The genius is on the left, the lunatic is on the right

Chapter 11 Pulsating Distress

Have you seen the pulsating ad?The person inside walked with a slanted body, and after taking a sip of Pulse, he was immediately rejuvenated, and his body straightened up.However, in real life, there really is such a kind of people who suffer from strange diseases and walk sideways with astonishing difficulty, but they themselves don't know it.Special reminder, they are definitely not shooting advertisements.

"Mike, if you walk like this again, get out!" Mike felt aggrieved, not understanding why his mother was so furious, while the brothers and sisters on the side laughed.

It’s not the first time Mike has been scolded, and he doesn’t know why, everyone says he always walks sideways, like the Leaning Tower of Pisa, everyone thinks he’ll fall down if he leans a little bit, that’s why his mother yelled at him The reason, but he didn't realize it.

At first, my mother thought Mike was joking, but later realized that he was really unaware of his strangeness, so she took him to see a doctor.The doctor asked if he could feel the tilt, to which Mike replied: "I feel fine."

Mike said that people often laughed at him, which made him very angry. "Don't I know that I am standing sideways?"

In order to convince him, the doctor used a DV to shoot a video for him to watch.

"Oh my god, it's impossible, how can I walk sideways?!" After watching the video, Mike finally believed it and understood why his mother often scolded him.

It can be clearly seen from the video that Mike's body is tilted, about 20 degrees, and the center of gravity of the body is tilted to the left. It gives the impression that he can barely maintain his body balance, and he will fall if he tilts a little further.

"Doctor, what's wrong with me, I don't feel anything, I thought I was like a telegraph pole, the straightest student in the class."

"I'm afraid that's the point of the matter," replied the doctor.

Next, the doctor told Mike a very professional sentence, which made Mike feel miraculous.

"You know, human beings have five sensory perceptions, which constitute our sensory world. You must have heard of the mysterious sixth sense. This sense is equally important and innate, but it needs to be further explored by people.

"In the Victorian era, people first discovered the sixth sense, which was called 'muscle sense' at the time. This perception of the relative position of the body and limbs came from sensors inside the joints and tendons. Until the 18s In the 90s, the sixth sense was officially named "proprioception". The reason why the human body can maintain balance in space is based on its complex mechanism and control functions.

"For normal people, under normal conditions, they can't feel the existence of the sixth sense at all, but once the sixth sense no longer works, the consequences are quite obvious. Even if they can't feel it, others will easily see it. Something goes wrong, like in your example.

"When the sixth sense is out of balance, it is difficult for us to communicate with the outside world. It feels very strange, as if we cannot perceive ourselves."

Mike nodded half-understanding, lost in thought.

The doctor smiled slightly when he saw Mike's expression, because he saw this expression too often, and the patient didn't understand it at all, but just realized the seriousness of the condition, which is very good and conducive to further treatment.

The doctor went on to introduce Mike: "Dr. Borden Martin once wrote in the book: 'There must be a center or authority in the brain...or what we call the control center. It receives information whether the body is in balance or not.' "

Dr. Martin didn't come up with a cure for the disease, but he has been working hard to help patients like you find a normal human gait and posture.For example, use a belt to maintain body balance, draw lines on the floor, etc. to control the patient's walking pace.However, there is no good treatment for your condition.

"So what, doc, do I just keep walking sideways? It makes me look like a monster, even though I don't feel anything."

The doctor told Mike not to worry, he had a way, which was to design a unique glasses as a level, so that his world would not be tilted.

After some design, a simple glasses level was made. Although it looked very weird, it solved Mike's problem.

Putting on the glasses, Mike didn't feel so strange, but his body was no longer tilted. Although it was awkward at first, after a few weeks of training, Mike developed the habit of staring at the "instrument", and his posture has never changed. Tilt again.

At first, Mike worried that his glasses would be laughed at by others. Unexpectedly, when he was walking on the street, he turned heads very often. Some people even specially imitated his glasses. His eccentric decoration unexpectedly became a street fashion.

Mike's condition was under control, and soon the second and third patients wore the glasses, which were later named "level glasses". With them, the patients could walk like normal people , no longer have to face strange eyes.

The brain-burning logic of a genius or a madman
Borden Martin is an expert in the field of brain mechanism research. He once said that there is an authority center in everyone's brain, which is what we usually understand as a "control center". State information, and can analyze and process this information, and issue various instructions to the limbs.

But all of this is based on the premise that our inner ear labyrinth, proprioception and visual images can work in harmony.

But Parkinson's disease can disrupt this delicate balance.Therefore, these patients often have strange-looking behaviors, such as walking at a slant, or sitting crookedly, but they can't feel it at all, and they don't feel that the scene in front of them is "crooked".

Borden also mentioned that the above three cooperate with each other, and can also coordinate and complement each other. Although the sensory abilities of the three are different, some of them are complementary.Under normal circumstances, visual response and control are not the most important. As long as the vestibular system of our inner ear and proprioception are intact, our body coordination ability is intact.For example, even if a normal person is blindfolded and asked to walk, as long as there are no obstacles in front of him, he will not walk staggeringly or fall down.Because the inner ear labyrinth and proprioception well compensate for the lack of visual images.

But it will not work on Parkinson's syndrome patients, because the balance system in their brains has been damaged, so even if they look at the front and walk, the whole person is crooked.

(End of this chapter)