Did you get car sick when reading books on road trips? I sure did but I have no issue now when reading on my phone when driving. Wonder if it is age or something about the screen.

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HorsePersonal7073@reddit

I used to get horribly sick trying to read in the car... then in my teens I played a LOT of Descent. That pretty much solved the problem for me.

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bad_teacher46@reddit

I got sick in the back seat. Once I stopped going places without my parents and moved To the front seat I stopped getting car sick. I still get sick if I have to sit in the back

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aimademedia@reddit (OP)

I now sit in the front not the back. Maybe that’s it.

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JoeSpic01@reddit

Maybe it has something to do with the refresh rate of your phone screen versus the refresh rate of the book? 🤪🤪

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aimademedia@reddit (OP)

Those Archie comics were lagging hard lol

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It's the size of the screen of the phone compared to the size of the page of the book. The left to right motion of your eyes jacks with your middle ear since you're moving forward. Sitting sideways can help. I struggled with this on the train more than anywhere else.

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aimademedia@reddit (OP)

Oh damn this makes a lot of sense.

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Sensitive-Review-712@reddit

I'm the opposite. I read all the time in the car as I kid, but if I try now, it's a one-way trip to car sick city

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aimademedia@reddit (OP)

Interesting

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I_Dream_Of_Oranges@reddit

I still get motion sickness and it seems to be getting worse with age. Like even if I’m sitting still in the middle of my living room and start watching something with too much of a spinny/jerky motion it makes me nauseous

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Ginger_Snaps_Back@reddit

Yup. It’s not as bad now, but I still just never read in the car.

I would also start feeling sick on the school bus if it was really sunny out, and the sunlight would flicker through tree branches as we’d pass. I’d usually have to close my eyes or look down.

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aimademedia@reddit (OP)

I was on a bus for around 2 hours each day and that’s where I really learned of my intense motion sickness. Some kids could do homework and read but I never could.

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candycookiecake@reddit

You were allowed to read books in the car? My parents insisted it would make us go blind so we never did.

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aimademedia@reddit (OP)

Really!? Never heard that before.

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usmcnick0311Sgt@reddit

You read on your phone when driving?

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Hiciao@reddit

Yeah, that's my takeaway! Get off your damn phone while you're driving!

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aimademedia@reddit (OP)

And yes I 100% agree.

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aimademedia@reddit (OP)

lol yeah I thought it might come off that way. I mean as a passenger.

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slippedintherain@reddit

I did and still do. I almost always get carsick if I’m not driving.

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NeganSaves@reddit

I puked all over the backseat of my Grandma's car when I was young because I was reading. I still can't do it or a phone. So I usually drive, lol

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Tekavou@reddit

Never with books, always with phones

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Elandycamino@reddit

Depends on the car, my grandpa had an old Mercury Grand Marquis that was a cushy comfortable boat, it was too air tight and smelled like someone spilled milk in the backseat on a hot day. All of us grandkids would turn green and start to hurl if the windows were up. I probably didn't help we all rode in our parents ragged death traps, windows down all the time and you can feel everything and plenty of road noise.

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330in513@reddit

Dramamine is my best friend on car rides if I’m not the driver.

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Metzger4Sheriff@reddit

Benadryl may also help if you don't have any Dramamine available or you don't want to get as sleepy.

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belunos@reddit

Opposite.. never had a problem until I got into my 30s

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No-Championship-8677@reddit

I did and now I can’t even look at my phone in an Uber without getting nauseous. Although I remember bouts of bad motion sickness in the car going back to early childhood, I’ve had what I consider pretty bad motion sickness since I was 11 years old — I remember the year it began to get worse because suddenly I couldn’t go on the tire swing anymore.

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russandollie@reddit

I don't remember having any issues as a kid but I do get queasy now if I look at my phone for too long without a break. I'm generally not a passenger unless I've traveled somewhere and am taking a cab/rideshare, though, so I don't have to worry about it that often.

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ennuiismymiddlename@reddit

I did, and I still do. The only way to avoid it is to look at the horizon for about a minute every 15 minutes or so. At least that seems to work for me.

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Pale_Parsley1435@reddit

Ugh me too. Can’t even read more than a couple texts before I start to feel ill…

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throwingwater14@reddit

I never had issues. Still don’t. I don’t get carsick u less something else is going on like I’m legit sick from something else.

But for those of you that do, I’ve heard good things about the glasses. They look so silly, but apparently work? https://a.co/d/2w7ANht

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ijustsailedaway@reddit

I couldn't look at anything written in a car as a kid. I get about 30 seconds now so it's improved I guess? Still can't play video games because it makes me super sick. Have to get the patches to travel by plane or boat.

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kazulanth@reddit

That's how I am too!

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Odd-Improvement-1980@reddit

I did when I was a kid, but then I grew out of it. As an adult, I’ve never noticed it.

Both of my kids have never been car sick before. A few years back I bought a Porsche SUV and opted for the suspension in it. Whenever the car was in “comfort mode”, my daughter would feel sick. However, when it was in “sport plus” mode and the suspension was stiffened up, my daughter never complained about being nauseous.

Looking back to the cars my parents had, they always bought Cadillacs and Lincolns that featured air suspension. I wonder how much that impacted my own car sickness as a child.

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Rob_Bligidy@reddit

Only in the backseat. I’m all good up front.

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krissym99@reddit

I get car sick just being the passenger in someone's car. Reading is impossible. It's worse as an adult.

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thatotherguy57@reddit

No, and I still read in the car if I'm a passenger.

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FoofaFighters@reddit

Constantly. I still do, though not to the same extent.

I threw up on the way to school once, I was about 13 and made the mistake of eating my sausage biscuit before getting on the bus, then trying to read my Readers Digest on the way to school (yeah, I was one of those kids). I dead-centered the back of the head of the girl in the row in front of me and did AoE damage to several other kids, it was awful.

I fly occasionally for work now, which also means a lot of riding along on the ground, and I'm never without Dramamine.

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