Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

Pyxis

Last week, I followed a link to a Google maps thing. It wasn't one I'd seen before., it wasn't Google Earth......you could scroll along a real road with your finger (iPad) and go anywhere. So as it was near somewhere I used to live, that's what I did.

After about half an hour of doing that, I started to feel really, really nauseous. It passed gradually over a couple of hours, but I didn't connect it to the Maps thing. So I went back to it and started scrolling again. Same thing happened.

Shan't do that again! It was horrible.

michaels

PasturesNew wrote: »

I get that. I'm OK if I'm looking out of the window, but if I were to try to read or text then I'd be faint/sick and passing out before 1 minute had passed. That faint-headedness lasts about 20-30 minutes.

Last time I stupidly tried to text somebody that I was "on bus, will be there in 15 mins" I felt so sick I thought I was going to die and was willing the bus to hurry up so I could get off and "relax". I'll never try to text again in a moving vehicle.

I read somewhere it's to do with being long-sighted.

For many, being sick could be because parents insist their children "do something to occupy themselves" ... such as reading, drawing, playing with a toy, or watching a screen ... not knowing that's what sets them off.

I'm with you on this PN - and I think it hasd got worse with age. Very annoying, go to a theme park, do one or two rides then want to sit somewhere dark with my eyes closed for the next few hours.

Same with dingy sailing - great fun untl their is any sort of swell.

And now I can even feel motion sick whilst I am driving if it is a bendy up and down stretch of road.

Interesting what you say about sight, my eyes are very different presciption, I wonde if that is a factor. I had always thought it was soemthign to do with the middle ear and my brain very strongly needing the visual and motion inputs to coincide.

chris_m

PasturesNew wrote: »

I get that. I'm OK if I'm looking out of the window, but if I were to try to read or text then I'd be faint/sick and passing out before 1 minute had passed. That faint-headedness lasts about 20-30 minutes.
Last time I stupidly tried to text somebody that I was "on bus, will be there in 15 mins" I felt so sick I thought I was going to die and was willing the bus to hurry up so I could get off and "relax". I'll never try to text again in a moving vehicle.
I read somewhere it's to do with being long-sighted.

As I understand it, it's generally termed motion sickness (i.e. not just car, train, boat, etc.) and one cause of it is the brain detecting (via the touch/feel sense) movement which it cannot correlate with what's coming in from the visual sense through the eyes.

Hence why many sufferers are, like you, OK if looking out of the window because the eyes see motion and the brain can correlate that to the sense of moving.

Sea sickness takes it to the extreme because there's nothing worse for an already queazy stomach than being thrown up and down by a bouncing boat.

GDB2222

michaels wrote: »

I'm with you on this PN - and I think it hasd got worse with age. Very annoying, go to a theme park, do one or two rides then want to sit somewhere dark with my eyes closed for the next few hours.

Same with dingy sailing - great fun untl their is any sort of swell.

And now I can even feel motion sick whilst I am driving if it is a bendy up and down stretch of road.

Interesting what you say about sight, my eyes are very different presciption, I wonde if that is a factor. I had always thought it was soemthign to do with the middle ear and my brain very strongly needing the visual and motion inputs to coincide.

The solution I found was to let the kids drag me along to the theme park, but not to go on any of the scary rides.

chris_m

michaels wrote: »

Interesting what you say about sight, my eyes are very different presciption, I wonde if that is a factor.

Not impossible - but should be sorted with the correct prescription eye correction.

I had always thought it was soemthign to do with the middle ear and my brain very strongly needing the visual and motion inputs to coincide.

As per my earlier post, yep that is at least partly it.

PasturesNew

chris_m wrote: »

Sea sickness takes it to the extreme because there's nothing worse for an already queazy stomach than being thrown up and down by a bouncing boat.

I went on a boat once that's notorious for sea-sickness. Ferry to the Scilly Isles... takes longer to get there/back than the time you spend ashore... £15 day trip with vouchers from the papers Had to be done!

I decided that I'd sit "sideways" and find a place where my back was against the side of the boat, so that I'd be dipping "left and right" and not "forwards/backwards". That worked.... although it didn't help that I was with somebody completely unaffected, who wanted to go walking around the boat and getting a cup of tea and stuff, without a thought for the fact I only wanted to face ONE way for the whole trip!

chris_m

PasturesNew wrote: »

I went on a boat once that's notorious for sea-sickness. Ferry to the Scilly Isles... takes longer to get there/back than the time you spend ashore... £15 day trip with vouchers from the papers Had to be done!

Well that was a scilly thing to do

Sorry, it had to be said :rotfl:

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

I went on a boat once that's notorious for sea-sickness. Ferry to the Scilly Isles... takes longer to get there/back than the time you spend ashore... £15 day trip with vouchers from the papers Had to be done!

I decided that I'd sit "sideways" and find a place where my back was against the side of the boat, so that I'd be dipping "left and right" and not "forwards/backwards". That worked.... although it didn't help that I was with somebody completely unaffected, who wanted to go walking around the boat and getting a cup of tea and stuff, without a thought for the fact I only wanted to face ONE way for the whole trip!

So you have been "abroad" then! :rotfl:

Spirit_2

Does anyone have a email address for Gen?


Do NP think LiR might?

PasturesNew

Maybe we should start a private Facebook NP group
Where we can join as a page. A page gives you anonymity from your personal profile.

What you do is: log on as personal, create a page. Then join a group. Then you post as your page, which is any name you like.

I don't know enough about FB to know which setup enables that.... I'll go and see if I can work it out.

Edit: First look it seems it can't be done... but I'll carry on googling.

Edit 2: Looks like there is a way of doing it, but it looks like a right faff.... too faffy for a lot of people to get their head around settings/privacy and doing the right thing .... for something they don't expect to bother with.

Edit 3: Final edit. Bugg3h it all really ... too hard, too complex, it's a minefield. Ignore, forget, don't do it