timnyberg

I recently had the interesting experience of vertigo. Where you suddenly experience the world spinning and you lose all sense of balance. I woke up with this at 3:30am and had to crawl to the bathroom. The next day brought me to the emergency room for tests - the cause was apparently an inner ear virus. After three days of valium-induced sleep, I eventually could walk without looking for a wall to steady myself, and my eyesight eventually went back to normal (after seeing double). During the worst of the vertigo, the world resembled my painting ("chairs around the table") shown on the left.

When I was able to get back to work at the studio/gallery, I tackled a painting (still in a non alcohol-induced tipsy state). Surprisingly, the painting that I did while still recovering from vertigo was tighter than any other paintings I had recently been creating (which were rather loose and painterly. The painting "Admiral Bird" is shown on the right. I have surmised that the tightness of the painting was most likely an unconscious desire to regain control of my body/mind.

There you go. A little glimpse into my recent vertigo episode. - Tim

By the way - if you ever get vertigo, there is a very helpful head maneuver that the physical therapist used on me to aim me back to "normal." You can find the treatment (called the Epley Maneuver) described in this video. You don't need to pay any attention to the device that they are selling in the video - it's just an aid to help you move correctly.

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