My Stroke Of Insight. “Will Shatter Your Perception Of The World”
The astonishing New York Times bestseller that chronicles how a brain scientist’s own stroke led to enlightenment
Dr. Jill Taylor leaned against the shower wall, moving her arms in slow motion. She couldn’t tell where her arms ended and the wall began. Everything was made of colors that flowed in and out of each other.
Oh wow, she said. Oh wow.
She could see the atoms that made up everything. Including herself.
The whole world had just become magic in a way she could never have imagined and she was mesmerized. Kept moving her arms in slow motion, watching the atoms, the colors. Swirling into each other.
Anyone else said something like that, you might think they were tripping. Flying high on something. But no. She was a Harvard neuroanatomist and she was just getting ready for work like she did every morning. When this happened.
She’d woken that morning with a pain behind her left eye. Shook it off and put on her morning coffee. She jumped in the shower and that’s when her whole world tilted on its axis. She would never be the same again.
