How it feels to have a stroke

[Tyguy]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=UyyjU8fzEYU

Very good video, quite interesting

Basically she explains how her brain functions started to deteriorate after having a stroke and what kinds of affects it was causing.

 

[CyberPitz]

That was....wow...awesome.

 

[Ravioli]

sounds like a trip on LSD

 

[Stigmata]

That was a great video.

 

[Krynn72]

She kinda struck me as a nutjob to be honest.

 

[Krynn72]

Jack Thompson often refers to himself as "We". Therefore, ZT IS JACK THOMPSON.

Idunno, she kind of reminded me of a born again christian who puts a lot of undue importance on a trippy event she went through.

 

[MJ12]

Idunno, she kind of reminded me of a born again christian who puts a lot of undue importance on a trippy event she went through.

This is true, but I enjoy people who are peaceful and just want to enjoy life and others around them.

I can't do that so well, so I respect people who truely can.

Jack Thompson often refers to himself as "We". Therefore, ZT IS JACK THOMPSON.

No We are not. But seriously, We were just wondering, you haven't been playing any violent video games have you, Krynn? We are just curious, because you shouldn't be. Not that We are trying to say We are Jack Thompson or anything...

 

[Tyguy]

Not everyone can experience the things that she was going through. This is MILES away from what drugs can usually do. As much as I dont want to have a stroke, Id like to see what exactly she was experiencing

 

[Cpt Tenacious]

When's the good part? I don't feel like watching 20 minutes of video. Also she says the word brain funny.

 

[CptStern]

my dad had something similiar to a stroke ..about 8 years ago ..he's never been the same (he was lucky, he came out relatively unscathed ..at least physically) ..it's not something I would recommend to anyone

 

[nurizeko]

Nut job TBH, she needs to be fired from her scientist job. Don't worry, she can start a cult or join one I dunno.

New age tossers always find a way to get by.

 

[Cpt Tenacious]

Wait, I just watched the whole thing, there is no good part she just sounds like some religious nut.

 

[MJ12]

Trust me guys, if this happened to you, and you came out alive, you'd be telling people about it in the same way, what is she supposed to do? Act all proper and refined? After an insane life altering incident?

No, and I don't expect her to, you'd be just as amazed and taken back if it happened to you.

 

[Smoke]

Is anyone else getting some serious ****ing deja vu reading this thread?

/me's creeped out.

 

[CptStern]

Is anyone else getting some serious ****ing deja vu reading this thread?

/me's creeped out.

maybe it's the lingering side effects from that stroke you had last year...


maybe it's the lingering side effects from that stroke you had last year...


maybe it's the lingering side effects from that stroke you had last year...


maybe it's the lingering side effects from that stroke you had last year...


maybe it's the lingering side effects from that stroke you had last year...






did I say that already?


did I say that already?


did I say that already?

 

[Saturos]

Not everyone can experience the things that she was going through. This is MILES away from what drugs can usually do. As much as I dont want to have a stroke, Id like to see what exactly she was experiencing

You'd better save yourself the embarrassment however and be sure to wear a diaper if you seriously want to see exactly what a stroke victim experiences one day. :dozey:

This one chick that was once in my class in HS had a stroke in the cafeteria. She started throwing fits, convulsing, and pissing her trousers everywhere while flopping on the ground.

She was too out of her mind I think to realize where she was at when the EMTs came, but I'm sure she was thoroughly humiliated when she finally came to and realized what happened. :|

 

[CyberPitz]

My Grandpa had a stroke, completely fried his memory. He is just now getting to the point of remembering the grandkids.

My old boss, she was awesome, but she had a stroke and couldn't remember anything after 1975. She thought she had to get up and get to school, still. Last I heard a couple years back, she's recovering nicely, and is remembering more and more.

But still, the way this lady explains her details and everything...I was getting goosebumps, and for some reason, teary eyed. Awesome story. I could actually SEE what she was doing, which made it that much better.

 

[Raziaar]

You'd better save yourself the embarrassment however and be sure to wear a diaper if you seriously want to see exactly what a stroke victim experiences one day. :dozey:

This one chick that was once in my class in HS had a stroke in the cafeteria. She started throwing fits, convulsing, and pissing her trousers everywhere while flopping on the ground.

She was too out of her mind I think to realize where she was at when the EMTs came, but I'm sure she was thoroughly humiliated when she finally came to and realized what happened. :|

Are you confusing stroke with seizure?

 

[Saturos]

Are you confusing stroke with seizure?

Suppose you right then. Oops

Seizures would probably suck more though imo. However, I'm sure there's still the chance of the victim(s) of stokes pissing themselves in public too tbh. That's bad enough. People are cruel you know. The hell with the possible fatal effects, what about that poor person's social life if he/she survives?

 

[MJ12]

Seizures would probably suck more though imo.

No, no, no. Get the priorities straight, I'd rather piss my pants in public then have the serious risk of memory loss and paralization.

 

[Krynn72]

Dude, seizures dont even compare to a Stroke. Not even a little bit, not even close.

 

[MJ12]

In 8th grade this guy came in who was paralized from a stroke with his wife. They were an old couple, I remember when they told us the whole story, it really made me want to cry, especially how the wife was still willing to take care of him all these years, such a beautiful commitment to take care of someone you love.
She told us one time, only a week after he was paralized, when she woke up and she thought she had the flu, but she actually had morning sickness and had to still care for him while she was pregnant, and how difficult that was.
He would talk with one of those laptop computer voices, he would interupt her to be a wise ass sometimes, or he'd talk in the "sexy woman" voice that was on the computer, haha They were nice people...

I was very close to the verge of tears, but I wouldn't let myself, I hate crying infront of other people.

 

[Naudian]

Very interesting video. Great storyteller. Crazy lady. I also refer to myself as "we" sometimes.

 

[Tyguy]

She was referring to the two sides of her brain

 

[Saturos]

No, no, no. Get the priorities straight, I'd rather piss my pants in public then have the serious risk of memory loss and paralization.

Strokes are caused by blood clots to the brain, possibly causing sections of the brain to die right?

Seizures are caused by neuralogical disorders I believe. Heh yeah, a bit of a misunderstanding there. Being paralyzed and not remembering your family name would suck.

Dude, seizures dont even compare to a Stroke. Not even a little bit, not even close.

There is the possibility of chocking to death during a seizure though. :/ Plus, other damages caused by the flopping and convulsions. Seizures still suck nonetheless.

 

[Krynn72]

I'd take seizures over a stroke any day. Flopping and convulsing around isnt anywhere near as bad as not being able to remember several years of your life.

 

[Saturos]

I'd take seizures over a stroke any day. Flopping and convulsing around isnt anywhere near as bad as not being able to remember several years of your life.

I can agree to that.

BTW, about your sig Krynn and just in case you haven't forgotten that you are nervous around dragon fetishists:

Ok, yes I have a fetish for dragons.

 

[Baal]

I need to experience something like that I think. I can never relax. I'm so far to the left my right brain hardly functions.

 

[nurizeko]

Trust me guys, if this happened to you, and you came out alive, you'd be telling people about it in the same way, what is she supposed to do? Act all proper and refined? After an insane life altering incident?

No, and I don't expect her to, you'd be just as amazed and taken back if it happened to you.

Assuming i survived without turning into a brain fried vegetable I'de see the experience for what it was, my mind going ape shit loco after a severe brain hemorrhage or blood clot or whatever.

 

[MJ12]

I need to experience something like that I think. I can never relax. I'm so far to the left my right brain hardly functions.

I'd find some form of meditation before I'd want a stroke D: Theres easier ways, haha.

 

[Terminator]

Meditation would be my primary choice, certain drugs would have the effect but many are simply too powerful in my opinion and could upset delicate balance of mental health, at least on a 'daily use' regimen.

It is much better to build up a strong foundation using natural processes.

-Nutrition, exercise (both mental and physical) and various mental techniques.

After sitting on the computer for a day discussing metaphysics and doing a lot of thinking i feel pretty phased out.

The truth is our brains have evolved in a stone age environment, we are 'pushing the limits' when we continously use higher level brain functions.
I believe that many mathemeticians, physicists etc develop many techniques for themselves to 'refresh' the mind when doing much thinking.
Sleep is the natural function but it is often hard to sleep when your brain is very active, i have this problem very much, i was up to 4am in bed thinking about the universe in a many worlds interpretation and how quantum mechanics fits in with this.... i need to stop researching such things late at night.

I find activities that employ the brain but in a very low functioning way are great, so that the mind is removed from the higher thinking, it's pretty damn hard to simply 'clear the mind'
One of the most theraputic things is actually collecting berries, or similar activities.
Walking is ok but as it's night on automated function your mind tends to still be thinking in the higher levels.

 

[theotherguy]

I saw this talk awhile a go and thought it was all mystical bullshit.

Still pretty interesting though.

 

[evil^milk]

Meditation would be my primary choice, certain drugs would have the effect but many are simply too powerful in my opinion and could upset delicate balance of mental health, at least on a 'daily use' regimen.

It is much better to build up a strong foundation using natural processes.

-Nutrition, exercise (both mental and physical) and various mental techniques.

After sitting on the computer for a day discussing metaphysics and doing a lot of thinking i feel pretty phased out.

The truth is our brains have evolved in a stone age environment, we are 'pushing the limits' when we continously use higher level brain functions.
I believe that many mathemeticians, physicists etc develop many techniques for themselves to 'refresh' the mind when doing much thinking.
Sleep is the natural function but it is often hard to sleep when your brain is very active, i have this problem very much, i was up to 4am in bed thinking about the universe in a many worlds interpretation and how quantum mechanics fits in with this.... i need to stop researching such things late at night.

I find activities that employ the brain but in a very low functioning way are great, so that the mind is removed from the higher thinking, it's pretty damn hard to simply 'clear the mind'
One of the most theraputic things is actually collecting berries, or similar activities.
Walking is ok but as it's night on automated function your mind tends to still be thinking in the higher levels.

****, I feel the same way recently but I enjoy randomly tossing at the piano.

 

[thefiznut]

There's nothing mystical nor new age about her. She's using every bit of symbolic and metaphoric language she has to describe what, from her perspective, was a euphoria experienced during brain death.

Anyone who has ever tried psychadelic drugs would understand just how far reaching consciousness can be, or atleast feel like. Dreams often do the same. Connectedness, togetherness, integration, states of being, and the like are all conditions I experience in my dreams, and I figure most of you may experience it too. Our brains are excruciatingly complex machinery, and there's little wonder why.

Try to imagine how the brain must react to the sensory input it receives from your eyes, ears, mouth, and skin. Billions of photos, atoms, matter - all felt through biological sensors and then sent to your brain. It must make sense of this ridiculous amount of information, and integrate the information into one experience. But that's not all, there's attention mechanisms, filters, and more which select which sensory input to ignore, and which to receive. Further along still, some whole experiences become memories. But which information must the brain store for these memories?

Everyday in neuroscience we discover more questions to be answered about the human brain. It stores our language, but often we lack the words to explain the experience of living through it's clockwork. To those of you who dismiss this woman as new age bullshit, I can't help but wonder how much of your brain you've explored. I find it all too easy to lose my grip on reality, and i'm hardly spiritual at all...

2c

 

[Doppelgofer]

there's attention mechanisms, filters, and more which select which sensory input to ignore, and which to receive

lsd dramatically reduces or in some cases removes some of these filters on the mind to let more information in which is why some people explain life altering experiences on the drug. its an interesting thought that theres so much more information that our brain shuts out because its not 'necessary' to every day life

makes it feel like theres so much more to the world than what you see with your two eyes. that sentence makes little sense really but WHATEVER

 

[thefiznut]

lsd dramatically reduces or in some cases removes some of these filters on the mind to let more information in which is why some people explain life altering experiences on the drug. its an interesting thought that theres so much more information that our brain shuts out because its not 'necessary' to every day life

makes it feel like theres so much more to the world than what you see with your two eyes. that sentence makes little sense really but WHATEVER

I'd wager that it's not so much that there is more information we aren't capable of receiving. It's all there, it passes through and is perceived, but in being perceived the sensory information is systematically pieced together to create an experience coherent to us all. These life altering experiences are perceptions - the brain's loss or altering of that system which puts an experience together, thus creating an abstract and euphoric experience very unlike waking life.


This is unrelated to my previous comment, but it's interesting to note that euphoria can be achieved through neural death, i.e. inhalants and crystal meth. These drugs are extremely toxic, but produce psychological affects characterized by extreme euphoria and uplift. A dying brain is a happy brain?

 

[Kula Meenur]

I guess it hurts lol