motion sickness at the cinema

motherofstudents

I felt sick when watching the Blair Witch film. I had to close my eyes so it was a bit of a waste of time.

miss_independent

3D makes me feel dreadful - its actually unsafe for me to drive as I get very off-balance and disorientated as well as vision problems and nausea/vomiting. I had my only ever migraine (with aura) after seeing Hugo in 3D - I felt extremely ill, one of the worst ever.

Apart from that I'm generally ok unless I'm watching a home video (especially ones of my childhood) which have been filmed with a shaky hand. On a number of occasions these have made me violently sick all of a sudden and I've only just made it to the loo to projectile vomit!

Lunar_Eclipse

I have been violently sick from motion sickness once at the cinema, watching the Blair Witch project where the camera jumps about all over the place. I was also pregnant which probably didn't help, but it was a horrible experience.

I do also feel sick watching some 3D movies that they show at the iMax cinemas (jeep safari type movies) but not generally during run of the mill films.

Loz01

The sloping floor in the cinema makes me feel disorientated, I hate it!

balletshoes

I can't do simulators, 3D movies make me feel slightly nauseous, as does sitting at the front of the cinema.

onlyroz

There have been two films which I couldn't watch due to shaky cameras and these were Cloverfield and the third Bourne film. Most of the time I'm Ok - I find watching games like Halo on a big tv to be worse...

coolcait

If you're getting these feelings as soon as you walk into the cinema, then are they really due to 'motion sickness'?

(Unless you're always late, and the film or the trailers have already started!)

It sounds more likely that you're either reacting to being in the enclosed space, and darkness of the cinema - or that there's something going on in your subconscious which makes you expect to feel like this.

As others have already suggested.

Alias_Omega

Try some "Kwells"...

then see how you feel..

Ladyhawk

It's not the 3d aspect as I have only ever seen 1 film in 3d... Definitely not anxious about it... As its only recently that I have started to notice a pattern and I am certainly not an anxious type of person. It's not the shaky camera thingy either... Which is understandable rather than inexplicable as mine seems to be. I'm fine at home watching films in the dark. Seems I'm alone in my queeziness.

Maybe it's not motion sickness at all... it's just going to be another quirk to add to the list. I'll try an anti- nausea tablet next time to see if that helps.

Thanks everyone as always!

coolcait

Ladyhawk wrote: »

It's not the 3d aspect as I have only ever seen 1 film in 3d... Definitely not anxious about it... As its only recently that I have started to notice a pattern and I am certainly not an anxious type of person. It's not the shaky camera thingy either... Which is understandable rather than inexplicable as mine seems to be. I'm fine at home watching films in the dark. Seems I'm alone in my queeziness.

Maybe it's not motion sickness at all... it's just going to be another quirk to add to the list. I'll try an anti- nausea tablet next time to see if that helps.

Thanks everyone as always!

So when does the queasiness etc start?

As soon as you walk into the cinema? In which case it has nothing to do with the camerawork in the film.

As soon as the film starts? Maybe the camerawork is a factor.