Upside down

[P3D Paul S. Boyer <boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Marvin Jones wrote (and several have quoted him):
There was the famous experiment in which subjects
were fitted with glasses that made the world appear "upside down."
After a while
the brain compensated, and everything appeared normal to them. Then,
when the
glasses were removed, the world appeared "upside down" WITHOUT the
glasses until
the brain re-adjusted and returned everything to normal."

Well, I have heard this story many, many times since I was in Jr.
High School -- and I have heard it just enough to be extremely
skeptical.  To put it bluntly, I don't believe it!  I am that way.  I
have a strong resistance to pseudo-science folklore, and this sounds
exactly like such cases.

But I have been known to be wrong before -- please don't ask how many
times!  So, you can prove me wrong again by providing the *original
reference* for this supposed research.  I would really be interested
to know if such an article exists, and if its finding have in fact
been substantiated.  Or is this one of those "Strange But True"
stories which is just too strange to be true?  Remember "subliminal
suggestion"?  Polywater?  Cold fusion?  Girls being neglected in
classrooms across the country?

--Paul S. Boyer   <boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>


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