are not insane, they have brain damage but they are not insane.
Viewers might think at first that it was only possible in the movies but upon reading The Lost Mariner, the characters of Lucy and especially Ten Second Tom seemed very real. The movie 50 First Dates had characters with the same illness. His case is a very rare-an illness that was recently used by Hollywood in one of its movies. Jimmie G’s case is interesting because it reminds us that despite the fictional characters created in movies, there are characters that resemble real people with depressing illnesses. Through Sacks’ dialog with the Jimmie G, apart from learning Jimmie G’s condition, he learned that breaking the sad news to the patient can have great emotional effects. The moment the doctor stepped out of the room, Jimmie G forgets all about meeting him. The problem is he can’t retain short term memory, he still believes that the year is 1945 and that the Americans have just won the war. is a war veteran that does not show symptoms of any diseases, he is practically a healthy old man and he remembers vividly the details of his experiences during the war despite his old age. The Lost Mariner in particular is Sacks’ account of a patient he previously encountered. The entire book is a collection of essays narrating different cases about people with problems on the brain, particularly the right-hemisphere-either losing memory or having memories that did not actually happen. The Lost Mariner is one of the essays in the book The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat written by Oliver Sacks, a neurologists.
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