Traditionally, people refer to motion sickness as nausea, and the feeling of dizziness or spinning vertigo. They often go hand in hand, but not necessarily.
But I think for the purposes of this poll, I would think it makes sense to consider vertigo motion sickness.
I have a problem with certain rides, but don’t think it’s motion sickness. I don’t think. Certain rides make me feel beat up and I feel unwell afterwards. Mostly just a headache. (RNRC, Remy’s , Space.)
Never been on Teacups. Can’t even look at it. That’s motion sickness, I suppose.? Yet, I have no problem with ASs, Astro Orbitor, or any of the simulator rides.
I guess it all depends on how my body feels that day.
Vertigo is a specific type of dizziness experienced as an illusion of movement of one’s self or the environment. Some experience dizziness in the form of motion sickness , a nauseating feeling brought on by the motion of riding in an airplane, a roller coaster, or a boat.
One of my good friends gets vertigo on rides that move at all fast. She describes it as what I would consider vertigo, anyway. But when she experiences it, it is a bad, sick feeling. When I experience it, it is kind of fun.
I clicked both motion simulators and screen rides like Remy because rides like that have given me motion sickness. However, the only ride at WDW that makes me sick is Mission Space. I have never felt so bad during and after a ride in my life!
Universal does have several that give me trouble but usually only after I have done a bunch in a row.
I have been impacted by various rides in different ways: headaches, backaches, dizziness, weakness, etc. But the worst reaction, and the one I associate with motion sickness, is nausea, especially the feeling of needing to throw up. I absolutely detest that feeling. I’m grateful that I only get motion sickness (by this definition) from simulator rides, and not spinning rides, roller coasters, drop towers, etc.
As a teenager, I could sit rear facing while reading in a moving vehicle and be fine. Now? Front seat basically requires and more than 30 seconds looking at my phone/map (as passenger!) will make me I’ll.
I’ve never been motion sick on any ride but on our first trip when I was 17 we did the films in WS and I got a bit dizzy. I’ve never done them since so I don’t know if I was just having a bad day but I voted for them.
I don’t consider myself prone to motion sickness, although I experience it a bit here and there, esp as I age. Having said that, I concluded last year that my days of riding Mission Space Orange are over.
Relatedly, but on a tangent–it’s interesting to think of the psychological overlay with this question. My 11 yo son has some significant anxiety with various theme park aspects, and a major symptom for him is nausea. He often calls it “motion sickness” and will express it in those terms, or say he is afraid of motion sickness and therefore won’t ride something (we had to leave the line at Haunted Mansion last week due to his fear of “motion sickness.”) Yet, he does not have motion sickness. Fear or darkness, the unexpected, sudden loud sounds. . . yes. And btw, he will rise Star Tours on repeat, as many times as I will let him–largely because he knows the ride so well so has no anxiety about it. Or no problem with tea cups–they are fully visible and another “known.” Had to coax him onto MFSR because he wasn’t sure what it was–told him: it’s like Star Tours, but you get to push buttons and ride in groups of 6. Once on, he loved it.
Bit hard for me to answer the poll because there are attractions I won’t go on because I figure they’ll make me sick. I can do Thunder Mountain, Seven Dwarves, Flight of Passage. I was apprehensive about FOP, but I really wanted to try it; I found some really helpful tips on YouTube and they worked for me. Last time I was there I got sick at the Canada movie and on the Skyliner. For the Skyliner the culprit seems to be the distortion from the plastic; I tried both the clear and the wrapped and it didn’t make any difference.
I just want to hug you. I’m so sorry. Nobody should be denied the delight of Donald Duck finally receiving the stupid hat from Jasmine. That’s just unfair that the show nauseates you.
I believe motion sickness gets worse with age. An occupational therapist friend explained it to me like this. As a child, we tend to move more where our head would be upside down or in more motion–like jumping on a trampoline, swinging, somersaults, etc. As an adult, our heads mostly stay above our shoulders as we don’t engage in as much vestibular movement as we did as children. So when we are on rides that cause that type of motion in the head and inner ear, we as adults, tend to be more bothered by it. She used more scientific terms, but you get the gist of it.
3D simulator rides don’t make me motion sick, but they tend to give me a headache. Often times I have to close one eye or take the glasses off because I have difficulty focusing which makes my brain hurt.
Spinning things and G forces are what give me motion sickness now. Which really stinks because I am a roller coaster fanatic, and I just can’t some of them anymore…
I really wish other than taking medication that doesn’t really work for me, there was a medical/physical remedy for this…
I didn’t start to get sick until 12 weeks, then I was sick the rest of the time… the worst! I always say how weird it is that eating made it better. Then again, eating gave me reflux, so that was awful too!!