Once upon a time, there was a man named Patient M who had a really weird brain injury. He got shot in the head during a war a long, long time ago.  When he woke up, something strange happened: he started seeing the world backwards!

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• Imagine this! Everything looked like it was coming from the wrong side. If someone was standing on the right, Patient M saw them on the left. It wasn’t just his eyes playing tricks on him, though. Even his hearing and sense of touch got all mixed up too.
• But here’s the craziest part: Patient M could read things both the right way and the wrong way. Imagine reading “ABC” and it looks like “CBA” to you, but your brain thinks it’s all the same. Talk about confusing!
• Not only that, but the world sometimes looked upside-down to Patient M. Can you imagine seeing people working on scaffolding while hanging from the sky? That would make our head spin!
• Patient M could even read the time on a wristwatch from any angle. That’s some superpower right there!
• There were other strange things too. Colors seemed to float away from objects, and things appeared in triplets. Plus, Patient M couldn’t see colors like most people do. It was like his brain had its own rules.
• But you know what? Patient M was a cool cucumber. He didn’t get freaked out by all these wacky things happening in his brain. He took it all in stride, like a champ.
• A brain scientist named Justo Gonzalo studied Patient M for almost 50 years. He made an amazing discovery. He realised that the brain isn’t made up of little boxes like people used to think. Nope! It’s more like a colorful gradient with different functions spread all over the place.
• Gonzalo’s theory changed the way people understood the brain. He showed that brain injuries don’t just mess up one thing. They affect a bunch of stuff, just like with Patient M.
• Gonzalo came up with three fancy names for different types of brain injuries: central, paracentral, and marginal. Each one does different things to our senses and how our brains work.
• Even though not many people know about Patient M and Gonzalo’s amazing work, they made a big impact on how we understand the brain. Their research helps scientists today learn more about how our brains tick.
• So remember, our little friend, even a strange and backward world can teach us incredible things. The brain is a marvellous mystery, and people like Patient M and Dr. Gonzalo are the heroes uncovering its secrets.

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