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[stardust_rifle]

I am fine with buses. I am fine on trains. I am fine on boats. I have taken 10-hour long plane rides and been completely fine next morning.

However, for some interminable reason, every time I take a car ride lasting longer than 30 minutes, there is a 50/50 chance I will spend the next few days with a pounding headache sick to my stomach. God only know why.

Comments

[blackiceboba]

I have the same problem and I have no idea what does it! If I'm not driving, I'm down for the count for ages. It's so annoying.

[yvannairie]

This is fairly common, and in my experience it's b/c cars are just small enough where you don't properly feel like you're inside a separate intertial frame. Like, it's too easy to become aware of where the car's center of motion is compared to your own, and you have way less room to move and adjust yourself than on other transportation. This is also why some people who get carsick don't get carsick while driving, it's b/c their mind maps onto the vehicle and the ideomotor effect overrides the sense of displaced center of mass.

(I drive a motorcycle so much that anything smaller than a train gives me motion sickness b/c I'm so used to mapping my body onto my vehicle, lmao)

[stardust_rifle]

Huh. Makes sense to me.