Reddit mentions of Struck by Genius: How a Brain Injury Made Me a Mathematical Marvel

This actually demonstrates why pi is an infinite repeating number if I remember correctly.

In this one book I read a few years ago, the author mentioned something along the lines of circles are a bunch of triangles overlapping so close together that we cannot see the spaces in between them.

Sorry for the Amazon link, I just wanted to link to a page with all the info on the book.

Yes its a wonderful thing. Most probably will no believe unless they experience it themselves. (And that's the point, heh!)

I found so far while in lucidity its mostly useful for sensory perceptual changes. DMT now has almost no effect anymore, but damn what a powerful tool on the journey. I do enjoy from a little self perspective the perceptual changes of micro dosing.

On heavy flow days, I will notice the self referencing pattern overlays and fractals. I remember asking my inner being when it pipes in, what they are? All I got was "the brain filters this out normaly" ... a thanks LIFE for being cryptic as usual, lol.

The explorer me would like to study these more, later after some research the I found a guy "Jason Padgett" who suffered a brain injury and his brain rewired itself to perceive what is normal under the hood. He see's the world as geometric, fractal, faceted, time shifts like matrix layers and sees numbers as shapes. How amazing would that be?

Struck by Genius: How a Brain Injury Made Me a Mathematical Marvel

I believe he is currently taking more formal math training right now. He was originally extremely perceptive in seeing the "math" behind the world, but couldn't express it in terms that would be comprehensible to Mathematicians. Now he is learning those terms to better communicate his ideas to academia (and presumably the public). If you're interested, he wrote a book about his experiences.

According to an interview I heard, when he first woke up from the accident he noticed that his vision was weird. Everything seemed to be moving in "grids", as if a video was stuttering. He thought at first it was the drugs he was on but he soon realised that it was like that permanently. What he said happened was that the part of his brain that normally "smooths" out motion no longer functioned so instead he saw every frame of vision individually? It's hard to explain and understand.

The result was that he saw math everywhere and also allows him to draw fractals that are normally beyond human capabilities. His strange vision lets him see and adjust where the pen/pencil/whatever should go to be most accurate.

The film doesn't do much to explain his genius, unfortunately.

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Check out his book, it's very good. Makes it clear why he is so revered and unique being one of only a handful of people in recorded history with his combined condition of acquired savant syndrome and synesthesia .

https://www.amazon.com/Struck-Genius-Injury-Mathematical-Marvel/dp/0544045602