I had been eyeing this book for quite a while but hesitated to pick it up after watching Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor's TED talk about the experience, due to the fact that her perspective of it waned queerly nonscientific. The book reflects the TED talk pretty closely, but it was fascinating to get the play-by-play of the events of the day of the stroke and the days that followed. It's amazing how delicate yet resilient the human brain is, and how compartmentalized it actually is. I did find it odd that Taylor recognized that her euphoric post-stroke feelings were caused by the incapacitation of the left hemisphere of her brain, and yet she believes that she was in fact having a spiritual experience; as though her brain had to be severely damaged in order that she might experience the true nature of the universe. Of course you're going to have a pretty different experience of reality when half your brain is practically destroyed, right? Isn't that a given...? 
 Anyway, it was an interesting book and definitely worth a read.