Excluding alarm clocks and the influences of all other outside forces, when people awaken on their own, is it more a function of the mind, or is it the body?
Of course, there is the concept that the mind is the receiving station for sensory input from parts of the body, such as we know we’re hungry because the feeling of emptiness and/or want in the belly is transmitted to the brain, and when we know our bladders are full, it’s the brain that tells us about it by interpreting the pressure we feel in the lower abdomen, and there is the “body clock” to consider, which alerts us to various things all the time. Even dreams or nightmares or night sweats or worry or strange sounds or strange movements are made known to us because of the brain. In fact, it’s a bit difficult for me to come up with any examples that do not involve the brain. Aside from those actions directly tied to brain receptors reacting to the body’s messages, what are some ways we awaken strictly due to something we experience only in our bodies and/or extremities?
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