How it feels to have a stroke

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http://www.ted.com Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened -- as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding -- she studied and remembered every moment. This is a powerful story about how our brains define us and connect us to the world and to one another.

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Why is it hippie ... ( 1 week ago by UcanbeGOD)

Why is it hippie crap? You honestly think that we aren't all connected? She did explain why it was happening. Everybody loves to bash someone for thinking we should be good too each other even though there is a common ground between all things and there is scientific proof for it. Many people claim this same idea for reasons less scientific and you bash this?!?!?!

She is very ... ( 1 week ago by Lethah)

She is very generous and strong to share this experience with us, far ahead of how we normally understand the brain, our lives, and our place in the world.

i think we all know ... ( 1 week ago by killlerkan08)

i think we all know what happened here.
Here uncle did "things"

she made it sound ... ( 1 week ago by derk2)

she made it sound like having a stroke was a gift and a curse, i'd rather not experience nirvana in a life or death situation. I'd rather would like to choose between the the squabble and reasoning of the natural world that's projected by the left lobe of the brain and the energetic harmony that is projected by the right freely. but maybe that's why they're linked so that we can experience them both and not lose ourselves to one side because too much of one is likely to consume and detach you

why do people with ... ( 1 week ago by reivilo)

why do people with this experience (either through trauma or meditation) alway raise their arms like that? an instinct or spiritual recollection?

yes once you got ... ( 1 week ago by happydappyman)

yes once you got into one side it is likely you would not know to go back to both and so be trapped. not cause you were actually trapped but because you would not know to go back

she could probably ... ( 1 week ago by happydappyman)

she could probably not have talked to herself or been aware of anything if she lost the left entirely... maybe

think how good you ... ( 1 week ago by happydappyman)

think how good you could be at math f you temporarely switched to the left side of your brain

you understand what ... ( 1 week ago by Ayinde2853)

you understand what i mean then. her left brain - if we accept the way she explaind it - didn't stop functioning. it started working differently. self awareness is not a bad thing but a good thing! and - realizing our connectedness to all that is, that is extremely good as well. We need both.

Yea I wonder too. ... ( 1 week ago by mesmerxx)

Yea I wonder too. Looks like a retard whoever does that. I mean WTF. Her arms are not birds wings.

Fantastic speaker! ( 1 week ago by PilferMusic)

Fantastic speaker!

cool ( 6 days ago by trav10853)

cool

i had a stroke and ... ( 5 days ago by faithm)

i had a stroke and lost my speech (got it back after surgery). it was... interesting. a nurse asked if i was "retarded" or "special" or something, hah. i couldn't speak but i could understand language.

ookayy.... So ... ( 4 days ago by Hyperbulle)

ookayy.... So everything humanity has to do in order to go to nirvana/achieve world peace is to induce haemorrhages in our left hemispheres. Sadly, this seems more like new age than neuro-science. But from a scientific point of view, it is still interesting to hear about her experience.

that is disgusting. ... ( 4 days ago by crazymentalpatient)

that is disgusting. I hope you put in a complaint about her. How dare she.

ah, we weren't ... ( 3 days ago by faithm)

ah, we weren't offended, just shocked. they needed to know if i was really having a stroke or if i was normally like that. my dad just kind of burst into the emergency room. there's not really a graceful way to ask, ya know? I didn't offend me at all. It's easy to understand. I'd rather them ask than assume! my face was limp on one side and i spoke badly, i lost my speech center.

Drugs like lsd can ... ( 3 days ago by stormyandcold)

Drugs like lsd can create a similar feeling of Nirvana without the loss of functions in the body.
It's the point where you experience yourself differently and in new angles of self realisation able to cause immense peace within yourself (providing you have a good trip) and exagerrated spacial awareness. Great vid and insight!

There is such a BIG ... ( 2 days ago by dare2baware)

There is such a BIG message in this video. I have posted it on my BLOG.
Thank you!

yesss....change is ... ( 1 day ago by GodSaveThePres)

yesss....change is coming.. WE ARE ONE

Also what can ... ( 1 day ago by GodSaveThePres)

Also what can create nirvana through remembering that we are not our body, and are much more, and sitting quietly in a state as such, we call it meditation.

Hm, interesting. ( 19 hours ago by whoddaya)

Hm, interesting.

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This women is ... ( 6 hours ago by 0YourBrainIsGod0)

This women is amazing, in the true sense of the word.

Once, during a ... ( 42 minutes ago by DeviousDynamo)

Once, during a particularly bad episode of insomnia I felt the feeling she described of interconnectedness with the universe, as if I was a being of infinite energy. It makes me wonder about the similarities of a sleep deprived mind and a traumatic disruption of brain processes. The sleep process its self is just such a strange part of cognitive biology.

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