Jill Bolte Taylor writes in My Stroke of Insight about, on the one hand, "delighting in the euphoria of her irrationality," and on the other hand, "realizing a sense of urgency to orchestrate her rescue," as she was suffering a stroke. She had lost the function of the left hemisphere of her brain, and was now completely right-brain dominant.
Irrationality does produce a kind of euphoria sometimes, as evidenced by the arguments of those in favor of gun free zones that somehow will make us safer. Of course, the facts are quite to the contrary, as any person with a functioning left brain can tell you.
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