Amazing Journey

This is a pretty remarkable video.  Dr. Jill Taylor, a brain researcher at Harvard, describes what it is like to have a cerebral hemorrhage from the inside.  It takes a bit to get going and does suffer from a bit of New Age-y mumbo jumbo talk, but it is pretty fascinating to hear what it is like to have your left hemisphere detach from the right hemisphere.  It's also an interesting discussion for any of us who have been involved in a creative enterprise such as painting, writing music, etc., where we are frequently trying to get away from our conscious selves, turn off our internal critic and tap into something that creates our best works of art.  Takes a bit of time, but worth the time.

(Note:  I realized that I am being a bit imprecise here.  The left and right cerebral hemispheres are separate already but they are connected by the corpus callosum.  What she is describing is the effects of a hemorrhage that effectively shut down that communication.)