[Steemit's Proprioception] How many steemians may suffer hemispatial neglect, hemispherical neglect & hemispherical blindness?

in #steemit6 years ago

Since today is Sunday and you'll probably find yourself more relaxed and with more free time in your hands today. And surely, with the usual weekdays 'Short Attention Span' syndrome turned off. I'm going to dare to share this post with you today.

This is a very, very interesting documentary that for years I was searching all over the internet to find it without success. Although I saw it for the first time on TV many years ago and remembered perfectly all its content. Unfortunately, I did not remember the technical details as the name of the documentary, the production house, the title of the series nor the name of any of its protagonists beforehand. Which obviously, made the search much more difficult for not having the most appropriate keywords to ask to the search engines and find it.

But today, I finally found it. And you will be the lucky ones with whom I will share this splendid and interesting documentary after so long looking for it to share it. And also, because currently I consider it of great relevance in relation to some behaviors observed in our steemit ecosystem lately.

So, without more ado. ¡Here's the thing!

"Ian Waterman. The Man Who Lost His Body"

¿Could you imagine where I go with this post?

When each one of our movements require unfaltering conscious effort. And every motion no matter how small must be thought, planned, and executed with conscious precision.
And above all, what it means teach yourself to dress, eat, walk and live by thinking about each movement with strictly visual supervision every second.

Since the nerves that once told his brain what his body was doing had been suddenly destroyed. Every single day for him has been a tremendous challenge. Yet Ian seems to embrace this challenge with kindness, courage, and a great sense of humor.

¡We could all probably stand to learn a thing or two from Ian!

«Ramble On»

Therefore my friends, in my not so humble opinion. Yeah! Read more, comment more, interact more, engage more, manually curate more & consciously upvote & resteem more. Being an active member in a social environment, in a social network. ¿What else could everyone expect from us?
Of course mates, excercise consciously our brains. And perhaps, even more our cerebellum that is the part of our brain affecting balance.

We need to constantly workout our "proprioception", "interoception" and "exteroception" every day. And combat at all cost hemispatial neglect, hemispherical neglect and hemispherical blindness.

People with hemispatial neglect are often unaware of their condition. Friends or relatives might suggest they look to their neglected side but that instruction misunderstands the problem they have with navigating the space around them. People like that, are usually not aware that something is missing, so why would they seek it out?

"This post is not a critic. This post is not a rant. This post is not a scold. This post is not a whim nor a whine. This publication is not even an advice. But I guess that most of you who have followed me for some time and already know me more & less well from 17 months ago. Must have already noticed that the main reason for almost all my posts is with the primary goal to raise awareness. Awareness about everything and all. About every single subject that I dare to touch. Sometimes with a light heart sense of humor and frivolous extravagancy. And sometimes with a very serious and cranky sense of informative hilarity value"

Yes, that certainly has not made me a very popular author or a very followed one with a lot of views, upvotes, comments & resteems into the platform. And to a certain extent it seems logical to me that this is so. But of what you can have the certainty and you can bet without fear of being wrong, is that each one of my posts is and always has been to make you think, reflect and stir your emotions from the beginning. And so it will continue to be every time I write and publish a new one. }:)

«/Ramble Off»

«««-$-»»»

If you are now reading these lines and also you swear that you have read all of the above with full attention. ¡Congratulations! you are about to become one of my new heroes. You just have to record that you have done it in the comments section below and you will have won a new loyal follower instantly. And if you think that the content of this post may be of interest and usefulness to someone else, please, consider also resteem it. :)

Now, back to my usual...

Leave a comment. Share your experiences and feedback. ¡Be part of the conversation!

¡Until Next Weekend!

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"Follows, Comments, Resteems & Upvotes will be highly appreciated"

Cranky Gandalf

Cheers!! :)

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I have never heard of this before but that must be very difficult indeed. I think for the most part, it would come as quite a shock to people how much of our action is thoughtless automation.

Thank you @tarazkp for your continuous support & upvote and your well appreciated resteem & comment. :)

Yeah mate, these neurological conditions are pretty unknown and very uncommon indeed. As you probably have already confirmed along the documentary. If you find this topic of some interest and want to investigate a little bit more about the subject. I'd recommend you google about Vilayanur S. Ramachandran. One of the experts in the field and one of the most popular neurologist and communicator with thousands of videos, TED talks conferences and a good amount of documentaries about these matters.

In fact, the documentary I shared above is not exactly the one I saw many years ago. I'm under the impression that the one I saw also had to Ramachandran as one of the scientist featured and interviewed in there. I'm not totally sure of that though. Perhaps, the one that I saw was an older one from the golden age of the science documentaries on cable tv. Maybe one of the good chaps from Nova, Time Life Multimedia, The early Discovery or any other of the multiple and excellent BBC producer associates.

I think I have seen the TED talk you speak of, will have to have another look though :)

Yeah mate. Do it! Ramachandran apart of a skilled scientist is also a good speaker and very fun entertainer. You will enjoy his Ted Talks a lot. :)

You indeed caught my attention, i read till the end! The topic was eye catching! Nice article! Thanks for sharing!

Thank you for your comment @frankabelle. :)

You may say I'm actually glad to have caught your attention. In fact, not a big surprise that a topic like this were eye catching for a medical doctor. Hahaha

Nice to meet you mate and you can feel free and welcome to drop by whenever you want. :)

Yeah! It was really eye catching! Nice meeting you too

I gave you some lovin How bout you give me some too?

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