Gary Lawson, 68, a retired federal law enforcement officer, sometimes believes his battle with Alzheimer’s has a silver lining.
Often, in his ever-clouding mind, he says, he gets flashes of insight – like little lightning bolts of truth.
These insights are hard to put words to, he says, but they can be summed up as a growing certainty in a god-like force in the universe, and a sense that human history reveals universal truths.
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He explains that instead of feeling like his mind is being erased, it feels like too may thoughts are trying to crowd into his brain at once.
It’s frustrating. Sometimes he heads to the bathroom and forgets where he is going, he says.