Music and seasickness

[Roberto]

I often read you bring along as personal equipment a music cassette cd player, presumably with earphones.

Now I am intrigued: despite many thousands miles at sea, some bailing half bathed in spilling diesel mixed with brown exhudate from an uncooperative loo (funny tastes..), I have the chance of never having been seasick.

But, whenever I try to listen to some music (mahler to clash) with earplugs I immediately get the awful feeling of being ready to feed fishes; even at anchor, with just a very very light roll.

Some of the crew I sail with actually stop their incoming seasickness feeling by listening to music.

what s wrong with my ears ? or my music ?

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[AndrewJ]

The vibration of your eardrums, in association with the fluid in the inner ear is in constant motion, thereby giving you a constant feeling of being at sea, thus while at sea, you notice no difference and are thusly, NOT seasick. However, when this constant motion is mingled with the vibrations from music, (presumably it's worse if you listen to "rap-crap"), this causes an out of sync condition thereby upsetting the normal (for you) motion of the fluid in your inner ear. (there is probably some truth in there somewhere...)cheer and I mean no harm...

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[Talbot]

more likely you are listening to the wrong sort of music

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[penfold]

Two word: take Stugeron.

<hr width=100% size=1>What in the wide, wide world of sports is goin' on here?

 

[Richard_Blake]

Perhaps earphones or plugs are the problem - bringing your concentration inwards, as it were, like trying to read in a moving car. You need the sound equivalent of looking outwards at the horizon, which is supposed to help both car- and seasickness, I'm told...

Richard

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