Whirling dervish whirling for minutes while performing the whirling dervish, what technique do they use to keep their heads from spinning? Moreover, it has been determined that even the brain structures are different!
Whirling dervish whirling dervishes open their arms to both sides, accompanied by instruments such as ney, while performing the whirling dervish show; their right palms face the sky, and their left palms face the earth. With these movements, they turn around with their heads tilted to the right.
Meanwhile, the whirling dervishes dizziness, nausea It is known that they do not experience such problems. We have investigated for you how this is possible.
Whirling dervishes focus their gaze on a certain point while turning.
In this way the feeling of dizziness decreases. In addition, by making dhikr during the whirling, they prevent the drowsiness that may occur in their heads. They never close their eyes and keep them slightly open. Thus, problems such as dizziness and nausea do not occur.
As well as rotating on a single axis by looking at a fixed point There is another reason.
The source of dizziness is the vestibular system in the inner ear.
This system, located in the inner ear, responsible for balance and motor coordination. There are three semicircular canals in the vestibular system. The fluid inside these channels moves according to the orientation of the head. Hair cells that sense the movement of the fluid also convert the mechanical movement into an electrical signal and transmit it to the brain.
In other words, as it rotates, a signal is transmitted to the brain. These three semi-circular canals are equidistant from each other. Whirling dervishes tilt their heads to the right at an angle of 20-25 degrees while whirling. When the head is tilted to the right Since the three channels are stimulated equally, dizziness is not experienced.
Another factor that ensures that whirling dervishes do not experience dizziness is their clothes. Tennure The bottom part of this long white dress-like outfit, called a cloak, opens like a propeller as it spins. At the same time, this outfit also facilitates the aerodynamic turn of the whirling dervish.
Just like whirling dervishes, ballerinas do not experience dizziness even though they are spinning around.
The reason for this was published in a study published in the journal Cerebral Cortex. The rotational movement of the ballerinas on their fingertips; in their brains, it will keep them in balance a structural change why is this happening.
To explain simply; ballerinas who have been turning their fingertips for many years, their brains gain a resistance to the feeling of dizziness after a while. So, in a way, the brain keeps up with the training that ballerinas receive. In this way, ballerinas can easily complete their performances without getting dizzy.
Resources: Bilimgenç Tübitak, ABC Science