Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor

So I closed the curtains and I thought, well, let's get my blood flowing.

Maybe I'll feel a little better.

So I jumped onto my cardio glider, which was a whole body full exercise machine.

But I'm looking at my hands and realizing that my hands look like primitive claws.

grasping onto the bar and I look at my body and I'm thinking, whoa, I'm a weird looking thing.

And my perception of reality shifted away from my perception of being the one on the machine having my normal morning experience to, wow, I was witnessing myself having this experience.

And

And I'd never had that happen before.

And I thought, OK, so this isn't helping.

So I get off the machine and I head across my living room table.

And I'm realizing every movement is very rigid and very precise.

And I'm actually kind of directing.

I felt very robotic getting into the bathroom.

So I remember pulling on the water.

And when the water came out, it smashed into the tub

And the volume just reverberated in my brain.

It was so loud.

The sound was amplified and it pushed me against the wall.

But when the volume hit, I'm a neuroanatomist.

So what that means is that I'm teaching students about all of the anatomy here and which fibers are coming in and going where and what is the tracks of everything.