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Holy Shit: My Stroke of Insight

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IcePointa
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Not mine exactly, but this chick's. Neurologist analyzes her own stroke in her left hemisphere, which sounds exactly like a psychadelic experience, and comes out with a new perspective on life. Watch this shit.

Mar 25 2008 5:12PM
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IcePointa
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http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/229

Heres the link for if the embed doesn't load right.
Mar 25 2008 5:13PM
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buchanan.
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holy shit that was deep
Mar 25 2008 6:49PM
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IcePointa
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That website has all kinds of very profound and insightful videos on all kinds of topics, its probably going to keep me busy all week.
Mar 25 2008 6:53PM
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eheath
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That was amazing, so crazy. The brain is so interesting but so hard to learn.
Mar 25 2008 7:18PM
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eheath
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bump, people need to watch this.
Mar 26 2008 12:24AM
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Alex_G
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that was sick
Mar 26 2008 1:34AM
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garrett.
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sooo fucking sick
Mar 26 2008 1:43AM
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Arabian.
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Sounds like an LSD experience if I ever heard one. Sucks that she had to have a stroke to realize it though.

Great post.
Mar 26 2008 2:02AM
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scientist
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psychadeliccccc
Mar 26 2008 2:15AM
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unchyll
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that sounded kind of like a bad acid trip
Mar 26 2008 2:20AM
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dave44
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How does she remember all this though? If the left hemisphere is what "connects you to the external world", then how does she remember what was around her? Sure, she seems to remember everything happening within herself but the right hemisphere - according to her - simply picks bits of information from th left hemisphere. So if she wasn't connected to the outer world, the then-present, how does she remember all this?

This is deep shit.
Mar 26 2008 3:38AM
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Ginger.Kid
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woah. after watching this i think ive realized that salvia just kinda kills ur left brain for a lil while. i think ill pass on the stroke...
Mar 26 2008 7:37AM
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General_Shredgnar
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Icepointa always finds the most obscure and mindblowing videos.
Mar 26 2008 8:08AM
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fourhundred
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into my threads
Mar 26 2008 8:25AM
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Owen.
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That was mind-blowing... the concept of being huge and expansive and all that was kind of confusing, but every now and then I'd get a flash of insight, then lose it again...
Mar 26 2008 8:43AM
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user098123
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Pretty crazy shit. I still don't know what I feel about it. She makes it seem like you can just switch back and forth between your left and right brain hemispheres. I don't know how possible that would ever be without the use of mind inhibiting drugs.
Mar 26 2008 9:37AM
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skierdudeguy
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doesnt work, using the link when i get home from school. mythreads
Mar 26 2008 10:01AM
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newschooler7
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That was wicked interesting.
Mar 26 2008 10:41AM
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Arabian.
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The stroke obviously did not affect the Hippocampus region of here brain which is memory storage and spatial navigation. As a rule, regions of the brain such as the temporal and the occipital all occur on both hemishperes of the brain, thus their ability to function seperately. Since here stroke only cut off the left hemisphere, the hippocampal region on the Right hemisphere remained intact, and so did her memory.

As a response to the last part of your post, the Right brain defines self existence. The left brain defines self individualism. The Right hemisphere acknowledges your sense of life and sensory perception, and the Left hemisphere defines where the boundaries of your perception are... ie. where your hands stop, the color range, tonal range and the reasons WHY.
Mar 26 2008 1:05PM
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freestyler540
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The experience was really interesting, but the whole section on what type of person we should be (right or left hemisphere) and world peace confused me.

Mar 26 2008 1:44PM
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hollygrove
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bump
just saw this for the first time.

and you're right, my times on acid have been similar to what she describes.
Oct 18 2009 6:14PM
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ROOS.
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i love those ted lectures, the one about the guy who swam across the north pole is so crazy. That website is a smorgasbord of knowledge
Oct 18 2009 7:38PM
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prontocuts.com
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holy shit i cant handle the way she talks, im trying so hard to listen, but DEAR GOD
Oct 18 2009 8:28PM
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alaskakid
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This TED is really sick, but you guys should check out all the other ones. There's plenty that are as good or better than this one. Excellent way to kill time!
Oct 18 2009 8:32PM
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Snowcase
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I've been watching TED for a while. I kind of lost touch with it in the past year though.
Oct 18 2009 8:41PM
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MLB
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it was on CBC a while ago....pretty crazy shit. How she had to force her self not to be in a stroke.
Oct 18 2009 8:44PM
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