Rebuilding your own mind

[1Delu]

She sounds these fucking evangelicals

[primalinstinct1000]

DMT!!1

[Sharongrace71]

My mom had a stroke - She had it on the right side stroke wo the Left side works and the right side doesn't. She doesn't feel euphoria she feels separate and alone and completely isolated. What do we do about this to help her bring back her right side of her brain?

[BluesMamaRaven]

LOL - thanks to Jill, she's described what most RIGHT HEMISPHERE DOMINANT people experience. I also think she's onto something that connects to Autism Spectrum Disorders. God Bless her Spirit, and her beautiful determination to share the revelations of her experience.

[parsleysprigs]

She has made me no longer afraid of death. I'm going to go trip some mushrooms now and see how far I can go without having to almost die to get there. I almost died a few times but I passed out and unfortunately I couldn't even analyze things on that level. She obviously has a very strong mind and spirit. I give her props for even having the capacity to dial a phone with that many obstacles she is obviously a genius anyone else would have perished or simply given into the euphoria.

[frantastic2012]

Is this what all people experience when having a stroke? 

[coolbionicle]

@frantastic2012 Not realy, she experienced her stroke according to the position of the emmorrage. In other words the only way to have it just like her's is to have it in exactly the same area of the brain.

[ItzPkJoHn]

crack cocaine will burn ur brain

jk

[MrJohnthedoe]

cuk yeah symphony of science

[subzero628]

Never took Mushrooms but Sounds like a wicked salvia trip to me but way more in depth it seems like

[defjesta145]

damn hippies

[evilblades]

she reminds me of david sedaris somehow XD

[666fannyfart]

My stroke destroyed my vision and ten months on my mind is still very very strange.....

[marianiiina]

tho im very spiritual :P u just need to be very perceptive about every-day experiences, all the time our brains are judging this senses of 'energy' and in 'intentions' 'feelings', etc etc we just have to give a sense to all of it :)

[marianiiina]

im sure an episode like this is of great insight, but overall i think consiousness and individuality, perhaps even to the extent of collective consciousness, is kinda more interesting, because it stands from the rest of what we actually experience in reality: we are actually all part of everything. makes me recall Baudelaire, who comments about sexuality in living organisms, the "differentiation", distinction from the "whole", the nostalgia in clonation, of non-differentiation, un-individuality

[marianiiina]

there are drugs that make u forget the sense of being an individual, you feel like being part of the chair, floor, air, etc.

[paxcoder]

she totally snapped.

[lucyedinburgh]

To universalist54, I do know that with concussion, I am not the only one that had a heightened awareness about what part of my brain was doing the thinking or telling my body to move. It is almost impossible to explain to someone who has never had the experiance. There is a Center for Brain Injury in Atlanta, Georgia, you might find better answers there if you are really interested.

[lucyedinburgh]

I have had a similar experiance, only with me it was a major concussion. Especially grabbing ahold of the moments of focus and clairity. I found that the more I tried to hold on to those moments, the longer they got. I had a 1 year old son at the time, and I had to take care of him. I still have problems every now and then, but it took me almost 2 years before I could function. I did this alone, I had nobody to help, and the comcussion was from domestic violence, that was not reportable.

[universalist54]

I have almost the same spiritual beliefs which I have reached through scientific knowledge to a point & after that on pure logic.

But she has tried to make people believe as if it were scientific facts that the left hemisphere acts in this particular way & the right does that way. There are no proofs of such working of hemispheres which could be verified by other scientists & experiments. So this misrepresenting is wrong.

If there are any such proofs I'll be much grateful to have them.

[angryafghan]

sounds remarkably like a trip on Salvia Divinorum

[afriendofall]

I don't think brain works in left & right hemispheres so simply & specifically. There are people who have just one hemisphere working & they can perform all jobs like a normal person. So one hemisphere performing the job of two hemispheres.

Her talk is not so scientific though I wish it was so since it would make life so very easy.

Hence all I can say is, on spiritual plane, concepts of Nirvana etc. are attractive & comforting but scientific evidence as per my knowledge defies her theory.

[DauntProductions]

She makes me wish I had her brain damage.

[DjScratchBattery]

wow those TED conferences are simply marvelous. It's great to see amazing minds coming together with personal discoveries and sharing it with the world

[wishdale]

Sounds like a Mushroom Trip, welcome to the other side woman.

[gixxer989]

il take what she take that morning :P

[pr0kidl33t]

Stroke is the new acid!

[tedgi1]

For 1, this chick i swear she was hell baked. 2, fucking how annoying is that voice!

[horning89]

sounds like an acid trip

[BackToPass]

isn't that what happens when you get high?

[BackToPass]

umm i dont read =)

[dirtydog288]

MAKES ME WANT TO HAVE A STROKE :p

[Lorettar]

Amazing!!! all she said here...is true! As a student of life, energy, love and light....I do know....what she is saying....is right!. She explained this so easy to understand...! Awesome.

Namaste

[iAV3RY]

Sounds like someone was really baked.

[deepvibez]

shes cool

[BackToPass]

no, shes a stoner

[smpl90s]

wow wtf... this is absurd

[gtEvilPoke]

sounds like she got high over and over again

[Raneman25]

I'm not afraid of dying anymore.

[BackToPass]

she had a stroke, she didn't die... you should be scared of dying...

[ScreamKat]

This is how I feel ,, all the time! Always watching. I learned very early to try and take ,,control of myself because I knew that the way I was raised was,,,,wrong and harmful. I was being abused. I knew if I didn't exercise the part they "didn't get to" it would take over. Any kind of Nervous system ,,trauma. As long as it isn't overwhelming enough to take all of you, just practice, Meditate,I watch my body all the time acting from past programming and not how I really want.

[joshig1983]

It sounds like she really wants another stroke.

[wattaaa]

LMAO

[grraadd]

and calling 112 would be so easy at the beginning... or dialling last dialled no. from her cell phone.

[SarahLivesHere]

....not in her condition.. her brain wasn't working..*the NDE* was so close, that she almost DIED...numbers were not in her thought processes...

fancy being FULLY CONSCIOUS...experiencing DYING,,yet still able to figure out ...that she needed .. HELP,,to LIVE at all!

God bless you Jill; and thankyou for YOUR sharing your experience...and... teachin... ME... more about how the brain works..

xxx

[smudge6699]

She's having a stroke and knows it!

Most people wouldn't know what was happening to them to be able to deal with one at all.

[marianiiina]

its surely not the best analogy but.... sometimes i do amazing delicate and coherent stuff when im drunk :S my brain loves me so much and i just treat it so bad sometimes

[joyanisa]

Thank you for being willing to and sharing your story of a catastrophe that became a great lesson for you and us all. I am deeply moved.

[JJJPaxton]

people watching this video should see the whole video at TED, what comes later is amazing

[Casper48022]

What/who is TED?

[Casper48022]

Never mind.. Great sight. thanx.

[HardBassZone]

Sorry my bad english

:C

[HardBassZone]

Human brains does haw this are where "hallusinations" are formed and drugs simply stimulates this area.. You can haw efekts and hallusionations like she is telling in video just by meditating but it reguirs lot of training. Training is good to start with some mild drugs like weed. When you know how these hallusinations start when you are stoned you can try to create same efekts when you are sobber. same with mental orgasm wich is much stronger than basick orgasm with ejaculation.

[Divinesally]

Sounds like my Saliva D. trip.

[Spizzazle]

sounds like my mushroom trip

[DaeOh]

Sounds like my mushroom trip, too.

[namesmike]

sounds like my mushroom trip

[motherXfirefly]

this is great hopefully people will watch this that need an eye opening. not everything is what it seems..

[RobotSatellite]

WHOA WTF

was she on drugs lmao

[trickalos]

ok with all this, but what about God? when someone sees smthing that havent seen or hear before he will be amazed, excited and very confused.. All those answers are written to the Bible.. Dont believe me, search it for yourself.

[UglySailormoon]

the reason the woman saw and heared those things was because she was having a stroke..the brain was not fuctioning and affecting the rest of her body from functioning normallly..and she was slowly dying

[fntime]

Is that what happened to your mind?

You are indeed ugly, how do I know, I saw

your favorites, you can only hope, that existence is as ugly as you propose, otherwise

you will realize how foolish and irrelevant

you are!

"Now go home and get your fucken shoe shine

box"

[ejlorge]

If you listen carefully,she is talking about God.

Not a bush-burning Abrahamic God, but God nonetheless-- (if you define God as the ultimate unity of all things).

[ejlorge]

btw: I m responding to trickalos.

[SiliconBong]

ejlorge Good answer : )

[godsend420]

wow acid(lsd) and a stroke sound alot alike

[SolidDance]

well i will stay of the lsd then thank you

[godsend420]

aww i didn't mean to scare you i would at least try it once.

[cyberdaemon]

I would if i could have an access to it.

[godsend420]

im sry to hear that but i cant help on any illegal activities:P but its a life changing experience like what you described only not so bad get a chemist friend maybe?

[caitobaby]

As a kid, I used to make myself 'observe' myself like the experince this woman described on the exercise machine. Until now, I had only been able to describe it as astral travel - but this is much closer.

Kids are very left-brain-less generally, I see it in my own kids. I think when the concepts of language and time are just forming, there is more scope for the right brain to flourish.

[charmmy29]

Your experience has helped me understand how my son's brain works. He is of his right brain. He is always happy and his ego is absent. This is a wonderful thing, but now I find myself panicking and trying to prepare him for the world, which is solely of the ego.Unfortunately, the left brain is rewarded more and I feel like our lives are sort of manufactured for us.

[lovesarita]

hey charmmy29, he may be one of the 'new' children people saying are coming through... you might want to google 'crystal children' (or 'indigo children'). I would let him be rather than panicking - its not the world that's of the ego, it's our interpretation of the world. the world is as it is - and we make of it what we make of it. if he's happy and free of ego... what a gift! many adults spend 1000s of dollars trying to get there! seriously.... a little research might be really helpful

[8data]

lady,if you dont give this talx at UC Santa Cruz you will not get the full effect of your experience in its appropriate academic context

man, i hope to try LSD one day

[8data]

would she bang howard stern

[Judie27]

Jill Bolte Taylor wrote a wonderful book called MY STROKE OF INSIGHT that is as inspiring as "The Last Lecture" or "Tuesdays with Morrie" - and it has a Happy Ending!

Oprah also did 4 interviews with Dr. Taylor to talk about the book.

Amazon has an amazing interview with Dr Taylor that I haven't seen anywhere else - go to Amazon and type in Jill Bolte Taylor

[rofelstijlskin]

that was so freaky!

[Alterstateresearcher]

I am proud to see such a well respected neuroscientist be so candid about their alter state experience. It is more then a blessing to have every molecular facet of our body and mind operating in such harmony in order to keep us grounded in this rather unique state of consicousness.

[pottymouthavenger]

Its not everyday you meet a poet scientist. Isnt that a contradiction of terms?

[frvfilms]

now everyones wana get a one!

[mormonic]

What a crazy old hippie!

[PhoenixTears24]

She's so cool!!

[hoopsfan100percent]

you know she could have been so much better if she toned down all that drama in the beginning. Got so annoying!

[yellowshorebum]

stupid junky!

[DevBlazed]

shrooms did that to me... any near death will do that.

[tylerflick]

definatly shrooms

[mattblack77nz]

3:20 definitely drugs..

[mattblack77nz]

Stroke or LSD?

[celticart]

Beautifully told!

[DRIVEBYSHOTTA]

your totally not funny

[dufferzzzzz]

what the hel did she smoke?

[davidjamesrobertburn]

lay off the drugs lady

[tuckj902]

yeah, very trippy-like

[nickmusic12]

HAHA! SHhhRROOOOOOOMMMZZZ!

[TerraFyah]

woah.. heavy

Blessings Jill

[shodge222]

She was TRIPPING BALLS!

[v00d00child187]

sounds like a mushroom trip to me..

[Bigstar2000uk]

Yup!

[trime1851]

Wooof!!!

[kiensmf]

when shes talking about the exercise machine. she looks like shes slowly shagging someone from behind

[NicNasty1981]

im sure this has been written but that sounds just like some acid trips ive taken

[Ryanomite]

I want to hear more from this woman...she is fascinating to me for some reason.

[ManiacalMediocrity]

for all those comments about this not being "scientific enough", remember the words of einstein:

"science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."

now i'm not saying that this is a religious account, but more of a spiritual one, and i agree with VideoChoreographer that science is about observation - this would include abstract observation as well.

and there's almost nothing more abstractly scientific than brain function. XD

would you call dreams unscientific?

[toamaori]

The structure of the checmical benzene was revealed in a dream to the German chemist F.A. Keule in 1890

[toamaori]

Again the atoms were juggling before my eyes...my mind's eye,sharpened by repeated sights of a similar kind. could now distinguish larger structures of different forms and in long chains,many of them close together; everything was moving in a snake-like and twisting manner. Suddenly...one of the snakes got hold of its own tail and the whole structure was mockingly twisting in front of my eyes. As if struck by lightning, I awoke...Let us learn to dream, and then we may perhaps find the truth

[Orizan]

That happened to me one time.... I ate way to many shrooms

[wizkid6000]

wat drugs were you on?

[Giganfan2k1]

Dude what drugs are you on?

[Abrin19]

I was dead for a minute. No light no outer body experience. nothing. maby i have to wait for a stroke. Liked the story though. A funny way to tell about something terrible.

[toamaori]

It was the same for me Abrin19, it was simply not our time,

[marianiiina]

me too, i wouldnt have noticed if i have died. or maybe i did experience somethin but forgot?

[Zantaer]

That's ridiculous...and she's a brain scientist, man that's crazy

[gigantul]

This sounds like evangelical nut's testimony of near-death experience. Can't we just get little more of science?

[theawesomone]

Her stroke probably did something to her pineal gland which caused a release of DMT. It is thought that DMT could be the cause of near-death experiences.

[VideoChoreographer]

It is a part of science: observation. What you do next with your observations is the next step. And as for the moral implications (if you've watched the full version) that's where science stops and human responsibility starts: what do you do with your knowlege and what do you make of it?

[toamaori]

the primitive way of thinking is "Its not what happens to you its how you REACT to it" but... the advanced synergetic way is.... "Its not what happens to you, but what you CREATE with it"

react vs create, its a choice for us all if we know any better =) "THIS IS SOOO COOOL!" hehe

[dontneed]

She's so lucky to get through it ok.

A stroke can be devastating - my mother eventually died from the effects of a stroke....

[joebloggsgogglebox]

Brilliant!!!!!!

[carolperez]

wow

[ZombieWaffles]

I think this is a good verbal testimony and account of an event many people would not have the backround nor self-awareness to depict in such a way. I could relate to her story despite never having had a stroke.

[toamaori]

great comment!

[hartnell114]

in description is says she mentions recovery,wheres recovery?

[toamaori]

duh hartnell

[WoosterFanGirlRadio]

Omg, your reply comment is so helpful! You should write novels, toamaori! Your intelligence, people skills, and vocabulary are astounding!

=D Not!

[hartnell114]

i did actually understand what he ment :\ that she didnt mentin recovery like it did in the description, a bit like an english box with a japanese film inside :\

[toamaori]

sometimes its the most that people can understand harhar

[toamaori]

she lost the power of speech and language, lost the use of her right arm, and probable many other things she mentioned, so the fact that she can do these things, like walk , talk and reason is where the recovery is :)

[hartnell114]

yeah but how.

[toamaori]

how what?

[gibletparade]

Yeah, I've had hangovers like that too.

[gibletparade]

To all who thumbed-down my comment - I understand your reaction, but I wasn't joking!

I get migraines that affect visual, tactile, and speech. The part about using a phone is particularly reminiscent of when I tried to call in sick one morning. I dialled work using touch alone (jagged colours being distracting), then found I'd lost the ability to speak, then tried to explain that, then gave/hung up.

I could understand them, and I didn't sound like a dog. I called back later to explain.

[TravisMorien]

This is a shortened version of the talk at v=UyyjU8fzEYU posted by TEDtalksDirector