Dimensions
In a two-dimensional world, an observer placed on the two-dimensional plane would not see two-dimensional but mono-dimensional figures.
That is, it would not see squares and circles but only the mono-dimensional projection of these, that is, it would only see straight lines.
For an observer to perceive two-dimensional figures, the point of view must be on a third dimension.
In the same way an observer who was in a three-dimensional plane would see the projection of three-dimensional figures or the projection of cubes and spheres like squares and circles.
In order to appreciate three-dimensional figures, the point of view must necessarily be in a fourth dimension.
This means that "perception" is in a fourth dimension, where our point of view is.
Indeed, this dimension that we call "consciousness" is outside the three dimensions and it is a point of view "on" the three dimensions.