Dr. Sacks' new book Hallucinations came out today. If you're not familiar with Dr. Sacks' work and writing, he's really a fun read. I remember reading his lengthy chapter on musical hallucinations in his "Musicophoelia" book which I really connected with based on some of my own experiences. I just downloaded this new book to my kindle, and I haven't read it yet, but I'll let you know what I think of it.
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"Hallucinations" by Oliver Sacks
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you ever feel like you belong in a scifi movie
walking around with a little flat hand held computer
and it has all the answers about this strange planet you just arrived on
but, it would only serve to distract you nonetheless from
inspecting the exotic behaviours of biological specimins with a naked eye?
:lol:
sorry it's a weird thing with me, I walk into large rooms where 20/25 people are all on their cellphones and I'm like sorry uhm I thought that was the time portal to the jimihendrix concert uhh... hello?
...so I'll just go back that way
sorry to... interupt you? ...(typing continues)
walking around with a little flat hand held computer
and it has all the answers about this strange planet you just arrived on
but, it would only serve to distract you nonetheless from
inspecting the exotic behaviours of biological specimins with a naked eye?
:lol:
sorry it's a weird thing with me, I walk into large rooms where 20/25 people are all on their cellphones and I'm like sorry uhm I thought that was the time portal to the jimihendrix concert uhh... hello?
...so I'll just go back that way
sorry to... interupt you? ...(typing continues)
I'd like to know your opinion when you read it. It's in my list too, I have read and enjoyed a lot several books by Dr. Sacks and his might be a refreshing take on the subject.
I mean, there's not many books discussing this from a non-necessarily activist/counter-culture point of view. And Sacks, besides being a walking encyclopedia about brain happenings, had personal insights that admittedly helped him to reach and understand many people who, in the eyes of most classic, cold-blooded neurologists, would have been shunned and misunderstood.
When I read "The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat", one of the chapters that struck me the most was "The dog beneath the skin". You might know it. It describes the case of Stephen D., who after drugs consumption (stimulants, PCP) had an extremely vivid dream of being a dog in a world full of intense smells, and woke up to find himself precisely in a world like that, being able to perceive incredible subtleties in scents of people, places and materials for a period of three weeks. It was an amazing account of "hyper-function" that talked about dormant senses and abilities in our species.
The best bit was finding out that, years after the book was published, Oliver Sacks eventually admitted that he was Stephen D.
I mean, there's not many books discussing this from a non-necessarily activist/counter-culture point of view. And Sacks, besides being a walking encyclopedia about brain happenings, had personal insights that admittedly helped him to reach and understand many people who, in the eyes of most classic, cold-blooded neurologists, would have been shunned and misunderstood.
When I read "The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat", one of the chapters that struck me the most was "The dog beneath the skin". You might know it. It describes the case of Stephen D., who after drugs consumption (stimulants, PCP) had an extremely vivid dream of being a dog in a world full of intense smells, and woke up to find himself precisely in a world like that, being able to perceive incredible subtleties in scents of people, places and materials for a period of three weeks. It was an amazing account of "hyper-function" that talked about dormant senses and abilities in our species.
The best bit was finding out that, years after the book was published, Oliver Sacks eventually admitted that he was Stephen D.
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Wondering if anyone's had a chance to read it yet?
And if there's much in it on controlled Induced hallucinations, as opposed to people with odd brain chemistry?
And if there's much in it on controlled Induced hallucinations, as opposed to people with odd brain chemistry?
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