Jill Bolte Taylor, a neuroanatomist who suffered a left-hemisphere stroke, experienced the world without language for 5 weeks, describing a state of 'blissfulness' that 'feels like awe,' where her experience became 'the energy and the space between us' rather than individual separation.

Taylor observes that people who have lost the left brain and are open to right-hemisphere perception can read people 'like nobody can,' understanding truth-telling through correlation between tone of voice, facial expression, and body language, suggesting they should be hired by police departments for lie detection.

People who lose their left brain hemisphere and are open to right-hemisphere holistic perception develop extraordinary ability to read people and detect lies through understanding tone of voice, facial expression, and body language, suggesting they should be hired for police lie detection work.

After losing the left hemisphere, Taylor felt that the woman she had been died that day, because she didn't have her friends, knowledge, or anything in common with her former self other than sharing the same body.

Jill Bolte Taylor, a brain anatomist who experienced a left-hemisphere stroke, reports that when deprived of left-hemisphere function she experienced a state of blissfulness and awe where her experience became the energy and space between people rather than focused on individual identity and self.