Watching Your Brain Have a Stroke
Posted by Greg at 13:10, 16 May 2008Description:
Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke.
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24 November 2005
2 years 15 weeks
I appreciate all Dr. Taylor went through to reach a full recovery but it's too bad she boils all her experiences down to left brain/right brain. Spirituality and universal consciousness are more than two hemispheres at work. As one who went through THREE near death experiences, I can never, ever attribute everything I experienced to a brain gone wild!
22 November 2004
2 weeks 12 hours
First, you should be careful, so as not to be so close to death. Easy to say, I know. It is not a good thing to be near death.
Perhaps aside from my trivial comment, you could tell us more. If you want to.
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if everything is under control, you are not going fast enough (Mario Andretti)
it's not how fast you go, it's who gets there first
24 November 2005
2 years 15 weeks
You're right about staying away from death,earthling! Seriously,all three events took place because of allergies. The first was a reaction to iodine back in the old days when they used it as a kidney dye.The second was when I was 14 and was stung by a bee.The last occurred when I was 23 and reacted to penicillin.In all three instances I was declared "clinically dead" and had to be revived. In all three cases, I had the all-too-familiar out of body experience and knew exactly what went on.(I watched people working on me.I watched my mother on two of those occasions as she was scrambling around trying to see what was happening.)I never saw dead relatives or a white light at the end of a tunnel. All I can say is that I'm an old lady now and because of those experiences, I have absolutely no fear of death.If this was only left/right brain, how was I able to see these events and have a strong need to "come back"? I'm a health care professional (laboratory scientist)and all the clinical studies in the world will never convince me it was "just my brain still firing".