Anyone Travels much here ~~ Motion sickness

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    "The misery I endured from sea-sickness is far far beyond what I ever guessed at," Charles Darwin....


    Why people get motion-sick is a mystery, and how motion-sickness works is less of a mystery, but more of a debate.

    "In motion sickness the fluids of the inner ear are moving along with you in the moving vehicle. The brain is interpreting that movement, [and] instead of saying 'yes you are in a moving car,' it's interpreting it as an incorrect stimulus,". This will often cause some sort of nausea.
    Unfortunately, motion sickness is one of those things that just can't be "cured." On the bright side you can use medication to reduce the sensation. "Medication will blunt the effects but there's no way to get rid of it,"
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    So this is ^ motion sickness lol.

    Do you guys travel a lot? Anyone here experienced motion sickness? lol
     
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    I don't remember where but I read that since your sense of balance feels your moving and your muscles say you are not, you brain thinks the body has been poisoned and thus tries to throw up whatever "poison" your body has ingested.

    Though I have no clue how true that is. I could of read that off facebook for all I know...

    As far as traveling, I do not as much as I'd like. I have to travel to at least an hour and a half to really do anything other than walking in the woods where I live, but I just have not had much time to make said trips, plus I have no one to go with me on those trips.

    I also do not for the most part get sick. I say for the most part since there is one trip I know of that I normally feel ill on if I'm not the one driving. I think it has to do with how much curving the road does through the mountains...
     
    Arsenic said:
    I don't remember where but I read that since your sense of balance feels your moving and your muscles say you are not, you brain thinks the body has been poisoned and thus tries to throw up whatever "poison" your body has ingested.

    Though I have no clue how true that is. I could of read that off facebook for all I know...

    As far as traveling, I do not as much as I'd like. I have to travel to at least an hour and a half to really do anything other than walking in the woods where I live, but I just have not had much time to make said trips, plus I have no one to go with me on those trips.

    I also do not for the most part get sick. I say for the most part since there is one trip I know of that I normally feel ill on if I'm not the one driving. I think it has to do with how much curving the road does through the mountains...
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    lol yeah that's sound like motion sickness c:
    Its awesome that you don't get sick but I got sick every time I travel to a long distance place c: Last time it happened was in summer last year. UG guys knows about that story and what happened xD
     
    I definitely do not experience motion sickness, because I know for a fact that I can maintain playing of my 3DS during a whole car ride and feeling fine.
     
    Don't get it, but know for a fact that ginger helps it. Especially a small fresh piece of ginger (even though it's very strong). Taking it before or during a motion sickness spell can help the nausea quite a bit, if you can keep anything down.

    Not exactly #lifehack material but might be helpful to some people.
     
    I get motion sick when traveling. It's better than it used to be, but still not great. I can't read, play games, etc., in the car, and I generally just need to sit in the passenger seat and stare out the windshield. I'm fine if I'm the driver, though. I also have issues on trains, especially ones that aren't very smooth. Planes are usually ok, though I still refrain from doing much reading, and I need to make sure to yawn on the ascent or else I have trouble equilibrating the pressure in my ears later in the flight and end up feeling awful.

    I haven't been on boats in a while, but I do recall getting seasick pretty frequently when I was younger, and I assume that hasn't changed. I wear Sea Bands on boats most of the time, and I do find that they help somewhat.
     
    Christmas said:
    I definitely do not experience motion sickness, because I know for a fact that I can maintain playing of my 3DS during a whole car ride and feeling fine.
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    Hopefully not while driving xD

    I have never experienced motion sickness in my life, but my sister used to get sick with just a car ride sometimes when she was really young.
     
    I've never experienced it. I've been on the water, in the sky, and reading while in a car and it's never happened to me. Though, I remember all of those times wondering if it would.
     
    Our intro to psych professor told us that motion sickness is caused by your brain being "confused" about whether you are actually moving since it's receiving two different stimuli--the fluids in your inner ear is telling the brain that you're moving whilst your muscles are telling the brain that you're not. I've never actually read up more on motion sickness though, so this is the extent of what I know about it.

    Back when I was a kid, I used to get motion sick very easily. It was so bad that my family had to avoid travelling if possible, which meant I get to stay at home. When I reached high school, my tendency to get motion sickness just... disappeared. I travel a lot nowadays, so I'm actually glad that it went away.
     
    I experience it sometimes, I have a very weak stomach and I get sick all the time anyway, so it doesn't help.
     
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