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How did that affect your private life?

How do you mean?

It sounds stressful.

Did it make him short-tempered, prone to

mood swings? Different?

Most people would react like that.

Under pressure.

So he was?

Yes.

Prone to mood swings and short-tempered

even before the tumor affected him.

Look, Frederik sacrificed everything for

that school. Our entire family has.

Bernard was in a coma for days.

And so was Laerke.

Everyone thought they

were going to die.

It's Mom. Look who I brought.

Linus Carlsen. I thought you'd like that.

We lose our consciousness

if the cerebral activity drops.

When you're unconscious, the brain

gets stuck in the same pathways.

For a patient to

come out of a coma,

the brain must be spurred to explore

other feasible neural pathways.

There, there. Don't be afraid.

Our conscious mind creates

the image of a fixed self.

If our brain is injured, we don't become

a wrong version of ourselves.

Our brain just produces another self.

First it was Gitte, now it's Done.

I can, I can...

I don't understand it.

I can't explain it.

Is it serious?

No.

Well, how serious is it?

More serious than us?

Is it?

No.

What am I going to tell Niklas?

Huh?

To Niklas?

Do I tell him his father comes home

reeking of Dorte from the board?

Do I tell him that?

Mia, stop it.

We aren't...

We aren't going to involve

Niklas in this.

Is that what you want?

Don't.

Stop it!

Okay, is that what you want?

No, stop it!

Is that what you want?

Huh?

Okay.

Niklas. Come down here.

Let's have a talk with him.

Pack your things.

Mia.

I want you out before Niklas

wakes up in the morning.

Mia.

Did you notice any changes in your

husband that you ascribe to the tumor?

Yes.

Three years ago.

He started to come home from work at

normal hours.

That was very unusual for Frederik.

But cutting down on a demanding work

life sounds pretty sensible.

It shouldn't take a brain tumor, or?

No. But he didn't stay

late at the school every night.

He started having dinner at home.

We renovated the entire house together.

The bathroom and...

It turned out great.

We did all the stuff that other

couples do together.

Yes.

To me it sounds like you're describing an

ordinary life. But that marked a change?

Yes.

Yes.

Those were our best years.

He changed to the better.

Those are our three good years.

Bernard's brain injury altered

his hormonal mirror.

And turned him into another man.

They found in him an overproduction of

the mam hormone oxytocin.

Which most men have very little of.

Laarke, we were in a car accident.

Do you remember?

You...

You're going to get well.

You're going to get well.

Laarke.

I love you.

I love you.

What did you say?

You spoke.

I love you, too.

I love you.

Frederik's infidelity knocked me

off my feet.

Maybe I couldn't live without him.

Mom.

Mom.

Mom.

What's going on? Come here.

When an experience is stored

in your memory,

over time your memory of it will change.

Whenever you recall your memory,

you rewrite it.

Hi.

So your experience of having true

memories is in fact an illusion.

Frederik moved back home.

Perhaps to look after Niklas.

Perhaps to look after me.

Mia, can you mention anything else

that might indicate that the tumor

started affecting him years ago?

When you read about...

that kind of tumors and symptoms...

It can affect your sexuality.

And I caught Frederik having

an affair three years ago.

Okay.

And why do you think that had

anything to do with his condition?

Well, I'm certain he'd never have

an affair with that woman.

No.

Had he been well.

No.

But we've heard that your husband had

an affair seven years ago, too.

So how, in your opinion, does the affair

three years ago differ from the first?

Well...

I remember how callous he was when

I confronted him about it.

But nobody likes to admit to

having an affair.

That's not what I mean.

He was callous in a strange way...

Pardon me?

That you didn't recognize.

Yes.

Yes. He was different.

Frederik, when he was well,

didn't behave like that.

Hello, hello.

You must help me store

the groceries in the fridge. Okay?

Yes.

Only about 5% of our brain is used to

create our conscious mind.

Which shapes our subjective

experience of life.

No, go over to the fridge.

Our brain chooses a fraction of the

sensations constantly thrown at us.

They are combined with relevant memories,

emotions and conceptions.

To create a comprehensible experience

in our conscious mind.

These bags.

Yes.

Place the new ones at the back so they

won't get mixed up with the old ones.

The new ones at the back.

It only takes a few milliseconds

to register a sensation,

but up to half a second to create

a conscious experience,

within a comprehensible context.

That's why we automatically let go

of a scalding pot lid,

but not till the lid hits the floor,

do we realize we've burnt our hand.

So our conscious mind always

lags behind the present.

No... Place the new ones at the back.

So they won't get mixed up with

the old ones.

Place them at the back.

In there.

Bernard, you're stuck in a loop.

Going round in circles.

Oh rig ht.

I'm going to kidnap you.

Where to?

Down here.

Mia Halling. Has Frederik made decisions

you didn't understand?

Yes.

Has he been rigid about his

decisions being right?

Well...

The earliest instance I remember must be

our wedding anniversary.

Which was three and a half years ago.

He bought me a cheese.

That was his present to me.

And he was rigid, as you say, about it

being a romantic and nice gift.

Strange present for a

wedding anniversary, isn't it?

A cheese'.!

So yes, I think he began making

wrong decisions more often.

Why didn't you react?

I think I repressed it.

You repressed it?

And yet you can say exactly when you

took note of his changes.

Well, I think...

I thought I was the one changing.

That my unrealistic admiration

for him was subsiding.

We rarely experience and

interpret things alike.

When our brain has a sensory experience,

it triggers associations based on what

is already stored in our brain.

This makes the experience

comprehensible to us.

But as we each store individual things,

our associations and comprehension

are individual, too.

What's going on in your head?

What are you thinking about now?

Nothing.

You're thinking about anything at all?

Nothing?

Huh?

Is your head completely empty?

Look. Isn't it beautiful?

Doesn't it evoke images?

It's completely empty?

There's nothing.

It's just completely empty.

Associations derived from sensory

experiences aren't tied to memories alone.

But also to our conceptions.

Our conception of something can change

our experience of the actual event.

Our actions and choices aren't free.

Our brain uses our stored

knowledge to predict,

and guide us toward what is best

for our survival.

The half a second it takes our impulse to

reach our conscious mind,

is spent on unconscious brain activity,

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