A Stroke of Insight

December 11, 2009 by Amy Anderson · 4 Comments 

Image by Kip May

Image by Kip May

On December 10, 1996, Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor woke up with a pounding, pulsating pain behind her left eye. She was hypersensitive to light, and her hands were curled up like claws. “It was as though I was witnessing myself having this experience rather than me being the person having this experience,” she says.

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