Where Do We Go When We Fall Asleep?

Question

Ok where does the conscious mind go when we fall asleep.
we are the observer in a dream.
but that alone does not answer the question where is the conscious mind..Where does it go.?

you can sleep if you really want to...

everyone has that experiance of falling ...its quit normal..particulary so among the younger people...you will grow outta it.

Answer 1

It is still there. In our dreams we are constantly try to do or observe what we wish to do in reality, or what we disire to happen around us, or how thilngs should evolve around us

Answer 2

I have often wondered this myself. We only dream for a short part of our sleeping state. The rest of the time, we have no thoughts. We are unconscious. It is almost like being dead, I supposed. Our body maybe living, but our mind is blank--dead.

I think that our mind after death is like our mind while asleep but not in REM mode.

Sleeping is our way of knowing what death will be like--nothingness.

People think that we have a soul. What could this soul be? Our thoughts? Our personality as developed by life experiences? When we are asleep, our personality and thoughts are gone--is our soul gone too?

Answer 3

I think that the subconscious part of the mind, the conscious and subconscious change the way that they interact with each other. As a result you directly detect some of the things that are going through your subconscious that you, as a conscious being can't detect normally. It doesn't go any ware, it just changes.

Well thats (one of) my theories anyways.

Answer 4

It doesn't go, it just shuts down sensory input allowing the unconcious to absorb the thoughts and experiences of the day translating them through dreams. Hence why you cant go without sleep for too long as your brain cannot handle that sort of exertion without a cleanout (sleep).

Answer 5

The sub-conscious mind works during dreaming.

"You'll find a lot of symbolic imagery communicated from your subconscious in the dreams you dream while you sleep".

http://www.deeptrancenow.com/lawsofmind.htm

"Dreams are windows into the subconscious mind--deeply symbolic tales that bring out one's hidden fears and anxieties. • These disparate beliefs, as useful as they are to their adherents, may illustrate how much we don't know about dreams. Despite advances in the neurosciences that allow us to peer inside the brain, measuring in detail the electrochemical activity that occurs while sleeping, the source and purpose of dreams remain as enigmatic to advanced Western cultures as they do to nonliterate or “primitive” ones".

http://www6.miami.edu/miami-magazine/fall00/dreams.html

Dreams are messages from the inner subconscious mind to the outer waking conscious mind.

http://www.dreamschool.org/NewSite/Index2NEW.html

Your inner subconscious mind, the part of you that dreams, is like the best friend you've ever had, the one who knows you the best and will be honest with you. To remember your dreams is to get to know this part of yourself, and take advantage of its wisdom.

http://www.dreamschool.org/1Q&A/q&adirectory.html

....inner levels comprise the subconscious mind where dreaming occurs.

http://www.dreamschool.org/2NDH/hotline2002/April26.html

In general, subconscious mind is always active, but it is overruled by the conscious mind. It is due to subconscious mind that experience a sudden insight sometimes. Subconscious mind is completely active when we are dreaming. At this stage the conscious mind is inactive and unable to filter the messages.

http://www.hypnosispoint.com/how-does-hypnosis-work.html

That's an autonomic, or conditioned, response. Now, think about all the millions of bits of data that your own senses of sight, sound, smell, touch and taste have fed into your hard drive during your life thus far. Your "robot" subconscious mind works even while you are sleeping. That's where your dreams come from.

http://www.donniemckinney.com/conditioning.htm

A part of the unconscious mind works during
dreamless sleep.

http://profvsprasad.blog.com/

Answer 6

In term of we? either refer to you or I but for they say sleep is not only the art of relaxing but rest of which, bring your unconscious to be more active and have a freely speech.....

Oh I see where did we go when we fall asleep? Some people walk , some are sit....and some are lie down.....so it depend really of who you are..and your life time circumstances...anxiety,stress....repression, fear,love all of these may bring to a different dream's direction..

Answer 7

I believe we astrally travel to the other side with our guardian angels to visit our loved ones...maybe not every-night..but yes, it's definitely true and so real...I've been there... yeah, ya probably think I'm nuts...not! Try reading some Sylvia Browne....believe me she'll help answer your question better then any of us can..it's your concious mind letting go to allow the subconcious mind to take over on these trips and journeys.
sweet dreams,
Eileen

Answer 8

Your conscious mind stays in your head while your dreams take you to adventures your mind can only imanage.

Answer 9

Sometimes I try to catch that brain center shift. It would be interesting to see it charted in a scientific mode. I wonder if they've done that.. Links anyone?

Answer 10

It is the operator of the movie you are watching, that which we call dreams.
Basically, it is shut down; it is time for maintenance, such as defragmentation, etc., on a computer.