The lack of decor messed me up =o)

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Adding video to channels (Art, Brain) - requested by chingalera.

Seeing a backyard play-set with a slide coming out of a space like this for the kids....

I've been to the Cosmos Mystery Spot up near Rapid City. Just because I know how it works doesn't mean it wasn't still a hoot.

Seriously? Mystery Spot blew your mind?

A coworker told me to go to Mystery Spot. So I did. I was completely unimpressed. Not a single illusion was actually impressive.

I will forever be labeled a humbug, I suppose. Fine! Humbug it is. But I will cast judgement down from my humbug tower. You can't stop me.

It's like when you come home on a saturday night after a party!!!
I have the same feeling then!!

I remember Mystery Spot as a kid/child/callow ant with my relatives.

I guess this is the same effect as when you're walking up a stopped escalator. When I get to the top, and it comes to stepping off, I know (sensory information) that they're just stairs and to walk on as normal, but I can't switch off the prior knowledge that I need to time my step to account for the escalator's movement - for me, this results in a very strange moment; obviously I can handle stairs and escalators but I nearly fall over with an escalator masquerading as stairs.

The hipster freaks me out more than the room itself.

>> ^critical_d:

The hipster freaks me out more than the room itself.


Yeah fuck that guy's stripped T shirt.

. . .He does seem to have an interesting blog though.
http://scienceline.org/author/christopher-intagliata/

>> ^braindonut:

Seriously? Mystery Spot blew your mind?
A coworker told me to go to Mystery Spot. So I did. I was completely unimpressed. Not a single illusion was actually impressive.
I will forever be labeled a humbug, I suppose. Fine! Humbug it is. But I will cast judgement down from my humbug tower. You can't stop me.


When I was a kid, my elementary school had a field trip to the Mystery Spot and I remember it blowing my mind too.

Looking back on it, I really think my teacher should have told us it was just a trick.

>> ^braindonut:

Seriously? Mystery Spot blew your mind?
A coworker told me to go to Mystery Spot. So I did. I was completely unimpressed. Not a single illusion was actually impressive.
I will forever be labeled a humbug, I suppose. Fine! Humbug it is. But I will cast judgement down from my humbug tower. You can't stop me.

I'm with you on this. Tilted rooms and such simply look and feel tilted. I don't perceive any sort of cool illusion from them.

If they could make the room not feel tilted while being tilted, that would be something, but being in room that really is tilted simply doesn't do that for me.

This summer I stayed at this motel (hotel?) in Santa Maria, which, legend has it, is haunted. I don't buy into that kind of thing at all, and had a good night's sleep with no disturbances, but I will say it was very spooky from the inside. Long hallways with *something* wrong about them. It took me a while to figure out, but in the end I concluded it was because the structure was a bit skewed here and there. Things you'd expect to be straight - walls, floors etc. were subtly off kilter, probably because it was an old building, and the effect really was quite unsettling, especially as it wasn't immediately obvious.

There's a great theme park ride at Alton Towers in the UK called "Hex" which uses the box-within-a-box principle to really freak you out.

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The queue for the ride gives you some bunkum about a cursed tree. You file into a room with rows of benches either side of part of the tree. The lap bars come down and after some flashing lights and more story telling, you start to feel really strange, like you're being pulled towards to branch of the tree. Things then get really weird as you do indeed start to swing in your seat (a bit like a pirate ship ride) until you are given the illusion that you actually loop right over.

It's a very clever ride as it takes you a minute or two to figure out what's actually going on!