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On 3/1/2014 1:50 PM, (PeteCresswell) wrote:
Per The Daring Dufas:
Doesn't something like that happen to sailors? I seem to recall
something about the old time sailors spending a lot of time at sea
on a long voyage in the small ships having a problem when they came
home to dry land. Sea legs? The sailor becomes accustom to the
motion of the ship and perceives motion on land. ^_^

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusions_of_self-motion


Now that you have mentioned it, I remember something like that after
a few hours on skates at a roller rink. Take the skates off, and
there's an adjustment period before you get your legs working right.

What kid has never spun around and around then tried to walk a strait
line? Me and the kids I grew up with would get on the small merry go
round on the playground then several of us would spin it with one of
kids standing in the center. We would stop the spinning then laugh at
the victim when he/she tried to walk. Heck, we didn't need recreational
drugs, we had playground equipment. ^_^

TDD