In watching Glass Jaw 1991, there was a ghostlike yet hypnotic sense when I began to follow all of the imagery and video footage mesh together. I was moved when Michael O’Reilly described brushing his teeth, a normal part of our daily routine, as something he longed for and missed so intensely due to the wiring of his jaw. This puts life in such a perspective that each limb, bone, muscle, and cell in our bodies is so sacred and fragile, most of which we go many moments without thinking about. The drugs he was prescribed to lower the chances of seizures caused him to hallucinate, hearing familiar sounds and voices. It makes me wonder how our brain creates these certain voices and sounds, or if the brain remembers them at some point from our past experiences in life. I agree with Michael when he expresses his sorrow for those without medical assistance, and how you have to be lucky enough, and the fact of the matter is, hurt enough, to get the attention you so badly need. Then there are the things that are completely out of our control, like an accident, where in the flash of a second, everything can change and your entire world is no longer how you once knew it because of someone or something else, an outside force. The perspective of the video, overlapping with his effortless, and real narration puts us directly in front of his personal trauma. His adjustment to pain seems to get stronger throughout the video as does his realization to what is happening around him.