Am I in my head or does it just seem that way because that is where my eyes and ears are?

Answer 1

thats where your brain is and it's your brain that does the thinking so yes you are in your head really

Answer 2

That is one of the first philosophical thoughts I had. I was 5. I couldn't see past the idea that perhaps the world is a fiction. I could be floating in a box and I'm wired to all my senses and maybe all my memories have been put there. I could be a study case or a terrible joke of some unseen controller. I could literally have just been switched on and the past just a fiction.

Like I say i was 5, it blew my mind. I had been playing with a 6 million dollar man toy. He had a chamber that he slept in. It put the idea in my head. Or was it put there by the unseen thing.

25 years later they made the Matrix, I remembered and laughed uncomfortably.

The answer depends on whether you believe you actually have a corporeal existence. If you have a body, is it the one you are in, or one being fed senses from outside? If you think it's the body you see, then the answer is yes, you are behind your ears and eyes. It seems logical to have the processor as close to the important senses as possible.

Answer 3

There's a good reason expressions like "He's out of his head" exist. The sensory organs aren't located where they are by accident; imagine if our eyes were where our ankles are. It would take precious milliseconds for perceptions to travel from there to the brain, and that could literally make a life-and-death difference. Think of when you've stubbed your toe and that excruciating interval between your immediate knowledge of oncoming pain and the moment it actually gets to your brain and you feel it. Anyway, because eyes and ears are located on the head (nature can be quite "intelligent" sometimes), it's natural that we perceive ourselves as "residing" a couple of inches behind our eyes, inside our skull. When things get out of whack we may temporarily feel "lightheaded" -- our very language reflects this understanding. So, yes, you are in your head, and if not for your head there wouldn't be any you...

Answer 4

Your brain is in your head - true. But is that "you"? Who is the "you" that minds the brain?

Your brain tells your fingers to type the question - who asked the question? Who wondered? Is that "you"? If so, it can be said that "you" is the mind who controls your brain...

Accept that, and the next question is - where is the mind? Or whatever you want to call the part of you who wondered. And we've looped back around to your question again... on a different level...

As far as I know, science has yet to pinpoint where the brain's "driver" resides - brain? heart? both? neither?

Is the mind related to your soul, assuming you have one?

Mmmhhh... interesting question with great possible answers...

Answer 5

We are all in our own head! We all have our own personal universe going on and it would still be there even if we had no eyes or ears. What we think and believe makes us who we are so we may as well try and think as positively as we can.

Answer 6

It is just the way you feel.

I feel myself all through my body occasionally.

Feeling yourself in part means you are divided in consciousness as head and body. But still then you should be able to feel both.

It is said in Hindu scriptures that such a feeling as you feel happens only at a very advanced spiritual stage called "Samadhi". Where the consciousness has risen slowly from anus towards head in six or seven steps. These six or seven steps are called chakras in both hinduism and buddhism.

Answer 7

You are both in and outside of your HEAD, just as your eyes and ears are both in and outside of your head. All concepts including "I," "eyes," "ears," and "head" have no location in physical space. The "I" is a concept of the phenomenal field of view experiences of a particular self; it is the concretized sum of a self's phenomenal field of view perceivings from all situations that it has conceptually, sensationally, and physically experienced; this part of the "I" is located in the "internal" world where are all sensory and conceptual perceivings. Another part of the "I" is the natural life body that is located in the external and physical world where the "I" is the concretized sum of the spatial and temporal movements of one's biological and chemical structures.

Another kind of question: If the avatar above me looks like me, who is located right below her, then am i with the lower case i, that is, as merely a tiny aspect of my personal identity, both up and down in the visual conceptual world which avatars inhabit on the internet?

Answer 8

The small "I" is experience in the human brain as you say, but the Monks and Yogis have been after the "Great I AM" for thousands of years....

A true spiritual experience has to do with expansion of the "I" that you speak of.... read more details on this topic in the latter chapters of "Gospel Enigma."... a free on line source. Find it at New Free Books. They are all in "in copyright" books offered for free by their authors.

Answer 9

depends where you want to be, i am often not even in my body, altho physically i am but my mind just wonders off to other places.

imagine you feel a pain in your knee or stomach, you won't be in your head, as the eyes and ears are not the sensors of the pain, you'd most definitely be where the pain is located...(sorry, might sound weird, I am just talking hypothetically, and it is my opinion)

don't care if i get thumbs down, OK

Answer 10

Your mind is in your head.
Your eyes are in your head so everything you are seeing is perceived from that vantage point.
But physically, your body is wherever you put it.

Answer 11

We perceive our physical selves through our senses and therefore dwell in our heads. Do we have a metaphysical self?...if we do, then this self could occupy everywhere or nowhere.