My Theory is that the brain connects together the patterns to and from our muscles and senses to create our perception of time.

There appears to be an automatic bias within the neuronal wiring of the brain toward predicting what will happen next within the patterns.

This leads to the natural discovery of higher level causes for those sensory patterns through beliefs in 3d reality and from the subsequent consistency of cause and effect in the external world.

Our minds create representations of form, and the behavior of form through time, within a framework of 3d reality. Our sensory perceptions are resolved (make the most sense) through our belief in space and time. This is the underlying structure of the trance we call consciousness. It appears to be based on the brains innate desire to continually improve upon its prediction of sensory events.

The first higher level cause of our sensory patterns is the 3d structure of our surrounding reality. Our received sensory stimuli are not mere 2d patterns. They are very special 2d patterns, loaded with information about a 3d reality from a 4th dimensional 'point of view' perspective.

The mind naturally aligns these patterns to a matrix representing the truth of this external 3d structure. A truth where subsequent points of view can be predicted with the most accuracy (wisdom).

The sensory patterns only really make sense within the framework of this higher 3rd spatial dimension. So the mind discovers 3d forms and behaviors - the core components for a simulation of 3d reality. By first linking cause and effect, and later, by 'betting' continually on predictions. The 'winning bets' raising the memories involved to a higher, more permanent status. The winning bets reinforce our belief in 3d reality.

These mental 'forms' are made up from the two dimensional muscle and sensory patterns, or points of view, and aligned by the higher 'cause' of 3d reality. There is an 'emotional' preference for truth. For predictions or muscle and sensory events to come true.

As patterns drive the muscles, 'wilful' action enters reality. Subsequent sensory patterns flow back into the brain and reflect any changes in reality. These pattern flows are the training data from which a dumb and automatic process of prediction configures our compelling beliefs in form and behavior.

Our experience of time is based on our identification with 'form', which allow us to connect the different physical worlds of our perceptions together into one world containing consistent forms.

Our belief in 'form' is our primary cognitive reference. It creates the links joining our perceptions of the world together into a consistent whole. When forms change, we interpret this change, this behavior, as time.

Our memories of forms from the past can be triggered by our current sensory patterns, those in the moment of now Thus we 'see' a 'now' extending through time from the past to the future. Time is represented to us by changes in position or behavior of form relative to stillness.

The next level higher is the polarization of that 3d simulation into an observer perspective and the observed scene. I call this a 4th dimensional process. This is because our 'vocabulary' of components (forms) for our 3d simulation, appear to be variable in perspective and behavior rather than mere constants. (We can imagine objects in scenes at any perspective or time, and successfully animate our muscles according to those predictions). A virtual space that contains the potential for any possible configuration of 3d form is effectively a 4th dimentional space.

It appears that prior to the process of polarization (creating the observer and the observed scene), an almost infinite potential of form and perspective within the subconscious must have existed prior to the collapse. The observer side is all the non-resonating potential which remains in the subconscious. The observed side, is the 3d scene that collapses into awareness. Into our 'chosen', or our current state of consciousness. The patterns of information within the subconscious, create a rough simulation of a hyperspace.

I suspect it is the connections between our polarized consciousness, and our 4th dimensional unpolarized unconscious, where our awareness, emotions and feelings emerge. That they are the phenomena of information patterns aligned to higher level causes than could ever be experienced, or 'witnessed' within a 3d reality alone.

The background unconscious field is the core backdrop or resource, upon which the conscious field emerges and is referenced. Conscious flow is limited primarily by the finite 'vocabulary' of the forms and behaviors held within memory. Not by the perspective, space or time (the polarization path) of those components.

The reason we cannot understand these higher phenomena within our mental 3d reality, or even our 4th dimensional observer platform, is because we cannot make sense of, or even 'see' higher order patterns from within the same dimension they arise. You need to be one (or more) steps higher. You need to polarize that dimension to a higher level still. To create again the observer and the observed - the witness.

So in order to understand 4th dimension phenomena like awareness and emotion, we may ultimately need to create a 5th dimensional platform. Either within our own minds or artificially through technology. This might be associated with higher levels of consciousness, or even transcension.

The techniques to build such a platform may be similar to those linking the lower dimensions to each other. Some theories are explained in the here.