What causes the imaginary sounds (bangs, crashes) or sensations (touch) that wake us from sleep?
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Upside-down teleologies.
What I mean by that is that it isn’t the imaginary sounds that wake you from sleep, but the waking from sleep that causes the imaginary sounds. The semi-conscious brain, in searching for an explanation for why you awoke, assumes there must have been some reason, resulting in you imagining one, probably by associating any random noise as having been loud enough to have startled you.
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