Man Hears People Speak Before Their Lips Move!
Posted by Tony on July 9th, 2013
Who hasn’t made fun of old, out-of-sync kung fu movies or Godzilla movies?
But what if you woke up one day and that’s how you actually saw/heard the world?
That’s currently how only one person ever known to science now hears/sees the world.
After surgery for a heart problem, the guy, simply known as PH started noticing something odd:
“I was staying with my daughter and they like to have the television on in their house. I turned to my daughter and said ‘you ought to get a decent telly, one where the sound and programme are synchronised’. I gave a little chuckle. But they said ‘there’s nothing wrong with the TV I told my daughter her living room TV was out of sync. Then I noticed the kitchen telly was also dubbed badly. Suddenly I noticed that her voice was out of sync too. It wasn’t the TV, it was me.”
While there is a TON of medical terminology that we could throw around here to explain in detail what’s going on, we’ll simplify it.
PH actually hears people BEFORE he sees their lips move! Not only that but PH also realized that it’s not just other people he’s looking at as they speak..it’s his own words too! PH hears the words he’s saying BEFORE he feels his jaw move!
Since light and sound move at different speeds from the point of origin our brain is set up to process them so that they all sync. While no one’s really sure how the brain makes all this work, scientists are even more confused now that PH and his unique situation has entered the playing field.
Scientists are continuing to study what’s happened to PH because he’s the only person in the world to ever have this happen…
Unless it’s triggered in all of us while we watch late-night kung fu and Godzilla movies.
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July 13th, 2013 at 1:34 pm
He should move to Chinatown, hang out around gyms and dojos, and enjoy the free 24/7 entertainment.
July 14th, 2013 at 12:40 am
Isn’t this the other way around from the kung fu movies? You see the lips move *then* hear the words afterwards. Not the other way around.