What Is the Experience of Being a Mass Nut?

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Jill, i had a major hemorrhage in the left half of my brain. And over the course of four hours, I had a blood clot grow to size of a fist. By doing so, it shut down my language, my definition of me as an individual. So i essentially became an infant in a woman's body. All my relationships in the external world, they were wiped out. The external world was no longer important to me. I just became this massiv energy ball. It took eight years for me to rebuild my left brain skill - using my ragt brain abilities.

Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor is a Harvard-trained and published neuroanatomist. In 1996, Jill experienced a severe hemorrhage in the left hemisphere of her brain, causing her to lose the ability to walk, talk, read, write, or recall any of her life. John Britton is a former anesthesiologist who suffered a right brain injury leaving him with only his left brain to function. After hearing Jill’s previous episode on this show, John contacted Eric and they thought it would be interesting to host a conversation with John and Dr. Bolte Taylor to discuss their respective experiences.

In this episode, Jill, John, Ginny, and Eric talk about what it’s like to experience the world through your right brain vs. your left brain and how they come together to make for whole-brain living.

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Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, John Britton, and I Discuss Right Brain Injury vs Left Brain Injury and…

The functions of and interaction between the right and left hemispheres of the brain
How the left brain governs past and future, me the individual, details, boundaries, language
That the right brain governs the present, the “we” collective, connections, expansive, and openness
The way the two hemispheres of our brain interact with one another in a healthy brain
How John experienced the world before, during, and after his right brain injury
The most helpful rehabilitation approach for John post his injury
Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor’s experience of her left hemisphere traumatic brain injury and her recovery story

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