Human Performance Machine

Think of a Manchurian candidate meets Goethe. Or anything intellect. MK Ultra-inspired, Bangladeshi born American artist Omega Man uses himself as a human guinea pig to experiment various accelerated learning feats using techniques such as fasting, sensory deprivation, subconscious mind programming, subliminal mind control, hypnosis, electronic music, psychedelic state of mind, audio visual entrainment, parapsychology, Ganzfeld effect, trance state and other esoteric devices to test the limit of human performance.

Riemann Hypothesis

Status: Failed

Author tried smoking salvia divinorum to dopamine fasting for solution. Researched numerous books at Ayala Science Library. Finally Omega Man ended up crafting a screenplay related to this topic.

 

Recite longest word in literature

Status: Complete

Blindfolded, the author recorded himself reciting the longest word in literature from the play The Frogs by Aristophanes

Photographic Memory

Work In Progress

Performer tried ketosis, sensory deprivation, third eye awakening, sun gazing and affirmations to subconsciously change the program into believing he has photographic memory

 

US Presidents

Status: Complete

Performer can recite the names of US presidents in order from memory

Memorize Oxford English Dictionary

Work In Progress

Performer still trying to memorize 20 Volumes of the Oxford English Dictionary consisting of 59 million words in content!

 

Solve the Rubik’s Cube

Status: Complete

Performer can solve under 5 minutes

Recall π to 100 digits

Status: Complete

 

Memorize the Bible

Status: Failed

Performer tried memorizing the Bible in a month of October but failed. He ended up committing to memory the 75 books of the Catholic Bible - which he recorded on camera. Unfortunately, he has not transferred it to his long term memory.

Memorize Encyclopedia Britannica

Not Yet Attempted

 

Go to Moon

Not Yet Attempted

Photoread 7,000 Volumes of Wikipedia

Not Yet Attempted

 

Run a 4-minute mile

Not Yet Attempted

Identify any bird species at will

Work In Progress

 

Attempt Navy SEAL O Course

Not Yet Attempted

Climb Everest

Not Yet Attempted

 

Memorize Gray’s Anatomy

Not Yet Attempted

Walk on water

Not Yet Attempted

 

Debut in Bangladesh cricket team

Status: Work In Progress

Attain superior motor coordination

Work In Progress

 

Learn a language in 24 hours

Status: Failed

Olympic Gold Medalist

Not Yet Attempted

 

Compile encyclopedia of anthropology on tribes of the world

Not Yet Attempted

Publish a paper on algebraic braid theory in journal

Not Yet Attempted

 

Earn a PhD in mathematics

Status: Failed

Solve P NP

Status: Forsaken

Master Pekiti Tirsia Kali

Work In Progress

Ikebana

Status: Incomplete

Achieve Telekinesis

Not Yet Attempted

Moby Dick

Work in Progress

 

Recall a deck of cards at a glance

Work In Progress

Performer is immersing himself by watching a lot of online poker videos to acquaint himself with the patterns and meta-patterns so that his subconscious can finally absorb a deck of cards at will - intuitively

SEALFIT

Status: Failed

 

Omniglot

Status: Incomplete

Attempted to absorb Croatian, Czech and Polish like a sponge. Still learning Polish. Can converse in French and Spanish. Possibly decipher Italian. Also able to understand Hindi and Urdu since his mother tongue is Bengali. Read Koran as a young boy in Arabic.

Memorize a 20 digit number under a minute

Status: Complete

 

Chess GM

Work In Progress

Will attempt to earn FIDE rating of a chess GM after working up to it

Memorize complete works of Shakespeare

Statues: Failed

Be omniscient

Performer went to the street holding a cardboard sign “Ask Me Anything” to prompt bystanders test his omniscience!

Lockpicking

Status: Incomplete

Omega Man eventually wants to pick any given lock! He has a transparent lockset at home for practice. Wanted to open a locksmithing business but did not follow through.

Enlightenment

Work In Progress