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Rare brain condition leaves woman seeing everything upside down
2013-03-15
[EXPRESS.CO.UK] Bojana Danilovic, 28, views everything the wrong way up because of a problem in the way her brain processes images.

The council worker has to read papers from the bottom up, uses an upside down computer screen and needs to work with topsy turvy forms in her job.

She said: "It may look incredible to other people but to me it's completely normal. I was born that way. It's just the way I see the world."

The economics graduate from Serbia, who has suffered from the condition since birth, relaxes at home by watching one TV balanced on its top while the rest of the family watch another.

Experts from Harvard University and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say she is suffering from 'spatial orientation phenomenon.'

Ms Danilovic, who works in the Serbian town of Uzice, said "They say my eyes see the images the right way up but my brain changes them. But they don't really seem to know exactly how it happens, just that it does and where it happens in my brain. They told me they've seen the case histories of some people who write the way I see, but never someone quite like me."
Posted by:Fred

#7  alright I'm confused.
If she goes out the door of her house each morning ... isn't she seeing the entire world upside down? If that's true, she must be used to it by now. So why does she need to invert her television???
Posted by: Raider   2013-03-15 16:14  

#6  Seeing everything upside down?

Geez, I thought that was normal for women.
Posted by: Bill Clinton   2013-03-15 12:28  

#5  When I was in highschool (mid 70's) I saw a film about an experiment where the subject wore a special set of goggles which turned what he saw upside down.

They did the same experiment with baby chicks. Could tell exactly how the chicks' brains were interpreting the data by where they pecked for good and water. I had no interest in becoming a psychologist, but the intro psych textbook was chock full of interesting things like that.
Posted by: trailing wife   2013-03-15 09:58  

#4  When I was in highschool (mid 70's) I saw a film about an experiment where the subject wore a special set of goggles which turned what he saw upside down.

After a few days (week?) of wearing them his brain changed it's processing so that the image would be right-side up again. And then when he stopped wearing the googles he again saw everything upside down until his brain, again, corrected it's processing.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2013-03-15 07:56  

#3  My computer can switch from one orientation to another using software, no need to rotate the physical device. Papers can be read in any orientation one chooses. Big deal.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2013-03-15 02:56  

#2  Author John Gray wrote a book that sold 50 million copies about this condition.
Posted by: Besoeker   2013-03-15 02:29  

#1  Experts from Harvard University and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say she is suffering from 'spatial orientation phenomenon.'

Are they..."baffled"?
Posted by: tu3031   2013-03-15 01:25  

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