Posted on 03/15/2013 5:36:23 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Bojana Danilovic has what you might call a unique worldview. Due to a rare condition, she sees everything upside down, all the time.
The 28-year-old Serbian council employee uses an upside down monitor at work and relaxes at home in front of an upside down television stacked on top of the normal one that the rest of her family watches.
"It may look incredible to other people but to me it's completely normal," Danilovic told local newspaper Blic.
"I was born that way. It's just the way I see the world."
Experts from Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have been consulted after local doctors were flummoxed by the extremely unusual condition.
They say she is suffering from a neurological syndrome called "spatial orientation phenomenon," Blic reports.
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I am going to date myself but back in the 1960s there was a TV show called the Outer Limits. One of the episodes was a researcher work glasses that inverted what he could see.
After some drama, he discovered his brain fixed what he saw.
Our we sure this is not just some internet prank.
There was a person who after neurosurgery started asking questions like, “Where’s the purple smell coming from?” True story.
So you not very ambidextrous?
Our (estranged) step-daughter recently hired the lawyer who initially had the chimera patient as his client.
> She should try scuba diving.
She should try mountain climbing.
It's called synesthesia. It's not that uncommon. I have a mild form. I can on occasion "see" sounds. It's a neurological condition caused by the nerves in the brain getting their signals crossed.
My late wife could write mirror writing any time she wanted. She did not do it often but if asked she could do it as easily as normal
Why doesn’t she just stand on her head?
Thank you for sharing that.
One can train the mind to do such ‘tricks. Decades ago I learned I could play chess without the board in front of me ... after thousands of hours studying Stevens Blook Book of Winning Chess for the college chess team competitions. Got up to five simultaneously, but it is all just a learned/trained circus trick mental gymnastic, not a sign of extra intelligence. It is exhausting though ...
She’s be all right if she moved to Australia!
I am sure I have read that the human optical system actually sends the image to the brain upside down and the brain just automatically corrects it.
It sounds like her brain just doesn’t correct it.
> As interesting as this is (the woman), how did she know she was seeing things differently, what she saw would appear to be normal, because she didn’t know any different.
Yes, she was born that way, and should be used to seeing things that way. I don’t understand why she’d have to do anything the opposite of other people. Even reading and writing, if we learned it upside down, should work fine.
Yeah. The image picked up by our retinas is upside down.
“‘chameleon’”
I think you meant “chimera”.
“Catch that ... the term is chimera, not chameleon. ... Must stop trying to do three things at the same time.”
LOL!
Please ignore my previous post correcting you. I now see you already caught it.
I was quite literally doing 3 things at the same time!
Sorry.
She just gets drunk first, it works out fine.
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