Jill Bolte Taylor, a Harvard neuroanatomist, eavesdropped on her own stroke. As I wrote the day of her talk, she walked us through what she felt and thought while her brain was going wild, from the borderline-metaphysical ("I can't define where I begin and where I end") to the borderline-hilarious ("I'm a busy woman. I don't have time for a stroke"). Her description of her time in that strange state, caught between two worlds, the rare researcher who has been able to chronicle a brain-changing event from the inside, was astonishing.
Take the 20 min, you won't regret it.
I wonder if this is what transcendental meditation is all about, traversing to the other hemisphere of the brain and tapping into what she coins as "nirvana".
ReplyDeleteI doubt transcendental meditation requires an actual stoke, but the language she used was similar.
ReplyDeleteThat's not what I meant. Silly goose.
ReplyDeleteYou two are so cute.
ReplyDeleteI hope all your communication isn't done via computer though. :)