This is how we rolled back in the day. The only seat my sister could ride in to keep her from puking all over.
Posted on 11/27/2015 11:08:07 PM PST by knarf
I have NEVER been able to ride in a car reading a book
The head down position makes me motion sick
N I t sure what it is. None of what makes you queasy bothers me in the least. I can read in a car. In fact, I’m better off reading while my wife drives. She’s a horrible driver.
I can only fall asleep on a plane if the flight is rough. If it’s a smooth flight I’m stuck awake.
I have suffered from vertigo for the past 25 years, associated with Meniere’s disease. As a kid, could not read while riding in the car and carnival rides made me sick. Really takes you down for a few days.
http://www.webmd.com/brain/vertigo-symptoms-causes-treatment
Most of the newer trains in the Northeast and Pacific Coast have people who sit facing backwards, and those states have been turning deeper and deeper blue.
...perhaps you’re on to something.
Same here.
Used to be a compulsive car reader, 33 years ago.
Not now.
Does sitting at a stop light, with traffic going by in front of you, make you sick?
Or ceiling fans?
Or those accursed “tickers” scrolling at the bottom of damn near every TV show?
Or just about any moving object?
Sitting behind the driver is the safest seat in the car in an accident
you know, none of those really make me sick.
Or should I say sicker, as I feel sick all the time.
Spine up through head to forehead and eyes always feels swollen.
Used to vomit alot from just watching TV first three years after head injury. That stopped.
But yes, reading gets me SICKER than I usually feel.
I’m ok in the car for some reason, though I WAS NOT at first.
strange, right?
Since the body doesn’t seem to know how to fully heal a brain injury, I guess we’re stuck.
Unless modern science rocks and rolls.
I wont even TRY :)
I wont even TRY :)
My Dad had a 1960 Chevy station wagon with the rear facing third seat. Active in Scouting, he learned to leave the rear window down. With the car full & three Scouts in the rear seat, at least one was guaranteed during the ride to toss his cookies. Better on the car following us than inside.
I always rode shotgun.
;^)
This is how we rolled back in the day. The only seat my sister could ride in to keep her from puking all over.
I never rode backwards in a car, that I can remember. My two boys did sometimes in our old Toyota wagon. In the mid-’70’s we moved from the West to the East coast. A three day trip with 2 1/2 and 4 1/2 yo kids. Most of the time they sat, or rather rolled around in the “way back”, happy as clams. I’d go to prison for that today. They lived to happy family men with no untoward after effects.
My son has twins. The oldest twin & the mother cannot read in car without severe nausea. Second twin & Dad are voracious car readers!
I remember riding in the back facing seat (late 60’s early 70’s) with the window down with some of my friends tearing tissues into about 4 pieces and trying to get it to stick on the person behinds front grill. With pretty good luck I might add.
If that was you, I am truly sorry. (^;
Once when my husband was a small child his father spit. The wind blew it right back into my husband’s face. He too decided that he did not want to sit behind the old man anymore.
My Childhood Buddies Parents had one and riding in that seat was an interesting experience.
My experience was gained in an American Motors nine passenger wagon with a third row rear facing seat. I lived in northern Wisconsin as a teenager and our neighbor's were planing a trip to Canada and invited me along. They were planning to drive from Pembine to Remember the big GM Station Wagons with the third row rear facing seat?
My Childhood Buddies Parents had one and riding in that seat was an interesting experience.
My experience was gained in an American Motors nine passenger wagon with a third row rear facing seat. I lived in northern Wisconsin as a teenager and our neighbor's were planing a trip to Canada and invited me along. They were planning to drive from Pembine to Sou St Marie and I got the short straw. The drive took about 6 hours and we stopped several times to stretch our legs. I did not get car sick, but every time we stopped I had a discomforting visual effect of everything I looked at was rushing toward me at 60 miles per hour. The visual effect return to normal after a few minutes which was good as the vertigo made walking difficult.
Regards,
GtG
My experience was gained in an American Motors nine passenger wagon with a third row rear facing seat. I lived in northern Wisconsin as a teenager and our neighbor's were planing a trip to Canada and invited me along. They were planning to drive from Pembine to Sou St Marie and I got the short straw. The drive took about 6 hours and we stopped several times to stretch our legs. I did not get car sick, but every time we stopped I had a discomforting visual effect of everything I looked at was rushing toward me at 60 miles per hour. The visual effect return to normal after a few minutes which was good as the vertigo made walking difficult.
Regards,
GtG
PS I used to get nauseated if I tried to read in a moving car. It doesn't happen now as usually I drive.
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