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.
4 comments:
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".
I doubt transcendental meditation requires an actual stoke, but the language she used was similar.
That's not what I meant. Silly goose.
You two are so cute.
I hope all your communication isn't done via computer though. :)
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