A Glorious Accident (1 of 7) Oliver Sacks on migraine

An interview with the British neurologist Oliver Sacks. One of his most famous books is Awakenings (1973) about people that suffer from the economo disease, a sleeping disorder. The interview is about his patients, his treatments, research and migraine, what he suffered from himself. In the Dutch television show A Glorious Accident (1993) six scientists talk about their visions on their work and the world. Journalist Wim Kayzer asks them: how far did you come in your understanding of our thoughts an actions? What did science really bring us at the end of the 20th century: knowledge or also understanding? Order the dvd-box of A Glorious Accident here: winkel.vpro.nl/een-schitterend...

[@emiliacincu5166]

His brilliant mind, kind personality and peaceful voice put me in a meditative state, bringing me so much comfort and inner peace.

[@johnvollmerhausen8915]

3 a 4

[@New_Zealand_Music]

RIP dear friend. Simply can't believe while he was still with us. The he wrote me a letter and sent me a copy of the man who thought his wife was a hat signed. I told him I worked in forensic psychology as a music therapist, and he said such nice things to me. Told me he was impressed and I was doing excellent work. Thank you so much Oliver. And it's fantastic they're still collating your work, and apparently there are dozens of new book which could be released once they've been compiled. When I can afford it I plan to buy all of this books. I have every single one up until he passed away...😪 You're my hero Oliver. It's really funny when vocal coaches say. Know everyone can sing you just have to learn how. Absolutely not true if you have amuseu. She was my superior, but when I'm running the clinic I'm in charge even if they are a senior and visiting, completely up to me if I think client can handle someone coming in and seeing the work that we're doing, I'm in charge when I'm running the clinic doesn't matter that she's my, senior. Would you believe I showed her some work I was doing with someone, I was playing guitar they were playing drums. And she said right in front of them like he wasn't there, I can't believe someone like that can do something like this. I told her I was highly offended and it was time for her to leave. But I had to watch my language otherwise I would have gotten into trouble. I love every single one of his books but full stop being a musician Musicalophilla , is obviously my favourite. Brief case study about someone who lost what a complete hemisphere of one side of his brain. But when he listens to music, it's like there was nothing wrong with them. Simply amazing what our brains are capable of, there is so much we need to learn. And it's fantastic that you were completely person-centric, and you didn't talk about your own opinions up until just before you died. Total respect Oliver

[@gibbogle]

Sacks was an incredible risk-taker. Motorcycles, mountains, drugs,... I think these experiences contributed to his wisdom.

[@BushyHairedStranger]

I know they contributed to his wisdom as those activities I too participate in. As a recreational Molecule researcher I became extremely resourceful, richly resource oriented in a useful and well mediated way. Climbing Mountains(Cascade Range from California to Canada)one learns self sufficiency and self preservation by understanding boundaries and how we engineer them in our lives. Motorcycles give rise to mechanical thought, learning how to push the limits of the physical by way of wrecking and then experiencing how a human body multiplied by distance equals rate times time physics results in hospitalization depending on several variables and outcomes.

[@jfreeman2927]

being a closeted gay man and not being able to fully express himself in society also added to his emotional depth. do you think those angry black nationalists in the video embrace homosexuality? please go back to Africa (or the 90s)....please.

[@gibbogle]

@@jfreeman2927 Eh??

[@hualani6785]

I miss Dr Sacks! Such a gift. Reminding people of the difference between healers and physicians. Dr. Sacks empathy, his deep interest in each patient, in culture surrounding patients lives, in every aspect of healing from biochemical to cultural, metaphysical and consciousness of choices in care. I wish we could have had him teach and reproduce thousands of health care practitioners with his attitudes and gift of curiosity to help.

[@jessicastern8597]

Hualani a Oh how sad he’s passed. Like he says there’s never been another creature before like him and never will be another creature like him again. I just wrote a long comment after finding him after watching a Ted Talk he gave just a few yrs ago and how he’s come back into my life after circling around in strange coincidences and I really need a gentle empathetic soul like him right now so I’m so glad he came full circle when I needed someone like him.

[@LilyOfTheTower]

Robin Williams portrayed him beautifully in 'Awakenings'. Both of them are brilliant men with a big heart and a very sharp clever mind. They don't try to talk to impress you with their vocabulary or virtual signal, they connect to you, they share their gifts. Event though they were in completely different fields, they both attract people to their great talents.

[@sadiqabdi5529]

What an intriguing person. I’m at awe with his thoughts and how he explains his idea

[@stephenbirks6458]

I Could listen to this guy endlessly ? - Not only the tone of his voice but the topics he talks about ? - When I started working on the wards of Psychiatric hospital years & years ago -There was a certain nursing officer - Who had a quiet soothing voice - Which did come in handy when we got violent hiighrate patients - He would talk to patients like a father figure -To help came them down ? - But when he came on to our ward he would tell me little interesting snippets on Psycology ? - And as time went on He began then asking me questions just to make sure His snippets were going in ??? Losing Oliver was such a great loss !

[@jefolson6989]

THIS is the most interesting man in the world!

[@jessicastern8597]

His talking about life and death makes me question every choice I’ve ever made in my life but he is also inspiring me to live life like I never have before.

[@alyonka2004]

I love Oliver Sacks so much. He is so wonderful! My only regret is discovering his work so late in life.

[@cultureconnection2745]

Oliver Sacks was clearly a genius!

[@BLUEGENE13]

the interviewer of these programs is amazing

[@jessicastern8597]

BLUEGENE13 Seriously! I love his question of what senses invoke the deepest childhood memories.

[@mikerevs34]

H

[@Ukedc259]

1992 and within minutes he identifies 1) the biology of consciousness 2) ecological disaster and 3) terrorism. Not bad at predicting was he? A true intellectual hero.

[@yobit7607]

Those things were around in the 90s too numb nuts

[@whitb62]

Thank you so much for uploading all these. Going through them all. Incredible content.

[@supagepagechannel9139]

Such a fascinating discussion. I love Oliver Sacks voice and he is very engaging. Su.xx

[@blablabla63923]

the comment about the year 2020 at the 13:00 minute mark... it's a good thing he missed it.

[@johnryan2193]

This man was such a had such a profound observance of human nature.

[@Ukedc259]

Struck by how around 35:00 - 38:00 much of what Sacks says is congruent with the views of Rupert Sheldrake, also interviewed in this series. I’m guessing Sheldrake would see the “gills” observation as a sort of ghost memory in keeping with his morphic resonance idea. It’s so interesting how the more you listen to these thinkers in their separate interviews the more overlaps and linkages appear. Endlessly fascinating.

[@jessicastern8597]

“There was never a creature before like him and never will be a creature like him again.” I love how he put that. It really sums up the feelings of grief when you lose a loved one. I love this guy. I saw him on a Ted talk about what hallucinations reveal about the brain then that led me to a PBS interview where I learned he wrote the book, “The Man That Thought His Wife Was A Hat.” I remember reading that book at least 15 years ago and only once but it stuck with me so well I remember a couple years ago telling my friend about the neurological condition that the book described. I commented on his Ted Talk that I could listen to his stories all night and now I found over 10 hours of him! Such weird coincidences with him all coming full circle, I feel I truly need to hear something he has to say. Or maybe that’s he’s such a gentle soul and such an inspiration and I need that right now. God bless him, he’s one in a million.

[@susanlandgraf2808]

Being able to be witness to this conversation, the subjects covered and the depth of engagement of ideas. Thank you

[@jeffersonspace]

This is relevant today during the pandemic. Thank you Mr. Sachs. I liked how you used intuition to influence your medical knowledge. Buckminster Fuller was really into the relationship with the artist, and scientist. That is something we should pack into our lunch boxes. Bless.

[@manicmandownup]

Wakes up in 2020…I’d like to go back, please.

[@ChristianneNeves]

Just love him his work!

[@christopherswanson3317]

One of my favorite humans. Thanks for sharing.

[@kissdrinksco]

....'let your last thinks be thanks.'

[@Guedingen]

Many thanks, this is inspiring. On a trivial note I couldn't help noticing zero dislikes. Surely a first for KZbin:)

[@vproextra3443]

Or....we are good. ;)

[@gibbogle]

It's not that we are mortal - all living things are mortal - it's that only we know that we are mortal.

[@russellmanweller6694]

Yeah, If he woke up in 2020, he would definitely like the science.

[@asafeplacepodcast2690]

The universe is a thought. I never thought I'd here this genius say that.

[@oinn8003]

He used to squat almost 600lbs..

[@BushyHairedStranger]

Oliver experimented heavily with Amphetamine, and Lysergic Acid Diethyl amide which he enjoyed extensively. His grasp on reality, his reality, is fascinating.

[@whitb62]

He also talks about how much he regrets his heavy amphetamine usage and the damage it did to his brain and heart.

[@drinkapavlovic]

Can you please switch on a CC that we can read english subtitles when doctor speaks? thanks

[@esraeloh8681]

I'm not even 30, almost all my idols are long gone, pretty much everyone I identify with on telly are long gone, I grew up in the 90's with largely older comedians. I've always identified with older people, they tend to have their shit in order, but I've only really been feeling my mortality because of really worrisome pains in the left of my chest, which is occasionally accompanied by slight tingling in my left hand sometimes I get a tad light headed, but it's almost imperceptible, then it passes. But I've also realised trapped gas is causing some pain also, so wtf aye, it worries me when it happens, but I'm becoming accustomed to the feeling of not panicking, it just saddens me at the prospect of my mum having to find me, oh wow, I hadn't given that proper thought of that properly until just now, to much going on in the moment. Think I might try to get outside, should it come to it, I feel a sense of freeness like I've never had before in preparing for the inevitable

[@johnsumi4742]

Anxiety

[@lyndapierson6338]

a gentle genius rip

[@adamsasso1]

The pictures he shows at the end remind me of what people on DMT describe seeing.

[@DJNAZZZZTY]

"above the Arctic circle"? I've always believed no one was allowed in this area? Like Private Property/ No Trespassing

[@ownyourgov]

when does he talk about migraine?

[@FamilyWinn]

0:40 what is this rant?

[@danielmock2165]

13:10 little did he know

[@noiseworks]

thankyou KZbin algorithm

[@marilynlawson8216]

Thanks very much Science Friday on New York Public Radio. September 25, 2020.

[@VidaBlue317]

Schitterend you say?

[@MichaelGaribaldi]

I know he's supposed to be from London, but his accent isn't London. His accent is very close to Ieaun Rees's Welsh accent!

[@HorseyWorsey]

52:41

[@jessicastern8597]

9 people don’t like this?? Wtf is wrong with ppl??

[@adamsasso1]

If he was asleep for thirty years and woke up in 2020 he’d be sorely disappointed

[@barbarag868]

What’s with all the racism at the beginning?

[@georgeratkowitz8023]

It may do something with BeNeLux dealing with postcolonial blackface racism, perhaps

[@sebastianverney7851]

Very interesting. But why have you put in all the racist ranting at the beginning and again at the end?

[@BerserkerSloth]

I really didn’t expect it to start with Black Hebrew Israelites 😂

[@zephyrquartz]

What does this have to do with migraine? I'm 15 minutes into it now and nothing has been said about migraines. This is in fact giving me a migraine!

[@rachelwhite3286]

get his book Migraine

[@leyniaLip]

Interviewer could keep mum and let Sacks talk.

[@geeboom]

Fascinating. The video starts with the racist ramblings of a black street preacher. The viewer is then treated to the wonderful world of Oliver Sacks. The dreamlike interview with this fascinating man ends and we get a rude awakening. An encore with the same racists. Dystopia, then the sublime, only to end with this Faustian religious ritual. Was this necessary? What was the added value of this sermon? A combination of events like this 1990s racist preaching and white guilt are what got us here. Have we been prepped for woke modernity, a world where white man's original sin is taken as a given? Did this slow drip-drip of shame and guilt fall on the fertile Christian soil of white Western atheists and agnostics? We live in an age when racism has become an insignificant if not absent impediment for minorities in the West to achieve their dreams and develop to their fullest potential. And yet, an onlooker who doesn't know any better would think our societies are rife with discrimination and racial injustice.

[@ObjectiveMedia]

Ego and greed is a natural by product of capitalism (private ownership of the Earth)

[@mayaozen487]

- I bet he and Robin Williams were genetically related. -

[@Late20sSkateboarder]

He is almost definitely on LSD- which I know he took a good amount. Look at how his eyes smile lmao

[@chachab9239]

Baraldi 💣 wasteful being.👋🏽

[@Late20sSkateboarder]

Char Brady who the fuck are you?

[@B.D.E.]

@@Late20sSkateboarder He's always like that, just his personality.

[@untonsured]

He gave up drugs in the 60s. He was just very intelligent and aware. It is possible without drugs 😝.

[@isaacbernath]

It's 2020..and I think you'd be disappointed.. But go meet Elon

[@Angelaah.]

Oh I don't know, he would probably be fascinated by the cognitive dissonance and mass formation on society at large?