As you know, in people who have some kind of physical disabilities, other organs and feelings are intensively developing to compensate for them. For example, the blind are often hard of hearing. A person, as they say, "by hearing" finds his way to a store, pharmacy, etc. And not so long ago it turned out that hearing is not the only way to obtain information about the world around us without the help of the eyes …
About the incredible abilities of the Saratov student Sergei Semivolos 15 years ago they talked a lot on Russian TV. This person is able to distinguish the color of the picture with the skin of the foot and to read with the nose. It all started when Serezha was five years old. His father wanted to teach him simple card tricks, but the training was given to the boy with difficulty. Then the vexed parent exclaimed:
- You can't distinguish cards by eye, so at least try to smell it …
To his unspeakable surprise, having sniffed the whole deck, in a few minutes Seryozha could recognize any of the 36 cards by smell.
Further more. As soon as one of the parents brought home sweets or a bottle of forfeit, Seryozha would immediately find the gift, even if it was carefully hidden.
And then it turned out that Seryozha could even read more or less coarsely written words with his nose. Having dark glasses impenetrable to light in front of his eyes, he sniffed the paper sheet and asked with a doubtful voice:
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- "ROAD", or what?
That was his only mistake: in his haste, he turned over the sheet with the inscription and read the word "city" backwards. He called all the other words correctly. And I was not mistaken even in the case when these words were drawn not even with a pen, but just with a finger, And that is not all. Serezha's father believes that, having trained, his son, perhaps, will be able to catch even the smell of thoughts. The idea is not as fantastic as it might seem at first glance. It turns out that not only a person with a phenomenal scent can learn to see with closed eyes.
Back in 1957, the then young Indian Ved Mehta published a book in which he talked about his amazing ability to see without the participation of the eyes! At the age of three, he suffered from meningitis, after which he became blind. However, his blindness did not prevent him from playing with other children and even riding a bicycle.
As a nineteen-year-old boy, the Ved entered one of the colleges in the United States and often quarreled with the administration, which demanded that a blind student walk everywhere with a white cane. However, Ved Mehta argued that he did not need a cane, as he perfectly “sees”. Later, he independently traveled all over America and even went on hikes without resorting to outside help.
In France after the First World War, Dr. Jules Roman, after conducting many experiments with people who have lost their sight as a result of injury or illness, and even blind from birth, came to the conclusion that they can really "see". However, as the doctor established, this ability depends on the physical and emotional state of blind people.
Examining blind people, Dr. Roman found that many of them distinguish between light and shadow. However, they lost this property as soon as a metal screen was placed between them and the light source.
The novel suggested that there are nerve endings in human skin, or "Ranvier's menisci." According to the doctor, these nerve endings can in some cases replace a person's organs of vision.
The famous neuropathologist and psychiatrist Cesare Lombroso described in his book "What After Death?" a blind 14-year-old girl who "saw" … with her nose and left earlobe! Blinded, she continued to perfectly navigate the environment. Doctors put a tight bandage on the patient's eyes, introduced her into an unfamiliar room, and the girl confidently spoke about how objects were located in the room. In addition, she could read and identified colors accurately.
The patient's olfactory organs also underwent a change: when the doctor brought a bottle of ammonia to the patient's nose, she did not react. However, as soon as this bottle was moved to the chin, the girl shuddered.
In 1960, American newspapers reported about 14-year-old Margaret Foos from Virginia, who could see perfectly, even if she was blindfolded. The girl's father told reporters that when his daughter was still little, he often saw her playing blind man's buff with her friends. At the same time, Margaret, even with a blindfold, was perfectly oriented and never ran into obstacles. At first, he even thought that the girl was peeping from under the bandage. He himself began to blindfold her, however, even after that, Margaret acted as if she had no blindfold on her eyes.
Then Mr. Foos began to develop his daughter's amazing ability with special training. Three weeks later, with a blindfold over her eyes, Margaret was quite confident in naming the objects her father pointed to. She was soon able to distinguish colors and even read a newspaper.
However, at first, reading was not given to the girl in any way - the eyes, hidden behind a cloth bandage, did not focus on the letters. Then her father told her: "The lines are obscured by the smoke, which you just need to blow off, and then you will see everything." Margaret blew on a newspaper page and then easily read the text!
Finally, scientists became interested in the abilities of Margaret Foos. ('With her eyes closed, Margaret read passages taken at random from the Bible, articles from newspapers and magazines and named the objects that the participants in the experiment showed her. The journalist Drew Pearson, who was present at the experiment, even suggested that, apparently, there is a region in the brain unknown to doctors that answers for sight.
This was confirmed in due time by the clairvoyant from Nizhny Tagil, Rosa Kuleshova, who, as the corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences A. G. Spirkin, could read the printed text with her elbows or even while sitting on the newspaper!
In the second half of the 90s of the XX century, at Moscow State University, under the guidance of Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Professor Yu. P. Pyt'ev conducted a series of experiments in which the researcher tried to reveal the essence of the phenomenon of "skin vision". The subject was the daughter of one of the members of the department headed by the professor.
It turned out that the blindfolded girl is able to determine the orientation of the magnet and its poles. Moreover, she also "saw" objects in the magnetic field. True, later it turned out that the latter was not enough for their perception. You also need ordinary lighting or some other electromagnetic radiation. And then the researchers used a microwave generator with a frequency of 25-30 GHz for "illumination".
At the same time, the girl said that she “sees” that each pole of the magnet is surrounded by a luminous “cloud”. And if a rod of glass, plastic, copper, etc. is brought to it, it is as if drawn into this object, and it starts to glow.
In the end, Pyt'ev and his colleagues assumed that the girl had some kind of innate holographic perception. The closest analogy to this feeling is acoustic location (acoustic vision) of bats and dolphins. They emit ultrasound that is scattered by surrounding objects and picked up by acoustic receptors.
For many decades, experts have been struggling with the problem of creating electronic vision systems, when the image obtained by a miniature television camera will be transmitted directly to the brain. And then, you look, the person will see. And here, it seems, there is a fundamental possibility to do without alien electronics, with your own feelings and means, only by sharpening them with special training. Isn't such a miracle worth asking seriously?