Jack meets a man who is unable to recognise faces and puts a super-recogniser to the test.

Faces

Jack Lewis

Phantom Limb

Memory

Jack meets the world memory champion and a man who can remember every day of his life.

Jack joins amputees trying to find out why they feel sensations in their missing limbs.

Jack meets a man who has bizarre hallucinations and witnesses cutting edge surgery.

Seeing Is Believing

Jack meets a woman who has lost all sense of time and reveals how time can be elastic.

Time

Jack meets people with synaesthesia and experiences multisensory gastronomy.

The Senses

Wim Hof teaches Jack how to control his pain and plunge into the ice cold sea.

Pain & Fear

Jack meets a man with Sudden Artistic Output syndrome and unleashes his creativity.

Creativity

Jack meets two people who can’t stop falling asleep and finds out the consequences of sleep deprivation.

Sleep

Jack meets a British man who awoke from a coma speaking only fluent French.

Language

Neuroscientist Dr Jack Lewis goes in search of people with unusual neurological conditions that give us a fascinating insight into how our brains work.

Faces

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