We think.
We listen.
We see (and read)

But parts of our consciousness are pure wave based fields. These fields interact with our environment on a subconscious level.

I have had proof of that in many small ways. But the most impressive was a dream about a foot wide black widow spider in my garage, about twenty feet away fro where I sleep. It had a huge nest. There was no other element in the dream. No bizarre monsters or anything else. Just a giant black widow.

So, I get up the next day and go into my garage. I have two large sets of shelves on both sides of the garage. I took a lantern and started peeking in the corners and looking up at the rafters. I hadn't seen any widows in AZ, at all - only scorpions. Sure enough, under one of the shelves was a HUGE widow spider about 2-1/2 inches wide when including the leg span. Never seen anything that big before and I'm sure it's bite would be really nasty. I killed it. (It laughed off the spider spray easily and had to be squished as it fled, disoriented.)

I could never have seen it with my eyes. It's web was deep under the 3 foot deep shelf. I'm convinced that as I slept my consciousness picked up that signal - much the same way our eyes do. It's all wave based. The black widow is just a field, or a set of fields, really. So our consciousness, also just a field, can detect these as they interface. It identified the signal - and even imparted the fact that this widow was huge. The dream just caricatured it.

Little things like that never cease to amaze me. "The Force" is no mystic energy - it's just a galaxy full of existing, interfacing electromagnetic fields. ;D