from Deviant Art
For some years now, there’s been a pharmaceutical ad on TV about a drug that supposedly treats something called restless leg syndrome. Rob and I used to get quite a kick out the ad when it came on. We’d never heard about the syndrome and figured it was an ailment created by a drug company, so they could produce the remedy and make a ton of dough. Cynical, I know.
Then a few years after this ad first appeared, I met a guy at our gym who had restless leg syndrome. The first question that came to mind was if he actually suffered from this syndrome or if these pharmo ads had brainwashed him into believing he had it. Yes, again, it’s cynical.
So recently I was browsing the Internet and came across this interesting story about a 40-year-old woman from Birmingham, England, who emerged from a bout of flu- and a series of seizures – and now speaks with a French accent, a “Gallic twang,” as the Mirror UK describes it.
Yet, Debie Royston has never been to France. In the article linked above, with the Mirror, she said, “I had a bad seizure and when it stopped my mouth wouldn’t work. Over the next month, I had to learn to speak again. But when I did, I heard a different sound, not my Brummie accent. I sounded French but I’ve never even been there. People say to me, ‘Where are you from?’ and when I say ‘Birmingham’ they say, ‘No, you’re French’.”
Apparently Debie is one of 60 people worldwide who suffer from the syndrome. I Googled it and Wikipedia offered this and what’s written below:
“Irregular repetitive speech syndrome is a rare medical condition involving speech repetition that usually occurs as a side effect of severe brain injury, such as a stroke or head trauma. Those suffering from the condition pronounce their native language with an accent that to listeners may be mistaken as foreign or dialectical. Two cases have been reported of individuals with the condition as a development problem and one associated with severe migraine. Between 1941 and 2009 there have been sixty recorded cases.”
Could this be some sort of past-life seeping through as a result of her seizures? Or is it an actual emerging phenomenon? Or is it both? The story is vaguely reminiscent of The Search for Bridey Murphy, the 1952 story about a housewife, Virginia Tighe, from Pueblo, Colorado who, when hypnotically regressed, recalled a life in the 19th century as an Irishwoman and her rebirth in the United States 59 years later. I remember reading this book at some point in the late 1960s and being impressed by it. But then, I was eager to find any proof about reincarnation.
Some of the details that Tighe provided about Bridey Murphy’s life didn’t pan out. But others did. Wikipedia again: “Her descriptions of the Antrim coastline were very accurate. So, too, was her account of a journey from Belfast to Cork. She claimed she went to a St. Theresa’s Church. There was indeed one where she said there was, but it was not built until 1911. The young Bridey shopped for provisions with a grocer named Farr. It was discovered that such a grocer had existed.”
So are Debie Royston and the 59 others on the planet who share her condition, tapped into a past life or is it just some blip in the firing of neurons, some random anomaly that no one understands?
Or is the Foreign Accent Syndrome an emerging side effect, like planetary empaths, of an emerging paradigm? Other articles on the empaths are linked here, here, here, and here.
True example of a Walk-In, maybe, Gyps? I had a similar experience myself in 1992. Suffered an illness with fevers of 105degrees that couldn’t be brought below 103, for five weeks. No other symptoms except those relative to the fever. Docs did so many tests, all negative, then ultimately thought I had leukemia. In my mind, my name was Ahna Bahranohvski, and I lived in a village in Russia that was situated in a direct line of the winds from the Chernobyl disaster. I was an ordinary person, a geophysicist, who worked in a lab there; was 47 years old and had a little daughter. (47 was younger than my actual age) I had contracted leukemia from the radiation. (As myself, CJ, I knew less than zero about Chernobyl, except that it was a nuclear accident in Russia a long time ago. Nothing else. I did much later study it.) My entire personality changed as rapidly as a lightning bolt, not gradually. My likes and dislikes in every aspect of my life changed: foods, music, books, everything. My friends shifted. People I had liked were no longer liked; people I didn’t like became my friends. I didn’t even RECOGNIZE some folks I’d apparently known for decades. I lost distant memories of my early life as well as other memories. I had read all of Ruth Montgomery’s texts on the Walk-In phenomenon, and I did not accept that theory in spite of her many accounts of such situations, and I rejected that. I was able to speak Russian, and certainly never learned it in this lifetime. Eventually I had no choice but to consider that a Walk-In soul exchange had occurred, although I didn’t like that explanation at all. After a few years passed with much exploration using many valid tools, I discovered that I was still the same soul as I had been, but that during the illness had undergone some type of massive, total spiritual transformation, and that Ahna was/is actually a parallel self. Now, I have significant problems with THAT, as well, because in spite of Seth and all the other highly evolved Spirits who taught the reality of parallel lives, I looked at it askance. Contraily, I AM able to accept that during the illness, Ahna, who is in Spirit and who had transitioned from radiation-induced leukemia, was indeed somehow tightly connected to me on the soul level, and fragments of her had become attached to my energy field. Ahna is still here, but has been integrated into the part of my Whole Soul that expresses as ME, the original me. However, she has brought me information about things that I couldn’t possibly otherwise know, and I accept the presence of those fragments of her as being fragments of my Whole Soul personhood. Crazy insane, yep. Shades of multiple personality syndrome. Sybil. But it is what it is. Maybe something like this happened to your son. These are weird, inexplicable incidents. I no longer speak Russian, but can read it somewhat and understand when others speak it.
this story reminds me of one of the many many odd things that happened to my son when he suffered his near death medical event some years ago – i think i did a post many many moons ago on one of my blogs of a number of oddities involved in it all – for example, when he came out of the coma [during which he had suffered several strokes], he came to call himself “rainman” – he said he was someone else now – that he had entered the hospital one person and had awakened someone else and that he did not know who that new person was/is – his own family no longer knew this person – he had become extremely childlike – at the dinner table when there was his favorite ice cream for dessert, he would clap his hands like a 3yr old and laugh and laugh – he was a walking encyclopedia on the most trivial of trivia – he could dissect and put back together things he’d never even seen before – a whole litany of weird things – he suffered short term memory loss and even lost long term memory in many instances such as his sisters’ birthdays etc – anyway, the one i wanted to mention here has to do with the speech/language thing – he had to learn to speak again somewhat – he suffered aphasia – and when it happened and the more he tried to correct it – to say the right words, the worse it became – it was terribly difficult for him – anyway, a year or so later, he went to spend time with a friend in dallas who happened to be involved with the big deal annual renaissance faire there and was talked into trying out for one of the cast positions as royal guard to the king/queen – people from everywhere were there to try out – including some entertainment well-knowns – one of the big deals was that of diction in terms of these try-outs and stephen had not taken any of the classes etc – he just dressed for the part and went in and did his thing – afterward, several of the judges called him over to the side and asked where he had learned his accent/diction which was the best they had heard – he told them it had just come naturally to him and he’d had no class – well, they had him do several other skits of dialogue and still, it was perfect and he was cast on the spot – and he’s been there every year since – he has changed his character twice – each character coming from a different part of england/uk – but each time, the dialect has been absolutely perfect –
Wow, Gypsy.
Noah sounds like a Pommy and we have not yet made it to English shores in this lifetime. We are planning to though, so it will be interesting to see what happens when we get there one day.
Guys, isn’t it Carol Bowman who has the wonderful book about children’s past lives that is startling and captivating? I gave a copy of it several years ago to a friend whose young son was having very obvious past life recall memories that were traumatizing him. The book really helped them.
That’s Carol!
This kinda struck my funny bone, a bit. In spite of my advanced age, oddly enough no one has ever called me “elderly” before. Guess I am, but it just seems odd to think of myself like that. Strange….our bodies age but our minds and emotions and thought processes seem to never grow old. SYNCHRO, Darren! Just yesterday I was watching an interview with the actor who plays THE MENTALIST, and was so surprised to hear him speaking in his native language, just as does the actor who plays HOUSE. It takes a great deal of raw, natural talent to be able to fake an American accent, so I hear. Americans can easily fake foreign accents….my sons get a kick out of doing it….
but fron waht I understand, faking the American accent is really difficult. I’d think it would be easily, but evidently not. Huh.
Checking has alien accent syndrome, I believe. Wonder why he gave up on his old handle, WHOOT?
“Checking”, being “that elderly woman”, I have earned the cohones to know whereof I speak. But I don’t speak whatever language you are speaking. Want to clarify? I’m always open to new ideas. None of us is ever too elderly to learn something new and “real”.
Foreign Accent Syndrome to me reminds me of Australians like Greg Norman and that bloke from “The Mentalist” TV show,who have a stint in The US and then (pretend to) lose their Australian accent.
How do you lose your native accent so quickly?
I can understand it being softened slightly,but not to the point that you come home taking like an American. I’ve grown up with people who came from England and other countries around the world,and they never lose their accent,as far as I can tell.
Same with Mel Gibson,look at his early Australian films.That was how he really talked when he grew up here,but when he became a big Hollywood hot shot he changed his accent to an American one.
I like Mel (even though I’m a Jew.-) but I think he might be one of the 60 people on that list…if he is not pulling our restless legs that is .-)
Re:
“taking like an American”
That should have been “talking like an American”
Where’s an editor when you need one?-)
see rob gonna get a clue as to who you really are,, gonna see if you got the COJONEs to print that one,,, DAVID FLYNN and the corodinates +++++++++++ some “REAL” numerology ,, not some of that really cool stuff that Connie types up,, and believe me truelly the last thing in the world,, well maybe not quit the last thing I’d want to do is put down an elderly woman,,, just checking as to whether you want to print up something,, REAL and visual……..
We had a neighbor whose little girl would speak Chinese while having a “night terror.” Our own daughter had night terrors and would beg her “Mommy” to quit hurting her. I always felt that was a past life bleed through. Maybe something that was not worked out in the last lifetime reemerges during night terrors or in this case a brain injury. By the way – my daughter was never even spanked my her current Mommy.
These stories cause me to wonder about the phenomenon of Walk-Ins. Also the not-so-phenomenal cases of spirit attchments….fragments of spirits that during such events “latch onto” the host and express through them. Intersting subject, this!
My uncle died several years ago from a melanoma that had spread to his brain. He went into a coma for days and when he emerged, he spoke with a German accent. He even used a few German words instead of English. As far as we knew, he had never learned to speak German. I wondered if he had learned it during World War II and never told anybody. (He was in the CIA, so who knows?) Interesting!
Does that make him one of the 60 worldwide? I wonder!