If you are not a pilot you don’t know what spatial disorientation is. This is a clear case of it. He had no experience in actual IFR conditions. It is scary if you don’t know how to maneuver in these conditions.
gotta be a awful feeling..that first twinge of panic....
I am not a pilot, only a sailor.
I am however, aware of spatial disorientation on a 2d scale.
Try sailing close hauled in heavy fog.
Even when your compass says you are going in a straight line, you would swear you are going around in a big circle.