Extraordinary people - Daniel Tammet - Pt1 of 3
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Experiencing numbers as colors or sensations is a well-documented form of synesthesia, but the detail and specificity of Tammet's mental imagery of numbers is unique. In his mind, he says, each number up to 10,000 has its own unique shape and feel, that he can "see" results of calculations as landscapes, and that he can "sense" whether a number is prime or composite. He has described his visual image of 289 as particularly ugly, 333 as particularly attractive, and pi as beautiful. Tammet not only verbally describes these visions, but also creates artwork, particularly watercolor paintings, such as his painting of Pi.
Tammet speaks a variety of languages including English, French, Finnish, German, Spanish, Lithuanian, Romanian, Estonian, Icelandic, Welsh and Esperanto. He particularly likes Estonian, because it is rich in vowels. Tammet is creating a new language called Mänti. Mänti has many features related to Finnish and Estonian, both of which are Finno-ugric languages. Some sources credit Tammet as creating the Uusisuom and Lapsi languages as well.
Tammet is capable of learning new languages very quickly. To prove this for the Channel Five documentary, Tammet was challenged to learn Icelandic in one week. Seven days later he appeared on Icelandic television conversing in Icelandic, with his Icelandic language instructor saying it was "not human."


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We all use 100 ... ( 3 months ago by gigantkranion)
We all use 100 percent of our brains tho....
Well, you certainly ... ( 3 months ago by simpsons225)
Well, you certainly don't 'cause then you'd know that we only use about 10% of our brain. Don't be ignorant, go read about it if you don't believe me.
We use all of our ... ( 3 months ago by Coredo)
We use all of our brain, just not all at once.
Dude, I fucking ... ( 3 months ago by simpsons225)
Dude, I fucking know. Don't try to be smart by "correcting" me or anything. 'Cause, honestly, everybody knows that so it never occured to me that I actually had to spell everything for people to understand me... But there you go, I'm sure even the retarded can follow me now.
Wow I have that to ... ( 3 months ago by LaBellaa1984)
Wow I have that to I pick up things fast but not that extreme, I also experience numbers as colours and music as colours and tastes.. or as metals or plastic or sand..
yeah, i agree with ... ( 3 months ago by yourdrowninglessons)
yeah, i agree with ya, we CAN only use 10% of our brain... if we use a huge % of it we can able to control things without even touching them... aka "mind control"... :)
Well, yeah perhaps. ... ( 3 months ago by simpsons225)
Well, yeah perhaps. A lot of people might be very sceptical about that sort of stuff but the truth is that nobody really knows what we become capable of if that ever happens.
Great stuff ... ( 3 months ago by MaryJamesMurdoch)
Great stuff Maverick! Thanks for posting! We don't get this show where we live. :-)
Damn. What I would ... ( 3 months ago by MaryJamesMurdoch)
Damn. What I would give just to master just ONE foreign language!
dude so do i!!!! ... ( 2 months ago by Xxero0)
dude so do i!!!! when a think of a word, letter, song, note, number, equation, etc., it has a unique color to it- no two alike. if i look at an equation for the first time, it seems to be a color that doesnt exist. then, if i look at again, even if i dont have any memory of it before, the color is still the same, but seems to already exist. does that make any sense?
I wanna see him ... ( 2 months ago by FinnHawk)
I wanna see him learn Finnish! :)
haha... maybe I ... ( 2 months ago by FinnHawk)
haha... maybe I should have read the video description first...
IF We all used 100 ... ( 2 months ago by Walkermakesomemovies)
IF We all used 100 % of our brains, we could do AMAZING things.
1111 ( 1 month ago by sedona1111)
1111
holy shit ( 1 month ago by RaynardES)
holy shit
BS, we use 100% of ... ( 1 month ago by OverSoft)
BS, we use 100% of our brains, however, 80% of it is used to supply the rest of our brain with blood and energy.
This BS-story has been floating around way too long.
how do you know the ... ( 1 month ago by gregcarson)
how do you know the colour is the same if you have no memory of the equations previous existence?
subconciously, you ... ( 1 month ago by Xxero0)
subconciously, you have a memory of everything.
That's cool, but it ... ( 4 weeks ago by asshole92)
That's cool, but it won't get him laid, so he loses.
whats the song ... ( 4 weeks ago by xXxMegerzxXx)
whats the song after 4:20?
it's from American ... ( 3 weeks ago by wheelerk86)
it's from American Beauty, it's avaliable from the soundtrack for the film, The music was composed by Thomas Newman. Whilst on the subject of music does anyone know who performs the music for the 2008 adverts for the programme, it was a piano with a male voice singing over it.
Looks like your ... ( 2 weeks ago by TallStackinAllDay)
Looks like your still on the hunt for that thing that will get you laid..eh buddy?! LOSER!
puh, well why does ... ( 2 weeks ago by Oasics93)
puh, well why does top scientist all over the world support it? Are you smarter than all of them? when you say that you use 20-25% of your brain you mean that you use 20-25% of your capacity to think, conclude and calculate. Not what makes the brain tick. And this is a fact, looked it up on several places. Any idiotic answers will just be ignored. Have a good life!
Based on the ... ( 3 days ago by jungenbum)
Based on the newspapers, I think he memorized it.



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