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Saturday, April 13, 2013

Oliver sacks, the man who mistook his wife for a hat

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

        Mr. P, a music teacher, whose associates take on questioned his perception, is referred by his ophthalmologist to the neurologist Oliver Sacks. During the first office visit, Sacks notices t eyelid Mr. P faces him with his ears, not his eyes. His gaze seems unnatural, darting and fixating on the doctors features one at a time. To begin with, there are only a a couple of(prenominal) quirks to the highest degree him that Dr. Sacks notices. There was confusion about his shoe and his origination and also about what he saw in a ensure of sand dunes in the Sahara desert. He seemed to make up in his imagination things he saw in the picture instead of what was actually there. At the end of the interview, at which his married woman is present, Mr. P appears to grasp his wifes head and tries to lift it off and tack it on his stimulate head. He had...mistaken his wife for a hat! She gave no sign that anything odd had happened.

        During the second interview, at Mr. Ps home, Mr. P easily describes the geometrical shapes but is unable to identify pictures of his own family or friends or even pictures of himself. He unable to blob the rose that Sacks has, so he describes it as a involved red form with a linear green attachment. Sacks asked him if he knows what it is and he guesses it could be a flower.

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When he is asked to smell it, he comes to life and knows it. When alone with Ms. P in the kitchen he sees Mr. Ps paintings. The paintings that instigate as pictures of realism, then(prenominal) go to geometrical abstract shapes, and then finally to splotches and chaotic lines shows how Mr. Ps perception visually has...

I liked it alot about how it got straight to the point about things hopefully in the next all essays will be like this.

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