Sara Imari Walker
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And like how existential that experience was transitioning because like that's really depressing.
Like you see a world of color, then everything's black and white.
It's like you're living in a movie or something.
But like the story was about how they were an artist and like they came to understand the world quite differently.
And you can see a lot more shadow and light and like you start paying attention to different detail.
But I mean, it's just mind blowing that that can happen.
And then you have to completely readjust your experience to reality because now you see the world differently.
That's probably pretty traumatic.
Yeah, that's right.
Yeah, that's crazy.
I, yeah, I like to, you know, when I started thinking about how people think differently, I was like, I think I was listening to a podcast running one day and it's like, you know, like imagine an apple and now taste the apple.
And I was like, I can imagine an apple.
I can see an apple in my brain and I can bite in the apple, but I cannot taste it.
I cannot imagine tasting food.
And, and this was really perplexing to me because like, I never thought about the fact that like inside my head, I don't have taste.
I only have taste when I'm eating food.
I can definitely taste things.
But but it just it's like, you know, like it's like a weird thing about my brain.
But like, I don't know how common that is.