Incredible "Fractal Vision" Synesthesia

[Freed Fox]

Via ABC News (http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2012/04/27/real-beautiful-mind-accidental-genius-draws-complex-math-formulas-photos/):

Working behind the counter at a futon store in Tacoma, Wash., is not the place you would expect to find a man some call a mathematical genius of unprecedented proportions.

Jason Padgett, 41, sees complex mathematical formulas everywhere he looks and turns them into stunning, intricate diagrams he can draw by hand. He’s the only person in the world known to have this incredible skill, which he obtained by sheer accident just a decade ago.

“I’m obsessed with numbers, geometry specifically,” Padgett said. “I literally dream about it. There’s not a moment that I can’t see it, and it just doesn’t turn off.”

http://pokk.se/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Jason-Padgett-Fusion.jpg

Padgett doesn’t have a PhD, a college degree or even a background in math. His talent was born out of a true medical mystery that scientists around the world are still trying to unravel.

Ten years ago, Padgett was only interested in two things: working out and partying. One night he was walking out of a karaoke club in Tacoma when he was brutally attacked by muggers who beat and kicked him in the head repeatedly. Padgett said they were after his $99 leather jacket.

“All I saw was a bright flash of light and the next thing I knew I was on my knees on the ground and I thought, ‘I’m gonna get killed,’” he said.

At the time, doctors said he had a concussion, but within a day or two, Padgett began to notice something remarkable. This college dropout who couldn’t draw became obsessed with drawing intricate diagrams, but didn’t know what they were.

“I see bits and pieces of the Pythagorean theorem everywhere,” he said. “Every single little curve, every single spiral, every tree is part of that equation.”

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2012/04/27/real-beautiful-mind-accidental-genius-draws-complex-math-formulas-photos/

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Here is Jason's artistic representation of Pi:

http://abcnews.go.com/images/Health/ht_padget_energy_circle_thg_120427_wblog.jpg

Absolutely incredible, IMO... This man can visually perceive the matrix?! :eek:

P.S. - Mods, sorry; I just ran a search to find that this has been posted previously, over a year ago (I'm typically more diligent about checking that before starting a new thread). Though, frankly, with 9 replies and less than 1,000 views it seems like it kind of went under the radar. To merge or not to merge, that is the question. :p At any rate, your call.
Here is the aforementioned thread; http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?46158-Concussion-activates-a-man-s-dormant-talent...&highlight=Padgett

[NancyV]

Amazing! I guess this is a good argument for something that looks negative actually being a positive. The way he describes what he sees is somewhat like things can look when under the influence of certain psychedelics where you can see the energy so clearly that even sound and smells are visible. You can see trees growing and communicating with each other. I don't know that I'd want to be continuously in that state but Jason certainly seems to be handling it well.

[ThePythonicCow]

P.S. - Mods, sorry; I just ran a search to find that this has been posted previously, over a year ago (I'm typically more diligent about checking that before starting a new thread). Though, frankly, with 9 replies and less than 1,000 views it seems like it kind of went under the radar. To merge or not to merge, that is the question. :p At any rate, your call.
Here is the aforementioned thread; http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?46158-Concussion-activates-a-man-s-dormant-talent...&highlight=Padgett

A link is good; I'll also post a link in that old thread to this new one.

Merging is especially valuable when two new threads start up at all most the same time, on the same topic, unaware of each other. It's easier to have a discussion in one place than two.

But any discussion on that other thread is long ceased by now.

[EC1000]

Thats pretty cool. What probably happened is when he was beat up and hit in the head so many times a dormant potion of his brain was activated. Just like when people get struck by lightning, survive, and are “changed” or have new abilities that they didn’t possess prior to the incident. Or it could just be a "medical mystery", as the “medical experts” suggest. ;)
I don't take drugs anymore but when i was a kid and took LSD for the first time I can still remember that my first trip was all numbers and geometrical shapes. It was all I could see (freaked me out at the time being only 15 years old), everything was built out of numbers; walls, ceilings, everywhere I looked.
Of course all most drugs do is activate certain areas of your brain or release other chemicals that are already in there. Not that I'm advocating their use at all, because I certainly am not.
My point is that every human being likely has the ability to do what this man can somewhere within them.
Still...cool thread.