Since I love to take any and every opportunity to look ridiculous, I decided to be a guinea pig for a day.
This is not as difficult as you might think. First, you have to have an interesting problem. In my case it's unilateral vestibular loss. Second, you have to look around for scientists who want to study people who have your interesting problem. Then you cheerfully volunteer to be a guinea pig for a day.
Of course, you have to be willing to look ridiculous.
Not to mention being strapped into strange contraptions which would make Machiavelli sigh with envy.
And having scientists bounce up and down with excitement as you fall over, thus proving their hypothesis.
But, truly, it was fun. And I'm going back to be strapped into yet another Machiavellian contraption. What the heck. I'm a guinea pig by nature!
Oh, you thought I was kidding about being a guinea pig again? Heh! Look at what they did to me!
That thing strapped around my middle has these little electrodes that zap you if you tilt sideways as you walk. Which is why I look the way I do in this picture! Zap! Ow!!
But seriously. They don't really hurt their subjects. I was only pretending. And they didn't make me say this, either!
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