Ceiling Fans

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Who, in their lifetime, has ever been fascinated by ceiling fans?

Me, I have been fascinated by ceiling fans since I was born. I just love to look up at them. They are pretty fascinating. In fact, I love Disneyworld because there are so many ceiling fans down there. Mostly Hunter originals, but they have a few fascos in the Contemporary and Grand Floridian Resorts, and one in the Yacht club. Sadly, most of the Hunter originals in Disneyworld have been replaced by outdoor-type Hunters.

Who else has ever been fascinated by ceiling fans in their lives?

not ceiling fans but I have always found ceiling (or any kind of light) fascinating.

I sometimes stare at a light for several minutes

I love to stare at ceiling fans as they run. In fact, my parents said that the only way to get me to stop sucking on a pacifier was to tie it to a moving ceiling fan. After they did that a few times, all they had to do was turn one on and I'd stop squalling. I LOVE watching spinning things! (This probably not what you were asking, though.)

lol, the ads on the left are about ceiling fans

Fascinated... yeah, I used to stare at them for hours when I was a kid. Nowadays, though, I just forget they're there when stretching, and get my fingers bruised.

I just wanted to hang from one when I was a little kid. Looked so cool! Of couse, I would have broken the blade...

We had a restaruant here in town that had an interesting ceiling fan system. The place was filled with multiple ceiling fans all run by a single motor. In one part of the room, a motor had a shaft with several pulleys on it. the pulleys then went out to a group of fans. Those fans, in turn had belts coming off of them that went to another group of fans. The ceiling was filled with drive belts going here and there. It was a totally fascinating system and insanely mesmerizing watching all those pulleys and belts turn the fans!

I'm not really fascinated by them but I do like watching them. I can't stand sleeping in a room with a ceiling fan without it being on.. the noise and air flow plus the option to watch it before sleeping make it so much better then just a stationary object on my ceiling.

I like to watch them. I try to move my eyes fast enough to watch one blade at a time on high speed. LOL
I HATE sleeping with one turned on, though. The noise and the "breeze" drive me batty.

Here's an interesting thing I found out while looking at ceiling fans. Your eyes are subject to "shutter speed" just like a camera. Turn on all the lights in the room, and then set your fan to MED. At that speed with the lights on, you may be able to discern individual blades as the spin around. Now, turn off all the lights in the room, so it's dim, but just enough light to see the fan. You'll noticed that the blades all blur into one hazy circle around the fan, just like if you take a picture of someting moving with a slow shutter speed.

If you have a light coming from underneath, and stare blankly at the fan while it's moving, try adjusting your focus. What happens to me is my eyes see each blade individually, then "skips some frames" and the fan appears to slow down and spin in the opposite direction! Hard to describe...

I've seen that with wheels. I've taken a Big Wheel upside down just to watch the effect of spinning the front wheel fast enough to make it look like it was spinning backwards.

Back to "shutter speed": if your eyes are fast enough, you can see an effect on DLP monitors. The picture will break up into stripes or fringes of red, green and blue. There's a color wheel inside that teams with millions of tiny mirrors to produce the picture, and if your eyes are fast enough you can sort of see a "stop frame" of how it's done.

I like to turn my ceiling fan on HIGH and throw food mice at it. They're cheap and I love a good laugh.