The Human Brain

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The Human Brain may be more complex then even I thought.

I died from a massive stroke 4 years ago. At least my brain did. I lost around 20 percent of my brain cells. I was able to get much of it back, but it took an incredibly amount of work. But that was not the first time. When I was a child of around age 4, I also died. I was attacked by a large bull. I was a small child and it hit me in my skull. The bull weighed around 100 times my weight and it was like being attacked by a dinosaur. At the time, I experienced what is known as a Near Death Experience. I entered consciousness a couple hours after it happened and didn't understand what was going on. I stood next to my dead body. My parents had moved me into my small bedroom and laid my body next to my bed. And I stood next to my dead body. There was a voice. A voice said "live or die, choose?" I could not stand the fear in the body of my parents and I said Live.

After my stroke 4 years ago, I lost my knowledge of written words. They broke apart right in front of my eyes. Even the letters broke apart into pieces and then reassembled themselves into an entirely different alphabet system. One that I could not read. But if that wasn't bad enough, I also lost my knowledge of words. This is known as Aphasia and I had one of the worse forms. A good example is what happened to Bruce Willis.



Another example is shown here. (but you will have to activate the voice mode)

Bruce Willis Sings with Family in MOVING Birthday Video

Interesting! Though tragic :/

What did you learn from those experiences?

I had a brain stem bleed and lost my balance and coordination.
I've been able to get it all back and play golf!
But, it was a very long slow process, much like kids go through.
I find it helps to wear high heels to improve my balance.

Actually I learned quite a bit about the human brain. It is a lot more complex then anyone can believe.

Yes, there was another person who had a brain stem bleed, a really bad one. She came back but as an entirely different person. She came back as a right side brain. It was her right half that returned. She wrote two very interesting books. The first was called My Stroke of Insight. She suffered a very dramatic brain bleed alone in her apartment and was unable to get help. She couldn't walk, couldn't communicate and was in the process of dying. After almost 4 hours, she managed finally to get help. This book describes the events of Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor stroke. But her second book called Whole Brain Living was even more interesting. She describes how the brain works and identifies the multiple people (personalities) that exist in our brains.