Originally Posted by Lt. Columbo
i watched a program about about a genius the other day and ever since he had an epileptc fit when he was a kid he started experiencing numbers as visions. apparently the sections of the brain which deal with various emotions and senses can get crossed (eg you could end up smelling a colour) so he would experience numbers as shapes and visions. i think he had different visions up to like 10,000. also his brain would work out any form of super sum without him using any effort. he just see the various visions (vallys, lights etc) and it would be the answer. quite interesting. he also knew 9 languages and managed to learn most of some norsk language in a week. swine!!