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EIGHT DAYS IN AN INVERTED WORLD TO live for over a week with on^ eye entirely excluded from light and with the other to through a tube set to b which turn upside down every object upon which you gaze, ■which turn upon the wrong end the ■whole worM about you ■ it to appear that everyone with whom you talk is standing upon his head, to con tinue this for Buch a period that the mind becomes lost to the old arra ment cf thi gs and accepts the ;: the normal, such an ex; ■ 'iring the transition, would c crazy, but it has i upon George M. Sti psychology of the urlveraity at Berke ley, who has lately subjected himself to such an experience. The professor ■ . [ Jn this ■ experiment for the pun testing a theory of the science hioh holds that in order for Th mind to graep the posith n <.f an object as an upright it is n Bsary | mina to Invert the Image of !'; when the Image is projected from the eye the mind gets the idea of it being in the position in which it actually is, but in order t-> gel thai Idea, a. [.art of the process of the eye's operations is to turn the object upside down, so that the Image j n the retina is Inverted. The purpose <>f Professor Strattnn's investigation was to combat this the ory of science and to show that the mind's acceptance of the positions of things depends upon relations of space, touch and the locations of other objects. That it Is entirely possible to perceive upright positions and accord our movements to their locations In space by going through the world with all objects appearing in exactly the position that their images stand in the retina of the eye. It was to prove this, to show that one could come to accom modate himself to an upside down world, could live in it, work through it and not suffer Inconvenience from the topsyturvyy turvy aspect of things, that Pro fessor Stratton endured his curious or deal. Throughout he carefully noted his sensations, analyzed his own conduct, the tendency of his will, the sugges tions of his mind ai a copious diary of his f-xj which he transmitted to an Eastern specialist mapazine devoted to psychological sci ence. Advance sheets of the contribu tion showing it to be forty-five napes long have reached the professor at his home in Berkeley. The professor arranged a mask to wear over his face, with a set of lenses fitting both eyes. It was found, however, that this contrivance could not be used. At a short distance from the unobEtructc-d 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 distlncr. imapes 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. THE CALL Sunday Edition The left eye was then carefully ban 1 with soft black cloths, the mask was adjusted with its single tub so worn during the waking hoi: th-> eight days' experiment. Th r has ma I I sts, the fir?t be ing one of two days, being half of the first day. the whole of the second a part of the third day, the resu which wei . a paper read ■•;;r before the Psychological C ■• at Munich; I i and pro d, 'T eight-d ■ I I warn made at Berkeley. In both tests the mask was worn all day and removed at ni^ht, the eyes being closed while the re was taking place, wh»r upon a ■as adjusted. During the tesi the professor remained en tirely within doors, but while the ond waa In proern-ss he spent much of the time In the open air. accompa guide who directed him when he me confused or was inclined to go The round, clear field of vision which the till." allowed him was a compass of 45 degrees, or less than half the range of sight of one unobstructed eye, which is 110 degrees. This limit of' his field of observation 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 justed, became strnngoly inverted.. The left hand, seemed the right hand and vice versa; the feel 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 cavity, his throat and head a -<'oid. He lowered his head to reflect where • ' 'he fire heated his scnlp and caused him to Instinctively place his hand on the top of it; as he did so he licoamp happily conscious that It was still there. i The room was upside down. All ob jects and utensils upon the floor seemed to stick against the celling 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 blase, fall ing from the ceiling to the floor. Things did not seem real; the results of sight appeared illusory, as though they were the distorted representations of real things which were in some way con cealed by them. Wherever he looked the arrangement was the same Con fusion seized the professor. Cautious ly he approached a rocking chair. Con fusion again; instead of nearing it he was leaving it! Tie must needs pro ! ceed backward with acute concentra ! tion of mind and careful- calculation. Presently he reached it, turned his eye tube from it while, he felt its seat to assure himself it was there and right side 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 ' as 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 yield himself to his reflections. . .^t^ : .' As he did so, however, he meditated SAX FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, JANUARY 16, 1898. STRANGE EXPERIENCE OF PROFESSOR STRATTON OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA For the purpose of ascertaining a few scientific facts, Professor Stratton, curator of the department of psychology at the State University, subjected himself to an ordeal such as few men would be willing to pass through. With a lens fastened in front of his eyes he tried to live his usual life for eight days. This lens turned the world upside down as far as appearances went, and with these strange, uncanny surroundings Professor Stratton had his being for over a week. His experience was a most trying one, but he lived through it and found out a few things of great scientific importance. 11 •.-> «o «n *- • m • »- m- ao ao •? ■ • •• • ♦ • • »? »r •? f,' • • • • •) »J 10 *!|3 15 RU Id m I! t3 ri: «> m n n m •■> *■ • > ■ • a■> •-■ «r •- •-! «i an mn mr> «r> «o mr, «.-. •- «~ ••>•-> »~ •-> •■•> »^ mr* mr, • » •/-, m^ •-% «~ «~ - that what disturbed him was not the I things he saw, but the things he re- j membered. The visual arrangement of j objects clashed with the Images in his j mind of their arrangement Impressed by past experience. He tried to feel] that as soon as he could banish his j mental adjustment of objects, supplant j them with the new order Of things, he i would no longer suffer those qualms ■ and surprises which now visited him. j T us composed, he arose to seek the ! It* .n which surrounds the house. All { movements of his limbs were exceed ing awkward. Only when the action 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 was a series of attempts and correc tions. The limbs started In the oppo site direction from the one really de sired. "When I saw an object r;.-ar one of my hands," he says, "and wis! grasp it with that hand, the other hand was the one I moved. The mistake was then seen, and by trial, observation and correction, the desired movement at last brought about." Finally reaching the lawn, the pro r surveyed th*- trees growing out of the sky, noted that the firmament h.'id become ceiled with cement In long sidewalk Btreaks, and observed, I he looked ahead of him that I ver a blue vault brushed with golden sunlight, but which h •■!. Suddenly some one picked up :l stone and threw it. The pr^" saw it leave the thrower's hand, re marked the direction it was bring sent and anticipated the sound of its falling on his left. Whack! It struck the Bide of the house on his right; the proi quickly looked around and then the Btructure, stuck against the g sky, its contents held within it by a massive peaked nnd shingled bottom. During the early (lays i t the • ■■ it ions the professor hud were that the field was Inverted. As on, h< i'.\ ev< r, he ame 1 that the trouble whs not In his sur roundings bul In himself; that he was ted. "If the attention was direct ed mainly Inward." he says, fa \\>-vc- viewed in indirect at ten - ■ 1 clearly to be Inverted. But when on the other hand full atten tion was given t<. the outer ol these frequently seemed to be in nor posltlon, and whatever was of ab normality seemed to lie In mysHf, as If head find shoulders were Inverted and I were viewing objects from that position, as boys sometimes do from between their l^gs; at other times the Inversion seen* d to be confined to the face and eyes alone." Hut after the second day the situa tion began to improve. Much of the confusion which attended the early stages of tii<> experiment had pnnscd away and the condition was no longer a strain upon the nerves. The pr sor was even able to walk abroad and enjoy the physical delights presented In this strange aspect of thr scenery. Commensurate with this change, or images of adjustment In the normal faded away, and were replaced by th> inverted order. When places or objects were recalled, they did not recur in the old adjustments, but in the new. If a <halr was Bought about the room, the imagination did not fancy jt in n Mor mal position, to be shocked when it was found upside down: the memory took hold of it as inverted and when the eye caught it there was harmony within tlu' mind when the actual fitted the jm- With all this came Internal peace and composure. The professor had turned his world end for end and he was comfortably living in it. At night he slept well and though the ' Inhabitant! <>f his dream* di<l not sn:iift) around for him on their heads, for his mental workings in s still to project upon the normal plan.-. when he ji\v..k>- the position of objects I instantly took <,n the Inverted form I and caused him no discomfort thereby. And so walkinp up and down the ; town in a passive contemplative way, j at evening writing the sum of his day's i experiences in a strangely hieropiyph ical chlrography upon a paper pad I turned upside down, po the professor j wore on these days. At last came the I final hour set to close the period of his experiment. He had come to look up on his round p'>rt h"]e upse( view of j the world as being altogether proper ! and rational. It felt apreeable to him. he was comfortable when lookinp out upon it, when, alas! the puide slipped out the lenses and left the black tube sticking there without glasses, and, presto! all was turned about again. This wan the normal, regular old world he looked upon now, but how changed! rhe In 'us.- sat there Hat on the ground md would not turn bottom upward for Taught. The trees grew stubbornly In he unmoving earth, despite the pr eellng that It was all wrong, that tumid be growing downward: and there was that fire cracking away in that ; had <'>me down From the ceiling and now lay provok inciy below his Held of vision while It ■ imht to b.- above. Th>> entire scene swam before him. as had Km l ie first put on :h-- lenses. VerUgd seised the experi menter, confusion returned: h^ grew El* 77 C SyS A Instantly Relieved UsfaClflA And Speedily Cured By Distressing Skin Humors \UHvlllct ECZEMA WORST KIND ECZEMA FIVE YEARS ECZEMA SEVEN YEARS 1 BABY'SAWFULHUMOR -»: d r,.-s-,:-;::r- '"irSSHi- 9 *a KL%srKir tss.rs.ms sr Not Able to See Unable One a Skin Specialist. Would Drive Him Mad. Under Opiates. To Slcgd fop Weeks — From Severe Pain. Friends (who had been Cured) TRIFn ruTiriißA RFMFniES Thought Ear Would Slough Off From Severe Pain. Say "Try Cuticura Remedies" ™ ED 'J™ ™"^. "w" w E p 1 , p .rf Evefy Known Remedy Tried, c- a n~Z~^~* d 1 Does So Without Faith. And Was Completely Cured. Physicians Skill Baffled. Friends Could Not Recognize To Great Surprise Not a Trace or Pimple * Face So Swollen and Hideous. Change in Three Weeks; Now Completely Cured For Three Years. Mo ther Distracted Tried the Thrift rwtnr<s Onuirf Cuticura Remedies. Noticed 1 nice wuuiuia vuuiu I hare been an Intense sufferer of that awful I teas afflictedwith Eczema for seven years, Rpfipf in One Wepk Not RcIiPVP dreaded, and everlasting disease, Kczema, for and my scalp was in a bad state. I had a bad neilßl ill WHO VVCCh. lwl ncllCYCl five years. I tried everyone's advice in modi back, three inches of which was covered with cines, beside four doctors, among which was ! a dry scab with a moisture underneath. The DCDCCPT PIIDC IW TlWfl liniiTUQ ______ .-.__.._ one of our specialists in skin diseases, with : itching was so bad I thought it would drive rtnrtu I UUiiC IH llf U mUrl Ino CURED IN TWO WEEKS no improvement at all, and from tune to niPm ad. I can't explain my feelings. I tried time setting mo almost frantic with dreadful all remedies I was told of, but could not get "j. cu/ncM CT&TrMriuT BY itching. At last, after numerous persuasions cured, until I was advised to try CrmcußA .* ** awu«l>l &lfti Lintmi. from friends (whom your medicines cured kesiedies. I took five bottles of Resolvent. PIITIOIinA nriimirr completely) I gate myself op to (cticcra five cakes of Soap, and five boxes of Cm- When my little daughter. May, was elgh- 11 1 i l lnu nriVlrlllrN Remedies, expecting them to result as all crRA salve, and to my surprise, I trait com- teen months old, her head and face broke uw I lUUlin llkinuuibVi previous ones. To my great and agreeable phtely cured. That is three years ago, and out in one solid mass of bleeding sores, and surprise I found a wonderful change in three \ nave not ha d a r j m ple on my head or body one of her ears was so affected, that the doo- t >,*« ,<»-,»^ —ifv, o «.» «f p,,, m , „» weeks, and after using three bottles of COW- i nce . You can use this as a testimonial if tor thought at one time that it would slough I have suffered with a case of Eczema of HA kf^.i vkn r. and one box of Cuticura Y ou wish. C. LONG, - off. Her suffering was intense, getting no the worst kind, my race and neck down to my Salve. I found myself completely cured. April 12, 1897. 325 Wilton Aye., Toronto, Can. rest at all, unless under the influence of opi- shoulders were one inflammation, was not Feb. 20, 18a7 * <■£<>. A. LOU F. j'hila., ra. ateB . The physician tried every known rem- able to see out of my eyes for quite a while. ..a.-.,., OSMMiIIOCAOC CP7CMI CDOM DIDTU t&^*«&^:™*™%£& and was unable to sleep for weeks, on account ft Wl* 1 1 \a I 111 '?i\r II \ I- rli/rIVIQ ml IIS I 11 1 HI II to get worse all the time. Distracted with of the severe pain, which nearly drove me in- H1 1 IU L UJVIII UIULnUL 1-Ul-L.lfin lllUlll UIIIIII her condition, I did not, know what to do, "T My ,T,??' lll " k ,rV w °'' e ° ! '^ Suffered UntSd7^"ny Two Years nt , ZT7T\ ... « n^™™* ! i l ™cZS e *l°&SX2Z's£ :™:.''Tr^:;i:n;,,/r»t;™;:;^ Itching and BurL| Terrible. Baby was soim BMb All Over not have known me, only on account of my Had tO Give Up Work Entirely. Gave Up, and Thought She Before the first week I noticed that the Httl» , , , , „ ' J ! ki r\ .1 i_ *% j sufferer was beginning to get relief. I admin- clothes and carrying myself. The torture i nc * an * R p i: p f :n: n First ADDlication Never Could D 6 Cured. istered the Resolvent inwardly, when I and intense pain I endured all that time, '"irniiT ai da DCMrmce — ; bathed her with the Soap , and used the Oint- nnwnmior thit thr™ «r« «« mnnr .i,ipi.i.« OF l/UIH-»UriA li ClYi tUI to. •..•■_«» ■• -»- \ki i l ment freely, and in less than two months my no wonder that there are so many B«ic»des. Wnrk pp u || v Cured in 2 Months Entirely Cured in TWO Weeks by little darling was entirely cured and well, ans Three doctors, of good practice, at different At WOrK, Uliy I/Urea in 4 IVIOninS piiTIPIIRA RFMFTHFQ she got as fat as a little pig. It is now over times were attending me, and not one of 1 was afflicted with a terrible malignant U ll^Unrt nC.IVIC.UICO two years since that happy event took place, them could relieve me of my pain, swelling, g^-f^S^^^P^P^'^ After All Else Failed. bS eTerMfurEeT %£%?&s! 2JTSS and blotches. I p.vo all B p. 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The windows were altogether too high in th.- positions in which they He staggered to the door; with which hand should he seize the knob! rejected his ritrht. alas! he had : hold of the wrong door. He lo cated the proper one by a familiar sound of the metal lock. He lifted his foot to place it upon a rising Btep; down it came and he drove forward, the elusive step was a foot away. "A really serious disturbance was set üb." ! says the professor, who began to get frightened at thoughts of the possible permanency of his disordered vision. Quickly he removed the mask, took the cloths from his imprisoned left eye. when, ah! the light entering it pi< it like hot needles; copimis tears im mediately suffused it. The light was too painful to be endured. The profes sor repaired to a darkened room, ad : black n.-tting in front of the eye. and gradually coaxed it Into usefulness by subjecting it fur periods to low de grees of light, varying higher as the day wore on. But it was an entire day and a part of the following before that right eye came to be satisfied with things which were sitting on their bot toms, nor ceased to desire to view them as being hung from aloft. But as a result of his experiment the professor claims to have established the position he sought to attest. "The difficulty of seeing things upright by means of upright retinal images," he says, "seems to consist solely in the re sistance offered by the long-establish •■•l previous experience. There is cer tainly no peculiar inherent difficulty arisinsr from the new conditions