For example, I have this really weird thing I cannot explain, and might be my brain tricking me: Every time I take a nap, the pressure against the pillow hurts my ears. This happens ONLY during naps, never when I go to sleep at nigh (same position, same pillow..). At this point I wonder if my brain is “tricking” me.
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Your brain gets a limited amount of information in from your senses. For instance, everyone has a blind spot in both eyes where the optic nerve is, yet we don’t see this blank spot in our vision. This is because your brain automatically fills in the gaps in our vision with what it assumes to be there. [This video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7jpJ12lBjg&feature=emb_logo) probably best illustrates it. It’s not so much your brain tricking you as it is making it’s best guess for gaps in information.
I am reluctant to say your ear pain is related. The inner ear is a tricky place and any number of factors may cause situational pain there. It is not out of the question however for pain to be ‘imagined’ rather than real. Like when I suffer a fall and hit my leg, it’ll hurt badly until placing my hand on the site of the impact seems to reassure my brain that it isn’t as bad as it first thought.
Our brains experience the world around us through sensations (the 5 senses). When your body gets a sense, your brain then creates a perception(an interpretation or story of what that sensation means).
So it’s your body feeling like some kind of a sensation and then creating the perception that your ear is being hurt.
Whether or not your ear is actually getting hurt I have no idea haha
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