Where do feelings come from?

Your ears have ear drums and there are nerves attached to the ear drums the nerves pick up the sound and carry the message to your brain and your frontal lobe comprehend what the words mean. After you comprehend you decide if it is going to hurt your or make you feel better(in simplest terms, fight or flight) then your brain sends the signal to your body with A) hormones or B) neurotransmitters. So when you make out with a hot lady you get dopamine which is not with the ears but the lips and what ever else is touching and the end product is dopamine and maybe epinephrine. When you smoke a cigarette you get a large does of dopamine same with meth but meth is billions and billions times more than cigarettes. But drug usage will cause chemical dependancy which means you stop making happy feeling neurotransmitters and just make them when you have the drug in your body. Hormones are long term and not always noticed as neurotransmitters are. For example stress can cause bad feeling neurotransmitters but then that eventually causes cortisol which is a hormone that is activated from too many neurotransmitters.

I think that is all I have to say about that but I think I maybe did not explain the difference between hormones and neurotransmitters very well.

It depends on what you mean by "come from". If you mean "what makes emotions possible", then the answer is simple, the brain. If you don't have a brain, you don't have emotions.

If you mean "what makes the brain trigger certain emotions", then it's whatever affects the brain, like drugs, the environment, etc. Whatever changes the brain will cause emotional changes too. When you see a horror movie, it affects you emotionally. Why? Because you perceive it, you represent it and representing always has an emotional aspect. You are not representing a poisonous snake completely if you do not include that it can kill you. To put it another way: our concept of a snake includes the fear it causes. One other example, when someone takes a drug, say, Valium, the chemicals that are in it affect the brain at the connections between brain cells. It's effect is EMOTIONAL. That piece of matter (the pill) makes you feel SPECIFIC emotions. It produces euphoria, one of the most intense emotions!

There is nothing special to emotions. They are part of the material world like everything else. And like everything else we represent the brain ALONE makes it happen.

It IS from your brain. That's where thoughts and words are created and stored. You need those in order to process your feelings. Emotions are triggered, endorphins are flowing correspondingly to the situation at hand, your neurons are running through past experiences and all the experienced sensations, simultaneously words are analyzed and sentences formed. This is just a brief mentioning of some of the things you are doing RIGHT NOW. You really should look into the brain more. It's pretty damn amazing.

Aside from that you really should note that there is no difference between "you" and your brain so really you could simply say feelings come from you, just YOU. Why go into further detail?

That is a great question, and so many religions believe it comes from different things... for me, I believe "gut" feelings comes from the wisdom of your mind. I believe that we all have some sort of "sixth sense" and that plays a big role. Like I can feel emotions by just standing near someone. We only use a small part of our brains, so what if we used all of it? Religion: I HAVE NO IDEA!!!, lol

Deeeeeeep Inside....

Feelings are memories attached to emotions ,,,