Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor is a Harvard-trained and published neuroanatomist affiliated with the University of Indiana. At the age of 37, one morning, she woke up with a throbbing headache due to an exploded blood vessel in the left hemisphere of her brain. As she realized that she is having a stroke attack, she found herself thinking "‘But I’m a very busy woman! I don’t have time for a stroke!’" She took the opportunity to observe and study the brain circuits during her own stroke while keeping herself busy calling for help. In the 4 hours that followed, she witnessed her different brain faculties shutting down one by one but became aware of certain other changes in her self. She desribes the feeling of knowing what a number looked like in her mind, although when she reached up to the phone for help, she could not identify the numbers on the keypad. She remembered knowing what to say in her mind when she was finally able to contact someone for help, but when she said it o