Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor

So I'm walking across my living room and every step is rigid.

And it's as though I'm having to tell my legs to move, move, coordinate, move.

And as I'm getting into the shower, as I'm lifting my leg, it literally was this conversation going on inside of my body of, okay, you muscles, you contract, you muscles, you relax.

And I literally lost my balance as I was in the shower.

And I'm leaning up against the wall and I go and I turn the water on.

I just pull out this nozzle and the water hit the tub and the volume was so amplified that I fell backwards.

It was like energy just knocked me over.

I'm leaning up against the wall and I'm looking at my arm and I'm realizing I can no longer define the boundaries of where I begin and where I end.

I'm just atoms and molecules blending with the atoms and molecules of the wall.

And about this time, your audience is thinking, man, this sounds like some kind of a high trip, you know?

Yeah.

Psilocybin, maybe.

That's what I usually get.

But not having had that experience, I can't speak to it.

But if you've ever had that experience, it is the dissolving of the boundaries of where we begin and where we end as a biological creature.

Because we are this massive conglomeration of these cells and the energy of the life of those cells.

And a group of cells literally in that left hemisphere where the hemorrhage was happening, they had gone offline.

So I could no longer define the boundaries of where I begin and where I ended.

So eventually I get out of the shower and I go into my bedroom and I mechanically dress.

I just somehow get dressed.