Do we dream inside our head?

This is an area that I'm very interested in.

I know it seems more of a religious/faith or whatever, kind of question.

But looking at it from a scientific perspective, where exactly is the mind? Obviously people have parts of their brain taken out, so is the mind somewhere/everywhere in the brain?

Even Stephen Hawking believes there is different dimensions working at different frequencies, and lucid dreaming is so much based on frequencies. Even meditation takes us to different frequencies.

I'd like to think there was more than one frequency we operated at. It seems silly to think only with what we can see, hear and touch, etc.

What do you think?

search the board for this topic as we had a good go at it a while back and then ask away

I do believe that there are different frequencies and i also believe that we can access those frequencies. spirits are on a different frequency or vibration level, whatever you wanna call it. while having a lucid dream the brain shows a lot more activity than when awake! anything is possible in this amazing universe :D

I love this question.
I would struggle over several paragraphs to explain how I feel about this, however....so the short answer (for me) is no. Consciousness itself is not "in the brain"...not completely anyway. Sure some of your facilities for consciousness are here. For this reason a head injury can affect a person. But it's not the whole story. I do know that when I was a smoker, I had a lot harder time with lucid dreaming. I have read a few reports that naturally released DMT comes from the lungs and not the brain. So I tend to follow the logic that the body is the subconscious mind....therefore I have to believe that consciousness itself is formed from the whole body and not just "the mind/thinker/brain-pan"....

I recommend doing some research on Candace Pert. She is a neuroscientist that works directly with endorphins and even has some very interesting revelations into opiate receptors in the human body. She has set out to discover answers to this very question. I won't ruin it...I'll let you be shocked by her findings as well. :)

thanks for link, will have a look

I'm ateist, and also educating to become a physicist, so I will take a scientific look at this. When it comes to conciousness, I don't believe it is something the brain posess to be honest. I think it's an entity of space, meaning that it might be at a higher plane, but it's there. To be able to have this connection with conciousness, we must have something like brain frequencies that connects us to this entity of space. That's my thought of conciousness. I also have the theory that when not having conciousness, you can't really tell you're there, what you're doing, or what you are. You're just feeling like it's a dream. I think that dogs, and cats experience the world like one big dream. They just do things in reaction, and don't question - normally like we do, when we're not lucid. We're just going with the dream. That's my perspective on this world of conciousness.

Its a bit like asking "Do we exist inside our body?" or trying to point to where 'You' are...I sometimes joke when a close friend refers to 'me' by looking around franticly for the 'me' that he is referring to...as I'm not entirely sure where that is. Some times I point to somewhere in my head and ask him if he's talking about something in there.

So if you don't even know where you are inside your body, its gonna be jolly hard finding out where you are when your dreaming :lol:

Radical dreamer

Yes it is amazing how can we invent all these new people we have never seen before?. I can even dream a whole castle full of people, design the huge 40 room interior, including all items of furniture and antiques. During the dream I ask myself - how the heck have i designed all these things and people. Then I go on to develop what is like a whole soap show/film with plots and verbal interactions and start directing the show.

I have heard of quantum jumping where you visit a new universe but it doesnt feel like that, just creating worlds.

Where are you based - i am in england. tell me more about yourself. Ch

Nope we dont dream inside our heads.. dreams are thoughts and thought energy combined with emotional energy... energy isnt constrained inside your head. In fact there are some psychics who can see a persons thoughts and hence also dreams as they can see them manifesting as images in the energy around the persons head.

and to that I have to say yes we do and our entire existence is in our heads. Sharing that and other people seeing that are one step removed and no more that the ability to hear worlds really just using a different sense or ability. Damage any part of out "head" and the world changes and no one else can pick up our live so it must be in our heads in spite of what we might want to believe