I am unusually creative - from visualizing numerical landscapes composed of random strings of digits to the invention of my own words and concepts in numerous languages. Where does this creativity come from?

 

In most people, the brain's major functions are performed separately and not allowed to interfere with one another. Scientists have found that in some brain disorders, however, including autism and epilepsy, cross-communication can occur between normally distinct brain regions.

 

My theory is that rare forms of creative imagination are the result of an extraordinary convergence of normally disconnected thoughts, memories, feelings and ideas. Indeed, such hyperconnectivity within the brain may well lie at the heart of all forms of exceptional creativity.

 

Various studies have long demonstrated that being able to visualize information makes it easier to remember.

 

Where you might see an endless string of random digits when looking at the decimals of pi, my mind is able to "chunk" groups of these numbers spontaneously into meaningful visual images that constitute their own hierarchy of associations.