The Agony of Motion Sickness
What happens when your senses come into conflict with each other? In this episode of SciShow, Hank talks about motion sickness: why we have this nauseating experience and how we can avoid it...
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You know I travel a lot and although i love visiting new and old places sometimes getting there is less than pleasant. Why? Because I get car sick, and air sick and sea sick and horse sick and one time i did like stand up paddle boarding and I got stand up paddle boarding sick. And spending 3 hours on a turbulent flight squished between 2 strangers while concentrating on not puking on them is not fun but it does help me to understand my affliction. So lets talk about that. *Intro Music* Motion sickness is all about sensory conflict. Meaning your central nervous system is receiving conflicting information from your eyes, and your inner ears and your sensory receptors in your spine and joints. Normally these systems work together to give us our sense of b...
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You know I travel a lot and although i love visiting new and old places sometimes getting there is less than pleasant. Why? Because I get car sick, and air sick and sea sick and horse sick and one time i did like stand up paddle boarding and I got stand up paddle boarding sick. And spending 3 hours on a turbulent flight squished between 2 strangers while concentrating on not puking on them is not fun but it does help me to understand my affliction. So lets talk about that. *Intro Music* Motion sickness is all about sensory conflict. Meaning your central nervous system is receiving conflicting information from your eyes, and your inner ears and your sensory receptors in your spine and joints. Normally these systems work together to give us our sense of b...
