Oliver Sacks wrote a famous book about people who recovered from sleeping-disease for a very long time: Awakenings.
How does it feel when you are suddenly able to connect sound and image to your world view?
This puzzled me when staring for hours to my son Krijn. Although he is not able to see anything, there will be a moment when he is and he has to face the challenge of making sense of the world, all brand new for him. What will he think of what we have made of it so far?
Let's say Krijn can read (he is, after all, almost 24 hours of age) and that he chooses for NRC Handelsblad (he is my son). This is what he will be confronted with:
Let's pray he'll judge us mildly.
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