Cranial Nerve VIII – Reorienting Water: The vestibulocochlear nerve, the eighth cranial nerve, transmits sound and balance from the inner ear to the brain.
The vestibulocochlear nerve develops in the embryo from a thickened disc on the ectodermal surface of the head.
The vestibule is the central part of the inner ear.
The inner ear is fluid-filled.
The vestibule is in between the cochlea and the semi-circular canals.
The sound-perceiving cochlea is nautilus-shaped.
The balance-perceiving semi-circular canals are spatially oriented in three different planes.
Internally, both the cochlea and semi-circularw canals have hair cells.
These inner hair cells are responsible for the translation of sound or spatial position into neural transmission.
With sound or movement these hairs undulate like seaweed.
Therefore, the perception of sound and balance are water-based.
The cochlea, vestibule and semi-circular canals are situated spatially in such a way as to give rise to a point of awareness.
This point of awareness relates to the same point of awareness generated by the eyes and optic nerves.
From a subconscious self point of view, the vestibulocochlear nerve generates balance and hearing.
From a traumatized subconscious self point of view, the vestibulocochlear nerve cannot generate a balanced sense of listening.
From a traumatized subconscious self point of view, the psyche is compelled to interpret rather than listen.
From a traumatized subconscious self point of view, reorientation is not tolerated in the psyche.
When the subconscious self is empty, there is no narrative in the psyche.
When the subconscious self is empty, the vestibulocochlear nerve reorients water.
