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when we add consciousness-altering methods such as hypnosis to this
knowledge, a certain truth becomes clear. Throughout his life, a human being
assumes that he is living in a world which is external to his body. However,
everything referred to as the world is only our brain's interpretation of the
signals which reach the sense centers. In other words, we can never deal with

any world other than the one that occurs in our mind. We can never know what
happens or exists outside us. We cannot know what the original of the sources
of signals reaching the brain is either. This reality has begun to take its place in
science books and is taught to people since high school age. The problem is that
people do not consider the full significance of this fact.

Who Is It That Experiences All These Perceptions?

So far we have established that everything we perceive takes place in our

brains. At this point we face a question which would be asked by anyone who
thinks on this subject a little bit.
As we know, the electric signals coming from the cells in our eyes are
transformed into an image in our brains. For example, the brain interprets
some electrical signals coming to the visual center in the brain as a field filled
with sunflowers. In reality, it is not the eye that is seeing.
Therefore, if it is not our eyes which are seeing, what is it that sees the

electrical signals as a sunflower field, at the back of our brain, in a pitch dark
place, without feeling any necessity for any eyes, retina, lens, visual nerves or
pupil and enjoys the view in the sight?
Or who is it that hears (without needing an ear) the voice of a very close
friend, becomes happy on hearing it, and misses it when he cannot hear it,
when the brain is totally sound proof?
Or who is it in the brain that feels the fur of the cat when stroking it,
without having any need for a hand, fingers or muscles?
Who is it that feels sensations such as heat, cold, and a sense of

consistency, depth, and distance, as they originate in the brain?
Who is it that smells the lemon, lavender flower, rose, melon, watermelon,
orange, and barbecued meat inside the brain (even though the brain is
smellproof), and feels hungry because of the smell coming from the grill?
We have thus far discussed how everything we perceive continuously is
actually formed inside our brains. Who is it then that sees the sights in a brain

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