imagine if you will what it would feel like…
imagine if you will what it would feel like to have each of your natural faculties systematically, peeled away from your consciousness first, imagine you lose your ability to make sense of sound coming in through your ears you are not deaf. You simply hear all sound is chaos and noise second remove your ability to see the defined forms of any object in your space you are not blind you simply cannot see, three-dimensional he identify color you have no ability to track an object in motion or Distinguish clear boundaries between objects, in addition, common smells, become so amplified that they overwhelm you making it difficult for you to catch your breath
— from Takeoff Into Chaos · My stroke of insight by Jill Bolte Taylor PHD
In the book
Think for a moment about what the world of a newborn must truly be like: sounds overlapping, sensory impressions arriving all at once with no order to them, before language, before even command of your own two hands. Imagine your faculties peeled away one by one and you will feel how close to raw chaos a human consciousness actually starts — disturb its wiring even a little and the senses bleed into one another. From the very first moment the mind is doing frantic triage, sorting the welcome from the unwelcome, grouping like with like, scrambling to build a map. — Takeoff Into Chaos