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In this video, Oliver Sacks, a physiologist for people who often experience hallucinations, opens his seminar with a very nervous and almost paranoid look about him. He fidgets with his papers and hands, and throughout the whole time he is on stage he talks very quickly and abruptly. This DREW my attention, though... This way he acted made me feel as if there were more mystery about this topic than I was expecting- and there was.
He almost foreshadowed his topic by acting in this certain manner that added that extra "UMPH!" to his speech. His tone was very confident and flippant, and yet very hesitant and choppy- he used dry humor every now and then (meaning he was appealing to your emotions, humor) to draw you out of the intense fascination you find yourself in listening to his seminar.
When he gave real life examples of his topic, his patients, it made his argument all the more believable, because he almost MADE us believe that what he said was the truth- because plainly, all they were were hard facts and evidence.
In the end of the seminar, he is asked if he has the syndrom he has described that his patients have, and he does. When he confesses to this, it made me believe he really understood the topic he was talking about, because he has had first had experience with it.
All in all, this video was very, very interesting to watch, I thoroughly enjoyed it, and he DEFINITELY convinced me hallucinations are not just for crazy people!
