Experience of a stroke (video)



A friend sent me this on June 5, but I only just got around to
looking at it. Ignore the ugly machine music and the applause
in the first ten seconds, if you can. After that, it's very
interesting, much more interesting than I had thought it would
be, and well worth the 18 minutes it takes to watch/listen.

The speaker is a scientist, and is reporting her experience
of her stroke, during which one of her brain hemispheres (the
left, "reasoning" hemisphere) turned off and on repeatedly,
leaving sometimes only her right ("experiential") hemisphere
functioning. The talk sounds a bit new-agey sometimes,
usually a turnoff for cynical old me, but since she is a
scientist, it's truthful enough to almost completely make up
for that. I don't know if she can still do science, but she
has recovered enough to be perfectly lucid and to
communicate plainly her experience of having the stroke.

http://tinyurl.com/3l9h9y



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