motion sickness?

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I recently saw an animated GIF online of a black cat with lots of white things attached to its fur. As it moved, some of the white things fell off. The GIF continued until the cat had entered another room.

I found the pattern and violent movements of the white things in the cat's fur (as it moved) to be very disturbing, and it felt almost like motion sickness.

No one else on the website seemed to have this reaction.

Has anyone else had this?

I haven't seen it, so I wouldn't know, but I am terribly sensitive to motion. I can get queasy just knowing something is spinning next to me, without even looking at it. First I thought you meant no one else had that reaction on this website, but you probably meant the website you found it on, 'cause else it wouldn't be much point asking. Anyway, you might wanna link to it if you want an answer to that question.

I had a similar thing happen in the past, though it didn't seem to be related to motion. When I was in 7th grade and took the bus to and from school, we were each assigned a seat--we were special ed kids. Since my school was way out of my zone, it was a long bus ride for me each way. I was assigned to a seat behind this boy, so that meant looking at the back of his head a lot. Something about the way his hair was was highly disturbing to me, almost like tendrils or tentacles, a whole maze and mess of them! (This did not seem to be based on anything actually visible. This was a white boy with light brown hair that was styled relatively normal.) It greatly disturbed me and after days or weeks of this, I had an outburst about it, and seats were reassigned. After that, I didn't have that problem on the bus, even as I was looking at the back of someone else's head.

So there may be something more to it all than motion?

Trontine,

Here you go, hidden behind a spoiler tag:

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EDIT: Can't do the spoiler tag proper. Just click on the link.

The little white things are styrofoam packing peanuts. The wobbly camera makes me feel a bit sick.

Maybe the fact that you were focusing on his head, made you less focused on the movements of the bus, which could make you dizzy. At least I know that I can get nauseous by looking at my phone while in a moving car. Also, sometimes when you focus too hard on something, it can get a bit distorted. I don't know. It might just be some sort of obsession. That the hair was just "wrong" even though it wasn't anything actually wrong with it, it just was in your head. You said this wasn't actually to do with motion, but did it still make you nauseous or queasy?

About the cat. The white stuff falling of didn't bother me (although the white stuff being there in the first place was a bit annoying, but that's for totally different reasons), but the cat turning the corner over and over could've made me queasy if I kept watching it.

I am extremely sensitive to motion sickness. An hour in a car is probably the most I can manage before literally feeling like I am dying. I once got on a fishing boat in the sea, and my god it was just a minute till I was ready to jump ship and drown myself.

Yes the video was making me sick. Why did I go look?!?!? That said any number of things can trigger this response in me, including but not limited to the guy upstairs playing his TV/Music too loud, certain screen changes, flashing lights, even having the wrong prescription in my glasses. You're so not alone.

I was on a fishing boat or a sail boat of some kind, and at first it was a bit like roller-coasters (which is about the only type of carousel I can take without being nauseous for the rest of the day), but then while I was in the front (the worst part of the boat to be when it comes to motion sickness) I started getting really nauseous and had to sit down. I couldn't manage to move further back, so people got annoyed with me, 'cause I took up space in the front. It was almost like I kept going in an out of consciousness. My eyelids kept dropping.

In a car, it's not that bad if I keep an eye on the road, or at least keep from reading or focusing on other objects. If I try to reach for something down by my legs, I get nauseous almost immediately.

I don't get sick easily but I'm emetophobic. Nothing worse than being terrified of something you know you will happen sooner or later, although experience in the past has taught me if I fight feeling sick long enough it usually passes. The phobia isn't as severe as it used to be but that may be because I live alone and don't have to be stuck in a house or a place where people have a vicious stomach bug or whatever. My mother told me that even though she's flown and gone on a lot of boat rides with turbulence and waves she never gets motion sick. Talk about lucky! If it's because of the stuff inside your ears being sloshed around my mother's must be like cement. But me, I'm just too afraid to fly, go on boats or ships, or do anything that might really mess with my vision unless I know how I react to it (like playing video games). I also read somewhere that your body thinks it's hallucinating because it's been poisoned by something you ate, so it gets rid of it the way it primitively knows how. Well, it's WRONG!

Over the holidays my dad had to drive me over to his house and back over a road that was caked with snow and very bumpy. He said jokingly that you could get seasick just from driving down the road. I told him if it hasn't made me sick by now I guess nothing else will. But I still don't want to take my chances on a boat or plane, although I've gone on plenty of long car rides since I was a kid.

Maybe it was motion sickness, but I'm now skeptical. When I read a book in the car, or stare out into space at the car door or something, I don't have any problems. In both cases mentioned, there seemed to be something about the quality of the images, what was contained within them, that disturbed me.

I was reading this:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014 ... times&_r=0

The way the circles were arranged for each issue made me feel sick. It reminded me of filthy creatures, like worms.

I have zero motion sickness when it comes to anything surprisingly.
but i can def see how that wobbly picture would make someone feel queasy.
There have been certain gifs that have had an almost hypnotic effect on me.
one internet friend has epilepsy and has had seizures because of certain gifs.