Posted by Mitch on July 31, 2001, at 0:40:40
In reply to Re: Brain Hemisphere Switching-more WHAT if's, posted by susan C on July 30, 2001, at 14:14:20
> Building left Brain Power by Bragdon and Gamon got me thinking on this idea of right left business and has info on studies of people whose brains were surgically separated (to keep big Epileptic seizure from traveling to other side) One hand slapped face, because one side of brain was awake and wanted to wake up other side...very interesting info when combined with webside mentioned earlier.. I think if only we could really record carefully what we experience, we could find answers. I find your comparison to the two different combo of med and how you felt very interesting. The other day I was talking with spouse and said, you remember 15 years ago we were doing this and I felt this way, well, that is the same way I felt a week ago....the same thing was happening. I know something is going on in my brain. I have gotten that far. I know there isn't very much information yet, and I am trying not to give up. Thanks for the conversation. I look forward to more when ever you have some ideas.
Well, that is pretty damn interesting! You see the PROBLEM is that the right brain isn't generally verbal. It would be like trying to write a novel with pure emotions (without words) or something. You CAN'T SHARE THAT like you can a book or an email! And to complicate things further there probably isn't the same sense of TIME/HISTORY in the right hemisphere (if there is a sense of time at all!). I understand that *emotional* memories are THERE to access, but HOW do we actually manage that *database*??
Well here is another interesting tidbit of info-my sister, brother, my mother, my grandmother and myself (to a much lesser extent) have problems with dyslexia. It was severe in my sister's case-she would right down telephone numbers incorrectly-but would see them and dial them correctly. I picked up her telephone book years ago and dialed my other sister's number-and got someone else! She dials the incorrect numbers (as she has written them) correctly. Also, my grandmother named my mother Juanita-but she misspelled it as Jaunita-and it stuck! I have told my Mom for ages that it is wrong and she insists that it is correct. My grandmother was the only one in our family which was hospitalized for psychotic depression and had ECT. My Mom had generalized nocturnal epilepsy between *pregnancies*.
The *trick* is REALLY the RECORDING of unusual experiences like you mentioned.
Mitch
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