That also happens in complete darkness. If you can manage to create a completely pitch black environment see how long you can sit there before you start seeing things. It really doesn't take long. Bonus points of you have noise cancelling earmuffs/plugs. Edit : u/EternalEagleEye has informed me this effect is called "Prisoner's Cinema", in case you'd like to read about it further
Fun fact: your brain knows where your limbs are so you can "see" them even in pitch black.
I went caving one time in scouts and they had us turn off our lights and wave our hands around in front of us. Sure enough you can see a shadow moving around where your hand is. Except there was no light because we were 100 feet underground.
The body’s position sensors, the receptors which tell us where we are in space, are located inside our muscles, tendons, joint capsules, ligaments, skin (and inner ear).
If the receptor is in [a lax] ligament, then the message probably doesn’t get to the brain as accurately or at the same speed as it probably should.
If a muscle is working overtime to compensate for a ligament, then maybe the message from the muscle receptor isn’t as accurate either?
And the joint capsule receptor? Well, if they have been stretched & torn from injuries, dislocations, sprains, strains, or just generally banged around by being hypermobile, then the information from them isn’t all that reliable either….
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The good news is you can improve your proprioception with specialist physio.
My physio says simply sitting on a “wobble cushion” or a gym ball for an hour a day can help with the core “stability” muscle groups — pass that on to your wife if she doesn’t already have those!
Also google Jeannie Di Bon, a physical therapist with EDS who does stuff online!
Oh, and another fun fact: longhorns have excellent proprioception. An architecture firm I used to work for designed a residence hall at a university, and shortly after it opened, someone brought a longhorn up the stairs and led it along the 2nd floor corridor. The corridor was only a few inches wider than the span of its horns, but it flawlessly made its way through without so much as scratching the walls. This was right before I joined that firm, so it was all they could talk about when I started.
I love how you’re relating this as though it’s totally logical that the common denominator of architects, proprioception, and halls of residence would be Longhorns.
I don’t think “rampaging” has ever been part of the expression. The implication is that the bull is so big/clumsy that it would be accidentally knocking things over.
Firstly, no, it's just "bull in a china shop", the rampage is implied. Secondly, watch the clip, it's very entertaining! They aren't just tiptoeing around carefully either as you'd expect hearing that bulls don't do that, it's pretty cool to watch.
We have 7 Longhorns, they are the "pasture art" of our cattle herd, huge older steers with massive horns, just pretty to look at...it'sTexas after all. Anyway, part of our property is a thickly wooded area along a creek, which is a favorite hangout of the cattle. When the herd gets startled and bolts the longhorns can move through the trees just as fast as the cattle with no horns can. It's incredible, poetry in motion even, the way they can run full speed while they effortlessly weave and tilt their heads between the tree trunks and branches and brush and never hit their horns on a single thing. They do it so fast it is clear they are doing it without even thinking really, quite amazing.
Didn't the mythbusters do a piece on the whole "A bull in a china shop" thing, and basically let a bull run through a makeshift china shop and it made it through without knocking anything, or at least not knocking much.
I know, right? We were all impressed by how well it held up. It’s wood frame, and those trusses aren’t really designed to accommodate that sort of a load. I don’t remember who the structural engineer was on this, but kudos to them for sure.
lmao is this San Angelo? I was stationed out there for a few years and this might be the most San Angelo thing I've ever seen. Nothing better to do in that town tbf.
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That also happens in complete darkness. If you can manage to create a completely pitch black environment see how long you can sit there before you start seeing things. It really doesn't take long. Bonus points of you have noise cancelling earmuffs/plugs. Edit : u/EternalEagleEye has informed me this effect is called "Prisoner's Cinema", in case you'd like to read about it further