Pixies – Where Is My Mind?

Where are you? I mean, you as in your mind. I feel like I’m about in the center of my head most of the time. I understand some people feel their consciousness in their chest.

Once on an edible I felt like I was floating around 12 inches above my right shoulder. Weird sensation. I wondered if I could fly to the corner store and back, but I was afraid I wouldn’t let me back in.

That phenomenon, along with Carl Jung’s theory of shadow projection have got me thinking about the nature of the mind. Are we all body or is part of us spirit? I know that question bugs everyone, even atheists. I think it’s both.

My current model: the brain is an extremely complex projector and consciousness is its self-aware projection. Virtual reality that thinks and interacts with itself.

Light and noise come into your eyeballs and ear holes, they get interpreted, you project your meaning on your best guess at reality. The better you are at interpreting, the closer to the real thing you get.

And some way or another, the brain projects something like a self onto a space: in your head, your chest, or in rare cases, over your left shoulder.

I don’t believe we’re in a computer simulation, but I do believe we live in that form of virtual reality. Everyone sees a slightly different Pokemon. I’ve been an atheist for a long time at this point, but I’m trying to decide how you couldn’t call my model spiritual.