Rare brain condition leaves woman seeing everything upside down
— Daily Express
Bojana Danilovic, 28, views everything the wrong way up because of a problem in the way her brain processes images.
The council worker has to read papers from the bottom up, uses an upside down computer screen and needs to work with topsy turvy forms in her job.
Speaking to local news outlets, she said: "It may look incredible to other people but to me it's completely normal.
"I was born that way. It's just the way I see the world."
The economics graduate from Serbia, who has suffered from the condition since birth, relaxes at home by watching one TV balanced on its top while the rest of the family watch another.
Experts from Harvard University and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say she is suffering from 'spatial orientation phenomenon.'
Ms Danilovic, who works in the Serbian town of Uzice, said "They say my eyes see the images the right way up but my brain changes them.
"But they don't really seem to know exactly how it happens, just that it does and where it happens in my brain.
"They told me they've seen the case histories of some people who write the way I see, but never someone quite like me."
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Also, I myself suffered what was eventually diagnosed as a micro-stroke, that effected the point at which the two optic nerves come together, which resulted in me seeing two somewhat different images (not even with the same horizontal plane), and my eyes were consequently sent into an endless attempt to adjust them back together (rapid eye movements). This left me functionally blind, and incapable of so much as crossing a street, since I could not tell which cars were parked, and which were moving . . I spent a lot of time with my eyes closed after a while, because nothing was better than seeing constant confusing images.
Eventually, my brain adjusted somehow, apparently, and the eye movements gradually subsided, until now the problem is mild only bothers me when I'm fatigued and not in an upright position, or turn my eyes strongly to the side rather than turn my head . . So, I'm led to wonder if this person is perhaps forestalling a potential "flipping" of her image perception, by reinforcing the reversal through "indulging" it, so to speak. If that indulging began when very young . . after some sort of brain miscuing as a baby, perhaps this can be fixed. Perhaps not, of course . .