It's somewhat strange to think about. Right now, I have two wires implanted deep within my brain; I can feel the wires that are coming out of my brain under my scalp (since I haven't had the neurostimulator installed); yet I don't feel or sense the wires inside my brain at all ...
As I mentioned in Part 1 of my series on DBS - if you would have told me 5 years ago that I would have wires placed into my brain, I would have laughed out loud and exclaimed, 'No way, man, never in a million years!' But again, we change as things around us change ...
I always thought of myself as a pretty smart old programmer (ha!) - so I was used to being open to new ideas and technology. But when I first read about Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) , my immediate thought was, "No way, dude, NO ONE is messing around with the insides of my brain!"...