Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor

I can encourage you because you're a part of me.

And then the left hemisphere comes online and says, oh, Jill, that is so inappropriate for you to say.

And he has his body space and I have my body space.

And we need to be formal and we need to right and wrong and good and bad.

And we need to establish how the construct of the social norm is that we are now going to take the mass of all that we are and fit ourselves in that so that we can communicate with one another and run a world.

He recognizes it is me.

It is I. And he comes to my home.

And back in those days, we had managed care.

So you have to go to the right place or you don't get coverage.

So he took me there and then they took a picture of my brain and then they they put me in an ambulance and sent me to Mass General Hospital.

And as and I'm still curled up in a little fetal ball going, hold on, hold on.

And I was slowing down and I knew that I was becoming weaker and weaker.

And I wondered how detached from my own ability, my own body can a person become before they can never get back inside this tiny little body?

Because I felt that I was literally energetically as big as the universe.

It showed a... Major hemorrhage in the left half of the brain.

Yeah, about that size.

Actually, it was a little bigger than that on that day.

But two and a half weeks later when they removed... That's why we have a golf ball.

A golf ball-sized blood clot from the left half of my brain two and a half weeks later, December 27th.

And then I woke up and I had this huge hemorrhage.