My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey

My interest in this book stems from living with a relatively young stroke survivor, but I seriously question what the author is doing here. She claims to remember so much about what hapened to her during the stroke, including things that happened when she was not conscious. Her thinking 'left' brain had shut down, but she still remembers these events, especially her feelings of nirvana as her right brain was freed from the constricts of the left brain. Well, hogwash! That's certainly not what you hear from a host of other stroke survivors. It sounds in the first part a lot like what scientists speculate happens as a stroke occurs, and the author, of course, was a brain scientist. The nirvana part has apparently led to a new career for the author as she has become something of a nirvana guru, capitalizing on what she says her experience was. Well, good for her. But this is not the book I hoped would shed light on the reality of a stroke for most people. If a stroke truly induces nirvana, perhaps the rest of us are missing out. But my gut feeling is that Taylor is going to leave a lot of stroke survivors wondering why they missed out at this chance for bliss.Show Less