I'd recenty heard an intriguing interview where Jill Bolte Taylor who is a neuroanatomist, talked of her remarkable experiences of having a stroke in the left hemisphere of her brain. She describes some of these experiences in the lecture shown below. It made me wonder about the things we think we know about the brain and the human mind, and more importantly, the things we're still missing by thinking we know! :)
Her ideas may not be conventionally scientific, and I'm sure some people may wonder if the stroke did something more to her, but I would encourage you to consider the message, even if you doubt the messenger.