Why Reading in a Car Makes You Sick: Two Senses Disagree

Why does reading in a car make you sick? It is not eye strain. Your inner ear says you are moving while your eyes, fixed on the page, say you are still. You will learn what your inner ear and eyes each report during a journey, the experiments with people who lack balance organs and with VR headsets, and why the driver rarely gets sick. We cover the poison detector theory for why the conflict causes nausea, how sailors adapt, and the puzzling way motion sickness rises and falls with age. Chapters: 0:00 It's Not Eye Strain 1:10 What Your Inner Ear Reports 2:15 What Your Eyes Report 3:18 Proving The Sensory Conflict 4:20 Why Drivers Rarely Get Sick 5:25 The Poison Detector Theory 6:27 Adaptation And The Age Puzzle #Science #HumanBody #MotionSickness #Neuroscience