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by jerryr 2165 days ago
If you enjoyed this article, you might also enjoy The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks. It’s a book of essays about brain function and disorders, but each begins with an individual who exhibits particularly unusual symptoms. They don’t have tidy resolutions like this article, but the book is well-written and engaging—-as are the rest of Dr. Sack’s writings.
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Just started reading this. It's really sucked me in, but it also fills me with a sort of biological dread. Something goes wrong with your brain-meat and suddenly you find yourself teleported 40 years into the future every time you look in the mirror, or become an unstuck, powerless spirit inside your own body.