In 1978, Nikolai Aleksandrovich Lipatov from the Vologda region, having been hit by lightning, miraculously survived and, unexpectedly for himself and those around him, began to speak three European languages fluently.
In 1987, in the Tula region, a retired collective farmer Gennady Sergeevich Smirnov was pressed against a fence by a trailer, a heavy blow fell on the head, and the next day he suddenly began to speak the language of Goethe.
In 1992, after suffering a serious illness, a girl from Yaroslavl suddenly began to speak the Sumerian language, which existed in the 3rd century BC.
A 50-year-old native of Scotland woke up in the morning to find to her amazement that she spoke her native language with a South African accent, although she had never been in those parts of her life. The reason for such a striking change was a mild stroke, which the woman suffered in a dream.
It is easy to get a sleepwalker to speak a foreign language. True, after he wakes up, he will not remember anything. It is also well known cases when mediums spontaneously switch to another language during contacts with the inhabitants of the other world at spiritualistic seances. Falling into a trance, they are able to spend hours carrying on abstruse conversations with any foreigner. But most mediums are people with little education and without
any language ability. Laura Edmonds, a medium known in her time in the United States, became famous for the fact that, not knowing any language other than her native French, during spiritualistic seances she easily and fluently spoke 10 different languages and even sang beautifully songs in Italian, Hindi, German and Polish. and often completely unconsciously and without understanding a word.
There are even more incredible cases. The girl Emilia Tol-Madge from the USA, who from her childhood did not know a single note and had never played any melody in her life, unexpectedly wrote notes, sat down at the piano and, like a professional musician, played compositions.
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How can these amazing transformations be explained?
Scientists of the 19th century did not believe in this phenomenon. In their opinion, the ability to speak is a technical art, like playing any musical instrument. Just as a person cannot play a piece of music if he hasn’t practiced before, so he cannot immediately speak a foreign language unfamiliar to him, if he has not learned it before at least elementary.
Scientists from the Moscow Institute of Higher Nervous Activity believe that in order to explain this phenomenon, it is necessary to fully study the brain. The Petersburg Institute of the Brain is extremely skeptical about this unusual human ability. According to experts, memory can bring out into the light only what was once recorded in it. It's like scrolling backwards on a tape and remembering something long forgotten. But if we assume that a person begins to "remember" the languages spoken by his ancestors, then he will have to believe in mysticism.
The head of the Sphinx Center for Anomalous Phenomena and Spiritual Development German Arutyunov claims that each person is like a radio set with a tuning wheel fixed to a certain wavelength. And if a failure occurs and a person loses his wave, then he begins to chaotically catch other waves in the air, becoming a repeater and transmitting someone else's, incomprehensible speech. He can tune in to a wave
some Norwegian or African, and on the "radio station" of parallel worlds. But it is still unknown how this "radio wave" is recorded in space and why the "tuning" gets lost.
Vladimir Zamorska, director of the Scientific Center for the Study of Anomalous Phenomena, believes that there is an astral world in near-earth space, in which the information bank of all mankind is stored. It can be connected to psychics, clairvoyants, mediums, as well as "contactees" who were able to penetrate the storerooms of the world mind due to brain injury. If you believe in the transmigration of souls, then
it can be assumed that if the brain malfunctions, a person is able to find himself again in his old "skin" and switch to the language in which he spoke a hundred or thousand years ago.
For example, such a story happened to pensioner Sergei Petrovich Perov, who, after a car accident, regaining consciousness, began to speak Old French. Having immersed Perov in a state of hypnosis, the researchers learned many interesting things about his past life. It turns out that he lived in the world many times, all the while preserving the soul of a soldier. In past battles, he was killed 40 times and wounded more than a hundred times. Pensioner fought
next to Pharaoh Ramses, fought on the side of the Habsburgs and went a long way with Napoleon's army. Perov described the deep realities of antiquity with such minute details that it was impossible to doubt their authenticity. Undoubtedly, this is an example of classical reincarnation, and there are more than a thousand similar phenomena in history.
But, perhaps, the solution to the mystery lies in something completely different?
Karina Shchipakova, a senior researcher at the Russian Institute of Psychiatry, believes that you cannot become a polyglot overnight. Surely the languages in which these people suddenly began to speak were known to them before. "Foreign speech syndrome" is associated with damage to the temporal regions of the brain, most often the right hemisphere, the function of which is emotional expressiveness, non-individual characteristics of speech.
A slightly different version is adhered to by Sophie Scott, Doctor of Psychology at the University of Cambridge, who studies the mechanism of speech metamorphosis. Her research indicates that all victims of the syndrome suffered a stroke in the left front of the brain. Therefore, this issue still requires clarification.
The main causes of the syndrome are trauma, stroke, and atrophy of nerve cells. When the brain is damaged, the old information laid down in childhood is disturbed to a lesser extent than the information that is absorbed later. Therefore, in case of a failure, new information is quickly erased, and the well-forgotten old pops up.
Most often in medical practice, there are cases when people begin to speak their native language with a foreign accent. Less often - when the speech of an adult suddenly becomes like the speech of a small child. People who know several languages, after suffering a stroke, can begin to speak with an accent and weave words of a foreign language into their native speech.
Unfortunately, in addition to the illness suffered, unique "transformations" are fraught with the fact that patients also begin to experience depression. After all, they find themselves foreigners in their homeland, and it becomes difficult for them to communicate with loved ones. And it is not easy to recover from such a disease. Unless you try to knock out a wedge with a wedge: again get into a stressful situation or experience a secondary stroke, which, however, may be the last.