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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 !

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.

THIS is the most interesting man in the world!

the interviewer of these programs is amazing

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.

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

I wrote the following to one of the commenters here on this video: Hi, thanks for your well-thought-out comment. How are you doing these last five years? I too have found him fascinating and although his name was familiar (along with a few of his books), he never was on my radar these last twenty years. I just discovered him two weeks ago. You might recheck some of the RU-vid channels as other great interviews have been posted. Oh, and there's a new documentary out on him (from the last two or so years). One host of the great NPR Radio Lab program interviewed him many times in his home and got to know him very well. You could tell how much he thoroughly loved him. That's what got me aware of him and his work. Anyway, there are also audio files of these interviews (that have never been put on RU-vid) on the Radio Lab website. I know you will enjoy them as much as I did. I was brought to tears trying to explain my fascination with him. In these newer, more recent videos, he explains more about his love life (and lack thereof and also how his patients became a sort of extended family). Anyway, I couldn't understand why I got so choked up... I think it was because I had wished I had relatives, a father, or even an uncle, or even a friend like him. His voice is everlastingly soothing and his gentle soul is palpable. I share your appreciation of him as a lovely person and as a great thinker.

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

Oliver Sacks was clearly a genius!

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

Struck by how around <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2100">35:00</a> - <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2280">38:00</a> 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.

“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.

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

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

the comment about the year 2020 at the <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="780">13:00</a> minute mark... it's a good thing he missed it.

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

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.

One of my favorite humans. Thanks for sharing.

Just love him his work!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

He used to squat almost 600lbs..

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

a gentle genius rip

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

when does he talk about migraine?

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="40">0:40</a> what is this rant?

thankyou RU-vid algorithm

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="790">13:10</a> little did he know

Schitterend you say?

What’s with all the racism at the beginning?

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.

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

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

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!

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Interviewer could keep mum and let Sacks talk.

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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