Can you get motion sickness from watching a DVD movie in a car?

Answer 1

Yes, it is like reading a book in the car for me....i get motion sick....

Answer 2

yes, and for once the explanation,and the solution is pretty simple.

Our motion sensors are in our ears. The funny little circular tubes in the inner ear have fluid in them, and inside the tubes have little hairs. As we move about the fluid moves, rather like a spirit level, and tells our brains what our attitude is.

The problem comes with the visual receptors, because the system is designed to work in combination with visual input in order to correct imbalance without, inadvertently, putting ourselves at risk. However, now that we have devised all these clever means of getting around, cars, buses, trains, boats and planes, we are subject to motion that is not originated by our own bodies. Thus we can experience motion, but not be able to co-relate the data input between our motion receptors and our visual receptors.

Hence motion sickness. If you are in motion, but not focussing on a stable, exterior, set of imagery, i.e. reading a book, or map, or DVD movie, your visual input is not 'connected' to the motion input, and the signals conflict, causing the experience of nausea, which is just your body's way of saying " Hey, wassup !!!"

The cure ? Just focus outside the vehicle preferrably in a forward direction for a few seconds and the nausea will fall off right away. If you want to continue reading or watching, and your sensitivity to this effect is high, then better wait for a straight highway type road, on which there will be less excess movement, accelerations and decellerations, both lateral and longitudinal.

Answer 3

yes, I do occasionally, although it usually comes from reading books, or during a movie subtitles. It more depends on your (or whoever your talking about) personal level of motion sickness, some are more sensitive than others.