Posted by fallsfall on March 14, 2004, at 10:26:50
In reply to Re: delusion » dondon, posted by tinydancer on March 14, 2004, at 6:53:38
I'm in the middle of reading "The man who mistook his wife for a hat" by Oliver Sacks. He is a neurologist. One of the chapters describes a woman who was only able to "see" the right half of her world - she didn't know that there *WAS* a left half. She finally got a wheelchair that would swivel 360 degrees. She would swivel to the right until she saw that half of her plate that she couldn't see before - then she could finish her dinner (well, she could finish half of what was left, because she was still missing the left half of what was left... Read the book - he describes it better than I ever could). She couldn't swivel to the left - because "left" didn't exist for her, so she had to go to the right in almost a whole circle.
No idea if this is related at all to what is going on with you, but your post reminded me of this book.
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