from about 3 inches beneath the skin on the left side of their chest are ... a little rare.

You don't, you are only conditioned to think so. I think it was the greeks that thought that thought comes from your heart.

Hi guys! Well when I am doing something hard like maths or driving I can feel parts of my brain being used. And when u stop and relax, u realise that it has all been coming from 1 site. Like maths seems to come from my forehead, he he. Driving is a new skill developing and I can almost feel the new connections being made!

Yeah, I know, dumb thought, but who's actually thought about the fact they can actually feel where the location of their thoughts are?

When you think, you can genuinely feel like it's coming from the centre of your head. Weird. :bugeye:

To me... it feels like it's coming from the front of my brain.

Although, I can trick myself to make it feel like it's coming from the back of my head.

My thoughts come from the beneficent ether.

Hi guys! Well when I am doing something hard like maths or driving I can feel parts of my brain being used. And when u stop and relax, u realise that it has all been coming from 1 site. Like maths seems to come from my forehead, he he. Driving is a new skill developing and I can almost feel the new connections being made!

Yeh, I used to get that. I remember slogging away at algebra and trigonometry back in school, I would sometimes get headaches! :D

No the reason it's called solar-plexus is because Dr. so and so named it that because it sounds cool.

Visitor, I feel your pain :D

I dunno, I think it would be interesting to bring someone from the time of Ancient Egypt where when they embalmed a body, they just threw the brain away because they thought it was useless. I wonder if people "felt thought" in their "hearts", a.k.a. around their chest area.

Another reason you may feel thought in your head is because so many of your most used sensors are up there, eyes, ears, nasal cavities, and you can speak and articulate visual-facial communication up there. The head is the center of alot of sensory activity, thus you awareness is fairly centralized around it. It only makes sense that you make logic connections where you consciously precieve your point of awareness to be. Or something like that. I dunno, thinking about this is giving me a headache, ironically...

Maybe it's because most of our other major senses are located on our head: sight, sound, taste, smell, touch (although this is freely distributed all over as well). So, it makes sense to us that our thoughts most likely reside inside our head as well.I think you're right, but I suspect it's predominantly sight and sound, the two senses that are most tightly linked to conscious thought. Plus a couple of others we never include in the "five senses."

Your eyes give you a precise vantage point, from which you can actually see much of the rest of your body. Your ears do very much the same thing, at least with sounds that are close to them.

Your kinesthetic sense is not normally listed with the others, but it is quite important. You can feel where the surfaces of your body are and coordinate their location with the movement of your muscles. (Anyone can touch their elbow to their knee in the dark on the first try.) You get this kinesthetic feedback from your mouth while you talk, as well as the unique aural sense the sound makes after being transmitted through your skull bone.

Balance is another crucial sense that you probably don't think about. It is effected by the fluid in your semicircular canals: more precisely the relationship between the two, which once again places your awareness of it right smack on their midpoint in the center of your head.

Finally you have a less direct sense of the location of your olfactory receptors and taste buds, which is probably less crucial to your impression of where your thinking takes place, but since your nose and mouth are fortuitously also mounted on your head they reinforce the impression created by your more predominant senses.

To the extent that any of your thoughts relate to the physical universe you inhabit, unless you have cultivated an aptitude for an unusual profession or hobby most of them are related to vision and language, but smell, taste and balance reinforce what vision and language tell you.

They tell you that "you" are located between five and six feet above the ground, along the vertical centerline of your cranium, in the plane defined by your eyes and ears. The fact that your thinking actually takes place there is no coincidence (it makes for the shortest possible auditory and optical nerves), but even if it didn't it would probably still seem that way.

The brain is the center of the mind, therefore thought feels like it comes from the place the most sensory information is acquired.

PS Wanna go out?

Because that is where your eyes are. Everything that your brain processes is done through a seeming-window which is located right above your nose. If you saw out of your knees, through seeming-windows down there, but all of the thought processes were done in your feet, it would still FEEL like you were thinking in your knees.

Cool, eh?

Yeah, I know, dumb thought, but who's actually thought about the fact they can actually feel where the location of their thoughts are?

When you think, you can genuinely feel like it's coming from the centre of your head. Weird. :bugeye:

Vooodoo child (the first one of the album, not the second one ) fucking rocks.

The Egyptians thought we thought with our chests, with out hearts.
I heard that somewhere. No idea if it's true or not.

You can? Are you sure about that? Or have you just been conditioned to think that way?

Baron Max

I've wondered that for a long time.

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Fuck off! You should be banned from my threads in the non-religious forums.
You complete and utter delusional fool!

Vooodoo child (the first one of the album, not the second one ) fucking rocks.

You have only demonstrated your n00bishnes. That is tame by Hendrix's standards. Listen to the version of Machine Gun on the Band of Gypsys album a hundred times or so, then get back to me.

Posted by KennyJC
Yeah, I know, dumb thought, but who's actually thought about the fact they can actually feel where the location of their thoughts are?

When you think, you can genuinely feel like it's coming from the centre of your head. Weird. :bugeye:

Heh, yeah... that's where the brain is.

Though I don't know if the corpus callosum receives and transmits all data from the brain stem.