This article on the BBC caught my interest today:
Chesapeake Bay Bridge: Saving drivers too scared to cross
People are paying others to drive them over what looks like a big old bridge there. It got my curiosity as a couple of summers ago I had a bit of incident going over the Millau viaduct. I can get quite bad vertigo and it's usually triggered by height and a lack of reference points - I've had it mostly while scuba diving as sometimes the lack of physical reference (you can feel like you're flying) and movement can be disorientating.
A lot of people associate fear of heights with vertigo don't they - they assume fear of heights is vertigo? I actually think it's the other way around - I get nervous going to heights as I know it can trigger it. It's uncomfortable to say the least - dizzy, sick, and completely discombobulating. To give you an idea, getting it while diving once made me throw up...Not so bad you think, but add in being 30 metres underwater with a regulator in your gob, well it makes it 'interesting'.
As you can imagine having it while driving (it's only happened once) is a bit...nervy. I stopped (!) - I had to, I didn't feel safe. Fortunately it passes in a couple of minutes.
The things that's odd, because that happened it's made me more conscious of it even crossing bloody Dartford, go figure
I'm vaguely pleased that it's not just me! Although it's annoying me as I think it's getting worse for me, rather than better.
Does anyone else get this...?
Chesapeake Bay Bridge: Saving drivers too scared to cross
People are paying others to drive them over what looks like a big old bridge there. It got my curiosity as a couple of summers ago I had a bit of incident going over the Millau viaduct. I can get quite bad vertigo and it's usually triggered by height and a lack of reference points - I've had it mostly while scuba diving as sometimes the lack of physical reference (you can feel like you're flying) and movement can be disorientating.
A lot of people associate fear of heights with vertigo don't they - they assume fear of heights is vertigo? I actually think it's the other way around - I get nervous going to heights as I know it can trigger it. It's uncomfortable to say the least - dizzy, sick, and completely discombobulating. To give you an idea, getting it while diving once made me throw up...Not so bad you think, but add in being 30 metres underwater with a regulator in your gob, well it makes it 'interesting'.
As you can imagine having it while driving (it's only happened once) is a bit...nervy. I stopped (!) - I had to, I didn't feel safe. Fortunately it passes in a couple of minutes.
The things that's odd, because that happened it's made me more conscious of it even crossing bloody Dartford, go figure
I'm vaguely pleased that it's not just me! Although it's annoying me as I think it's getting worse for me, rather than better.
Does anyone else get this...?