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Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor

lines on the record: 62
first: 2025-04-09
most recent: 2025-04-09
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“Well, when I turn on the shower, the volume of the sound of the water as it hit the tub was just amplified and the loudness just knocked me back and knocked me over. And I realized at that point that I'm having a major problem and it is involving my auditory system. And as a neuronatorist, I know, of course, where the fibers are in the circuitry. And at this point, I'm becoming alerted to the fact that I'm having a real problem and it could possibly be life-threatening.”
2025-04-09 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor: “My Stroke of Insight” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I knew something was going on, but I didn't know because I've never had a hemorrhage. I've never had a stroke, so I couldn't know that that was what I was having. So I just thought, okay, I'm just going to watch this for a while. So I got off of the machine and I noticed that everything in my body had slowed way down. And my thoughts had slowed and my body was deliberate and rigid. And there was a constriction in my area of perception. I was living outside of Boston where it's noisy. I had no perception of noise. And I just became tuned into the workings of my body. So it was very interesting. And through the eyes of a neuronatomist, it's very interesting. You have to understand this is like interesting. Very fascinating. It was fascinating.”
2025-04-09 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor: “My Stroke of Insight” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, there was this shift in perception, a shift in consciousness where I was essentially wit what became a witness to myself being on this machine, having this experience. And just the entire perception was odd.”
2025-04-09 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor: “My Stroke of Insight” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, I'm not a person to get headaches. I exercise regularly. I had zero warning signs for stroke for us all because blood pressure is fine, my weight was fine, my exercise was fine, everything was fine. And I should throw in there that it was a hemorrhagic stroke, not a blood clot ischemic stroke because it does make a difference in how it manifests in the body. But this was a congenital problem with the blood vessels that I was born with So I started my normal exercise routine”
2025-04-09 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor: “My Stroke of Insight” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Is that You know, to get yourself a few more minutes Yes, and it pulsed at my head, it burned my brain. It was very uncomfortable. And it was very unusual for me to have any kind of pain. So I...”
2025-04-09 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor: “My Stroke of Insight” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, you want the beginning. But you read it. But it said that much. But they didn't. Let me tell you what happened. Kill the story. Okay.”
2025-04-09 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor: “My Stroke of Insight” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And there we are. So do what you can do while you're here because this is, you know, a gift, but it's a very fine night experience.”
2025-04-09 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor: “My Stroke of Insight” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, drug me. Oh no, I want to watch. You want to watch things? I want to watch the whole thing. I want to have the experience. And I almost did. So be careful what you ask for. Be careful what you ask for. Be careful what. So you had no particular...”
2025-04-09 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor: “My Stroke of Insight” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No. What we were here to do as human beings. No, I didn't put myself in a box. And I was open to the possibility. And I always wanted to be awake when I died because I thought that that would be a really cool experience. And I wanted to have that widow. I say the book.”
2025-04-09 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor: “My Stroke of Insight” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Stroke? I would describe myself as spiritual but not religious. I grew up. My father was a retired minister. And so I went to church because I had to go to church and it didn't really resonate with me. But I could put myself in a bigger picture, but it wasn't well defined.”
2025-04-09 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor: “My Stroke of Insight” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Board of Directors for NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, and there was a lot of meaning in my life because I was doing something that could make a difference in the lives of people like my brother.”
2025-04-09 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor: “My Stroke of Insight” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But before the stroke, I was, I grew up to study the brain because I have a brother diagnosed with schizophrenia, and he's only eighteen months older than I am, so he was my constant companion as a child. So my introduction to the world was through his eyes as well as through my own. And I recognized as a little girl that he was very different in the way he perceived experiences around and then chose to behave. And just his overall way that he put the world together. It was different from mine. So I became very highly tuned into body language, tone, how people interact with one another, what people found of value, how they made the decisions that they made. So at the time of the hemorrhage, though, I was at Harvard Medical School teaching and performing research, my area of specialty was the postmortem investigation of the brain as it relates to schizophrenia. And I was serving on the...”
2025-04-09 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor: “My Stroke of Insight” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source