Fluent Speaker of Chinese after Waking from a Coma!! What happened in the brain of an Australian young man?
A young man suddenly got to be able to
speak Chinese after waking from a coma caused by a traffic accident. I think that it is impossible to explain it
scientifically. It takes a few years to
master a language even when a person has a genius learning ability like a young
child. It is said that a person celled
genius takes at least two weeks to speak without any grammatical errors. It is impossible to explain why the man who
has suddenly reached the same level as a bilingual immediately after waking
from a coma.
If I try hard to explain about it, it might
turn out that the brain is likely to have the function to install something
from outside like the Internet, which goes far beyond the common knowledge. It means that if consciousness is linked to a
certain dimension, we can install whatever we want such as Chinese, Finish, mathematics,
physics or musical ability, and as a result, we can display our talent in a
specific area. However, it is impossible
to explain it by SF.
Probably, it is not true and I think this
is an event of walk-in. It is natural to
think that Mr. Ben McMahon, the original owner of the physical body, left the
body in the process of getting comatose and another soul that is good at
speaking Chinese took up his body. If
so, it makes sense that he became a bilingual when he woke from a coma. There might be increasingly such events in
the world.
Masatoshi
Takeshita
September
7, 2014
English translation of the excerpt from a
Japanese article: Exciting News (TOCANA) – September 4, 2014 –
[Wonder
of Brain] Fluent Speaker of Chinese after Waking from a Coma!! What happened in the brain of an Australian
young man?
After waking, you realize that your ability
or talent has developed and the rest of your life has completely changed. Although this sounds like a story of movie or
novel, there are some people who actually have such experiences in the
world. The story of an Australian young man who became a fluent speaker of Chinese
after a traffic accident has become the talk of the town.
After waking from a coma …
According to a British tabloid newspaper “The
Daily Mail” dated September 2,” the name of the young
man is Ben McMahon, 22. Two
years ago, the man from Melbourne fell into a coma after getting involved in a
car crash. His parents were told by a
doctor: “if he should survive, it would be a miracle.” One day after more
than a week, he suddenly woke from a coma and gave a surprising word.
He spoke to
a nurse standing by his bed side who looked Asian in
fluent Chinese: “Excuse me nurse, I feel sore here.” He then asked the nurse for a piece of paper
and pen and wrote on it in Chinese character: “I love my mum, I love my dad, I
will recover.” He showed miraculous
speech and behavior. The nurse was so surprised that he immediately called his father
Mark.
“We got the call from the
hospital and the hospital staff member said: ‘Ben has come back to
consciousness and he’s speaking Chinese’.” “Neither of us can speak Chinese so we just
nodded but deep down quite concerned about what’s going on,” Mark said, looking
back at that day. However, Ben said “I wasn’t consciously thinking I was speaking
Chinese, it was what just came out and it was what was most natural to me.” According to him, he was speaking Chinese unconsciously.
He used to take Chinese at school but
never reached the level of speaking it fluently. So he and people around him
felt perplexed very much, he said. It took Ben two or three days to recall how to speak
English. Until then he had spoken only
Chinese.
Other
people who have experienced a big change in life!
Ben happened to become
a bilingual after waking from a coma caused by a traffic accident. Since then, his language
skills have opened new opportunities to him like leading Chinese tours of his
hometown and hosting a Mandarin television program. He now lives in
Shanghai to study commerce at university.
It seems that there are other examples in
which a certain event has brought about a surprising change in speaking
ability.
In 2010, a certain Croatian girl, 13, got
to be able to speak German as if it were her mother tongue when she woke
up. Another case is reported: in July,
2013, a U.S. veteran, who was found in a coma, got to speak fluent Swedish in
spite of memory loss.
Well, why does such
mysterious phenomenon occur? Some brain scientists and neuroscientist
think that it is the consequence of having the brain partially damaged or
activated due to some impact on it.
However, it is yet to be identified.
At any rate, there might be many mysterious
things about human brain we do not know about.
(Note) Many parts of this article are reproduction from the above source.
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