it's not broken, just beautifully different like everyone else is.

reading some of these comments are breaking my heart, but I wanted to let you know, that I survived a ruptured brain aneurysm, and cant wait to sit and watch the entire film, with my family, so that they also will know what I see, and live, thank you so much for sharing this with the world, I hope it makes my world a little easier to fit into , but again these comments will just keep me hiding from the world. :(

It’s like seeing the world from a perspective that a normal functioning brain can think of but may be unable to imagine. Thank you, Lotje, for sharing your story. It is a wonderful documentary.

suffered it in Jan 2018 1. Ruptured large brain aneurysm 2 A Subarachnoid Haemorrhage.. 3 Brain haemorrhagic Stroke 4. Brain operation 5. Also operate to remove a large blood Clot behind the left eye 6. Placed in an medically INDUCED COMA with an assisted breathing tube to allow a maximum rest.....on and on Thank you, Lotje, for sharing your story 👍👍 🙏

I had a stroke when I was a preteen, although not as severe as this woman when I was in the ICU. This documentary was amazing. It really brought me back to the frustration and fascination with the changes that happened to my brain. The anger at not being able to tie my own damn shoes at 12yrs old, or eat unaided, but being fascinated by how my perception had changed. It always affects you in some way, no matter how much rehabilitation you go through.

Your brain is the most important thing you will ever own.

thank you so much for this, as an occupational therapist I'm pretty thankful, you've just gave me more strength to keep learning and improvising my treatments for my patients. send you a huge hug from Mexico, and again, thank you for share.

I don't get high very often, but I live in Colorado and have the option to buy marijuana legally whenever I want. I decided to get some edibles and ate some yesterday and decided to watch this movie. I have to comment on this video, because I had THE MOST enlightening experience watching this doc as high as I was. The high started really kicking in near the beginning of the movie and I started feeling as if I had a hard time clinging onto reality. The scene changes, editing, music, and effects really captured her world in a way that immediately transported me into her perceptions. Some of her first sentences are what really grabbed at me because I Couldn't understand anything she was saying. I wasn't sure what the documentary was actually about before I started watching, so I had no idea what I was getting into. As the movie progressed, I slowly began to understand what Lotje was trying to explain when she was feeling better about rehabilitating. Through out the movie, I was going through Lotje's ups and downs with her. Every time she would try explaining something and would start trailing off course in her sentence, I was right there with her, watching my own mind dig deeper and deeper into thought to the point of completely forgetting what I was thinking about originally. When she would start getting down, I completely understood why and I watched as she was trying to climb out of the entanglement of her mind. Every time she started to feel better as if her condition was improving, was due to her embracing the fact that she was special. She had figured out that focusing on the positives about what happened to her brain, actually improved her sentence forming and communication. I feel that we all have the capability to tap into what she is living, but over time, we have built up a wall in our minds to avoid it. It's a dangerous place in the mind where you can literally perceive your own heaven or hell. Lotje went through both her own personal heaven and hell and embraced the beauty in what she was experiencing. This ultimately improved her condition to at least become fairly functional in society. I also noticed that when people were asking Lotje simple questions, I began to lose the ability to understand what these people were actually saying. I heard the words, but the meaning behind them were non existent and I could see that Lotje was lost as well. After I finished the movie, I sat and thought about everything I had just experienced. Part of me wondered if I had just experienced a stroke myself, while the other part of me realized I was just high. Either way, I had such a bizarre connection to Lotje and her world, that I feel very blessed to have experienced something so unique.

Grateful for the documentary... although all brain injury affects everyone differently, this certainly was helpful in understanding... BRAVO to this young lady, I admire her courage.

Had a stroke at 31 years old,was lucky to only loose some vision but i was broken and twisted inside,no one can help you because doctors know so little,i'm 42 now,i live in this beautiful mind of mine that i created,and it's all right.

So excited for this. Netflix is doing some great things

I guess only stroke victims can truly understand. Five years on the battle is still very real.........

Well done Lotje Sodderland! Having survived Brain Surgery on 22 September 2006, followed by years of rehabilitation... learning what my children's names were, learning how to walk, talk and communicate, I certainly relate to this fabulous recollection of 'My Beautiful Broken Brain'. Never give up hope! Smiles Cath :)

Amazing how positive and humble she is through all this.

I was in my mid twenties when I suffered a severe trauma-related brain injury. I recovered very well with the help of extraordinary medical personnel and various therapies (speech, physical, and so on). Two years later, you would not be able to tell that anything happened to me (except for the slight limp). The experience inspired me to enter the nursing field in order to assist those who need a bit of help such as I once did. I'm quite interested to watch this program because while one brain injury can differ wildly from another, she articulates many of the same feelings and thoughts I had following my own brain injury.

Netflix seems to be always on point with these wonderful stories.

I feel so sorry for this woman that she has suffered so much but I am happy that she can find the light in the darkness and always find a way

this woman is super woman!!! i'm so proud of her she is so amazing!! i watched the dokument when she was crying my own eyes died in that moment i could feel so clearly her emotions and everything. She is prove that whatever happens never giveup!!

i would totally recommend this documentary, I just finished watching it and it was incredibly interesting

What a beautiful human being!

People think that stokes only happen to older people which is bad enough, i was 29 when i had my first TIA (mini stroke) now at 37 i've had six TIA's and a stroke thankfully i'm still alive but I struggle to spell things/grammar/finding the right word, the left side of my body is alot weaker.. I never smoked/drunk and was never a wild child so didn't tick any of the "high risk" boxes at all... if in dought get it checked out ASAP

Everyone's brains are broken, she might have fixed hers.

I'm already crying from watching the trailer, my god

God Bless her, God Bless them💖 Her brain has no baring on the glaring and blinding beauty of her soul😍😍😍

This is so beautifully moving. I can't wait to watch it.

I had a brain injury, too. It was 6 years ago; I wasn't able to speak at all. I am very glad that you made this movie/film. It has hope!

This was so inspiring. What a beautiful and amazingly courageous person.

You give everyone hope who has stroke in family history. Glad to have found your trailer will watch you on Netflix :)

This made me so emotional for a second. 😢

what a beautifully mind expanding film. I took so much away from this and I really think it can effect almost anyone who watches it.

For anyone who hasn't seen this masterpiece.... It was the single most interesting documentary that I have ever seen!!!

well done... i love the way you problematize tour experience. really spoke to me as healing from 3rd csection walking through different Health systems and language. hope you being more of tour work on this to light.

That was tough to watch yet, very inspirational

I had a traumatic brain injury recently. I know it is not the same as a stroke but nevertheless, it is a brain injury just as a stroke is. I feel that this is the most beautiful women and the best movie. I am so thankful she created this because awareness needs to be spread.

Super interesting. I'll be watching for sure

Beautiful story. Highly recommend!

This was such an amazing film! LOVED it!!!

I knew someone online who had a stroke. He's never been the same. He had to relearn speech, and reading, and spelling and all sorts of things. We used to play an online game together, but since it happened he had to quit. He was the type to always be there, one day he wasn't so people suspected something bad, then his dad logged in to tell us the news.

She is absolutely adorable 😭

such a good doc.

So she had a stroke and woke up with some type of learning impairment for reading but gained some type of superpower, night vision?

I had a stroke a year ago when I was 18. It was the scariest moment of my life. I wasn't able to speak, I couldn't think straight, and the coordination in my arm was off so I couldn't hold or write with a pen or feed myself with that arm. But thankfully I recovered after about a month and I feel okay today. It could've been much worse but thankfully it wasn't.

This is truly a wonderful, mind opening documentary

Loved that documentary! So inspiring and truly beautiful! In case anybody knows: How can one create those colour effects like the ones at 1:11?

I'm already stockpiling tissues for this one. Many tears will be shed.

Strokes are scary things. If you are luckily it does mild damage to you but most of the time I hear a story about one its worst. This one sounds like something in the middle but the middle still sounds bad. I will definitely watch this to learn a little more about this.

This seems quite extraordinary. However, a quite ordinary broken brain can have it's beautiful moments too. For instance, my dyslexic brain initially read "A stroke stripped her of" as "A stripper stroked off." What's more beautiful than that?

Its got David Lynch in, so you can count me in!

Oh my god this made me cry and so happy for her

Netflix is really stepping up with alot of their original programing !!this looks very good.

So she had a stroke and now suffers from some cognitive loss and some degree of synesthesia

This looks brilliant.

That's so beautiful.

Aweasome documentry film thank u for making it....

Amazing!!!

excellent documentary. I am happy NetFlix recommended it for me.

My uncle recently suffered a bad stroke so this would be great for him to see :)

this looks so good

I would genuinely watch this.

Moral of the story: Strokes can cause you to hallucinate colors sometimes. Next time you see a stroke survivor, ask them if they see colors and if they want to make a movie about it.

thank you so much

I like her voice

This looks amazing

OH my god this seems amazing

wow this is a amazing story ur a beautiful person *)

Awww this looks so good, wish I had Netflix.

I’m a brain tumor survivor and I know how hard recovery can be. When I woke up I could not read. This was heart breaking because I was someone the read rather the watch tv. The hard part was no one can tell you what will come back. Luckily after 5 months of hard work it came back. But I’m still not 100%.

One of the best things that i saw on netflix

Can't wait!

I wanna watch!

So similar to some of my own experiences, yet some things are very different. I'm fine reading, but struggle with writing (although not too bad at typing). Also a big David Lynch fan! Even after seven years there are some words that I know I want to say, but get quite get them out properly (I struggle with squirrel and communal). Totally weird. A good watch.

Dope as hell

Could happen to anyone I can only imagine how debilitating it can be to someone so multi-tasked

I'm sorry, don't want to sound insensitive, but that looks so dope! Especially whatever she drew towards the end... so different and unique!

Touching me again

this show looks like it's going to be amazing❤💜💛💚💙

"She's also a neet" LOL

masterpiece

she lost her part of her brain and found her self

I had an tbi two months ago, and another another a few weeks ago. My vision was slightly colored from the first one. But after the second one, I'm almost completely blind from color on my right field of vision. The color is in my right side a bit too. But I'm at the happy reality and don't see the distortion in the faces. I can't see any faces anymore, I can only tell my your voice or how you dress or something. Being a highly intelligent person to a baby is something I never thought would happen to me, too, but it happens. Also lost inner monolog and ability to form pictures in my head.

Thank you, Netflix.

Well this seem like it'll be a good background ;)

So beautiful 😍

I wonder if they'll interview Jill Bolte Taylor, she's a neuron-anatomist who had a stroke in her left hemisphere too. She wrote a book about it called My Stroke of Insight. It would be cool if they talked to each other about their shared experience.

I'm not crying, you're crying!

Wow!

Wow.

This is cool and all, she just developed synesthesia- but we should have more movies and documentaries on mental illness, depression, anxiety, we need to normalize these mental disabilities so people can get help.

She had a stroke that resulted in the overwiring & overrelease of psychoactive tryptamines in her brain. Similar to DMT.

Hi! could someone please tell me what is the name of the piano song that appears in the moment when her mother reads the side effects of the medication?. thanks!!!

This is depressing. I value my intelligence so much. I am seriously so scared of losing it.

i need more information about this!!!

Wow Netflix keeps blowing my mind with new shows

I literally want to Paint/draw What She SEES Because it could be amazing and something different to the rest of the world!

Reminds me of the late Oliver Sacks, MD.

I understand her deeply :(( with my skull fracture.

thanks Netflix for this, looks very interesting

will I be able to watch this in the UK

looks intresting

Netflix definitely knows what it's doing!