A small docuclip of a man with the "most severe case of amnesia." With only a memory of his wife and his musical abilities, he essentially has no place in time.
This poor man has no perception of his essence being bound in time. It got me thinking about a lot. If everything he is perceiving is like it's the "first time", then I can imagine how awesome of a sex life he has! lol
Also, I wonder how severe this impacts everything in his life. I mean, does he have to relearn simple morals and accepted behaviors every morning he wakes up, like wearing clothes, getting dressed, not murdering people?
How could he ever trust anyone? If it weren't for his wife, he'd be getting ripped off right and left. It's cool that this lady has stuck with him through all of this, that says a lot.
It's interesting that he still recalls music, and is able to play the piano. I wonder what his mind is occupying while he is playing that instrument.
This guy reminds me of the movie: Momento
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After a spinal artery collapse in 1988 he adapted to his physical debilitations by taping brushes to his arms so he could continue to paint. Here's the full story:
Prosopagnosia (sometimes known as face blindness) is a disorder of face perception where the ability to recognize faces is impaired, while the ability to recognize other objects may be relatively intact.
This got me thinking as well. Does the artistically functioning side of his brain allow him to maintain memories of his paintings while the memory-dysfunctional side inhibit him from remembering who his subjects are in those same paintings? That would be weird.
His portraits are so life-like that one is hard-pressed to tell the difference between his painting and the photograph from which he painted it. Interestingly, his hyperrealist pieces appear blurred up close, but gain clarity the farther back one views it from. I drug my computer monitor over to the window and viewed some of his paintings from outside. At about 30 feet away they start to look like actual photographs. Here's the site I viewed his work from:
