That is one of the theories of the brain/mind that is out there. Consciousness is a narrative created by your unconscious mind - https://bigthink.com/videos/co

That is one of the theories of the brain/mind that is out there. Consciousness is a narrative created by your unconscious mind - https://bigthink.com/videos/consciousness-is-a-narrative-created-by-your-unconscious-mind/ https://bigthink.com/videos/consciousness-is-a-narrative-cre... There are experiments that show that you are trying to predict what happens next (this also gets into a theory of humor - its the brain's reaction when the 'what next' is subverted in an unexpected way) There's also experiments with individuals who have had a severed corpus collosum and the conscious mind is making up a story of the other half of the brain https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/literally-psyched/our-storytelling-minds-do-we-ever-really-know-whats-going-on-inside/ https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/literally-psyched/our-s...