Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor

So 9-1-1 didn't exist for me.

So I had to, when I would come back into the left hemisphere consciousness, then I would, I got to my phone and I have a phone pad here and I spent 45 minutes waffling in and out right hemisphere, left hemisphere.

And finally, I found my business card that had my phone number of work.

And I had to set the pad of the phone pad up against right next to the business card and match the shapes, the squiggles, in order to figure out how to call my office because I had no idea what numbers were.

I said, this is Jill.

I need help.

And what came out of my mouth was...

And then I thought, oh my God, I sound like a golden retriever.

And then he spoke to me and I thought, oh my God, he sounds like a golden retriever.

I had had a golden retriever and they're very verbal.

So I knew at that point, I did not know, because I could still hear myself, my language inside of my brain.

Language is very complex in this because different cells do different things.

And in this left thinking portion, we can read, we can write.

Those are completely different circuitries.

We can speak.

We can comprehend when others speak.

I mean, it's complex.

So this is a busy, busy, busy place.

But as long as this is the only portion of our brain that we value, then we live based on the values of that portion of the brain.

And what that brain values is me and mine.