Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And I felt suddenly weak.
And I thought, okay.
So I got up and light was...
kind of burning on my eyes.
It was, I didn't want light in the morning that day.
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