Sim Sala Bim, Lost My Mind?

ngl the floating chairs room got me too but the thing that really broke me was the hallway that looked like it went on forever. i literally stood there for like 10 minutes trying to figure out if it was a trick or just a really long corridor. turns out it's just a mirror setup with some forced perspective but it messed with my depth perception for the rest of the day.

if you need to reset your brain after, walk down to weinbergsweg park. it's like 5 mins away and sitting on a bench watching normal people walk their dogs helps remind you that reality still exists lol. also the döner spot on rosa-luxemburg-straße does a solid one for 7 euro if you need comfort food

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yeah the mirrored room is a known trip, i think they use some specific light flicker frequency to mess with ur circadian rhythm or something. the orb in the final room is just a kinetic sculpture with a built-in subwoofer, but it definitely feels like it's watching u. if u want to fully unplug after, head to mauerpark on a sunday, the flea market chaos is good for rebooting ur brain. plus there's a guy who sells these insane currywurst pommes for like 5 euro near the amphitheater, way better than the standard tourist stuff

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the orb thing freaked me out too but i think it was actually just a projector mapped onto a foam ball with some low freq sound to make it throb. the real mindfuck for me was the room with the floating chairs. i swear one of them turned upside down while i blinked. also heads up if you go again the cafe around the corner on torstraße does a decent filter coffee for 3 euro, helps ground you after all that reality bending.

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Worth noting that Berlin street names have official umlaut and ß rules that trip people up, so a sign showing "Strasse" versus "Straße" is not actually a spelling error, just an older transcription. Same with "ue" versus "ü" (e.g. "Kantstrasse" vs "Kantstraße"), both are considered valid renderings and you'll see the ß version on the blue Schilder and the ss version on older plaques or in databases that predate Unicode. If the difference you're seeing is between those two forms, there's nothing to fix and both are technically correct.

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if the signs u mean are the old enamel ones on the house facades those are often protected as Baudenkmal so nobody's allowed to correct them even if the spelling is outdated. the binding version is whatever is in the Berliner Strassenverzeichnis plus the entry in the Liegenschaftskataster, so if u tell me the street i can point u to the right Bezirksamt Mitte or Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf page. tbh the merged district thing is real but the facade signs are a separate story, theyre basically museum pieces at this point

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honestly thats super common in Charlottenburg, the district offices were merged from older Bezirke and nobody ever fixed all the Schilder. if its a real street you can check the official strassenverzeichnis on berlin.de, that list is what the Burgeramt actually goes by. which street is it? some of the Kaiserdamm / Kantstrasse signs are notorious for this.

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