Where do we go when we sleep?
I often wonder where my soul goes when I sleep.
I don't know what a soul is, persay. I know I experience things. I experience sensations and thoughts and feelings. I often wonder why my meat sack (human body + mind) needs to be experienced at all. My meat sack could take in stimuli, process & encode it, and produce outputs. I don't see any reason why any of it has to be experienced.
So for me, the soul is ... either the experience itself, or the thing that does the experiencing. It very well may be a creation of the mind, or perhaps it comes from somewhere else and attaches to the mind. This "somewhere else" could be some 5th dimension we're not able to sense or detect. I don't know.
I also experience dreams. I find it incredibly likely that my mind is the generator of those dreams. But I also find it plausible that something more mystical is happening. My favorite idea is that my soul is generally attached to my mind/body, and then when I sleep it floats around to other planes and experiences other things. Kind of like changing TV channels.
I also wonder, in my dreams, do the other people have internal worlds like I do? Is there a soul experiencing from those other people's perspectives? Or are those people just figments of my dream hallucinations?
If they don't have souls, if they are imaginations, then why am I convinced that people in real life are ... well, real? Why am I convinced that my real life best friends experience their own meat sacks?
The entire concept of anything being "real" also blows my fucking mind. Like the fact that anything exists at all. So yeah, we have a universe and alla that. But where did the stuff of the universe come from? If it has always existed, umm, fucking how? The fact that there is any existence at all blows my fucking mind.
And so, I often wonder about the nature of reality, and especially consciousness. And for the large chunks of my sleep that are dead black, with no dreams, I wonder if my soul is elsewhere, and just completely detached from my body.