I never took amphetamines again—despite sometimes-intense longings for them (the brain of an addict or an alcoholic is changed for life; the possibility, the temptation, of regression never go away).
I have discussed neurological aspects of time and motion perception, as well as cinematic vision, at greater length in two articles, Speed and In the River of Consciousness.
I am very bad at factual exams, yes-or-no questions, but can spread my wings with essays. Fifty pounds came with the Theodore Williams
Henry VIII in full armor, it was said, weighed 500 pounds.
He was not imitating me; he had become me, in a sense; it was like suddenly acquiring a younger twin.
He is man without a past (or future), stuck in a constantly changing, meaningless moment.
He has one of the most spacious, thoughtful minds I have ever encountered, with a vast base of knowledge of every sort, but it is a base under continual questioning and scrutiny. (I have seen him sudd...
Far commoner, and perhaps the most intolerable of all aura symptoms, is intense sudden vertigo accompanied by staggering, overwhelming nausea, and frequently vomiting. The
Darwin himself was evidently puzzled, as he wrote in The Descent of Man: As neither the enjoyment nor the capacity of producing musical notes are faculties of the least use to man…they must be ranked...
Culture is as crucial as Nature.
By asking why, by seeking meaning (not in any final sense, but in the immediate sense of use or purpose), Darwin found in his botanical work the strongest evidence for evolution and natural selection....
But the feeling of a limb as a sensory and motor part of oneself seems to be innate, built-in, hardwired—and this supposition is supported by the fact that people born without limbs may nonetheless ha...
But her words haunted me for much of my life and played a major part in inhibiting and injecting with guilt what should have been a free and joyous expression of sexuality.
And one day the mind leaps from imagination to hallucination, and the congregant hears God, sees God.
And at this point, self-stimulation of various sorts began: mental games, counting, fantasies, and, sooner or later, visual hallucinations—usually a march of hallucinations from simple
Anatomists today would be hard put to identify the brain of a visual artist, a writer or a mathematician - but they would recognize the brain of a professional musician without moment's hesitation.
All of us, at first, had high hopes of helping Jammie - he was so personable, so likable, so quick and intelligent, it was difficult to believe that he might be beyond help. But none of us had ever en...
After a while the scene started to fade, and I became dimly conscious, once more, that I was in London, stoned, hallucinating Agincourt on the sleeve of my dressing gown. It
Too-muchness had no doubt been noticed at school, for it was around this time that I received a school report that said, ‘Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far.
عيادة الطبيب أو جناح المستشفى ليس دائماً المكان الأفضل لملاحظة المرض - أو على الأقل ليس المكان الأفضل لملاحظة اضطراب يظهر ، إذا كان منشأه عضوياً ، بصورة اندفاع ، و تقليد ، و تشخيص ، و ردّ فعل ، و تفاع...