The Songs of Psychology

This song addresses perception with the following lyrics:

Excerpt
Did you ever see the film where a man is given spectacles
That make the world look upside down?
He falls about the place, but in time, he somehow readjusts
And when they take the glasses off,
The eyes he’s always had see sky below him
And he falls again

This fits with a discussion about perceptual adaptation.  Psychologist George Stratton created, and then spent 8 days wearing, a device that rotated images 180 degrees so that what was normally up was now down and what was left was now right.  A blog entry discusses the case here.

Here is a video demonstrating the effect.

Lyrics  (The lyrics are not entirely correct.  I have made the correct adjustments to the excerpt above.)

Video