First, speak for yourself. If motion sickness is sufficiently bad, it can be triggered even on planes and trains.
Second, motion sickness is mostly about changes in direction or speed. Looking at a still image makes your brain think you should also be still, but systems in your inner ear can detect that you’re actually speeding up/slowing down/changing direction. This confusion causes nausea. However, the inner ear can only detect changes. If you’re moving at a constant velocity in a straight line, it will be pretty calm. For the most part, this is how planes and trains move (though not during takeoff and landing, when motion sickness will be the worst). However, cars are frequently changing both speed and direction, even when driving on the highway.
I get motion sick on planes pretty badly. I have to see where I am going. That’s just how I work.
But why it might not impact you on planes and trains as much as cars, is likely how in cars, you’re mind is more aware that you are in motion. The constant changes in speed, the bumpy roads, all make motion very apparent.
While on a plane or a train, you have a lot more stuff blocking your sensation of motion and it’s just usually your eyes that notice it because you look out the windows.
I can help combat my own motion sickness when it starts to get in by meditating, breathing and reframing how I am experiencing the flight. I stop looking at it as I’m flying through the air at unbelievable speeds and just picture myself in a stationary place. If the flight is long enough, I’ll try and sleep through it after I got my sight-seeing in.
As someone who suffers from motion sickness, reading a book, using my phone, or even playing handheld games like a Switch can cause motion sickness for me.
I can use my phone for a little bit, send a few texts, etc, but I definitely can’t doomscroll Reddit, Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, tumblr, etc. i have maybe a minute or two, and then i need to look away for a while. I have friends (brag, I know, right) who can’t even look as long as I can.
I’ve learned some tips to manage it, like if I put my book or phone where I can easily see the window and the scenery, I can last a little longer, but in general, it’s audio only media for me on car or train rides.
Although planes are different, and I can read on planes.
if the plane or train changed direction, speed, and altitude in the same way as a car, you’d get motionsick there, too. but trains and planes are generally much more consistent about those, so the constant velocity doesn’t conflict with your brain’s “i’m looking at a still image, so i’m not moving” signals
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First, speak for yourself. If motion sickness is sufficiently bad, it can be triggered even on planes and trains.
Second, motion sickness is mostly about changes in direction or speed. Looking at a still image makes your brain think you should also be still, but systems in your inner ear can detect that you’re actually speeding up/slowing down/changing direction. This confusion causes nausea. However, the inner ear can only detect changes. If you’re moving at a constant velocity in a straight line, it will be pretty calm. For the most part, this is how planes and trains move (though not during takeoff and landing, when motion sickness will be the worst). However, cars are frequently changing both speed and direction, even when driving on the highway.
It’s smoother and your brain has less motion to compensate for. That said, people definitely get motion sick on trains and planes.
I get motion sick on planes pretty badly. I have to see where I am going. That’s just how I work.
But why it might not impact you on planes and trains as much as cars, is likely how in cars, you’re mind is more aware that you are in motion. The constant changes in speed, the bumpy roads, all make motion very apparent.
While on a plane or a train, you have a lot more stuff blocking your sensation of motion and it’s just usually your eyes that notice it because you look out the windows.
I can help combat my own motion sickness when it starts to get in by meditating, breathing and reframing how I am experiencing the flight. I stop looking at it as I’m flying through the air at unbelievable speeds and just picture myself in a stationary place. If the flight is long enough, I’ll try and sleep through it after I got my sight-seeing in.
As someone who suffers from motion sickness, reading a book, using my phone, or even playing handheld games like a Switch can cause motion sickness for me.
I can use my phone for a little bit, send a few texts, etc, but I definitely can’t doomscroll Reddit, Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, tumblr, etc. i have maybe a minute or two, and then i need to look away for a while. I have friends (brag, I know, right) who can’t even look as long as I can.
I’ve learned some tips to manage it, like if I put my book or phone where I can easily see the window and the scenery, I can last a little longer, but in general, it’s audio only media for me on car or train rides.
Although planes are different, and I can read on planes.
if the plane or train changed direction, speed, and altitude in the same way as a car, you’d get motionsick there, too. but trains and planes are generally much more consistent about those, so the constant velocity doesn’t conflict with your brain’s “i’m looking at a still image, so i’m not moving” signals