Why me?Some of the descriptions about confusion of self ("Self-Serve Brains: Personal identity veers to the right hemisphere hemisphere /hemi·sphere/ (hem´i-sfer) half of a spherical or roughly spherical structure or organ. cerebellar hemisphere either of two lobes of the cerebellum lateral to the vermis. ," SN: 2/11/06, p. 90) were very reminiscent of the confusion I often sense in dreams. I even recognize in some dreams the sensation described in the article about various body parts not being part of "me" I wonder if this aspect of normal (I assume) dreaming has been investigated. STANLEY Stanley, town (1991 pop. 1,557), capital of the Falkland Islands, S Atlantic Ocean, on East Falkland island. It is the main port and trading center of the islands. The name is sometimes written as Port Stanley. E. ANDERSON, WESTMINSTER, CALIF. It surprises me that none of the researchers mentioned in your article considered the possibility that the essential sense of self is an extremely primitive aspect of brain function. An animal could not protect itself from predators or physical dangers unless it had a well-developed sense of personal being. ALEX HEYDON, AJAX, ONTARIO Ajax (2006 population 90,167) is a medium-sized town located in the Golden Horseshoe of south central Ontario, Canada. Ajax is a part of the Greater Toronto Area and the Regional Municipality of Durham. Researcher Todd Feinberg of Beth Israel Medical Center Beth Israel Medical Center is a hospital in New York City. It has four major locations providing health services. It acts as University Hospital and Manhattan Campus for the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of raises the possibility that disordered selves represent a kind of "waking dream"in his book Altered Ego: How the Brain Creates the Self (2001, Oxford Univ. Press, New York). Feinberg argues that a primitive sense of self occurs in many animals.--B. BOWER |
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