Comments by "gnarth d\x27arkanen" (@gnarthdarkanen7464) on "5 Harmful Psychological Tricks Your Mind Plays On You" video.
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@macberry4048 Yeah, it's sort of like that... only worse.
See, most people can't see blood at all... two... three seconds in, and they're GONE (from one symptom or other)...
Sea-sickness, however, is just a little different. Most people can handle the rocking for even a couple hours... It's only after most of a day you figure out "uh oh... this ain't for me..."
Worse yet, there are some who can handle it the first time or two out... a whole cruise NO PROBLEM... The second cruise, for whatever reason... Six months straight tossing cookies...
Usually, even most who "are sensitive" can recover. In a few days (less than a week in most cases) their brains catch up to the way a boat moves ALL the time, and they quit getting so sick... and that's it. In fact, 98% of them only experience the worst symptoms for about three days, tops...
Hot tips? Okay...
1 Eat crackers... not necessarily saltines (especially not ALL the time)... but crackers, grahams, whole wheat, whatever... or dry bread and toast a LOT, so it soaks up the fluid bouncing around in your stomach. This reduces the stress in your gut so your body can handle the general motions of the ocean without it getting any worse than necessary.
2 Get outside... This has two reasons, so long as it's not such obnoxious weather than you're putting health or physical well being at risk...
First, fresh air is FAR better on your olfactory (nose) senses than a constant stink of vomit... and there's a near infinite sea to chuck your last meal into without too much real harm.
Second, keeping your eye to the horizon will start to bring your brain's faulty functions back toward harmony...
Here's the thing. Seasickness, mostly, is what comes about as your brain is receiving what it considers "bad" information. The boat's motions aren't like land or any other vessel, and so your equilibrium (inner ear) is saying one thing, while your insides (stomach contents) are shifting around for another... AND your visual cortex (eyes) are watching something that makes different sense from what your brain expects to process... AND it gets "overloaded"... Not having processed all this much different information so fast before, it starts shifting priorities and eventually, falling behind, you start to feel uncomfortable... usually with bouts of serious nausea first (because we humans like to have something in our stomachs about all the time)...
Watching the horizon as much as you can, helps to judge your actual uprightness and balance, decreasing (if not eliminating) the need for so much processing strain... so stepping outside to watch the horizon and learn that function of "gaining sea legs" can greatly reduce the terms and time suffered under seasickness...
Those "motion sickness" drugs, actually, are only effective if you start taking them a day or more BEFORE you get underway...
SO... why share this with you? You obviously fell asleep to the gentle rocking of a pleasant (if dubiously monotonous) ship... right?
You may have reason to share this knowledge with others later... and it might help with a cruise with kids involved. (even if they're not your own) A piece of kind advice that can really help a pair of tormented parents can be the difference between a family vacation ruined, and a lesson in life, but a great success... not to mention YOUR chance to be a "hero" even to only four or five folks.
...and I've given enough grief to Marines and Fellow Navy struggling with the bouncing around of a flat-bottomed "gator freighter" back in the 90's... Maybe it's worth sharing this font of useful help online so others might find something helpful... even just that tip about STARTING THE DEMEROL BEFORE YOU'RE ON THE DAMN BOAT!!!
LOLZ... ;o)
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