The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 16, 1898, Page 17

O live for over a week with on re entirely excluded fr. and with the other through which tu object upon which turn upon whole world abou eppear that every talk is standing u tinue this for po psychology of t ley, who h: to such an grasp the upright it to invert image is pro; mind gets th positic order t process of the turn the obj is nec the jec or Stratton’s to combat this the- 1 to show that the investigation v ory of science mind’s acceptance of the positions of things depends upon relations of touch and the locations of other t it is entirely possible to upright positions and accord their locations in going through the world with objects appearing in exactly the tion that their in of the e to show that ol modate himse upside 1d live in it, work through it and not suffer inconvenience from the topsy turv pect of things, that Pro- fessor Stratton endured his curious or- deal. Throughout he carefully noted his sensations, analyzed his own conduct. It w the tendency of his will, the sugges- tions of his mind and wrote a copious dfary of his expe which he transmitted to an y specialist vchological scl- of the contribu- ty-five pages or at his magazine devoted to p ence. Advance shee tion showing it to long have reache home in Berkel The professor arranged wear over his fac lenses fitting both ey It was found, however, that this contrivance eould not be used. At a short distance from the unobstructed eyes their lines of sight converge and both eyes receive the same impression of the one object. But the professor’'s tubes were about four inches long, and their projection interfered with this coalescence of the retinal lines, so that there were set up distinct images of the.objects seen. Headache supervened after these dual tubes had been worn but a few min- utes, and thfs Increased in severity as the hours wore on, until it ultimately became unedurable and the left tube with its lens was taken out of the mask, leaving only the right one re- maining. a mask to with a set of | soft black cloths, the mask with its single tube and e g hours of periment. The pro- 0 tests, the first be- , being half of the scond and > results of paper read hological Con- second and pro- was made the mask at night, worn the eigt | fessor has made t he eyes being closed while the re- val was taking place, wher-upon a > was usted During the est the ssor remained en- but while the sec- s he spent much of n air, accompanied cted him when he s inclined to go The round, clear field of vision which the tuhe allowed him was a compass of 45 degrees, or less than half the range of sight of one unobstructed eye, which is 110 degree This limit of his fleld or of. ok tion precluded the professor from seeing any part of his body ex- cept the lower portion of the trunk and limbs, and the lower halves of his arms. These members. as soon as the mask was adjusted, became strangely inverted.. The left hand seemed the right han@l and vice versa; the feet were reversed and the legs, instead of leading upward and toward him, were directed downward and out of the field of His vision. His chest seemed to be a cavit his throat and head a void. He lowered his head to reflect where o t:" the fire heated his scalp and caused him to instinctively place his hand on the top of it; he did | was a series of nRNNNN STRANGE at what disturbed him was not the ngs he saw, but the things he re- nembered. The visual arrangement of objects clashed with the images in his nd of their arrangement impressed by past experience. He tried to feel hat as soon as he could banish his mental adjustment of objects, supplant em with the new order of things, he would no longer suffer those qualms and surprises which now visited him. T us composed, he arose to seek the m which surrounds the house. All nts of his limbs were exceed- awkward. Only when the action ing was regardless of what he saw, and un- der the guidance of touch or memory, as when one moves in the dark, could his walking or movements of the hand be performed with reasonable security and directness. Otherwise the process attempts and correc- tions. The limbs started in the oppo- site direction from th sired. “Wt of my hands,” ar one hed to the other hand ot istake was ! nd by observation ction, the desired movement ught about.” grasp it with that was the one I v then and v reaching. the lawn, the pro- fessor surveyed the trees growing out of the sk noted that the firmament had be = ceiled with ce t in long sidewalk and observed, too, as he looked ahead of him that he seemed to be moving over a blue vault brushed with golden sunlight, but which had no botto plck; : = and pro it les the thrower's han marked the direction it was being ind anticipated the sound of its f on his lef! Whack! it struck th of the house on his right; the p: quickly looked around and there the structure, at stuck against the grassy a its contents held ive peake During the within it by and shingled bottom. arly ‘days of the expe ment the sensations the profe were that the field inv time wore on, howeve that the trouble w roundings but in him: inverted. “If the at ed mainly rd,” he ) things we viewed in Indirect tion they seemed clearly to be inverte But when on the other hand full att tion was given to the outer objec these frequently seemed to be in no: mal position, and whatever was of ab- normality med to lie in myself, if head and shoulders were inverte and I were viewing objects from that position, as boys sometimes do from between their legs; at other times the inversion seemed to be confined to the face and eyes alone.” But after the second day the situa- tion began to improve. Much of the confusion which attended the early stages of the experiment had passed T rt ention was dirs | away and the condition was no longer 50 he became happily conscious that it | | was still there. The room was upside down. All ob- jects and utensils upon the floor seemed to stick against the cefling and to defy the laws of gravitation. The flames of the wood fire in the fireplace, in- stead of leaping upward, seemed to be an inverted cone of yellow blaze, fall- ing from the ceiling to the floor. Things did not secem real; the results of sight | appeared illusor; the distorted representations of things which were in some way con- ! cealed by them. Wherever he looked the arrangement was the same Con- fusion selzed the professor. 1y he approached a rocking chair. Con- fusion again; instead of nearing it he | was leaving it! He must needs pro- | ceed backward with acute concentra- tlon of mind and careful ecaleulation. Presently he reached it, turned his eye tube from it while he felt its seat to stde up: then with a sigh of relief he sank into it, rocked back, when, lo! instead of moving downward and for- ward with the motion toward the fire | | a8 he sat facing it, it seemed he was moving upward and backward, while the backward rock threatened to tum- ble him headlong in front. Nowhere was there comfort and it was with the utmost difficulty that the professor could remain seated and yleld himself to his reflections. % As he did so, however, he meditated a strain upon the nerves. The profes- sor was even able to walk abroad and enjoy the physical delights presented in this strange aspect of the scenery. Commensurate with this change, ideas or images of adjustment in the normal faded away, and were replaced by the inverted order. When places or obje were recalled, they did not recur in the | old adjustments, but in the new. If a V' ‘ht about the room, the | imagination did not fancy it in a nor- | mal position, to be shocked when it was as though they were | real | found upside down; the memory took hold of it as inverted and when the eye caught it there was harmony within the mind when the actual fitted the im- age. With all this came Internal peace and composure. The professor 1 turned his world end for end and he was comfortably living tn 1t. At night he slept well and though the inhabitants of his dreams did not | squirtn around for him on their heads, Cantious- | | ical chirography upon a pape: assure himself it was there and right | % 5 et for his mental workings in sleep seemed still to project upon the normal plane, when he awoke the position of objects instantly took con the inverted form | and caused him no discomfort thereby. And so walking up and down the town in a passive contemplative wa at evening writing the sum of his day experiences in a strangely hieroglyph- ad turned upside down, so the prolesplor wore on these da: At last came the final hour set toc cicse the period of his experiment. He had come to look up- on his round port hole upset view of the world as being altogether proper and raticnal. It felt agreeable to him, he was comfortable when looking out upon it, when, alas! the guide slipped out the lenses and left the black tube sticking there without glasses, and, presto! all was turned about again, This was the normal, regular old world he looked upon now, but how changed! For the purpose of ascertainin an ordeal such as few men would be wilii turned the world upside down as far as appea experience was a most trying one, but he lived through it and found out a few things of great scientific importance. nuuRLRLULLRuLLRRuNLRILNNNNN % FESSOR STRATTON OF THE. UNIVERSITY OF CA.LIFORNIA few scientific facts, Professor Stratton, curator of the department of psychology at the State University, subjected himself to to pass through. With a lens fastened in front of his eyes he tried to live his usual life for eight days. This lens ances went, and with these strange, uncanny surroundings Professor Stratton had his being for over a week. His sRBRR 3 £ 2 R R R R The house sat there and would not tur naught. "0 nun 8 sick at the stomach, while piration beaded his brow. He locked upon the floor, and it sloped upward away from =2 says the professor, who began to get frightened at thoughts of the possible permanency of his disordered vision ] - R % R R R SRR R R flat on the ground bottom upward for »w stubbornly in and a part of the follow right eye came to be ng before that atisfled -with things which were sitting on their bot- 1, despite the profes- him. The windows were altogether too | Quickly he removed the mask, took the = toms, nor c d to desire to view them hat | high in the positions in which they | cloths from his imprisoned left as being hung from aloft. wing downward: and stood. He staggered to the door; with | when, ah! the light entering it pierced result of his experiment the cracking away in | which hand should he seize the knob! | it like hot needles; copious tears im- claims to have established ch had come down He projected his right, alas! he had | mediately suffused it. The light wa > sought to attest. “The from the nd now lay provok- gotten hold of the wrong door. He lo- | too painful to be endured. The profes- of seeing things upright by ingly b 1 of vislon while it | cated the proper one by a familiar sor repaired to a darkened room, ad- of upright retinal images,” he ought to b 50! of the metal lock. He lifted his justed black netting in front of the eve, ns iy in the re- The entire & m before him, as foot to place it upon a rising step; and gradually coaxed it into usefulness ance offered by the long-establish- had been the c >n he first put on down it came and he drove forw by subjecting it for periods to low de- previous ‘e snce. There is cer- the le mente seized the experi- d; the elusive step was a foot awa really serious disturbance was s ees of light, varying higher as the nly no g inherent difficulty day wore on. But it was an entire day ' arising from the new conditions confusic turn: he grew ECZEMA And Every Form 01 Distressing Skin Humors ECZEMA WORST KIND ECZEMA FIVE YEARS Intense and Everlasting Suffering Face and Neck One Inflammation. | Almost Frantic with Itching Not Able to See, Unable Four Dgfigorg No IAv?il To Sleep for Weeks Oneiaxnpeoalist: From Severe Pain. Friends (who had been Cured) Say “ Try Cuticura Remedies Does So Without Faith. 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