2022-3-11 what is Acquired SAVANT syndrome

[0:00 - 0:28] What's up guys, I'm back and I have something to talk about, something that I just recently
[0:28 - 0:38] found out through doing my own research and taking a look at a huge analysis and asking
[0:38 - 0:46] friends and people that know me that know what I'm capable of and even random people
[0:46 - 0:56] that know of me that don't know me that way. I showed them what I am able to do. But first
[0:56 - 1:04] off, you guys are wondering what is acquired saffron syndrome. Well, I'm about to show
[1:04 - 1:10] you. And no, it's not anything bad. It's actually very, very interesting. It's very
[1:10 - 1:30] cool so I think you guys might actually enjoy this. I'm not going to play all of it, I'm
[1:30 - 1:46] not going to play it all, but I'm going to show you guys what I'm going to do.
[1:46 - 1:52] Imagine, you are capable of playing something as intricate as this. And in fact, capable
[1:52 - 1:58] of composing something like this on the fly. But you can't read music, you don't even
[1:58 - 2:01] with no particular interest for previous training in music.
[2:01 - 2:05] On the day of the accident, he was messing around in a swimming pool.
[2:05 - 2:08] He miscalculated a jump and cracked his head on the bottom.
[2:08 - 2:14] He says he doesn't remember much after that, other than a loud exploding noise happening upon impact.
[2:14 - 2:19] He was pulled from the pool, bleeding from the ears, with a massive concussion.
[2:19 - 2:25] He came back from the hospital, having become half-deaf in one ear, and slept for four days.
[2:25 - 2:29] As he began to recover, he was drawn to a dusty piano in the room,
[2:29 - 2:32] thinking he would just press a couple keys for fun.
[2:32 - 2:36] What he did not expect was a sudden, immediate understanding of the musical notes
[2:36 - 2:41] and an ability to play and compose on the piano that seemed to appear overnight,
[2:41 - 2:44] with a grace that takes most people decades to master.
[2:44 - 2:54] Derek is one of the few people in the world who have been diagnosed with acquired savant syndrome,
[2:54 - 3:00] a syndrome where what appears to be a dormant savant skill emerges after a brain injury or disease,
[3:00 - 3:04] skills that the person had no ability to do before the injury or illness.
[3:04 - 3:08] And while it is rare, there are a few dozen reported cases,
[3:08 - 3:12] all of them equal parts mysterious as they are miraculous.
[3:12 - 3:17] Alonzo Clemens was a child when he suffered a very bad fall and a serious brain injury,
[3:17 - 3:20] which left him with a severe developmental disability.
[3:20 - 3:25] But after the accident, he was able to create anatomically accurate sculptures of animals
[3:25 - 3:28] after seeing a picture of it for only a few seconds.
[3:28 - 3:34] Tony Sequoria got struck by lightning and was so close to dying that his heart stopped and had to be resuscitated.
[3:34 - 3:38] After a few weeks, he recovered and went back to his normal life,
[3:38 - 3:43] except for a now insatiable desire to play and compose songs on the piano.
[3:43 - 3:48] And other cases involved newfound artistic, memory, or mathematical abilities.
[3:48 - 3:54] So how can it be that these ordinary people suddenly know how to do things that they never learned?
[3:54 - 3:57] Are these abilities created or unlocked?
[3:57 - 4:00] Could we all have dormant abilities hiding beneath the surface,
[4:00 - 4:04] abilities that are actually built into our genetic code?
[4:04 - 4:09] The idea of knowledge being built into genes is easy to accept when we look towards the animal kingdom.
[4:09 - 4:14] What we often just refer to as instincts are actually mind-blowing displays of knowledge
[4:14 - 4:18] and even memories being passed down to future generations through genetics.
[4:18 - 4:22] The zebra finch, for example, is a bird with a distinct song
[4:22 - 4:26] which they normally learn by listening to other zebra finches when they are young.
[4:26 - 4:40] Now, that right there is just a basic outline of it.
[4:40 - 4:45] Now, how it had been with me is very interesting.
[4:45 - 4:51] And cue of mind, I did not realize this until several years later.
[4:51 - 4:53] I was in high school.
[4:53 - 4:58] I was in about my sophomore year of high school.
[4:58 - 5:01] I'm about to be a junior at night.
[5:01 - 5:03] At least I think I was about to be a junior.
[5:03 - 5:06] I know for sure it was my sophomore year.
[5:06 - 5:10] But I was sitting down eating lunch with my friends one day.
[5:10 - 5:12] And we used to eat out on this balcony.
[5:12 - 5:16] If you guys know or are from here in Akron, Ohio,
[5:16 - 5:18] I'm sure you guys know about North High School.
[5:18 - 5:21] You guys know about the balcony.
[5:21 - 5:23] And for those of you that thought I forgot,
[5:23 - 5:27] y'all there sitting there saying that I jumped, don't think I forgot about that.
[5:27 - 5:29] Because I know y'all still say that I jumped, but I didn't.
[5:29 - 5:30] And y'all know that.
[5:30 - 5:33] Y'all thought I'd forget that, but I didn't.
[5:33 - 5:38] But I was sitting down eating lunch with my friends one day.
[5:38 - 5:44] And we were sitting on the ledge of the balcony on the second story
[5:44 - 5:47] by the gym like we always do.
[5:47 - 5:50] The bell rang to go back to class.
[5:50 - 5:54] I'd go to swing my leg back over because I was sitting like on the edge,
[5:54 - 5:58] like you normally would, like this.
[5:58 - 6:03] Like I was hanging out at the edge and I was looking out towards the field
[6:03 - 6:06] that was across the way.
[6:06 - 6:12] And I went to swing one foot back over.
[6:12 - 6:17] I went to go like this to kind of push myself so I could feel myself slipping.
[6:17 - 6:19] So I was like this.
[6:19 - 6:27] Well, my foot, I did not realize that the tread on my shoes had no tread.
[6:27 - 6:31] I didn't realize there was no tread on that part of my shoe.
[6:31 - 6:36] And so my shoe went like that and drug my leg
[6:36 - 6:40] and in turn drug my whole body.
[6:40 - 6:44] And I started upside down.
[6:44 - 6:47] I went totally upside down like this.
[6:47 - 6:52] Keep in mind, when I fell initially, my body was upside down.
[6:52 - 6:55] My head was pointing down towards the ground.
[6:55 - 7:00] So initially you would think that it would just be a straight drop.
[7:00 - 7:05] But somehow or other my body managed to flip itself around
[7:05 - 7:09] and I did land on my feet but not in the way that you would think.
[7:09 - 7:15] Like I hit the ground, my feet hit and my body just collapsed.
[7:15 - 7:19] And when I collapsed, my head drove into the ground,
[7:19 - 7:22] splitting my head right here open.
[7:22 - 7:25] I had to get rushed to the hospital that day.
[7:25 - 7:28] I had to get six stitches right here.
[7:28 - 7:32] And I was out of school for about, I'd say anywhere from a week
[7:32 - 7:36] to about a week and a half, maybe two or three.
[7:36 - 7:40] Because this part of my eye, like this eye was swollen shut
[7:40 - 7:43] with massive bruising all around here.
[7:43 - 7:48] And then I had major bruising up underneath this eye right here,
[7:48 - 7:51] which I still got pictures somewhere I believe.
[7:51 - 7:54] And then if I do, I'll have to show them and post them up.
[7:54 - 7:58] But I had major bruising under there.
[7:58 - 8:04] Now, what's weird is that before that,
[8:04 - 8:12] I had no real interest in music or anything like that.
[8:12 - 8:14] Never really thought anything about it.
[8:14 - 8:18] I mean, yeah, I made beats and shit, but I never really thought about it.
[8:18 - 8:21] I just did it for shits and giggles.
[8:21 - 8:25] You know, I just did it, whatever.
[8:25 - 8:32] But the minute that I picked up my guitar,
[8:32 - 8:35] which not the one that I have now, but a totally different one
[8:35 - 8:39] that actually is in the process of being repaired
[8:39 - 8:42] or is going to be in the process of being repaired, I should say,
[8:42 - 8:46] it's like the minute that I picked it up
[8:46 - 8:52] and I heard a song that I never heard before on the radio,
[8:52 - 8:56] I instantly started playing it like I knew it.
[8:56 - 9:00] But I wasn't playing it by chord.
[9:00 - 9:05] I was playing it by what is, and I didn't know this at the time,
[9:05 - 9:10] but I was playing by what is called perfect pitch.
[9:10 - 9:13] Now, what is perfect pitch?
[9:13 - 9:17] Let me give you an example.
[9:17 - 9:21] Basically, the way that I do perfect pitch is I'm able to,
[9:21 - 9:27] there's different variations of it.
[9:27 - 9:34] But the variation that I have allows me to play back.
[9:34 - 9:43] What I hear vocally on any instrument,
[9:43 - 9:57] whether that be piano, whether that be guitar, or whatever.
[9:57 - 10:26] Now, let me give you guys an example of what I mean.
[10:26 - 10:49] Let's go with one of my personal favorites.
[10:49 - 10:57] Your world is a flight away. You are wavy flying.
[10:58 - 15:49] You are wavy flying.
[15:49 - 16:01] Hey guys, thanks for watching and now let's find a song that I don't know yet.
[16:01 - 16:11] Let's look for a song that I don't know.
[16:11 - 16:20] Let's go for this one.
[16:20 - 16:49] Oh, it's fun one that I have heard of but I have not heard.
[16:49 - 17:08] Now bear in mind, I have not heard this before.
[17:08 - 17:18] I am liking the vibe already.
[17:18 - 17:47] All right, that will catch you man, let's go.
[17:47 - 18:09] Oh, I got it, I got it.
[18:09 - 18:11] All right, here we go.
[18:11 - 18:15] Now bear in mind, I only heard a few seconds of that.
[18:15 - 18:44] And keep in mind, I have never heard that song before in my life, I swear to God.
[18:44 - 19:13] All right, let's go.
[19:13 - 19:42] All right, here we go.
[19:42 - 19:50] Oh, it's fun one that I have heard.
[19:50 - 20:11] Oh, I got it, I got it.
[20:11 - 31:36] Oh, it's fun one that I have heard.
[31:36 - 31:51] Now, let's switch it up a little bit and show you guys what I am really capable of doing
[31:51 - 31:54] when there is no vocal work.
[31:54 - 31:55] Let's just select a random.
[31:55 - 31:58] I am going to count to three and then we are going to stomp.
[31:58 - 32:05] And whatever track it lands on, I am going to play.
[32:05 - 32:07] Ready?
[32:07 - 32:08] One.
[32:08 - 32:09] Two.
[32:09 - 32:10] Three.
[32:10 - 32:11] All right.
[32:11 - 32:12] Crazy group drum track.
[32:12 - 32:13] Okay.
[32:13 - 32:22] One, two, three.
[32:22 - 32:23] All right.
[32:23 - 32:24] Crazy group drum track.
[32:24 - 32:25] Okay.
[32:25 - 32:29] One, two, three.
[32:29 - 32:30] All right.
[32:30 - 32:31] Crazy group drum track.
[32:31 - 32:32] Okay.
[32:32 - 43:45] One, two, three.
[43:45 - 43:52] Alright, I want to show you guys what I'm able to do without a drum beat.
[43:53 - 44:21] Alright, let's go.
[44:21 - 47:15] One, two, three.
[47:15 - 47:44] And that's something I'm able to do without anything.
[47:44 - 49:32] One, two, three.
[49:32 - 49:34] That's all on the spot stuff right there.
[49:34 - 49:42] That stuff I just did without the drum track, that's all on the spot straight up.
[49:42 - 50:01] Alright, check this out.
[50:01 - 51:28] One, two, three.
[51:28 - 51:37] Now, I want you guys to put in the comments what you guys think is going on.
[51:37 - 51:43] Am I crazy or is there actually something there to what the fuck I'm doing?
[51:43 - 51:51] From being able to play songs back vocally, songs that I've never even heard vocally
[51:51 - 51:58] on guitar, being able to play drum tracks I've never heard, being able to play to the
[51:58 - 52:03] drum tracks I've never heard before, and being able to create like I just did, put
[52:03 - 52:06] in the comments what you guys honestly think.
[52:06 - 52:09] Should I be capitalizing on this or what?
[52:09 - 52:12] Put in the comments, let me know what you guys think.
[52:12 - 52:13] Peace.
[52:13 - 52:13] Peace!