Free falling
Unless you have been privileged to jump out of a plain or bungee off a bridge you cannot really say that you have experienced it, although there are a lot of ways that we try to imitate it. Take for instance circus flyers or loop-de-loop carnival rides, and I’m wondering why?
For instance, did you know that our brain has the ability to make us feel as if we are free falling, even if were not? Scientists have recently discovered that our auditory system include a bulbous mass that start to vibrate if exposed the the right frequency of sound, and when it does you experience free falling. Right down to the loss of ability of just about everything you thought you had under control.
I have never experienced it myself, but I think I have felt it while listening to an advertising media clip with enhanced sound. And still I don’t know why we would have such a trigger in sound? And why would evolution procreate such an obviously redundant ability? Why would it be found in other species even though it is obviously regressive in nature?
Lions actually use it when they attack their prey, and humans have described the experience of a lion’s growl as being paralyzed by fear. Perhaps it is true, but it is still the same feeling as when we are free falling. From an evolutionary point of view, qualities such as these find them self on the extinction list very fast.
For instance, did you know that our brain has the ability to make us feel as if we are free falling, even if were not? Scientists have recently discovered that our auditory system include a bulbous mass that start to vibrate if exposed the the right frequency of sound, and when it does you experience free falling. Right down to the loss of ability of just about everything you thought you had under control.
I have never experienced it myself, but I think I have felt it while listening to an advertising media clip with enhanced sound. And still I don’t know why we would have such a trigger in sound? And why would evolution procreate such an obviously redundant ability? Why would it be found in other species even though it is obviously regressive in nature?
Lions actually use it when they attack their prey, and humans have described the experience of a lion’s growl as being paralyzed by fear. Perhaps it is true, but it is still the same feeling as when we are free falling. From an evolutionary point of view, qualities such as these find them self on the extinction list very fast.
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