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

Pain & Fear

Jack Lewis

Creativity

The Senses

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

Memory

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

Faces

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

Phantom Limb

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.

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

Pain & Fear

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