Is it you in the room or Room in yours?

  Who is in whom?

When we considered this deeply, we encounter quite astonishing matters. The brain, in which our sensory centers are located, is only a piece of soft meat weighing 1400 grams. And the skull, a mass of bones, protects this piece of meat. This is such a protection that no light, noise or odour of any kind can penetrate through it. The inside of the skull is pitch-dark and completely insulated from any light and odour.



However, in this dark space, we perceive a colourful world with millions of different tastes, odours and voices. How then does this happens?

What makes you feel the light in pitch-darkness?

What makes you feel the odour in a place complleteit is perceived inthe brain is a tiny, dark and quiet spot. However, the vast landscapes you see on the horizon somehow also fit into this tiny spot. You perceive both the room you are in and the vast landscape in the same place.

Moreover it is again our brain that interprets and attributes meaning to the signals that we assume to be the "external world". For example, let ulet us considers the sense of hearing. It is in fact our brain that transforms the sound waves int he external world into a symphony. That is to say, music is also a perception created by our brain. In the same manner, when we see colours, what reaches our brains are merely nerve impulses of different characters. It is again our brain that transforms these signals into colours. There are no colours in the external world. Neither is the apple red nor the sky blue etc. They are as they are just because we perceive them to be so. The external world depends entirely on the perceiver.

WHAT IS THERE OUTSIDE US?

So far we talked about that we live inour skulls and perceieve nothong more than that which our senses perceive. Now let is proceed a step further:

"Do the things we perceive have an actual existence or are they imagenary?"

Let is start by asking : Is there a need for the external world in order to see or hear?

NO. THERE IS NO need for the external world to see or hear. Stimulation of the brain in any form triggers the functioning of all the sense, forming feelings, visions and noises. The best example explaining this is the dream.

We see everything around us as coloured inside the darkness of our brains, just as this garden looks coloured from the eye of a darkness

While dreaming, you lie oon your bed, in a dark and queit room, your eyes shut tight. Nothing reaches you from outside for you to perceive, neither light nor noise. However in your dreams, you experience many of the things you are likely to experience in daily life, just as vividly and clearly as in the waking state. In your dreams, you also wake up and hurry to work. Alternatively, in your dreams you go on holiday and feel the summer sunshine.

Besides, during the course of your dreams, you feel no doubts about what you see. Only on waking up do you realise that it was all adream!

In your dreams, you fear, feel anxious, happy. Simultaneously insulated from every kind of odour?

Alternatively, what makes you feel other feelings?
Who creates all f these senses for you?

In fact, every moment a miracle happens. As mentioned above, all perceptions of the room we are in, for instance, are transformed into nerve impulses and transmitted to our brains. The sensations transmitted to the brain are interpreted as the image of the room. In other words, you are, in truth, not inside the room you assume you are in; on the contrary, the room is inside you. The location of the room remains in the brains, or rather let us say, the location in which , you experience the solidity of matter. However, there exists no source produicng these perceptions. You still in a dark and quiet room.

ARE OUR BRAINS SEPERATES FROM THE EXTERNNAL WORLD?

If the thing we acknowledge as the material world merely comprises perceptions shown to us, then what is the brain, by which we hear, see and think?
Isn't the brain, like everything else, a collection of atoms and molecules?

Like everything else we consider "matter", our brains are also perceptions, and are surely not exceptions. After all, our brains are also pieces of meat that we perceive through our senses. Like everythings we assume to exist in the outer world, they are only images for us.

So, who perceives all these?
Who sees, hears,smells and tastes?

All these bring us face to face with something obvious : a human being to sees, feels, thinks and is conscious is more than just the sum of the atoms and molecules which makes up his/her body.

Is it really that how your brain interpret all the things that happen in real life?

What makes a person human being is actually is the spirit Allah grants him/her. Otherwise, attribution of consciousness and all human attributes and skills to a piece of meat would be definitely irrational, not to mention that this piece of meat is only an illusion.

He Who has created all things in the best possible way. He commenced the creation of man from clay; then produced his seed from an extract of base fluid; then formed him and breathed His spirit into him and gave you hearing, sight and hearts. What little thanks you show! 
(As-Sajdah 7-9)

ALLAH IS BEING NEAREST TO US

Since a person is not an accumulation of the matter but a "spirit", who is it that presents, or to put it more accurately "creates" and presents, the collection of perceptions called "matter" to our spirit?

The answer to this question is explicit : Allah, who "breathes" His spirit into human beings, is the Creator of everything surrounding us. The only source of these perceptions is Allah. Nothing exists but what He creates.

In our dreams we can dream ourselves on land. But it will not until we awake that we understand we were are dreaming

Allah relates that He perpetually creates everythings and that otherwise, nothing would exist:

Allah keeps a firm hold on the heavens and the earth, preventing them from vanishing away. And if they vanished no one could then keep hold of them. Certainly He is the most forbearing, Ever-Forgiving.
(Faatir 41)

Allah encompasses you from your front, back, right, left , that is, from every direction; He Who is witness to your every moment, every where, is totally in control of your inside and outside, and is nearer to you than your jugular vein is Allah, the Almighty, alone.

*Reference : Allah's Artistry in colours. This article is based on the works of Harun Yahya