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Are you the victim of cybersickness?

Are you the victim of cybersickness?| TheNewsTribe.com

Do you know that frequent use of digital appliances can lead to certain issues collectively named as ‘cyber sickness’.

Cyber sickness can be explained as a dull headache, dizziness or nausea which you may associate with what you ate lately and which has nothing to do with your current condition.

A peculiar side effect of the 21st century is something called digital motion sickness or cybersickness. Increasingly common, according to medical and media experts, it causes a person to feel light-headed, as if on a boat in a churning sea, from viewing moving digital content. Basically it is a natural reaction to unnatural environment.

Digital motion sickness, known among medical professionals as visually induced motion sickness, stems from a basic mismatch between sensory inputs. According to the experts, “Your sense of balance is different than other senses in that it has lots of inputs. When those inputs don’t agree, that’s when you feel dizziness and nausea.”

In traditional motion sickness, the mismatch occurs because you feel movement in your muscles and joints as well as in the intricate coils of your inner ear, but you do not see it. That is why getting up on the deck of a ship and looking at the horizon helps you feel better.

But with digital motion sickness, it is the opposite. You see movement like the turns and twists shown in a movie or video game car chase that you do not feel. The result is the same, you may have sensory conflict that can make you feel nauseous.

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