Why does the room keep spinning after I stop.
In: Biology
You have two sort of circles (vertical and horizontal) in your inner ear, they have fluid inside them and some sensors, the sensors are like little hairs. If you spin, the circles rotate but the inertia of the fluid keeps it slower, so the hairs get pushed. When you stop, the fluid keeps moving, again due to inertia, and so the hairs are still bent (in the opposite direction though). That’s why you feel the room is still spinning, and when you try to stand up and walk, you’ll notice you tend to one direction, that’s because your brain thinks you’re spinning the other way and it tries to offset the movement. There ia other feedback input to tell your brain what you’re doing (like proprioceptors and linear acceleration sensors), so it doesn’t feel the exact same as spinning does.
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