{"id":41524,"date":"2021-07-11T14:51:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-11T18:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=41524"},"modified":"2021-07-14T15:29:25","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T19:29:25","slug":"loss-of-proprioception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/loss-of-proprioception\/","title":{"rendered":"Disembodiment: Case Study on Loss of Proprioception"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Who was Christina in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/oliver-sacks-the-man-who-mistook-his-wife-for-a-hat\/\">The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat<\/a>? <\/em>Why did Christina suddenly lose control of her own body?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of Oliver Sack&#8217;s patients was Christina, a young woman who suddenly became disembodied due to unknown reasons. At the age of 27, Christina suffered a loss of proprioception, meaning she was basically a brain operating a robot body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Continue reading to learn all about Christina&#8217;s extraordinary case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Christina\u2019s Loss of Proprioception<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>So far, we\u2019ve talked about neurological losses as they relate to \u201cinternal\u201d functions like visual recognition and memory. But the physical body is, of course, also an essential <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/parts-of-the-self\/\">part of the self<\/a>. Control and awareness of one\u2019s body are crucial to our sense of autonomy. They are so automatic that we scarcely think about them.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>But what happens when we are no longer guaranteed the certainty of our physical selves?<\/strong> This brings us to the unusual and disturbing case of Christina and her loss of proprioception.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>A Disembodied Person<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Christina was a healthy, 27-year-old woman and mother of two. The night before she was scheduled to have a routine surgery to remove gallstones, Christina had an awful nightmare in which she imagined she had no control over her body. She wasn\u2019t <em>paralyzed <\/em>in this dream\u2014she could still move, but <strong>she had no control over her movement or awareness of where her body was in relation to the physical world.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although the nightmare was initially dismissed by the hospital psychiatrist as standard pre-surgery hysteria, it soon became Christina\u2019s living reality. She came back to the hospital, claiming that she felt weirdly disembodied, disconnected from her physical self. She had lost any sense of balance; could not hold objects or reach for them; could not stand without looking at her feet; and had suffered a total loss of tone and muscle posture, with her hands wandering freely unless she made a conscious effort to hold them in place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Loss of Proprioception<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>When Sacks was called in to examine her, he found that Christina wasn\u2019t suffering from hysteria at all. From head to toe, <strong>she had a complete loss of proprioception\u2014her sense of self-movement and body position<\/strong>. Proprioception is a sixth sense, the \u201ceyes\u201d of the body by which we orient and position ourselves in relation to the physical world. It is how we know where our bodies are in space.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, even if you close your eyes, you can still touch your finger to your nose, because proprioception tells you where parts of your body are in relation to one another\u2014you don\u2019t need to rely on your sense of sight to tell you where your finger or your nose is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Without <\/em><\/strong><strong>proprioception, we are disembodied, with no innate awareness of our physical selves<\/strong>. Christina found that she could not sense her own body anymore. Whereas she once intuitively <em>knew <\/em>where her arm was, she now had to rely on her sense of vision to <em>locate <\/em>it\u2014painstakingly using her eyes to consciously will her body to do what it had once done automatically. Whereas she once knew how to modulate her voice because her sense of proprioception gave her an awareness of her vocal cords, she now had to use her powers of hearing to regulate its volume and tone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Christina had become a third-party operator of her body, as though it was an object that was no longer part of herself. <\/strong>With great concentration, she could control it, but it was no longer \u201chers\u201d in any way. She was driven to the deepest despair by her condition, likening it to a \u201cdead veil\u201d that had enveloped her being, telling Sacks, \u201cI feel my body is blind and deaf to itself.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Reality Becomes Artifice<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>But Christina managed to<\/strong> <strong>regain some mastery over her body, through making extraordinary efforts and compensating for her loss with her other five senses. <\/strong>She regained her balance by maintaining an overly formal and upright sitting pose. Likewise, she learned to modulate her voice by adopting a theatrical, stagy voice. She had to adopt a constant pose of artifice and performance to make up for the lost reality of her proprioception.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eventually, these mechanisms became second nature to Christina. 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