Daydreams and prayer share a mechanism

[Fruiteloop]

Inside of me I feel things but I do not see or hear things.

But this is my experience of the inside so is just is what it is.

That is nowhere the same for everyone though.

Some people see and hear things on the inside.

Where does this come from?

I learned it comes from the default mode network, a connection of the medial cortex to the back of the brain.

It is used for mind wandering.

It is also used to imagine, think about others, design things, plan and generally simulate.
This occurs because of the back and forth signals, back brain to front brain.

Now when it come to God or anything else it occurred to me that because we think about others we can think of God as being inside the same place.

That is to say if you simulate other people by seeing and hearing them inside yourself then this is exactly what happens when we pray.

Because if you think about people such as your mother and she is not there you still feel it is real thinking about her.
So if you think about God its the same as thinking about your mother or father but in such a way that the simulation becomes real.

Since my default mode network is deactivated, I cannot simulate anyone inside myself, I only experience associated feeling of people negative or positive.

This is why I do not really know what people will do when I talk to them.
I know in real time what I say will affect people good or bad but not in some extended exchange.
So I do my best to explain things based on past experience of interactions with people, I cannot project into people.

When it comes to God this is just the feeling I get from what occurs around me. I do not contemplate motives or anything. I feel the environment.

By having feelings of Gods existence I never understood fully why people pray. God knows everything, he sees me have ideas what else am I supposed to do?

So it makes sense now that some people actually see God and actual can hear him and so talking to God be something more real. Me talking to God is like talking to a rock or a tree. Instead I just know that if God is mad at me or something things happen otherwise he leaves me alone. I am attuned to the energies in the environment.

I have not felt calm for a long time. I still have pain as a feeling deep inside myself that won't go away. Yet things have gotten better.
I had to stop worrying so much about some people, I had to get some things for my house, food was a problem for a while, but less stress exists now.

Prayer does not seem to be something I can do.
Instead I just try and sense if something is there or not.
For others it is different and these were my thoughts on it.

 

[meowzician]

Inside of me I feel things but I do not see or hear things.
But this is my experience of the inside so is just is what it is.
That is nowhere the same for everyone though.
Some people see and hear things on the inside.

Tell me about it!

Where does this come from?
I learned it comes from the default mode network, a connection of the medial cortex to the back of the brain.
It is used for mind wandering.
It is also used to imagine, think about others, design things, plan and generally simulate.
This occurs because of the back and forth signals, back brain to front brain.
Now when it come to God or anything else it occurred to me that because we think about others we can think of God as being inside the same place.
That is to say if you simulate other people by seeing and hearing them inside yourself then this is exactly what happens when we pray.

Identifying the medial cortex is what raises your post from good to excellent.

I have often, often said to people, "You perceive that God is speaking to you. That's fine. I do too sometimes. But how can we know it's actually God talking and not our own intuition, our creative imagination enabled by a touch of dissociation?"

I have not felt calm for a long time. I still have pain as a feeling deep inside myself that won't go away. Yet things have gotten better.
I had to stop worrying so much about some people, I had to get some things for my house, food was a problem for a while, but less stress exists now.

((((Fruitloop))))