I’m planning on skydiving next week and I’m real excited, and got even more excited when I read that skydiving doesn’t trigger that unpleasant “stomach drop” sensation because the plane is moving close to the same speed as the speed you fall as you approach terminal velocity. I like riding roller coasters but the stomach drop is always the worst part of it for me. Strangely enough I was just playing through Sekiro and was dismayed to experience the stomach dropping effect as I had to leap from a huge cliff into the abyss in a sequence in the game. I guess I’m confused. Obviously I wasn’t really falling, so it was purely psychological in nature. Will I feel the stomach drop after all as I plummet to Earth when I jump out of the plane?
So Is the stomach drop sensation subjective and actually has nothing to do with the physics of actually falling? I’m still going to do the dive! Feel the fear and do it anyways!
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Not a doctor or scientist, but it probably varies from person to person. Personally, I get positional vertigo, and I don’t play Fortnite, but I’ve watched somebody else play and the part where the players are dropped down to the map made my vertigo act up (just one example). If you have any kind of VR device, maybe you could try a VR skydiving thing to see if it gives you any problems before you go?
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