I have never been this nervous for a project before and that's partly because
if it doesn't go well then I'll have spent a week in misery, and if it goes
well then all of pretty fundamentally changed my brain. So here we go!
I'm going to open this box.
These are upside-down goggles they flip everything you see to be upside down and
I'm gonna try to wear them for seven days. Okay this is my first time trying
them on. Here we go. oh man. Oh my god! This is gonna be difficult.
Am I looking at the camera right now? No. Not even a little bit, right? No, you're looking at your hands.
Okay I'm gonna try to pour water from one cup into the other.
Whenever I tilt my head up things scroll downward in a way that is like kind of
nauseating. Kurtis... This is supposed to say my name. I can't even -
okay. This one here... is a bicycle? Okay. This is my friend Dom he is a YouTuber
with a PhD in quantum physics. He's really smart, and here he is
demonstrating that it's not just me - using these goggles makes things really
hard.
Did I do good?
How did you function? And I want to try to get you to write your name.
Hi I'm Dom from Domain of Science. Link in the description below if you want to check out my stuff.
Ok you what it's like to have these goggles on with them the world is
flipped vertically and that actually looks very different than if everything
is just rotated 180 degrees. Look at the font. Also the field of view is super
narrow, so you basically have to point your head directly at whatever you want
to see it makes things hard. Add in that I normally wear reading glasses and this
was extra hard for me, but anyway back to day one. I'm gonna be wearing for seven
days so I'm just gonna make them a little more comfortable. I can't even see you
and my hands now this is like this is my whole field
of vision right now. So this is Destin from Smarter Every Day,
he made this bicycle that when you turn the handlebars to the right the wheel
turns to the left. No one could ride it because it was a
backwards bicycle, and then he trained his brain to ride it and then he
couldn't ride a normal bicycle after that. So I thought it would be really
cool to not only try and do the world upside down, but to actually try and ride
a bicycle upside down. So that's the goal for this week. It's probably going to be
painful, I'm gonna wear a helmet, and I'm hoping that by a day 7 I'll actually be
able to ride a bike upside down. That's the goal.
This is day 1, it's been about an hour and a half. I'm gonna try to ride a bike.
Jana: back up and trying to get to me again. Kurtis: this way?
Jana: nope. oh no, very no.
I feel really nauseous and a little bit headachy and
it's only been a couple hours, so we're gonna - I'm just gonna sit down for a bit.
So my rule is that as long as my eyes are open I have the goggles on but I
sleep with a mask so that I can actually sleep.
We're gonna get really good at picking these up.
Okay. No problem!
Day 2.
Walk straight to you..
Stranger Things: What'd she say? upside-down.
Day 3.
This is gonna be okay.
It's Day 4..
The reflection on this lake is really trippy right now.
I'm getting all of the weird looks.
I had to mount them into this hat so that they would take some of the weight
off of my the bridge of my nose.
Music: Turn it around. Its a montage!
Music: Upside-down. Turn it around! Its a montage!
upside-down. Turn it around! Its a montage!
I can ride a bike! I can ride a bike!
There's now only 24 hours left to this experiment and then I get
to take these goggles off my face. I am so excited to do that. Despite my pretty
limited field of view I can navigate the world pretty normally at this point. By
day 3 I started to have these really strange moments where everything would
seem completely normal and then I would look at my hands but they would be
appearing to come down from the sky. It felt like they weren't my hands and
it would make me instantly nauseous. And those moments continued to happen but the
strangeness of them became less and less extreme.
At first it was actually nauseating but over time it just became no big deal. By
day 7 it just became normal. I thought there would be a moment in which things
flipped but that never really happened, it just happened slowly over the course
of seven long days. I want to say a huge thanks to my patrons over on Patreon I
don't have YouTube ads enabled on this channel so their support - your support -
means a lot. If you like this video and want to see more weird projects like it
this is what I do so subscribe if you're into that. I'm gonna focus on biking.
Day 7. Let's try this again.
Okay I'm gonna write this one - I think it's actually pretty close. It's a
bicycle! I have had these on for seven long days and I'm finally going to take
them off I'm so excited to do this I don't know exactly how long it's going
to take me to adjust to the normal world again but we're about to find out.
Here we go. Oh my god. Whoa! This is - firstly- okay moving my head, it's
like the same thing I experienced on day one. I can use my hands mostly
normally. I have this like weird -Wow- things are kind of blurry and I think -wow. This is.. This
is amazing. This is exactly what I experienced when I put them on which
means that my brain literally flipped the world upside down.
That is really cool! It's a little nauseated as well. Okay just as when I
put them on I'm gonna try pouring this. It feels weird to be doing this but
it works fine, like I can I can navigate normally, just everything feels just as
how it did when I put them on in the first day. This is so bizarre.
I am Kurtis Baute. I haven't forgotten how to do things I just feel so dizzy and quite
a bit nauseous, because again the world - I was about to say that the world is
upside down. I feel like the world literally just flipped for me! It
only took me about two hours to completely readjust to the world being
upright again, compared with two full days of nausea when I put the goggles on
in the first place - so I was really glad about that.
But if this whole upside-down world thing seems a bit too extreme it's not
because you've actually already done it without even knowing it.
When you were a baby the world was upside-down because your eyes are
pinhole cameras. I've got a whole video where I built a digital camera in order
to explain what that's all about so if you're wondering what I'm saying just go
and check that out. Your baby brain figured out how to make the world feel
upright for you, and that was possible because of a
remarkable thing called 'neuroplasticity'. Your brain can change. And that's cool
not because of what it means for some weird thing with goggles but because of
what it means for your entire life. I used to think that I was not a math
person and then I realized that I could literally change the wiring of my brain,
and then I knew that I was only bad at math because they hadn't wired my brain
to be good at it yet. Your brain adapts to whatever gets thrown at it. You can
reinforce bad behaviours and addictive habits, or you can reinforce good
behaviours and learn things and build a healthy brain. It's up to you. Either way,
I hope you make the most of it, and thanks for watching.
If you haven't already done so, know that subscribing to this channel will add a single drop of
water to one of these two plants, and that's all that's keeping them alive. But,
you know like no pressure. It's not like a ransom or anything. So, you know. I mean...
YOU DECIDE.