A neurologist at Massachusetts General Hospital can literally feel the emotional and physical sensations of his patients.Salinas has mirror-touch synesthesia, a neurological trait that affects two out of 100 people." Someone is doing compressions ... and as this is going on, I'm feeling the compressions on my chest as if it were happening on my body. As he died, I felt this kind of hollow slipping sensation ... and after that I ran to the bathroom and threw up," was quoted as saying by CNN.
"It's essentially a glitch in my brain's wiring where I feel physically on my body what I see other people feeling. For example, if you are gasping for air, I feel like I'm gasping for air. If you're having a panic attack, I feel like I'm having a panic attack," he said.The first case of mirror-touch synesthesia was reported in 2005.While growing up, always sensed that he was a…
