Your Brain’s Hidden Body Map | The Parietal Lobe Explained While You Sleep

What if your brain maintains a live map of your body that is separate from your body itself?

Tonight, enter the upper floors of The City: The Brain Building and meet Perry, a homing pigeon who runs the parietal lobe, the brain region responsible for tracking where your body is in space at every moment.

As you fall asleep, this episode explores:

• how your brain builds an internal body map
• why you always know where your hands are, even with your eyes closed
• the neuroscience of proprioception and spatial awareness
• the rubber hand illusion and why the brain can mistake objects for part of the body
• phantom limbs and mirror therapy
• hemispatial neglect and what happens when half the world disappears from attention
• how the brain extends the body map into tools, vehicles, and surrounding space

This is neuroscience told slowly, gently, and accurately, designed for sleep, rest, deep focus, or quiet nighttime listening.

Part of the Being and Becoming Sleep Smart series, The City: The Brain Building, a long-form neuroscience sleep series that explains how the brain actually works through immersive storytelling and real cognitive science.

🎧 Best experienced with sleep headphones
🌙 Includes extended ambient audio for overnight listening
🧠 New episodes explore different brain regions, systems, and states of consciousness

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