Tuesday, June 5, 2007

Upside Down Iz Okay

Just to give you a cool example of how extraordinary the brain is at compensating and adjusting, a study was done in which volunteers (God knows where they recruit these people) wore glasses that turned their vision upside down. They walked around for a few days with the world upside down. In every one of them, within a few days, the brain compensated, and flipped their vision so now, still constantly wearing the reversing glasses, the world was right-side up. Then they would take off their glasses and freak out as they discovered that their normal vision, without the glasses, was now upside down. With all subjects, within a few days without the glasses, walking through an upside-down world, the brain would again compensate, and their vision would re-flip, and return to normal.
So It's Okay if your whirled is a bit upside down at times....
This Too Shall Pass

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