Similar question: why can I bend my fingers on command, but if my finger is hurt (lets say from smashing it) I cant just think “ok, i get it, its hurt. Stop hurting now”
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Because for the most part, we don’t really control our brain. The brains job in the body is to send signals through the nerves to dictate what everything is doing, this includes concious and unconscious actions. We can imagine a bunny because it is part of our memories, an unconscious part of us. You can’t stop your body sensing pain because the signal the brain is sending is telling the body there is an injury that needs paying attention to. As for the drugs allowing us to hallucinate what isn’t there, that’s because it alters the signals we receive and cause them to act in ways we normally don’t, like seeing a bunny that isn’t actually there.
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