Motion Tracking, Motion Sickness

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I notice some days, it's like my brain gets out of sync with what I'm looking at. I wonder if that's something autistical. What I mean is, that in some sense, my brain processing seems to lag behind what I'm actually looking at, like my vision is sticky. I also seem to have a lot more problems with motion sickness than anyone else I know.

I've had Motion Sickness whilst moving on transport and have had to take Anti-Sickness tablets.

But I don't get it as much because I travel all the time and am used to it.

I think I know what you mean, but I'm not sure if there's a name for it. In the same way where I've turned the page of a book and have had to re-read the text because my brain didn't 'process' it.

Maybe its time to upgrade the RAM in your motherbrain

Yes. I actually went/should still be going to a vision specialist for this.

Tracking problems I think it's called. I think related to inability to properly converge lines of sight from both eyes to the thing being looked at.

Cannot be corrected by prescription but with surprisingly rudimentary "eye exercises."

I have motion sickness if I look within a moving vehicle for more than 5 seconds.

When not in vehicles, get the blurry not-caught-up thing you describe; worse when tired.

Overall trouble focusing.

I have severe motion sickness, the kind that no remedy alleviates. It's gotten so that if I have to be on a form of transportation that's bound to make me sick, I won't eat that whole day.

I once watched an episode of "Mythbusters" (do you have that in the UK?) where they were testing motion sickness remedies. They had to come up with a sure-fire, on-land way to induce motion sickness, so they built this special chair on a gimbal. I got sick just watching them operate the chair on TV.

I rarely, if ever, suffer from motion sickness. When I was a kid my parents and I used to take long road trips in the summer and I don't remember ever getting sick from them. I've also been on ferries across the ocean as a kid. But today as an adult I hate to travel because I'm emetophobic and terrified of the THOUGHT of getting sick. Last summer I went on a ferry for the first time in years and I panicked and had a meltdown. It ruined my whole vacation. I can still tolerate car rides but I don't ever want to set foot on a boat or plane. EVER. I'm more terrified of throwing up while around 10,000 feet in the air than of the plane crashing or even terrorists. It's sad because I can't go on trips down south with my parents in the winter. Other people don't think it's a big deal, but I DO! It's awful and humiliating and becoming nauseous is the most horrible feeling in the world, worse than any other physical pain or discomfort I've ever felt and that's why I MUST avoid anything to do with it if possible!

I have no motion sickness but I have a hard time seeing something that thrown to me it is like my brain can't track it.

Motion sickness here as well - and that time lag. It feels that anything that means frequent change of focus brings headache and nausea, (including extended hours at the comp), especially reading while being in a vehicle. Also if the altitude is being changed - it takes hours for me to hear something properly and for the nausea to subside.

Just reading this thread gives me motion sickness!

Reading while in a car, as a passenger = extreme nausea, reading while driving = extreme death.

Being serious for a second, one way to avoid motion sickness is to keep your eyes closed. Apparently the major cause of motion sickness is the brain getting confusing information from the eyes conflicting with the sense of balance. I used to get terrible motion sickness when on the UK cross channel ferries in rough seas, but found that if I can keep my eyes closed for the duration I don't get sick! Easier said than done though if it is a long journey.

lol, extreme death... more exciting than mild death, and fatal-er

I know that nauseous feeling, but I wouldn't consider myself as having motion sickness. I had it when I was a child, had to take anti-sickness tablets to prevent throwing up while in the car. Without tablets, "Stop, stop, I'm not well!", throw the door open, thrust head out...The worst thing was turning back on the rear seat and watching trough the rear window the road and the trees rushing by...

Today I even managed to be able to read on city buses for up to half an hour. I put the book on my thighs and raise my feet so only the toes and the balls touch the floor. This dampens the moves of the bus sufficiently enough to read.

One other trick I learned in mountain biking rushing along difficult tracks is that concentrating on what is important and excluding from view the unimportant is crucial. You have to process only what is necessary to navigate the course of the bike. It also has a soothing effect, as this way you don't fully realize what neck-wreckingly high speed you are rattling downhill at...

Motion sickness is partly attributed to differences between the information perceived by the visual system and information perceived by the vestibular system - in a car or similar, you see both the car and the landscape as fixed references, but your vestibular system receives a different message from acceleration and curves in the road. Reading adds an even less relevant fixed reference, and greater differences from the vestibular signal. Looking at the horizon and landscape is often the best reference. A heavy lantern on a gimbal is sometimes used in ships to cast an artificial horizon that approximates the real world, keeping a level matching the vestibular reference as the ship rolls - looking at the real horizon is helpful too.

I used to get very motion sick, but have become fairly immune. Knowing where I am going, how long the trip will last etc really, really helps by removing the stress element.

My visual perception lags behind what's there in front of me. It's notably lagful, maybe a + second. Some days are worse. However there is a difference when I'm focused on an interest.... say playing pinball, I can master about any game here-- quick reflexes-- I've done some awesome defensive driving in the same way.

It's 'the two sides of the coin': I get aroused in an interest or a quick adrenaline rush in a driving maneuver; but default wise I am un-aroused more or less.

Yes to motion sickness. When young I could puke in the car; once on a floor mat; I was 5 and crawled down there to ....... Once I was riding with my schizophrenic grandma, and she was too busy deciphering the license plates in finding hidden messages, and hence didn't notice my sickness; at least I knew how to contain it.

And I cannot swing on a swing, even today. ^

First person shooters make me motion sick. As a passenger, however, I've never had any problems reading, doing homework, etc while a vehicle was in motion. Nowadays, however, if it's a car then I'm more than likely the one driving.

I remember Doom making me feel queasy at times. I couldn't play Quake at all.

I guess the question is: do you think this is a symptom of neurological difference?