I get lightheaded and get a headache when reading books or watching movies in the car, but not in a plane. Explain like I’m five please.
In: Biology
You can say that we get motion sickness when our body and eyes disagree on something. When you are in a car, your body is moving around, accelerating, slowing down, turning etc. when you are looking out of the window, your eyes see the turns, when you are slowing down, when you are going to move faster. If you are looking down at a book your eyes are focused reading, while your body is experiencing shifts. This makes our brain confused, trying to figure out what is happening, since our eyes are still but our body is kinda all over the place.
In an airplane, the course is usually straight with very little turns and accelerating/slowing down. You are also prohibited from seeing a lot, and are often above the clouds which limits your view. Your eyes are thus limited to what your body feels, and often it isn’t very much. You can compare it to how we get a sort of relief from motion sickness if we close our eyes.
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