A man who was shot in the head and left with the ability to "see backwards" was allegedly "quite bright" despite his wild injury.
Scientist Justo Gonzalo maintained the unnamed 25-year-old, known only as Patient M, had his brain and vision flipped following the Spanish Civil War injury.
Two weeks on from receiving a brutal wound to the head, the soldier says he saw the world backwards, with the projectile destroying the ridges of his cerebral cortex.
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Those injuries appear to have left the wounded man with a bizarre view of the world, somehow surviving without the need for extra care or surgery.
Justo has since passed, but his daughter Isabel Gonzalo, a physicist and professor at University of Madrid, met with Patient M and found some odd arrangements.
One such sign Patient M was a little out of order was, as Isabel documented, his ability to look "at his wristwatch from any direction to check the time."
It was not just time Patient M could read from any angle, it was people, places and objects which were seemingly reversed or even upside down, El Pais reported.
Justo wrote in his journals at the time that M had "found his abnormalities strange when, for example, he saw men working upside down on a scaffold".
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Remembering her father and Patient M, Isabel added: "My father admired him, because he was a very bright person who was capable of taking care of himself and working in the fields."
It is believed Patient M died in the late 1990s, with his identity never made known, although his brain activity was utterly crucial in modern science and understanding how the brain works.
Justo's writings and work brought out a new profile of the brain in the 1940s, with neuropsychologist García Molian explaining the findings Justo made with Patient M.
He said: "For Dr. Gonzalo, the modular theories couldn’t explain the questions that emerged with Patient M, so he began to create his theory of brain dynamics, breaking with the hegemonic vision about how the brain works."
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