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Higashiyama Atsuki and the “between-legs effect”

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Re: Higashiyama Atsuki and the “between-legs effect”

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Worked for me. Couldn’t it be something about the framing of the legs leading to a different processing of perspective?

When I was learning to draw, one technique to help spot errors is to flip the drawing upside down. This made misaligned features, bad proportions, weird perspective issues immediately jump out. Maybe it's the same effect.

You can do left to right for jpegs too. It's astonishing it works.

Re: Higashiyama Atsuki and the “between-legs effect”

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recently learned about postural restauration. seemingly the teeth and the hip-flexors are connected via the vestibular system. Which means, you can do all the excercises, chirpractics, yoga and so on, and still suffer back pain, because the hips don't relax.

The demonstration was: molars and canines have to have contact, if they don't the vestibular system is out of tilt, put a piece of plastic between them, hip flexors relax, hips get their mobility back, back pain goes away.

Tried it... worked!

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Re: Higashiyama Atsuki and the “between-legs effect”

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recently learned about postural restauration. seemingly the teeth and the hip-flexors are connected via the vestibular system. Which means, you can do all the excercises, chirpractics, yoga and so on, and still suffer back pain, because the hips don't relax. The demonstration was: molars and canines have to have contact, if they don't the vestibular system is out of tilt, put a piece of plastic between them, hip flex…

I'm a little confused by your phrasing:

> The demonstration was: molars and canines have to have contact, if they don't the vestibular system is out of tilt, put a piece of plastic between them, hip flexors relax, hips get their mobility back, back pain goes away.

Does that mean if they aren't touching, your hip flexors relax? Or the piece of plastic makes your molars and canines touch which causes your hip flexors to relax?

Re: Higashiyama Atsuki and the “between-legs effect”

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It would be interesting to repeat the study using American Football centers. They spend a significant portion of the game looking back between their legs, and in addition need to be able to judge accurately to hike the ball so the quarterback gets it correctly, especially when he is in the shotgun position.

I think centers looking between their legs is only true for long-snappers hiking the ball to punters and place kickers. Otherwise, even for the shotgun, centers are looking ahead.

Re: Higashiyama Atsuki and the “between-legs effect”

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I think you need to try outside so the distances are greater. Or it’s all a practical joke and you have to do it outside so people will laugh.

There is most likely something to this. A dramatic example I've seen is where you take a picture of a head, and invert the mouth and view the picture upside down (so the head is pointing down, but the mouth is still right side up). It looks slightly off, but no more than any other picture that has been altered. Now flip the picture back around right side up (mouth upside down) and if you aren't expecting it then it w…

Here’s a demonstration with some more info:

https://michaelbach.de/ot/fcs-thompsonThatcher/

Re: Higashiyama Atsuki and the “between-legs effect”

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There is most likely something to this. A dramatic example I've seen is where you take a picture of a head, and invert the mouth and view the picture upside down (so the head is pointing down, but the mouth is still right side up). It looks slightly off, but no more than any other picture that has been altered. Now flip the picture back around right side up (mouth upside down) and if you aren't expecting it then it w…

Reminds me of the copypasta that’s says the “uncanny valley” indicates that in some time during our evolution we had good reason to identify something that looked human but wasn’t .

See also the "vampires" in Peter Watt's excellent Blindsight. In fact I thought the novel did refer to uncanny valley but apparently it doesn't, at least not with those exact words.

Re: Higashiyama Atsuki and the “between-legs effect”

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They've been around since the early days of the internet, slightly younger than the Darwin awards. You're one of today's lucky 10,000. :)

Just in case, to explain the number: https://xkcd.com/1053/

I also became one among the 10,000 just now.

Re: Higashiyama Atsuki and the “between-legs effect”

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From Latin, meaning the lack of something.

Made me dream up the (it turns out) false etymology of "ignite" deriving from ig-, lack of, and nite, nonstandard spelling variant of night, combining to mean "remove darkness."

(for readers wondering where then does ignite come from? it comes from ignire, latin which roughly translates to to set on fire, ignis being the latin for fire. the verb has a derivation similar to how we google, googled)

Re: Higashiyama Atsuki and the “between-legs effect”

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recently learned about postural restauration. seemingly the teeth and the hip-flexors are connected via the vestibular system. Which means, you can do all the excercises, chirpractics, yoga and so on, and still suffer back pain, because the hips don't relax. The demonstration was: molars and canines have to have contact, if they don't the vestibular system is out of tilt, put a piece of plastic between them, hip flex…

I'm a little confused by your phrasing: > The demonstration was: molars and canines have to have contact, if they don't the vestibular system is out of tilt, put a piece of plastic between them, hip flexors relax, hips get their mobility back, back pain goes away. Does that mean if they aren't touching, your hip flexors relax? Or the piece of plastic makes your molars and canines touch which causes your hip flexors t…

When molars and canines touch, the hip flexors can relax.

When you lost a tooth or had a correction in your youth, they might not fit correctly.

Re: Higashiyama Atsuki and the “between-legs effect”

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Just in case, to explain the number: https://xkcd.com/1053/

I also became one among the 10,000 just now.

Lucky you. Don't miss the Ig Nobel award ceremony https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfzs8ZIPVIA
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