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There's a guy who had a head injury diving into the shallow end of the pool. He was a drug salesman. He had no musical training. After his injury, he could sit down at a piano and play music. He says he sees shapes flowing across his field of vision that is the music. The show Ingenious Minds did an episode on him: Derek Amato is one of the world's only acquired savants after a brain injury left him with the amazing ability to play piano, an instrument he had never played before. But now the music never stops and he sees it constantly streaming in front of his eyes. That sounds very much like what the doctor described.

I remember about 30 years back there was a guy that had a severe accident and was in coma for a while...when he came out of the coma, he was psychic to a large degree and could tell people things about themselves...he didn't have that ability before the accident and brain injury that he received...I don't believe in the so called psychics but he was very good and attributed his ability to brain injury and some parts of his brain were different after the accident...he was the only one I ever found credible in that area and I don't remember his name...The brain is an incredible organ, much can go wrong with it but we are capable of things we cannot ever know we are capable of. Such as someone lifting a car off a person, or I saw one film of a guy picking up a helicopter off a person trapped in the thing after it crashed...it was a news helicopter, not a big army one. But adrenalin can give you super human strength in some circumstances....Its all very interesting to contemplate....

Synaesthesia. It’s more common than you think, most cases are lifelong. It’s particularly notable in creative fields. Start looking at the language to describe music and color, you’ll begin to notice the crossed senses of the words and themes. Color has sound and vice versa, many more differing examples than that as well.

That said, I suspect the byline of Durham, NC is due to the presence of The Rhine Institute there. I’ve become uncomfortable with the intentions of that place in the past decade or so, after having something of an association with it prior.

That’s not to cast doubt upon the validity of their research, just the purpose of it. Friendly to orthodox Christianity are words I would not use to describe them.