RE: [Paddlewise] Sloping sea illusion?

From: PeterO <rebyl_kayak_at_iprimus.com.au>
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 08:11:50 +1100
Mike wrote
>Three candidate explanations - ready for a vote? :-)

G'Day,

I'ld vote for the false horizon optical illusion in which a sloping beach is
interpreted by the brain as horizontal. The weather conditions reported, in
which the illusion occurred, were so varied its hard to think there could be
similar refraction effects in each case. As for vertigo, there was no sense
of giddiness or sickness, but maybe!

All the best, PeterO

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