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your eyes swear you're still while your inner ear screams otherwise, and your stomach picks a side.
means the nausea, dizziness, and queasiness caused by the rocking motion of a boat or ship, a form of motion sickness triggered at sea.
from A plain compound of "sea" and "sickness," both rooted in Old English (sǣ and sēocnes). The word simply names what sailors have always known — that the heaving deck makes you ill. Greek had its own version: nautia, "ship-sickness," from naus (ship), which is also the ancestor of our word "nausea." So the very feeling of wanting to be sick is, etymologically, the feeling of being on a boat.
- brain mutiny
- Caused by sensory mismatch your brain mistakes for poisoning.
- horizon hack
- Staring at the horizon resyncs eyes with inner ear.
- royal sufferer
- Admiral Nelson got seasick his entire naval career.
- astronaut version
- Space adaptation syndrome hits two-thirds of new astronauts.
- belly button cure
- Apollo 13's commander wore a vomit-detecting biosensor.
darwin on the beagle — charles darwin suffered severe seasickness during the 5-year voyage of hms beagle (1831-1836)
nelson's affliction — admiral horatio nelson was chronically seasick throughout his naval career despite commanding ships
titanic survivors — survivors in lifeboats experienced acute seasickness in rough atlantic waters after the 1912 sinking