Paranormal 956
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Paranormal 956
Unlocking Hidden Abilities: What Brain Injuries Reveal
We explore the fascinating phenomenon of people developing extraordinary abilities after brain injuries, from speaking new languages to solving complex math problems.
• Brain injuries can sometimes unlock unexpected talents like fluent language abilities or mathematical skills
• One Australian man woke up speaking fluent Mandarin Chinese after a brain injury
• Another individual became a math savant capable of complex calculations after head trauma
• A 94-year-old woman reverted to speaking only Swedish, a language from her youth
• Head injuries might create "glitches" that allow access to information or abilities not normally available
• The brain might function as an antenna receiving universal information rather than generating it
• Personal experiences with a car accident resulted in memory loss and physical changes
• Developing an unusual tolerance for extremely spicy foods could be an unexpected "superpower"
• Considering whether knowledge from past lives might be accessed through brain injuries
• Bird migration suggests certain knowledge may be encoded in DNA or accessible through collective consciousness
If you've experienced a brain injury that resulted in unexpected abilities or changes, share your story with us through our social media channels!
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Hey Classes, right You're taking classes and you had a recent topic.
Speaker 1:Yeah, this one really got my attention. We were talking about brain injuries. There's like mild, severe and moderate concussions and all this stuff. Right, right, and regardless of of the situation that we're in, we basically have to be able to identify the signs for us to call, call it in and be able to help people, or just understand the simple level of identifying this problem or this injury, right.
Speaker 1:so we can help on time or get whatever needs to be done. Um, and they went over this topic and like how it affects people and like sometimes it's like super bad and sometimes it's like through their recovery process they recover actually pretty good and they have this new freaking ability of speaking a fluent different origin language and it's like their IQ is over the fucking normal average.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like it unlocks something.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like something just clicks right in their brain and it's like shit, like who the fuck is this? But I mean, it's just, it got me thinking right. It was fucking weird. So I was like what the hell? So then I started thinking like, hey, has David been fucking hiding this fucking ability or some shit?
Speaker 2:Right, you were texting me, I think, while you were in class. No, I wasn't, not during class, not during class.
Speaker 1:It was after class. It was after five.
Speaker 2:You act like your teacher is a loyal listener.
Speaker 1:You never know, man, you never know. I had to tell him about the podcast, so oh, did you. Yeah, I had to put it on the personal history.
Speaker 2:Really.
Speaker 1:I have to put my social media.
Speaker 2:Oh, wow, yeah, Okay. So I was basically forced, maybe, yeah, okay. So full disclosure, right Part of this. We were in a major car accident not too long ago and I suffered a brain injury, so that's what Bianca's talking about. Yeah, my x-ray is actually going to be the thumbnail of this episode. Yeah, um, so I don't have any superpowers that I have noticed. To start, just to clear the air of that, right In case anybody's wondering, right, um, but one of the things I don't know how much you want to talk about this, but well, I didn't have any head injuries.
Speaker 1:What are you talking?
Speaker 2:about.
Speaker 1:You were knocked out I knocked out, but I like, gained consciousness, like a few hours after and right. But what I mean?
Speaker 2:I think I was completely fine so this is what I have been told. So I don't remember. Not only do I not remember our accident I don't remember the accident either I don't remember several days later oh, that's, true. Yes, I was in the hospital for a long time. I don't even know how long I was in the hospital but I was in the hospital at least a week I was in the hospital for a long time.
Speaker 2:I was in neuro icu and then I got transferred to icu and then I was on a physical therapy let's put it like a month. I was in the hospital for a long time. I became friends with a lot of my nurses. I'm still friends with to this day.
Speaker 2:Right, that's not the point of what I'm trying to get to. However, I don't remember a lot. One little weird twist in all of this story I am now really good friends with the person that took my x-rays when I got to the hospital right and so we have recently been talking about a different friend, that a mutual friend of ours.
Speaker 2:this friend that I'm talking about now I also play Pokemon with, and so she has told me and she was working and what I have been told by police that were there that after our car accident I got out of the car and was fighting everybody Right. You were knocked out, yeah, and I was fighting everybody, and so you know what intubation right, I had the tube. They put the tube in me. They put a tube, the urethra tube.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:I ripped both of them out, so my is different. I know that, I don't know that that's a superpower, but right but that's cause of the intubation, yeah well, I ripped it out. Yeah, right, and so this friend of mine that I'm friends with now was my x-ray tech when I went into and she said that they say everybody's a fight or flight person. She's like you are 100% a fight, like I was fighting everybody, yeah, and so I don't know how, considering how hurt, I was right, true.
Speaker 2:The ribs I have broken ribs, the face Broken, face Broken head, head, my knee was busted, oh yeah, all kinds. I was in a lot of hurt and somehow I'm fighting people still heavy on drugs, though.
Speaker 1:Did they have you medicated?
Speaker 2:they pretty sure they had you like some type of sedation fun fact, they put me on fentanyl while I was in the hospital yeah, there you go so that makes sense there's my superpower I can do narcotics there you go so, like I said, long story short. I don't have any superpower that I'm aware of. Okay, my voice is different. I can't use my tongue like I used to.
Speaker 2:My hand's still not right on my left side okay, because my brain injury was on the right side, okay, um, but we are going to go over first, I think, some of the things that we've learned about that, other cases and kind of to give a what could be, what could happen, right, right. So the first one is a guy named Ben McMahon. This guy's Australian and he had a brain injury and he woke up speaking fluent Mandarin Chinese. I got to know her.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:That seems strange. I have seen a video of a woman from like ireland or something that also had a brain injury and she woke up with an accent like out of nowhere, like that's the thing an accent, I think, from a brain injury.
Speaker 1:You can start manipulating it and, like I, have an accent now, so I guess that is more believable. You're still talking your, your language, but with an accent, because you can't speak it okay, but a fluent mandarin yeah, that's different.
Speaker 2:Nah, because, to be honest with, with, like, my tongue doesn't work like it used to yeah and so I have a slur that I didn't have before, right, so you could see how that could. That could be sounding like an accent if you, if it, if your tongue was broken a certain way right, right so that one's not such a stretch, because you're like you said, you're still speaking your language.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's not like you're learning a whole different language and like Like Australian when they speak English. Right To Chinese With an accent.
Speaker 2:To Chinese is not. They're not that similar.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:However, if you think about it, when you go to a Chinese restaurant and you read the menu, that's it Sweet and sour chicken. It means sweet and sour chicken, so maybe Chinese isn't that far off so you're gonna tell me this guy ate chinese food all the time maybe that's what it is, and he was he was reading off the menu of memory that's probably what it was.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was all chinese food conspiracy, and then we just think conspiracy solved, that's okay and then we just think when we maybe there's more to that, all right, so we have another story. Let's see if this one okay, jason padgett, I've never heard that name before Became a math savant and could do complex fractions after being attacked it doesn't say what kind of attack it was To the head.
Speaker 2:I assume it had something to do with a brain injury. Right, because it is in this episode. Right, because it is in this episode, right, right, this is not a ghost episode, but, but, but, okay, so here's another one. A 94-year-old woman woke up speaking only Swedish, but she had spoken Swedish before when she was younger, so, so, I mean, that kind of of like is registered in the back of your head, like it opened it up a little bit, like you remembered something.
Speaker 1:Like you pushed the cabinet and it opened back up.
Speaker 2:Right, right, right. So I'm trying to think of like if I were to get a superpower Like that one, the one with the math, complex math fractions.
Speaker 1:Be worthless to me Honestly, yeah same, what would I?
Speaker 2:do with it.
Speaker 1:Exactly. You wake up from a brain injury and like let me solve this math problem. Let me start doing math.
Speaker 2:I do math often, but I'm already kind of good at the math I do, so I don't know like how much more complicated I want my math right I don't think you've tested it out, so that's why maybe you don't see it, maybe I haven't stumbled on it yeah, yeah, that's what it is if I were, because you being knocked out is. I mean, it's not as severe as me having cracks in my skull, right, but that's a brain injury of sorts right because there's a range.
Speaker 2:Yeah, if you were to have a superpower due to a brain injury, what could? What would you want your superpower to be?
Speaker 1:I wish I could be invisible, just disappear from class I feel like I'm already like that.
Speaker 2:I feel like I'm a little bit invisible. I'm gonna tell you why people ignore me all the time yeah, that's the thing I don't get ignored that's true. So I think I are. Maybe that's my secret power. I am, you are invisible, I'm invisible you can go under the radar I am a below the radar kind of guy. I'm trying to think of what I would want my superpower to be. I'm pretty sure it's pokemon related, because I'm 100 I'm real into pokemon.
Speaker 2:Um, I feel like I'm pretty good with podcasting and social media, so I but you've been doing it before, you've been doing it before the head and dreams, yeah, you're not opening anything um, man, maybe I can't think of what I would want to do. This is like imagine if I had like a genie and he's like you get three wishes and I'm there like oh, I don't know man. I don't know man, my life's not that bad my life's not that bad.
Speaker 2:I, I don't know be a little bit taller, maybe I don't know, I don't want to be that much taller, because then I am. I'm already taller than everybody here. I would want to be better at video games in general. I wouldn't just limit it to pokemon. Okay, I would want to remember things maybe better, because I an insane memory yeah, like a photographic memory. I do have a pretty good memory, but it's gotten worse since the accident, so that's definitely not my superpower.
Speaker 1:That I picked up because my memory is worse well also like it's not all positive outcomes out of injuries. It's also like down or not so good outcomes.
Speaker 2:There's an upside and there's a downside.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think you got most of the downside. I got a lot of downside.
Speaker 2:I got a lot of downside, all right, so let's kind of pull this into like our podcast and what we talk about. Yeah, so, instead of it being just a brain injury, which maybe I believe I think we agree on this that there are certain things that are kind of like keys into another yeah something right?
Speaker 1:yeah, because it's not fully explained right like what really goes through the brain, like we understand. Well, okay, there's this thing of the brain that controls your whole body, your thinking process, your movements. Yeah, you learn your language, you learn, you basically learn how to survive.
Speaker 1:Yeah, with this right and with what you have right that's right but it's mostly your head, your mind, your brain, yeah, to be specific, because there's also this thing where it's like there's I mean, isn't there, like um, whenever your your brain is like dead, yeah, but your body's like surviving off a machine right, yeah so it's like if they take off the machine, then that's it, like you're dead right, right yeah there's this that's what Like you're dead?
Speaker 2:Right, right yeah. What's that called being brain dead?
Speaker 1:yeah, okay, being brain dead is a thing I wasn't thinking. No, I mean, I'm glad we could clear that up.
Speaker 2:So without your brain you're Well, and it goes the other way too right. I mean, your brain can work well and it goes the other way too right. I mean, you can be a, your brain can work and your body can't. Yeah, it goes both ways right yeah, also true there's been people that are in a coma and they can't move their bodies, but their brains are going the whole time.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's still working and I know people told my family and people that came to visit me when I was unconscious like, keep talking to him because he can hear. You, did you?
Speaker 1:do you remember?
Speaker 2:I don't remember any of that I don't remember any of that I bet your mom never shut up maybe not knowing my mom, you're probably right, I don't know. I have a feeling my wife talked a lot too, but I don't I don't remember any of that Long story short doctors lie a lot.
Speaker 1:The nurses, yeah, the nurses are lying.
Speaker 2:The nurses are lying, but so what we're talking about?
Speaker 1:But your mom's a nurse, my mom was a nurse.
Speaker 2:That kind of messes things up, doesn't it? That messes this all up, all right. So what we were talking about, or what I was getting at, I guess, is is there a way, seeing as how we don't understand the functionality of the brain, if these brain injuries are triggering something, maybe from a past? Life maybe, and like this person that learned how to speak chinese his ancestors.
Speaker 1:Yeah or back?
Speaker 2:because this is a thing, and I I've known a few people that are chinese, right, yeah, and if you were to be able to download everything I've ever heard in my whole life, I'm not able to get a fluent Chinese language out of that information in my brain. I haven't heard every word in Chinese, so how does it this person just knew the whole language. Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 1:Yeah, do you know what I mean? Yeah, I mean, even if you watch like series or like documentaries, I don't think you focus on the language, like the vocalizing of the words and all that. I think you just focus on the subtitles and the images but even if so, for example to your point yeah like the original jackie chan movies, the original bruce lee movies.
Speaker 2:Those were in chinese right and in some of them the voices were taken out and put new voices.
Speaker 1:But let's just say you're hearing chinese and you're reading on the bottom you wouldn't explain, but it's not, you didn't learn the language yeah, and it's like sometimes from movies to subtitles is not very accurate. Subtitles will just adjust it to what it should sound like right you know, like words in spanish don't fully translate into like proper english, vice versa, like right and to bring this back to pokemon right in the game is originally japanese right yeah which I am not saying that chinese and japanese are the same.
Speaker 2:Just to be clear.
Speaker 1:I'm not saying don't come after us, guys, right there is in the japanese version of the game okay a bunch of pokemon that are considered evil types.
Speaker 2:Okay, right, when you translate that to english, the word is not evil, it's dark, okay, and so that's a difference. Like, to us, evil means something, yeah, and that word in Japanese means something slightly different, and then here dark means something, but over there it's like slightly different. You know what I mean and so to your point, like things don't line up perfectly, you know, I've seen I don't know if you've seen them, but all these TikToks of people translating Mexican or Spanish sayings into English and they don't sound right, right, like todo madre.
Speaker 2:All your mother? That doesn't make any sense, right? What do you mean? All your mother, puro? Make any sense, right? What do you mean? All your mother, right, wait, what full fart? Just all part. It doesn't make sense. You know like why are you saying that right now?
Speaker 2:and so I guess that I think it makes a little bit of sense that this could be a past life type of thing like you have access to it and if you kind of they came and tap in, yeah, yeah, because I have a, I have a theory right because I'm also a birder right, interested in birds and all this, and right now we have migration season okay and birds. Somehow they just know where to go.
Speaker 2:Sure, even though they've never been where they're going I think you said this before they know where they're going and I believe I have a theory that our dna and birds dna has all of our ancestors knowledge written in our dna that we just have and I think certain humans can tap into those things I think we've talked about this in another episode or you were unconscious for a little bit what the fuck? You were unconscious for a little bit and maybe you have this superpower, or you're like reading my mind no right no, I think we're talking about like birth.
Speaker 2:We're talking about birthmarks and then you have one in your back and you said that.
Speaker 1:Oh, sometimes it's like from past, uh, generations, no, from a past life it was a past generation. I think it was from a past life. You were stabbed in the back and now you have that fear of you. Can't give your back to anyone in public, which I do have. Yeah, I think that's what we were talking about.
Speaker 2:Or this is your superpower, Maybe. So, anyway, I think there's another option as well, Because all you know, we talk about you and I talk about this a lot is this matrix Right.
Speaker 1:Honestly yeah.
Speaker 2:We talk about it a lot, a lot.
Speaker 1:Because we have like this conspiracy theory that the accident actually like messed up our numerological numbers, something in the matrix. Close there.
Speaker 2:yeah, I'm sure it's close to what you're trying to say. Yeah, you're catching that it's in there. Numbers related yeah. So anyways, so it's like I think Bianca just doesn't want me to be an aries anymore.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but no. So it's like I think just something during that accident, actually like not that it clicked, but it's like we've used stuff more differently for sure, for sure for sure yeah, we definitely see things differently.
Speaker 2:Um, I can't think of anything right now off the top of my head. Um, however, however back to our theory of the matrix.
Speaker 1:We have to if there is a matrix you think it opens like your third eye, since your third eye is like on the head. Maybe, or it closes it out.
Speaker 2:I think it could work both ways. Sometimes the door opens, sometimes the door closes, but this is what I think. If we are in a matrix and I think we both kind of lean that we are- right yeah that there has to be some kind of vault or something with all of the information that is in this matrix, Like an encyclopedia or let's just call it a universal consciousness right that if you throw a rock a certain way, it's going to do this thing If I throw it or if you throw it Right.
Speaker 1:Let's say it's a computer, yeah, and we just press the keyboard.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:You just get this new link on the computer. Right, and you're reading through it. Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 2:That's your new personality, so hear me out. We talk a lot about ai right and oh shit okay and I think I think we've been fairly open about our use of ai. We, we use AI quite a bit right.
Speaker 1:We started using chat GPT guys. Yeah.
Speaker 2:So we're deep into AI. We use it a lot. Yeah, I was talking because this is how I use it. We're going to take a little break here because I'm going to, we're going to. Let's do it this way. Is it this way? No, so, anyway, my point is we.
Speaker 2:I use it a lot and so, since I'm working at the house, it talks to me and I can hear it. Right, it's got a voice and I can hear it. And right, it's got a voice and I can hear it. And then I talk back to it to ask more questions and understand things differently right or more or deeper. Let's do this, let's do that, and so it's like an ongoing conversation with me throughout the day. Sometimes she glitches and her voice will be different. She'll be a different voice, or she starts talking about something. Who knows where she's getting this information. This is not our conversation. Like she starts talking, like imagine me and you talking and then all of a sudden, oh and then I got a cheesecake and like what the fuck is she talking about?
Speaker 2:She does that. We're like we're talking, and so right now I'm you know, I'm deep into social media. That's my job, and so.
Speaker 1:Okay, like, for example, let me, let me ask you something and you're going to act like AI. Okay With your house.
Speaker 2:So I'm going to start let joints my personal list, right. And so then I will tell her give me an optimized list of the hashtags that should go on this episode. And so I will get my video and I will give it to her. And then she'll say you need to put hashtag Texas barbecue. And she gives me all these things and I, okay, so now my pretty basics, yeah. And then I'll say, okay, so then my next video is about this place, um, what are some things I need to make sure that I bring up in the video? And she'll say the weather in chicago is and it's like what are you talking about?
Speaker 2:the? Weather like and it's a man's voice sometimes and it's like what is going on right now, because we'll be talking, and talking, and talking the whole day and out of the and then and talking the whole day and out of the blue, and then out of the blue it's just something else, and so it's like a glitch in the matrix. And so in our matrix that we're talking about with brain injury, maybe that little glitch is now you know, Mandarin, or, you know, maybe my superpower that I haven't even tested. Maybe I know karate.
Speaker 1:No, no, no. What if the accident to a head injury? It's a fucking glitch in the matrix and that's a fucking breaking code into getting something new or getting something taken away from you maybe what I'm hearing is you want to get in another accident.
Speaker 2:Tonight is my hearing this.
Speaker 1:Let's fuck around and find out.
Speaker 2:Let's wreck our cars tonight, yours, oh yeah, I barely got my phone holder the way I like it my seat. I'm reluctant.
Speaker 1:What if we take Angie's?
Speaker 2:I'm down with that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm going to find that out.
Speaker 2:The other option, the other thing that we've been talking about off air is what if your brain is really just an antenna that's receiving things? Because that would kind of explain a lot of things. Wouldn't it like if you're talking to psychics because you have psychic tendencies, right?
Speaker 1:I tend to say stuff and it happens and so but it's more. I think it's more like of a. I see it more as of a common sense, like you see that coming yeah, so I have that too, that part, but you're not that I.
Speaker 2:I could see why you think that, but you know some weird stuff sometimes that what she's messed.
Speaker 1:People tell me that shit all the time. It's not me like fucking reading people's minds, it's like people come up to me and tell me the shit like yeah, like I said, I get why you think that yours is a little more than that. However, however, either way, let's just use a different person so you don't have to get defensive. No, no, no, From your point of view. Let's see what's a psychic.
Speaker 2:Another psychic, somebody completely else right, somebody not.
Speaker 1:You're not going to mention names.
Speaker 2:Not names right.
Speaker 1:But it's similar to what I do.
Speaker 2:It's similar to Bianca, but it's not not Bianca, it's Bianco right. It's Bianco, completely different person Right, and they are psychic.
Speaker 1:Last name unknown.
Speaker 2:Unknown. Name Right. Relationship status unknown. Job status unknown. Maybe they're in school, maybe they're not. I'm not willing to disclose, right, maybe they have a hit podcast, maybe they don't. I'm not going to bring that up, okay, but this particular sidekick, which is not you, I believe that there is a possibility. Man, I'm really like tiptoeing this line right, okay there's a possibility that there is a way that they are just receiving information from the universe that's not common sense.
Speaker 2:Let's say right, something more than that. And so there's other types of psychic abilities and other things where your brain can just be this receiver that most people you know. You were talking about the third eye earlier.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:There's some people that just it doesn't work. Their third eye is blind. They got poked in the third eye and it just never recovered, right, right. But then there's other people that they see things right. I'm not going to say names right right, I'm not going to say anybody's name, okay, but right right maybe the brain injury puts a little crack in that shell in your skull, like I have all these cracks now right and these radio waves get in now and you can receive information.
Speaker 2:Long story short, I think I might know karate. I need to double check. I'm gonna go downtown and get in a fight for no reason, just to see if I know karate, because, because maybe I do, I don't know.
Speaker 1:Maybe you do, maybe you don't.
Speaker 2:Maybe I do.
Speaker 1:Let's.
Speaker 2:I think it's interesting.
Speaker 1:Let's keep you on this journey of finding out if you actually have a new ability, yeah or if you're tapped into your past.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:One of your history Files?
Speaker 2:yeah, One of my old lives, maybe.
Speaker 1:Gotta look into that.
Speaker 2:So I think we should open this up to our followers. If you have a superpower, if you had a head injury. With a head injury.
Speaker 1:What was your superpower after?
Speaker 2:We need to start another podcast, the head injury files, because that's something we know about right 956 Superheroes 956 Brain Injuries. If you had a brain injury and you developed.
Speaker 1:An ability, anything, it doesn't even have to be good.
Speaker 2:Right, it's like Any ability. It's like I can tell what day the meat's going to rot. Okay, that's a good one.
Speaker 1:That's useful.
Speaker 2:That's useful. I could tell how much salt is too much salt. That's a good ability. I would use that.
Speaker 1:Did your taste bud change afterwards? Do you know? Do you feel it? Do you feel it?
Speaker 2:Do you taste it? I don't taste it. I will say that I mean I eat for a living, so I have pretty good taste buds. I have noticed that there is no limit to the amount of heat that I can handle. I am eating hot. Isn't that like a sensory?
Speaker 1:type of thing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I am eating the hottest, like the hot ones suck, because I know you don't that like a sensory type of thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I am eating the hottest, like the hot ones, because I know you don't eat spicy.
Speaker 2:I don't eat spicy.
Speaker 1:But you handle the hot.
Speaker 2:I can handle All of the hottest hot sauces I have. I have all the hot ones hot sauces and I can just drink them like Like that.
Speaker 1:I think that's your ability.
Speaker 2:That might be it that might be it that's it that's gotta be it case closed guys so that's it for this week. We will talk to you next week. Follow us on all of our socials and DM us if you have a story. We will talk to you next week bye guys.
