I find it funny that pilots - of all people - are debating something that should be obvious and already trained into anyone with more than 20 hours logged.
The generic term is "vertigo" and it means that seat-of-the-pants kinesthetic sensations are a lousy way to judge accelerations in any plane (pun intended), especially without visual references (IMC/night/closed environment).
Nov. marks 40 years since my first flight as pax in an airliner. Yet I would still swear (if I didn't know better) that the nose-wheel is collapsing on every landing. The deceleration (OK, rearwards acceleration) not only makes it feel like gravity is forward and we are tilted down - the aisle even LOOKS like it is sloping downward to the nose.
But I hope any pilot - or anyone the powers-that-be allow to get involved in an accident investigation - has enough understanding of this phenomenon to discount reported kinesthetic sensations in analysizing a flight path. Even that part that takes place on the ground.