that feeling you get in your Tum Tum when you go down a hill all of a sudden, or on a rollercoaster & what causes that

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Edit: my son asked me earlier and I didn’t really know how to explain it

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It is as others said, your internal organs are moving in usual ways, but… It is also as someone else said, the adrenaline rush of doing something our instincts say is dangerous, but… it is also your inner ear keeping track of your direction of travel. The inner ear is also what makes you dizzy if you spin around too much. The combination of all three makes the experience. Your thinking part of your brain cannot see the adrenaline or the inner ear… but it can feel the tummy move… and so the other feelings are often just assumed to come from the tummy. It is a neat trick of the mind.