how do you know you believe what you think?

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how do you know that you believe what you think you do? how do you know you believe what you're thinking? i'm not asking how you know whether it's true, but how you know you believe it. if it is by means of obviousness, please look more carefully before responding.

By thinking it with the non-fictional part of my brain? Thinking of non real things, like the plot of an book, ... simply feels somehow different to me.

This isn't some strange form of solipsism, is it?

how is the plot of a book, for instance, different from the stories you tell yourself about your own life [in the actual experience of thinking]? is it a feeling? are thoughts you believe bigger, louder, a different shape, color, or tone? are they accompanied by other thoughts that seem to confirm them?

I really cant say if I simply feel that way, or if there is an scientific background to it, but thinking non-fictional feels to happen in the area of my brain that is halfway between eyes and ears, from the spot behind the skullbone until an inch deep in the skull.

Thinking about fictional stuff likes book triggers me more far behind, so more of an area behind my ears, but not directly behind the skull, but more in the middle.

And the way that stuff feels for me, is like a very, very soft sense of tiggling. So as if you were medically numbed, so that you almost cant feel anything, and got poprocks on your tongue, that you only mention very damped.