Annaka Harris experienced severe migraines and developed an early interest in consciousness, focusing on distorted perceptions of space and time and practicing meditative approaches to pain. She developed interests in math and physics and formed a complex relationship with a mentally ill father, bonding over lectures and popular science books. Harris authored the New York Times bestselling book Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind (2019) and released the documentary Lights On: How Understanding Consciousness Helps Us Understand the Universe. She spent about twenty years helping neuroscientists communicate research and explores experimental approaches to questions about the mind.
Growing up, Annaka Harris had a restless, inquisitive mind - and terrible migraines. Which is how she developed an interest in the subject that would captivate her for most of her career: consciousness. "I was really focused on space and time and the distorted perceptions of things," she says. "I started doing a kind of meditative practice on pain, like trying to get closer to it, and I realized I couldn't really locate it in space."
Her father was mentally ill, and the two had a difficult relationship. But they connected by watching lectures together and reading popular science books. "That," she says, "was something beautiful he gave me." Today, Harris doesn't just read popular science books. She's the author of the New York Times bestselling book Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind (2019).
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