Me (after spinning them around): Do you know why people get dizzy?
Kid, 6: accuratelyish describes the workings of the inner ear
Me: uh … Yeah.
Sometimes my kid say something “very scientific”, which I can’t confirm on top of my head. It’s like talking to GPT.
So what was their answer? You know, for someone who doesn’t want to look it up.
Offhand, cause now I don’t want to look it up either.
There is basically fluid in your ear that your brain uses to keep its balance. When the fluid movement doesn’t match with what your eyes see you get dizzy.
In severe or prolonged cases this causes nausea in some people.
Basically this. The reason I said “accuratelyish” instead of “accurately” was mostly that they described it as a “bowl of water.”
“There’s a bowl of water in your ear that starts spinning when you do and sometimes it will keep spinning even after you stop.”