What happens when everything you see is upside down? In the 1890s, psychologist George Stratton conducted a remarkable experiment on himself, challenging assumptions about human vision and revealing just how adaptable our perception of reality might be. Imagine waking up one morning and discovering that the entire world has been turned upside down. The ceiling is beneath your feet, the floor is above your head, and reaching for a cup of tea becomes a confusing exercise in coordination. Walking across a room could mean stumbling into furniture, while even the movements of your own hands appear to contradict what you feel. Now imagine having to live like this for days. This was the extraordinary challenge undertaken by George Malcolm Stratton, an American psychologist whose pioneering experiments in the 1890s explored a fundamental question: How does the human brain decide which way is up? Stratton's research would become an important early contribution to the study of percept...
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