How carsickness works
In: Biology
Imagine you have blocks in different shapes. You feel them with your hands, observe them with your eyes.
When you see a square and feel a square. Everything is fine.
People who get motion sickness don’t always have this line up. They might see a square, but feel a cylinder block.
But that’s weird. You see something else than you feel. Because your brain can’t handle that it thinks something is wrong.
Motion sickness gets worse when people who suffer from it are not actively looking, but are for example reading on their phone. They see a steady, non moving environment, but they feel a moving one.
ERROR!
Because your brain doesn’t know what is wrong, it will try to make sure it gets rid of what might be causing this issue. A poison, hallucinogenic perhaps? It makes you feel sick so you throw up what might be causing this error.
Ofcourse the cause of the error doesn’t lie in food with motion sickness, so it doesn’t help. What does help is making sure to focus on your journey. This is why people with motion sickness do better in the passenger seat of a car or in the front of a busses, they have a clearer view of what is going on around them so what they feel matches up better with what they see.
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