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Dutch teenager, 17, woke up after knee operation forgetting how to speak his native language and only knew ENGLISH (and he also forgot who his parents were and thought he lived in Utah!)
U.K. Daily Mail ^

Posted on 02/19/2022 5:01:29 PM PST by simpson96

A Dutch teenager completely forgot his native tongue after waking up from surgery and could only speak English, doctors have revealed.

The unidentified 17-year-old boy, thought to be from Maastricht, was in hospital for a knee operation following an injury during a football match.

But after he awoke from the anesthesia, he was unable to speak or understand any of the medics, who were speaking in Dutch.

Instead, he was only able to talk in English — a language he had only been learning at school and never used outside of the classroom.

The boy also failed to recognise his own parents and believed that he was in the US, specifically in Utah, a country he had never visited.

After 24 hours, the teenager 'spontaneously' recovered both his ability to speak and understand his native language after friends came to visit him.

And doctors who treated him, at the Maastricht University Medical Center, claim he has retained his native tongue since.

Detailing his case in a medical journal, scientists believe he developed an extremely rare case of foreign language syndrome.(snip)

With just eight cases recorded worldwide in scientific literature there are scant details about foreign language syndrome.

How common is it?

Extraordinarily rare, there have been only eight post-operative cases recorded in scientific literature since 1999.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: anesthesia; dutch; english; faithandphilosophy; fauxiantroll; fauxiantrolls; maastricht; pastlife; pastlives; pastlivestherapy; reincarnation; utah
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To: servantoftheservant

One member of the rat pack winks.


81 posted on 02/20/2022 7:57:25 AM PST by Vaduz ( )
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To: Chickensoup

Full eloquent German words.


82 posted on 02/20/2022 8:07:19 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: GingisK

In the early 1990’s I was working with a 38 yr old ER Nurse from a hospital near me. She had idiopathic pain in her left shoulder and arm causing her to go on disability as she was unable to work. She had a letter from her primary care physician stating it was ok to use hypnosis.

She was somnambulistic and immediately went into a deep trance. All I did was ask, “If that pain in your shoulder could speak, what would it say?”

A male voice answered me out of this woman’s mouth (his voice) stating “Get Out of Here.”

It shocked me as I had never heard about anything like this and it was beyond my belief system.

I replied “Who said that?”

He answered me, telling me his name, where he was from and that he was killed in an auto accident on Rt 15 in South Williamsport(PA) in front of McDonald’s. He had followed his body in the ambulance into the ER where he saw this woman in distress and moved into her.

He went on to tell me his wife’s name, children’s names, address, phone number....

I asked him what caused his physical death. he explained that he was thrown from the car and it rolled on him. I asked what part of his body. He replied his left side.

That is when I first realized that memories are stored in the human soul and not in the physical body. This man’s memory of the pain of his accident was manifesting in the ER Nurse.

I asked him why he was in her and he replied that he loved her.

I asked him if he loved her how he could cause her this pain.

He replied that he was unaware that he was causing her pain.

“But you know it now?” ‘You realize that you must leave?” He replied “Yes.”

I asked him if he would like to apologize to her for the suffering he caused before he left. he replied “Yes” and started apologizing.

I asked her if she would accept his apology and her own voice replied “Yes.”

Suddenly her left arm flew upward and her hand opened up, relaxed and came down limp.

Her pain was gone, permanently.

I left out a lot of details, but this was the first of many similar experiences over the last 30 plus years.

The Bible is very accurate.


83 posted on 02/20/2022 8:30:51 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: GingisK
Betty Andreasson spoke Gaelic under hypnosis. She had never learned it, or even heard it before she listened to the playback.

I was referring to people who spoke a foreign language after an injury (specifically, head trauma).

What anyone can or can't speak after being beamed aboard a UFO and spending time with aliens is far beyond my knowledge.

84 posted on 02/20/2022 8:33:22 AM PST by Captain Walker ("If you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of."- J Peterson)
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To: tired&retired
That experience is pretty good evidence of possession, related to reincarnation. I can only imagine the surprise on your part; but, you handled it so very well. She was lucky to have you to help.

Have these sort of things happened to you since then?

85 posted on 02/20/2022 8:42:34 AM PST by GingisK
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To: GingisK; tired&retired

Yes, GK, said so in the post. ;-D


86 posted on 02/20/2022 8:44:24 AM PST by GingisK
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To: tired&retired

I know an ER/surgical nurse who said she’d experienced countless events that led her to understand that life goes on after death.


87 posted on 02/20/2022 8:49:00 AM PST by GingisK
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To: tired&retired
Fascinating. Thanks for sharing this.

Your experiences and thoughts about them add some of the many missing details to my understanding so far.

And you’re absolutely right about the Bible, too. What an amazing gift from God!

88 posted on 02/20/2022 8:50:18 AM PST by GBA (Endeavor to persevere)
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To: Captain Walker
is far beyond my knowledge

Mine too; however, it seems you know of the case.

89 posted on 02/20/2022 8:50:28 AM PST by GingisK
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To: Jemian

All the Dutch people I know speak 3 to 5 languages. They have to. Few people in other countries speak their language so they have to learn English, German and French to communicate.


90 posted on 02/20/2022 9:00:31 AM PST by ladyjane
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To: GingisK

Only what I pulled up in a quick internet search after reading your post; I had never heard of this person before.


91 posted on 02/20/2022 9:20:13 AM PST by Captain Walker ("If you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of."- J Peterson)
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To: Captain Walker

The book “The Andreasson Affair” would raise your eyebrows.


92 posted on 02/20/2022 10:39:37 AM PST by GingisK
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To: GingisK

Thanks.


93 posted on 02/20/2022 11:49:07 AM PST by Captain Walker ("If you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of."- J Peterson)
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To: farmguy
...thought he lived in Utah!

Just as long as he didn't start praising Joseph Smith!

94 posted on 02/22/2022 4:02:58 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: simpson96
How common is it?

Well, back in the day...


Acts 2:1-12 King James Version

1 And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.
3 And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.
4 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
5 And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven.
6 Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language.
7 And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans?
8 And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?
9 Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia,
10 Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes,
11 Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.
12 And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, saying one to another, What meaneth this?
 
 

95 posted on 02/22/2022 4:08:12 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Robert357

This teen bears watching: to see if he now has an affinity for more than one girlfriend...


96 posted on 02/22/2022 4:09:18 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: 21twelve

...and many more that you’d LOVE to forget; too!


97 posted on 02/22/2022 4:10:22 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: rfp1234; wita
Did he dream about the angel Moroni telling him where to find the magic stones?


The church has them.


7 People Who Had the Seer Stone in Their Possession

Adapted from the Joseph Smith Papers | Aug. 06, 2015

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From LDS History Library

By now you have probably seen the pictures from the Church of Joseph Smith’s original seer stone, released in conjunction with the printing of an original manuscript of the Book of Mormon. But do you know how the Church came to obtain the stone?

According to David Whitmer, (1) Joseph Smith gave the seer stone he used to (2) Oliver Cowdery after the translation was completed.

Shortly after Oliver Cowdery’s death in 1850, Oliver’s brother-in-law Phineas Young obtained the stone from Oliver’s widow, (3) Elizabeth Whitmer Cowdery.

seer stone

Click Picture for Ensign Article Oct. 2015

(4) Phineas Young then gave the stone to his brother (5) Brigham Young, who apparently had no seer stones other than those that had belonged to Joseph Smith. He stated in 1853 that he had “Joseph’s 1st Seer Stone, which I had from O[liver] C[owdery]”. The stone remained with Brigham until his death.

(6) Zina D. H. Young, one of Brigham’s wives, then bought this and one other seer stone from his estate. Zina D.H. Young and her daughter (7) Zina Williams Card then donated the stones to the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This seer stone was accompanied by a handwritten note that explained its history, and was signed by Zina Williams Card.

Later, in 1882, Apostle Franklin D. Richards saw the stone in President John Taylor’s possession and recorded in his journal that “the pouch containing it [the stone] [was] made by Emma,” meaning the wife of Joseph Smith.


98 posted on 02/22/2022 4:20:08 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Whatever Works

I shudda read ahead!


99 posted on 02/22/2022 4:21:10 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Ikemeister
Most Dutch Europeans are bi-lingual and learn English as a second language.
100 posted on 02/22/2022 4:22:13 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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