Posted: 12/23/2007 4:54:35 PM EDT
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Eyeballs sometimes come out during severe trama, I assume they could also turn sideways in the orbital. If an eyeball is turned sideways, will you see sideways? Meaning, is it like a camera, if you tilt the eyeball will your view also tilt? And if so, what's stopping your eyeball from tilting? What's keeping it perfectly angled so you see level? |
| I'm no doctor, but I believe the junk connecting your eye to your brain keeps it from rotating much. your eye would have to be physically rotated "sideways", and I think the elasticity of that junk would make it rebound unless it was held in place. If rotated, your vision would be highly screwed up, the binoculars have to be more or less parallel to focus. |
I see, thanks! I've always wondered that. |
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The muscles that move your eyes keep it level, they are arranged so there are 4 evenly spaced muscles attached to your eyes. They work properly from practice and development. Babies take a while to master working the eyes as a team. I would guess that the trauma of having your eye ejected from the socket would limit it's seeing ability. Any ER doctors out there? |
Interesting neuroscience factoid: Some scientists some years ago did an experiment: they built some goggles which flipped all images coming into the eyes upside down. Experimental subjects were to wear these goggles 24 hours a day. At first, the experimental subjects saw the world upside-down, were extremely disoriented, nauseated etc. After a period however (somewhere in 3-7 days, but I can't recall, I'm sorry), their brains adjusted and they saw the world right-side-up just as they always had. Here's the REALLY fascinating part: At the conclusion of the experiment, when the subjects removed the goggles, everything again appeared to be upside-down, and again it took the brains several days to re-adjust. |
Thats what I would of expected to happen |