Hi Charlie here i'm sure you've always wanted to have a real life superpower but thought
that superpowers were only in fiction well get ready for these people to shatter your sense of
reality forever the people we're going to look at today got into accidents but these accidents gave
them real life superpowers from a man who woke up from a concussion as a mathematical genius
to a boy who was struck by lightning but could then see perfectly in the dark jason padgett
for most of jason's life he was anything but academic he did not enjoy school at all instead
he preferred partying hooking up and having fun he always thought math was boring and pointless
but on the unlucky day of friday the 13th 2002 jason's life changed forever as he was leaving
a karaoke bar with some friends jason was jumped a few criminals hit him on the head many times they
also robbed him he had a concussion and was taken to a nearby hospital but when he was released
from hospital and returned home he realized he was not the same he suddenly began to see the
world like a retro computer game everything was pixelated and he could see things geometrically
he also began questioning things about mathematics and physics he looked up fractals on the internet
and realized that he understood it all even though he never researched any of this stuff in school
everywhere jason looked he saw fractals fractals are infinite patterns which are very complex
you can look deeper and deeper into them but they simply go on forever and get more and more complex
jason began drawing the fractals he was seeing and within a few months he had thousands of drawings
of circles and fractals jason could visualize a mathematical formula in his head and then complete
it on paper he could also see equations and then plot them to a graph he could visualize all of
this stuff in his brain and then put it onto paper for everyone else to see the concussion
he received when he was mugged turned him into a mathematical genius eventually this was picked up
by the media he traveled to alto university in helsinki and that's where his brain was scanned
by experts they realized he had accessed parts of the brain most people don't have access to
his visual cortex also works with the part of the brain that makes mathematical calculations
this means he can literally visualize any mathematical equation and solve it in real time
he was diagnosed with acquired savant syndrome this is a condition where someone rapidly acquires
a field of knowledge this can occur when something abnormal happens to the brain for example getting
brain surgery or having a concussion ben mcmahon for a westerner chinese is one of the most
difficult languages to learn the writing is very complex there are also words that mean multiple
things when said differently and it takes even people who are good at learning languages years
to learn chinese well but that was not the case for one australian man in 2015 ben was riding in
a car that got t-boned after the wreck he was in a coma for more than one week but when he woke up
ben and his nurse were stunned that's because ben began speaking perfect chinese ben had no idea how
he suddenly knew how to speak and write chinese he asked his nurse for a piece of paper and a pen
effortlessly he wrote i love my mom i love my dad i will recover in perfect chinese his doctors had
no explanation for this at all neither ben nor his parents had ever studied or spoken chinese
it took ben two or three days to remember how to speak english but the entire time he spoke fluent
chinese if you didn't study for that spanish exam maybe getting a coma is a good way to learn the
language just kidding it's definitely not worth the risk especially as this has not happened to
anyone since ben scientists say that it's a medical mystery before we move on make sure
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tony sequoia was a normal man living in albany new york but one day in 1994 his life changed forever
he was calling his mother from a pay phone but that's when from inside the metal and
glass payphone box he saw a big storm in the sky he walked just one step and instantly was
hit by lightning his heart actually stopped but thankfully the woman waiting behind him to use
the pay phone was a nurse and she was able to resuscitate tony on the scene a few weeks later
tony visited a neurologist because he was having memory problems but the brain scans
showed nothing unusual but then a couple of days later tony began to feel strange he had a sudden
urge to listen to some piano music despite him only listening to rock and roll music before
he then started buying music sheets too he began understanding the notes and how they would sound
all this despite never playing the piano before he then began composing piano music knowing how
it would sound simply by looking at it on a page he was diagnosed with acquired savant syndrome
and today still plays the piano perfectly orlando cyril orlando was like any other guy
that was until the 17th of august 1979 he was playing baseball when a baseball struck him in the
head he was only 10 years old when this happened this meant his brain had not fully developed
after the baseball hit him in the head he did not seek any medical care at first orlando experienced
a lot of headaches but soon these went away but what came was the ability to perform
very complex calculations in his head he can remember the weather where he was and
what he did on any given day orlando's memory is basically superhuman scientists did many mri tests
on orlando and they diagnosed him with acquired savant syndrome derek amato when derek was 39 he
dove into a swimming pool but it was too shallow and he hit his head not exactly a genius move
but it did make him into a genius at first he had a very bad concussion and he also experienced
35 percent hearing loss but after he recovered from the concussion he began to see music music
began to fill his head and he began to see black and white squares which represented piano keys
he was able to compose music for piano and play it despite never playing it before derek was
diagnosed with stinesthesia this is a special form of perception in derek's case it's music a drawer
in 2019 a group of children were playing football in uganda among them was one thirteen-year-old
named adroa suddenly it began raining heavily and a drawer went underneath a grass heart for some
shelter but that's when the heart was struck by lightning a drawer was taken to a nearby hospital
but it did not take long to realize that a drawer was very different his eyes were no longer brown
and were now a glowing blue color and his veins were also visible through his skin this is because
his blood vessels were bursting from the electric discharge this is known as a lichtenberg figure
but a drawer had this all over his body amazingly his eyes now let in more light too this meant
that he could see perfectly in the dark but he found it very painful to see in bright sunlight
alongside clemens when alonzo was a child he experienced a bad head injury this changed his
life dramatically it left him with an iq of 45 and he was unable to tie his own shoes but one thing
he was able to do was mould very detailed animal figures from clay he can look at any animal very
quickly and then in less than 20 minutes make an amazing 3d sculpture of the animal they are always
precisely accurate even if he's never seen the animal before he has no idea how he can do this
with such speed and accuracy tommy mchugh tommy hugh was a construction worker for many years
but when he was 51 he experienced a double aneurysm and a stroke he went into coma for
one week but when he woke up his brain was full of rhymes images and pictures he had the sudden urge
to paint paintings and write poetry something he'd never done before he is now a very famous
painter and poet sadly he passed away in 2012 but before he passed away he said my two strokes have
given me 11 years of magnificent adventure it's something that no one could have ever
expected from me but now it's time to make your voice heard comment below if you could have any
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