Derek (Radiolab interviewee)

If I want to experience flying, I can imagine it.

And it's kind of like really flying.

There were stars coming from the center of my vision to the outer edge of my vision, or even planets.

It depends on what I'm passing by.

Large clouds that are like pink and yellow and maybe a little bit of blue mixed in there.

I can feel the coolness of the air as it hits my skin.

Kind of like a sound.

I could make it red or I could make it green or golden.

I could make light radiate off of it.

Like right now, I think it's interesting to like make a cloud of thunderbolts coming off of the top of the apple.

And now there's like a village with people and they're like running away from the storm because there's a tornado dropping down from the cloud.

And there's one guy that jumped off of the apple and now he's falling into this ocean down below the apple.

I'm about to be 30.

Massachusetts.

I could just live in my head and imagine whatever I wanted.

It was like living in virtual reality or whatever you want to call it.

My mom and I, we were pretty poor.

We stayed in a homeless shelter for a short while.

We didn't really stay in one place for very long.

So I never got to know people.