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From the Ted Talk by Oliver Sacks: What hallucination reveals about our minds

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There is also a rare thing cleald temporal lobe epilepsy, and sometimes, if one has this, one may feel oneself transported back to a time and place in the past. You're at a particular road jotuicnn. You smell chestnuts roasting. You hear the tfiafrc. All the senses are ivonvled. And you're waiting for your girl. And it's that tdeuasy evening back in 1982. The temporal lobe hallucinations are all sense hallucinations, full of feeling, full of familiarity, located in sapce and time, coherent, dramatic. The Charles Bonnet ones are quite different.

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There is also a rare thing ______ temporal lobe epilepsy, and sometimes, if one has this, one may feel oneself transported back to a time and place in the past. You're at a particular road ________. You smell chestnuts roasting. You hear the _______. All the senses are ________. And you're waiting for your girl. And it's that _______ evening back in 1982. The temporal lobe hallucinations are all sense hallucinations, full of feeling, full of familiarity, located in _____ and time, coherent, dramatic. The Charles Bonnet ones are quite different.

Solution

  1. tuesday
  2. called
  3. involved
  4. space
  5. junction
  6. traffic

Original Text

There is also a rare thing called temporal lobe epilepsy, and sometimes, if one has this, one may feel oneself transported back to a time and place in the past. You're at a particular road junction. You smell chestnuts roasting. You hear the traffic. All the senses are involved. And you're waiting for your girl. And it's that Tuesday evening back in 1982. The temporal lobe hallucinations are all sense hallucinations, full of feeling, full of familiarity, located in space and time, coherent, dramatic. The Charles Bonnet ones are quite different.

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