I mean... It would explain a lot....A CZECH speedway driver knocked unconscious in a crash stunned ambulance drivers when he woke up speaking perfect English.
18-year-old Matej Kus was out cold for 45 minutes after the crash, but when he woke up he conversed fluidly in English with paramedics, even speaking in an English accent.
The teenager had just begun to study the language and his skills were described by friends and team-mates as “basic at best”.
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"Matej didn't have a clue who or where he was when he came round. He didn't even know he was Czech.
"It was unbelievable to hear him talk in unbroken English."
Unfortunately, the speedway driver's new found skills didn’t last and he remembers nothing of the accident or the following two days. He is now keen pursue studies in English.
He told the Daily Mail, through an interpreter: "It's unbelievable that I was speaking English like that, especially without an accent.
"Hopefully I can pick English up over the winter for the start of next season so I'll be able to speak it without someone having to hit me over the head first.
"There must be plenty of the English language in my subconscious so hopefully I'll be able to pick it up quickly next time."
Update 9/22: It happened again, although this time it was just the accent:
A 10-year-old boy has woken up with a posh English accent after undergoing life-saving brain surgery.
William McCartney-Moore's usual northern England accent was replaced with a much more refined tones complete with elongated vowels after he had an operation to remove fluid on his brain.
William, who is from York, needed the surgery after falling ill with a rare strain of meningitis last March.
"He survived the operation and the most amazing thing is that he came out of surgery with a completely different accent,'' his mother Ruth McCartney-Moore told the York Press newspaper.
"He went in with a York accent and he came out all posh.
"He no longer had short 'a' and 'u' vowel sounds. They were all long.''
Mrs McCartney-Moore said doctors initially thought her son was going to die.
He lost everything, she said, including his ability to read, write and recognise different objects.
But William began to recover after the operation and was out of hospital in about a month.
"We went on a family holiday to Northumberland and he was playing on the beach and he said,
'Look, I've made a sand castle' but really stretched the vowels, which made him sound really posh,'' Mrs McCartney-Moore said.
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If you understand that we're all a connected consciousness, I guess I'm not surprised that there are occasional glitches in the matrix.
There have been documented post-surgery situations where someone develops a real shift in personality. Wonder if this happened to Cheney after his pace maker was put in.
And matrix or no, Bush's consciousness is just plain pickled.
Lots of miscellaneous thoughts evoked by this incident...
Doesn't even have to be post-surgery. A friend of mine, an excellent horsewoman, suffered a serious fall while training a very young horse. She woke up in the middle of a country road, apparently about 20 minutes after the fall. Her personality and her memory have been different ever since. Fortunately, she is fully aware of it. This was years ago, and her re-entry into something resembling normal life is essentially complete now... but she's still a bit different.
As to the Czech speaking fluent English upon awakening... how likely is that, really? I know it's impossible to prove a negative, but who's to say he didn't speak perfect English at some point before the accident?
An acquaintance back in college used to claim that a matrix was the mother of a vector. Sounds right to me.
Bush's consciousness is pickled... by Pickles?
whig, you mean your consciousness and mine are connected? Are you sure you want to claim that? :)
Wasn't there a 60 Minutes article about a woman who believed she had lived earlier lives and to prove it, sang a medieval song?
They found she had checked out the library book that had the song in it. She had subconsciously read the music and was able to sing it.
Usually logic and reason win out.
But then... matrixly speaking, I have had very weird experiences with mental connections between loved ones, so maybe whig is right.....
("An acquaintance back in college used to claim that a matrix was the mother of a vector. Sounds right to me." I'm going to have to send this to my son in college.. majoring in math.)
Steve, I'm not a mindreader if that's what you're asking. Do you think you have no connection to anything larger than yourself? Earth?
Ellroon, I'm with Arthur C. Clarke on the idea that any sufficiently advanced technology (or talent) is indistinguishable from magic.
Presto change-o.
Nice quote, whig. I agree, what we accept today as common (cellphones, ipods, laptops) would have boggled the mind thirty years ago. Just imagine what is waiting to be discovered!
Oops, that last comment was me.
ellroon
Just so you guys know, the little boy from York just suffered from FAS, "Foreign Accent Syndrome"... it's rare, but it happens. Basically, there might be some damage or modifications in some of the parts responsible for speech in your brain, thus changing the way you talk. The "accent" is just dubbed by whoever's around to hear it. The whole thing with the racecar driver *is* just insane. I don't know if it's entirely true or not since people claim the "Daily News" is not a very reliable source of information -but hey, who knows? I mean, personally, I caught up on English pretty quickly after not being able to learn it even with bonks to the head.
Lol, thanks for your comment, anon. The brain is a mysterious thing and I'm sure there are more crazy stories out there about people changing personalities, etc. after bonks on the head. I've heard it applies to post-operational effects as well.
May you live with your head bonk-free!
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