A stroke took away this neuroscientist's sense of past and future From: Popular Science - Sep/Oct 2017 - page 75 By: Sophie Bushwick Jill Bolte Taylor recalls all the things she forgot. "As a neuroanatomist at Harvard, I studied how our brain creates our perception of ­reality. And then one morning, I woke up with a sharp pain directly behind my left eye. In the course of four hours, I lost the ability to walk, talk, read, write, or recall any of my life. I was experiencing a major hemorrhage, bleeding in the left half of my brain, which rendered me an infant in a woman’s body." Read the entire article at: http://www.popsci.com/how-stroke-can-erase-sense-of-time Related: This is how your brain tells time http://www.popsci.com/how-your-brain-tells-time