My stroke of insight | Jill Bolte Taylor | TED

Why HN readers recommended it

Recommended as a vivid first-person view of the right hemisphere in control, often linked to meditation and non-dual experience.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

TED

Topic

stroke and consciousness

Format

talk

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

2

HN mentions in dataset

5

Recommendation years in dataset

2010–2024

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• Yes, some forms of meditation, in particular "open awareness" is said to give more space to the right hemisphere. I highly recommend this video if you want to hear about what life is when the right hemisphere is in control, especially for people who have …

• Thank you for mentioning Stephenson. I haven't read him other than Snow Crash, and I don't think I finished it. Googling Anathem brought me to this blog review of it: [LINK] which reminded me of this NIH neuro anatomist who studied her own stroke, including …

• This is like saying sleeping is a "waste of time, how can I be more productive during my sleep?". "clearing the mind", aka Shamatha without an object, has been compared to deep sleep but also a space where insights happen. You should give it a …