1.During acute stroke or ictus brain doesn’t work isolated right and left there is suppression of the whole brain with alteration of consciousness.
2.What she describes as right brain experience is actually transient alteration of consciousness due to Diaschesis a phenomenon where there is reflex suppression of the opposite or distant part of the brain. This can cause immediate alteration of consciousness or coma which is not due to direct compression of the brain.
3.Clot seen in the CT scan is not big enough to cause right sided paralysis or speech problem if it had developed slowly like in subdural haematoma or collection of blood below meningies in old patients.
4.It is very common to have similar experience of body dissolving during induction of anesthesia and near death or syncopal patient.
5.It is very rare to have similar experience in left brain damaged child or stroke patients.
6.Moreover lack of awareness of the body is more common with right sided stroke or brain damage called neglect.

Her experience was true but may not be due to Right brain which never functions isolated from other part of brain. Right brain is almost mirror image of left brain except some part more primitive than left like language and mathematics.

I am overwhelmed to see and hear someone just like me.

I am the voice of a silenced child. Due to childhood traumas my brain has shifted from right to left and then from left to right. I too had a shut down of the left brain and have worked hard for six years to recover. Most of my healing process took place through creative writing and journaling.

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