"So how did my "brain" get inside that sunken Russian sub and experience their terrible pain?"
It did not.
Working hypothesis: You had a nightmare, and were troubled by it at a subconscious level. Most such nightmares (the "mare" comes from "demon", not "horse") involve "trapped" feelings; humans are wired for them.
The next day, you learn about the sub. Either instantly, or during the course of subsequent activities, your mind superimposes your notions of submarines from movies and books into your recollection of the dream you had. Soon enough according to your memory, you dreamed it before it happened.
Now while this is just a working hypothesis, the average so far of such dreams is 100% as I have described, and 0% as actual metaphysical connections. But, with only millions of examples to choose from, it's not yet conclusive.{g}
Incidentally, the studies of such "dream connections" demonstrate that they fare worse than random chance with regard to the accuracy or predictive nature of such events.
Please understand, I'm only attempting to illustrate how such things work; I am not trying to pick on you.{g} Your experience is entirely normal, and fairly common.
"I'm afraid we will one day have to admit that we are not
just "brains", but also spirits, with the "spirit" (whatever that is) temporarily using our brains to control our lives here on earth."
We have believed this for thousands of years -- all of recorded history, in fact. A few have courageously admitted that in fact there WAS no "spirit" or "soul", in the religious sense -- often, these folks were burned or otherwise disposed of for threatening what has been a very effective control mechanism for all of this time.
We are finally getting to the point where the race can grow out of such notions without the loss of life or liberty. That's what the Constitutional framers had in mind.
Not Kansas, where the teaching of certain science topics is against the law.
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