Inverted Horizons: The Fatal Neurology of the Somatogravic Illusion

Imagine sitting in a pitch-black cockpit, accelerating rapidly down a runway and lifting into the night sky. Suddenly, your brain screams that the plane is pitching backward, about to stall and fall from the air. Panicked, you push the nose down to level out, only to drive the aircraft straight into the ocean. You have just succumbed to the Somatogravic Illusion. This phenomenon is one of the de...