I need to remember, however, that there are enormous gaps between what I know and what I think I know. I learned that I need to be very wary of my storyteller's potential for stirring up drama and trauma.

Jill Bolte Taylor
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When I was very young, my parents told me that when my father was young, he was shot in the middle of the night. He woke up in the middle of his hospital bed, bleeding and without any idea of what had happened to him. They said the doctors couldn't figure out how he had gotten shot. It was discovered that he had been shot in the back of his head, so they were at a loss as to how it happened.

The doctors didn't know if he was hit by a stray bullet or if someone had planned to shoot him in that particular way. It took him years to remember what had happened to him, and only when he started remembering did he start getting better.

Source: My Stroke Of Insight: A Brain Scientists Personal Journey

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