Super Human Powers

Greg and I were watching the National Geographic channel. The theme for tonight's show was super human powers.

One example was how a man could control the temperature of his body. He could run with only shorts on through freezing temperatures in the snow for over an hour and not have frost bite.

Another story was about a man from Turkey who was born with no eyes, yet he could paint incredible pictures and even have dimension in the paintings. He painted with his fingers. I liked that story the most, just incredible paintings!

The story that Greg and I found a little hokey was a women who said she could see sounds. When she hears a sound, she sees colors. The first time it happened, she was in her late teens and was caught in a rainstorm. She realized each sound of the raindrops had individual colors. She described the colors as a ribbon and also said that even words have different colors associated with them when someone speaks. The artist in me thought "beautiful," but how can someone prove this perspective?

Scientifically its called synesthesia and supposedly one person out of every thousand has this ability – to smell a sound or hear a color. At the end of her story, Greg commented, "I wonder what color she sees for farts!" Hehe, that reminds me of something Greg told me about his Dad. When his father was in the army and someone had gas, they would say, "Catch it and paint it green!"