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[Bazile]

Whenever i'm in a vehicle which is moving ; and i'm not looking where i'm going ; i get nausea / feel sick

Only this Friday gone , i was a passenger in a car .
The driver asked me to put a postcode into his phone to navigate to our destination .

As soon as i started to look at the phone and started to put the details in , i started to feel sick .

Anyone else the same ?
What's the reason for this phenomenon ?

[TheDevil]

I get the same.

It's called motion sickness.

[TheDevil]

It occures because your body is sending mixed signals to the brain which causes you to feel dizziness or lightheadedness and nausea.

[Sqad]

No........I never have had this problem.

When you concentrate on an object, your sense of balance is controlled, however, should you lose concentration then your inner ear struggles to identify your position, as in fiddling with your phone and you feel nauseous.

As the Devil says......motion sickness.

[TheDevil]

I only get it when trying to read or 'screen' in a car or boat.

[Bazile]

ok that's the science

However i'm not concentrating on anything in particular if i'm looking out the windscreen / window . i.e. i could be looking back and forth between the two and i don't get this feeling

[TheDevil]

me too Bazile. It makes no sense to me. Similarly if I close my eyes and try to sleep I don't feel motion sick. It makes no sense.

[237SJ]

Maybe it's a point in the distance that you need to focus on such as the horizon so that you can get your bearings. (as in the prevention of seasickness)

[Bazile]

Indeed - me too - no problem if i close my eyes

[Sqad]

Bazile...*** the science....let's keep this simple.

Looking out of the window, your inner ear is adjusting to the "scenery" and the motion is synchronising with what you are seeing.
Look away, for a period of time, then your body knows that you are moving but cannot stabilie the new movement with the changed visual picture and whilst this happens, there may well be a change in the inner ear which invokes a nauseas state which once started is difficult to reverse.

[Bazile]

ok sqad - thanks

But what about the fact that i can close my eyes and don't get this problem ?

[Sqad]

Bazile......my bu..sh..ng abilities have a certain limit....;-)

[davebro]

I used to get sick on coaches but not so much now. Get terrible seasickness though, avoid boats like the plague.

Seasickness - at first you're afraid you will die, then you're afraid you won't!

[rowanwitch]

When you close your eyes you only get the forward travel sensation . I get it too. One trick is to hold the stance of map higher so your eyes don't move so much and you can return to the horizon view a lot more easily. It works for me.

[Maydup]

I'm the same as you Bazile and whenever possible choose to drive over being passenger. The nausea Is even worse on a bus if I try to read or screen on a bus, but not so bad on a train, and cross channel ferries are an almost no no!

Understanding the basics of the science, I often wonder why dont we all suffer equally?

[Bazile]

Glad to see I'm not alone

[woofgang]

As a passenger I was a martyr to car sickness all my life if I tried to read a book or a map. GPS was a life changer. Oddly in all my years of travel at sea in all sorts of weather conditions, I was never ever the least bit seasick.

[douglas9401]

The boss used travel bands for a long time when out as a passenger, now that I mention it I haven't seen them about for a while, maybe she's cured.

If you do by any chance want to try them, the elasticated band with the bead for the pressure point, get them online for pennies instead of being severely gouged at your big name pharmacy.