How it feels to have a stroke

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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[socksnundies]

I believe you lady. I've experienced something like this. Not as intense. I'm a changed man now, life is good. My wife has changed too. It rubs off on other people. I'm pretty sure my cat has also changed for the better lol.

[IvoryGuru]

Spiritual journey through stroke = Thunderous Applause

Spiritual journey through mushrooms = Federal Offense

[super6plx]

@super6plx sorry having a stroke IS compulsary.. not your decision, out of your control, is what I meant to say

[super6plx]

@IvoryGuru dumbass, having a stroke isn't compulsory. she didn't have a spiritual journey, her brain fucking turned off, missfired, and caused her to experience strange visions.

deliberately destroying your brain is a federal offence for a reason, holy shit

[JEDIWEBSERVICES]

@derekxnl I agree!

[derekxnl]

This is one of the most inspirational speeches I've ever heard.

[sporo2000]

@prinzdubs The proper title is Who are We? or Who am I? This is the actual title of the presentation which is displayed at the very end of the video. It is the correct and most enlightening title.It is what she chose herself and what she answered at the end.

Discovering the answer to Who are we? or Who am I? is what the stroke of insight was truly about, and what prompted her to write the book and give this presentation. You might look up Atma Vichara

[robin56]

@jeebzPB That's sorta true because certain drugs unlock the very parts of your brain that mis-firing neurons can. Ya think?

[Piitsi]

@NiteSaiya I agree she was definitively tripping balls. However she did experience what you might say is an "ego death". When she lost her identity she felt that she was more than her personality and of course she is right there. We are our intellect but our cells too and we are connected to what is around us. Even if she went saying a way more than that in her presentation I still think there is a grain of great insight beneath the new-agey mumbo jumbo.

[jeebzPB]

Sorry Mrs. Taylor, but what you have witnessed are the effects of L.S.D. (: