tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5939915290794973654.post3247974379455903419..comments2024-03-08T14:23:31.503-05:00Comments on A Puff of Absurdity: If It's Not One Thing, It's Another Marie Snyderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13872774009526266579noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5939915290794973654.post-56677283705384114622020-12-05T16:07:44.317-05:002020-12-05T16:07:44.317-05:00It's an absolutely real thing; it's just s...It's an absolutely real thing; it's just sounds new agey! Unfortunately prognosis is uncertain. Some people get better, and others have vertigo forever. It looks promising so far, though. This was a couple weeks ago, and they're less dizzy on a regular basis (but still sometimes dizzy).Marie Snyderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13872774009526266579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5939915290794973654.post-62772107766884891642020-12-05T12:06:43.406-05:002020-12-05T12:06:43.406-05:00I never heard of the crystal business before. Soun...I never heard of the crystal business before. Sounds a bit New Age. The inner ear, however, is a strangely powerful apparatus. In flight school we were taught about hair-like structures called cilia that responded to acceleration forces such as rotation or pulling Gs. Like everything else in the body they've evolved for normal 1G conditions. Go beyond that and they get confused. That has caused pilots flying through cloud to imagine they're banking to the right or left when they're actually banking in the other direction. Your mind can tell you to add counter-input which can eventually bring you into a spin and an abrupt encounter with terra firma. They have devices that can replicate this. They demonstrate that you must always trust your instruments over your senses when flying in cloud or at night.<br /><br />So, yeah, this inner ear stuff is quite real. As kids we spin around until we reach a state of dizziness. That's the cilia at work. Crystals? The medical literature is persuasive. I can't imagine they're making this up.The Disaffected Libhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13135599782685108764noreply@blogger.com