[sdiy] The eardrum and brownian motion

[groovyshaman at snet.net]

RE: [sdiy] The eardrum and brownian motionAn ocular example:
I vaguely recollect years ago reading about an experiment, where a subject wears a set of "glasses" that are in fact prisms, which causes the subject's field of vision to be inverted by 180 degrees, e.g. everything is upside-down.  After wearing the glasses during all waking hours for about 2 days, moving about (cautiously), upon waking the 3rd day, the subject's vision became inverted without the use of the glasses.  The effect lasted for some time before naturally reverting.  (my guess is, not without the loss of some appetite)

The brain is an amazing device!

George
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Barry Klein 
  To: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl 
  Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 3:03 PM
  Subject: RE: [sdiy] The eardrum and brownian motion


  Along these lines, there is a "weird science" site I'm sure a lot of you have come across, here: 
  http://www.amasci.com/freenrg/audhole.html 
  You take a box of stirring straws and cap the end and hold it near your ear and you go wacko.  Mabye a clue to your theory.

  I've been wanting to make this thing for weeks now..... 

  Barry 



  -----Original Message----- 
  From: Tim Ressel [mailto:madhun2001 at yahoo.com] 
  Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 10:04 AM 
  To: Grant Richter; synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl 
  Subject: Re: [sdiy] The eardrum and brownian motion 



  Yo, 

  Fascinating. Brings up something I discovered a while 
  back: if one stays in a completely dead room i.e. 
  anechoic chamber, after a few minutes it starts to 
  freak you out. Then I think about all these noise 
  generators you can buy that creates white noise to 
  sooth you. Perhaps there is something here. 

  Then there is the topic of the qualities of the noise. 
  Level, spectrum, distribution... 

  I recall the lunches I'd spend in the hills above my 
  place of work. Get on the Rice Burner, grab a burger, 
  and eat it along side a burbling brook while looking 
  at the trees. Very nice. 

  --TR 



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